How priority propagation works on read/write lock?

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 16 January 2006 00:08, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
> you mean, boosting the priority of a reader would be required to avoid
> priority inversion, but difficult to implement?
>
> regards
> -kamal
>
> On 1/14/06, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I think you just kind of punt and do a best effort.  Trying to manage a
> > list
> > of current read lock holders would be a bit PITA.

Yes.  The actual boosting is rather simple, it's keeping track of who has read 
locks that is ugly.

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