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| author | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2015-09-03 10:27:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2015-09-04 13:26:17 +0200 |
| commit | dafa5d88435853809040761b79ab9d8f2217281b (patch) | |
| tree | 35d9d87cbe8d00279cc3fa905792569937ed7fea /doc/user/glossary.texi | |
| parent | score: Implement SMP-specific priority queue (diff) | |
| download | rtems-dafa5d88435853809040761b79ab9d8f2217281b.tar.bz2 | |
score: Implement priority boosting
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diff --git a/doc/user/glossary.texi b/doc/user/glossary.texi index f0beeab4d7..bf22cf6133 100644 --- a/doc/user/glossary.texi +++ b/doc/user/glossary.texi @@ -505,6 +505,12 @@ A mechanism used to represent the relative importance of an element in a set of items. RTEMS uses priority to determine which task should execute. +@item priority boosting +A simple approach to extend the priority inheritance protocol for clustered +scheduling is @dfn{priority boosting}. In case a mutex is owned by a task of +another cluster, then the priority of the owner task is raised to an +artificially high priority, the pseudo-interrupt priority. + @item priority inheritance An algorithm that calls for the lower priority task holding a resource to have its priority |