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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Priority inheritance?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:38:27 +0100 (CET)
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Stanislav Meduna wrote:
> Can I leave the low-prio threads at SCHED_OTHER and rely on
> the PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT to boost their priority in case they
> were preempted with the lock held and the RT-thread needs
> to lock it too

That's how priority inheritance is defined. In case of contention the
lock owner inherits the scheduling class and the priority of the
(higher class/priority) contender.

Thanks,

	tglx