[LAD] a *simple* ring buffer, comments pls?

[Dan Muresan]

> The problem with e.g. a Jack callback trying to take a lock
> is that the lock could be held by a non-RT thread, and you
> have no idea how long it could take before that thread
> releases it. Even if the Jack thread blocks waiting for
> the lock, that doesn't mean the one holding the lock will
> continue, and even if it does that provides no guarantee.

Priority inversion. A low-priority "disk thread" could hold a lock
needed by the high-priority Jack process thread. But the disk thread
is pre-empted by some other non-related medium-priority process. The
medium-priority process could keep running for a long time.

So the inversion is that, indirectly, a high-priority thread is
waiting for some medium-priority process.

Some RTOS's deal with this kind of stuff (like "hard" real-time OSs)

-- Dan