Re: Thread starvation with mutex

"Gary S. Robertson" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:08:06 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David L wrote:

>> Likewise, for the time being I am forced to use the linuxthreads 
>> library due to lack of support for real-time scheduling in nptl... my 
>> designs rely on supervisory layers and service layers to
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>
> Does nptl completely lack support for real-time scheduling or does
> it just not support priority inheritance, etc?

Mr.  Drepper recently stated in no uncertain terms that nptl does not 
support that real-time scheduling 'nonsense', as he put it.
Apparently he intends to leave that shortcoming for someone else to fix.

>
> Are there plans to incorporate the RTNPTL patch into NPTL as a
> configurable option?
>
> Thanks...
>
>                                David
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