Another version of the slow moving recursive equations paper.
I’ll finish it someday, but here is a variant.
Soft real time continues to sag
Paul McKenney once wrote:
Despite such complications, priority inheritance works reasonably well for exclusive locks, and is a major component of Ingo Molnar’s CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch. There are strongly held opinions both for and against priority inheritance, for example. http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7168794919.html
in which Victor Yodaiken considers priority inheritance to be harmful, and, as near as I can tell, soft [...]
On the way to India
I’m off to give a talk in Bangalore and then visit Chennai and Mumbai. In his delightful book called The Argumentative Indian Amrtya Sen writes
A good example is the transformation of Âryabhat’s Sanskrit term jya … [which] was translated, through proximity of sound, into Arabic jiba (a meaningless word in Arabic) and later transformed [...]