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Subject: Re: Difference in priority
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 21:17, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> I can't see why the RT priority range would be increased.
> It's overkill already, especially since Linux doesn't have
> priority inheritance. Since POSIX requires 32 levels, that
> is the right number. Actually using more than one level
> (remember: NO priority inheritance) might not be wise.

Linux will probably have priority inheritance soon.  See the "Real Time
Kernel" thread.

Lee