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

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Message-ID: <BB799A2B2CEBA34FB65A89BA76EEA099082D4DF6@rkamsem1.emea.roche.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:16:23 +0100
From:	"Weber, Mathias" <mathias.weber.mw1@...he.com>
To:	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	"LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Carsten Emde" <cbe@...dl.org>
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 adresses this.

I did rerun the test case with this patches applied and I can confirm
that this fixes the incorrect scheduling behavior in our test case.

Thanks, Thomas and Carsten for your help.

Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@...e.com>
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