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Re: cyg_semaphore_post

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 12:39, Nick Garnett wrote:

[snip]

> As for starvation. I suspect that in real-life systems this is largely
> a theoretical problem. If you really have high priority threads
> hammering on a mutex at such a rate that waiting low priority threads
> cannot get a look-in, you are already overloaded. The only solution is
> to rewrite the application to reduce the amount of contention for this
> resource.

This seems a sensible argument, thanks for the clarification.

Robin



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