From dafa5d88435853809040761b79ab9d8f2217281b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Huber Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:27:16 +0200 Subject: score: Implement priority boosting --- doc/user/glossary.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/user/glossary.texi') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3