From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jesper Skov <jskov@redhat.com>
To: Paleologos Spanos <paleolog@ee.ucla.edu>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Unique priorities
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:53:00 -0000
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References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10101101612370.20633-100000@sierra.ee.ucla.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00174.html

>>>>> "Paleologos" == Paleologos Spanos <paleolog@ee.ucla.edu> writes:
Paleologos> mlqueues default scheduler).  I would expect that I would
Paleologos> have an error or something like that because of the fact
Paleologos> that the 2 threads are having the same priority (4).Is it
Paleologos> correct or I have misunderstood something?

The bitmap scheduler will assign a thread the closest possible
priority to that requested. It does not fail if the requested priority
is already used, it just returns another. So your threads would
probably have priorities 4 and 5.

Jesper