On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Stanislav Meduna wrote: > Can I leave the low-prio threads at SCHED_OTHER and rely on > the PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT to boost their priority in case they > were preempted with the lock held and the RT-thread needs > to lock it too That's how priority inheritance is defined. In case of contention the lock owner inherits the scheduling class and the priority of the (higher class/priority) contender. 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