linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/3] sched: Make Priority Inheritance POSIX compliant

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Message-ID: <4B57A540.3010207@osadl.org>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:52:16 +0100
From:	Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@...dl.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@...he.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] sched: Make Priority Inheritance POSIX compliant

On 01/20/2010 09:58 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The current PI implementation violates POSIX scheduling semantics when
> a thread is deboosted. The following patch series addresses this.

I can confirm that this patch series fixes the incorrect scheduling
behavior as observed in our test case.

Thanks, Thomas!

Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@...dl.org>
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