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Message-ID: <20071122174936.75c8e65c@brian.englab.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:49:36 +0100
From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To: "Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>
Cc: "Oliver Neukum" <oliver@...kum.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Use of mutex in interrupt context flawed/impossible, need
advice.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:19:44 +0100
"Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com> wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I would like to be prepared for, and use the
> -rt patch soon. I understand (maybe wrongly?) that semaphores are not
> real-time pre-emptible, mutexes and spinlocks are.
Semaphores are preemptible, but they don't do priority inheritance.
Michal
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