Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

Joe Korty
2005-12-17T00:31:30Z

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:41:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> "Friends don't let friends use priority inheritance".
>
> Just don't do it. If you really need it, your system is broken anyway.

The Mars Pathfinder incident is sufficient proof that some solution to
the priority inversion problem is required in real systems.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/raj/www/mars.html

Regards,
Joe
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