On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 12:52 -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > Do you have any suggestions for locking constructs that RT would prefer? Basically, anything that maps to a simple mutex. Anything more complex gets real messy real quick. Locks that have non-exclusive states become non-deterministic because an unbounded number of contexts can be in this state. Hence acquisition of the exclusive state has unbounded time. Even when limited to a bounded number, the ramifications to the PI graph will get you a head-ache. Also, non-owner locks, ie. semaphores (asymetric acquisition vs release contexts) are unusable because the lack of ownership undermines PI - who to boost? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
