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SubjectRe: [Fwd: Re: RFC for a new Scheduling policy/class in the Linux-kernel]

Hi Raj,

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Raj Rajkumar wrote:

> non-preemptive critical section. In addition, we could allow mutexes
> to either pick basic priority inheritance (desirable for local mutexes?)
> or the priority ceiling version (desirable for global mutexes shared
> across processors/cores).

This discussion when I entered it was about using global scheduling
in Linux (not partitioning), so that's what I thought the focus of the
discussion was. What's the definition of a local mutex in that case?
And how do you use ceilings under global scheduling?

Thanks.

-Jim


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