how to pass "priority-donate-multiple"

How does priority donation work?

Priority Donation - If a thread attempts to acquire a resource (lock) that is currently being held, it donates its effective priority to the holder of that resource. This must be done recursively until a thread holding no locks is found, even if the current thread has a lower priority than the current resource holder.Feb 28, 2020

How do you implement priority donations in Pintos?

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What is priority donation CPU scheduling?

Priority scheduling is used to schedule which process or thread next uses the CPU. Priorities (usually integers) are assigned to each thread and among threads that are ready to run, the one with the highest priority is chosen next.Feb 14, 2003

What is priority inversion in OS?

Priority inversion is a bug that occurs when a high priority task is indirectly preempted by a low priority task. For example, the low priority task holds a mutex that the high priority task must wait for to continue executing.

What is priority inheritance protocol?

The basic idea of the priority inheritance protocol is that when a job blocks one or more high-priority jobs, it ignores its original priority assignment and executes its critical section at an elevated priority level.

How do you avoid priority inversion?

Priority inversion can be avoided by avoiding blocking as the low priority task blocks the high priority task. The priority of the ready tasks can be randomly boosted until they exit the critical section.Oct 10, 2018

How do you prevent priority inversion using priority lists?

Because priority inversion involves a low-priority task blocking a high-priority task, one way to avoid priority inversion is to avoid blocking, for example by using non-blocking algorithms such as read-copy-update.

Is priority inversion a deadlock?

Two of the most common problems are deadlock and priority inversion, both of which can result in application failure. In 1997, the Mars Pathfinder mission nearly failed because of an undetected priority inversion.

Abstract

This is second of three exercises for PintOS project Threads. In this exercise the students augment code in PintOS kernel to schedule threads based on their priorities. Thread priority has well known issue when the threads share resources.

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