On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 3:36 AM Daniel Wagner <wagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It isn't really an error if no priority inheritance occurs. > > An error from this program would be something like mmap returning an error > > code. > > > > I'm not sure this one is suitable for the json treatment, it's more of a > > demonstration of how to use priority inheritance with processes instead of > > threads. Thomas told me this was possible and I was curious to see if this > > was true, so I scratched that itch. Not sure if it is useful as a test. > > > > Let's leave pip_stress alone for now please > > If it's a for demonstration purposes only, could we remove it from the > source tree? I don't think it should be left there if it's not > considered a proper test. > I suppose this is a fair question, although another question would be is it useful in the rt-tests suites for other reasons? It could be used as the "engine" of a test that would be similar to pi_stress, with a different kind of mechanism. So then the question would be, is there a value in another pi_stress like test that avoids pthreads? If so, I could work it up into a test. John
