Hi, the following (academic?) scenario is not handled as expected by the nucleus: Prio ^ | -- T2 | / | T0 <----- T1 <- M1 | (M0) M0 (M1) +------------------------ That means: Task T0 at, e.g., prio 1 holds mutex M0. T1, also at prio 1, happens to interrupt T0 (round-robin?). T1 already holds M1 and now tries to acquire M0. As both are at the same prio level, no boosting takes place, all fine. Then T2 comes in play. It's at prio 2 and tries to gain access to M1. T1 gets therefore boosted to prio 2 as well, but T0 will stay at prio 1 under Xenomai. I hacked this scenario in the attached demo. Set MAX to 2 to let it work, leave it 3 and it breaks. The problem looks on first sight like this test [1]: the claiming relation is only establish if there is a priority delta on entry, but that breaks when the claiming thread's prio changes later. Can we simply remove this test? Jan [1]http://www.rts.uni-hannover.de/xenomai/lxr/source/ksrc/nucleus/synch.c?v=SVN-trunk#L193