PowerAda 96

Appendix C

• Notice
• Chapter 1. Overview
• Chapter 2. Getting Started
• Chapter 3. Basic PowerAda Concepts
• Chapter 4. The PowerAda Development Environment
• Chapter 5. Project Management with PowerAda
• Chapter 6. The PowerAda Debugger: adbg
• Chapter 7. Interface to Other Languages
• Chapter 8. Implementation Details
• Chapter 9. Optimization
• APPENDIX A - Glossary
• APPENDIX B - Support Packages
• APPENDIX C - Implementation Characteristics
• APPENDIX D - Demos and Tutorials
• APPENDIX E - Tools Reference
• APPENDIX F - Debugger Command Reference
• Index

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(96) Implementation-defined aspects of priority inversion.

See D.2.2(16).

AIX makes scheduling decisions at the end of 10ms time quantum. Thus even programs that are using FIFO_WITHING_PRIORITIES will experience priority inversion for up to 10ms when a task lowers it's priority (wither by explicit action or by a loss of inheritance).