On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:27:13AM +0200, Martijn Sipkema wrote: > What do we have now to handle priority inversion in Linux? We haven\\\'t
Linux is not real-time, it has a scheduler that, generally, makes sure eventually everyone gets to run. I think people often understimate how useful a "live" scheduler is and how limited a real-time priority scheduler is. > If the article is saying the programmer should be protected from missuse > of priority inheritance by not supplying it, isn\\\'t that like Pascal? (I > never liked Pascal). I think any use of priority inheritance is a misuse, and I am against making the rest of the OS slow in order to provide it. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com
