Eduardo Piombino wrote:
In the case where priority inversion is not to be used, I would however still greatly benefit from the slow jobs/fast jobs mechanism, just being extra-careful that the slow jobs, obviously, did not acquire any locks that a fast job would ever require. This alone would be, still, a *huge* feature if it was ever to be introduced, reinforcing the real-time awareness/requirements, that many applications look for today.
In this context, "priority inversion" is not a generic term related to running things with lower priorities. It means something very specific: that you're allowing low-priority jobs to acquire locks on resources needed by high-priority ones, and therefore blocking the high-priority ones from running effectively. Unfortunately, much like deadlock, it's impossible to avoid the problem in a generic way just by being careful. It's one of the harder issues that needs to be considered in order to make progress on implementing this feature one day.
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