From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
To: frank.rowand@am.sony.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Pthread Condition Variables and Priority Inversion
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:10:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5047E9FF.2070803@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5047E749.3040507@am.sony.com>
On 09/05/2012 04:59 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 09/05/12 16:17, Darren Hart wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I've tried many times over the last several years to get proper priority
>> inheritance support for pthread condition variables added to glibc.
>> Unfortunately, I haven't convinced the powers that be to incorporate the
>> proposed fixes. Since the failure scenario involves an opaque type and
>> is rather non-intuitive, it was suggested (thanks Frank) that I attempt
>> to at least document the behavior.
>
> < snip >
>
> That reminds me... someone at Plumbers (I'm pretty sure it was Thomas)
> told me that the glibc maintainers have become much more responsive,
> so maybe I should encourage you to try once again, when you find some
> spare time :-), submitting to glibc.
I think Jan and I both intend to do this, but until such time as we can,
I'd like the docs to reflect reality.
--
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 23:17 Pthread Condition Variables and Priority Inversion Darren Hart
2012-09-05 23:59 ` Frank Rowand
2012-09-06 0:10 ` Darren Hart [this message]
2012-09-14 2:16 ` Carol Wong
2012-09-14 17:10 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-09-14 19:28 ` Darren Hart
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