A phenomenon that is often encountered when developing operating systems with preemptive, priority-based schedulers using integrated synchronization mechanisms is the priority inversion. This condition affects the reactivity time of the real-time tasks that share resources with other tasks with a lower priority, and, in some cases, may cause the higher-priority tasks to starve for an unpredictable amount of time. The event occurs when the high-priority task is waiting for a resource to be freed by a lower-priority one, which in the meanwhile may be preempted by other unrelated tasks in the system.
In particular, the sequence of events that might trigger this phenomenon is the following:
- T1, T2, T3 are three of the running ...
