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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 |