On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 01:20 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > So yopu need to replace the trylock by try_deadlock() and boost the > > lock owner w/o blocking on the lock. That means that you need some > > other means to tell the lock owner that you are waiting for it w/o > > actually waiting. > > Actually, you don't need to tell the lock owner you are waiting for it, > you only need to make the lock itself have a priority, and the owner > will inherit that priority as long as it holds the lock. Hmm, that would actually work, though I'm not too enthusiastic about sched_yield(). Thanks, tglx -- 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
