Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

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* Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> This way when process C tries to get the lock again, it sees that it's 
> owned, but B hasn't executed yet. So it would be safe for C to take 
> the lock back from B, that is if C is greater priority than B, 
> otherwise it would act the same.

agreed. In particular this would be a nice optimization for cases where 
tasks are delayed for a longer time due to CPU congestion (e.g. lots of 
tasks on the same SCHED_FIFO priority). So if a higher prio task comes 
along while the

> If you agree with this approach, I would be willing to write a patch 
> for you.

yeah - please do.

	Ingo
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