Re: Hi, I have one question about rt_mutex.

[Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Li Yu wrote:

> Hi, Steven.
>
> Nice to meet you again.
>
> I have read the rt-mutex-design.txt that you wrote. That is excellent
> description of rt_mutex. But I have a question for rt_mutex.
>
> As you said:
>
>
> > Now since mutexes can be defined by user-land applications, we don't
> want a DOS
> > type of application that nests large amounts of mutexes to create a large
> > PI chain, and have the code holding spin locks while looking at a large
> > amount of data. So to prevent this, the implementation not only implements
> > a maximum lock depth, but also only holds at most two different locks at a
> > time, as it walks the PI chain. More about this below.
>
> After read the implementation of rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), I found
> the we really require maximin lock depth (1024 default), but I can not
> see the check for more same locks duplication. Does this doc is
> inconsistent with code?
>
> Thanks in advanced.
>
> Good luck.
> - Li Yu

At the label "again:" inside rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() no spinlocks are 
held. That is the kernel can reschedule at that point in the loop. So if 
you as a priority X task try to take a lock you will not delay any higher 
priority than X by more than the amount of time it takes to go 
around in the loop once. The max lock depth is just an extra safety.

The whole idea in a priority based real-time system is that the latency on 
priorty X only depends on what is going on at priority X and higher 
(including interrupt handlers). What ever goes on at lower priority can only
interfere with a fixed, predetermined, small amount of jitter.

Esben

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