thread scheduling at mutex unlock

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Sat May 17 01:50:24 UTC 2008


* Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> [080516 14:55] wrote:
> 
> I think to be fair, the contested mutex case should try
> to handoff the mutex, in lieu of any priority protocol
> that is in place for the threads or mutex.  And actually,
> I think in order to properly implement priority mutexes,
> there must be a handoff.
> 

Is this what you are saying?  Because it is what I believe.

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- Alfred Perlstein


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