What is Priority inversion?

A situation in which a high-priority task waiting for a resource held by a low-priority task is held up because a medium-priority task preempts the low one.

Field: Embedded Systems & Firmware

Questions that mention Priority inversion (2)

  1. Which describes priority inversion in an RTOS?
  2. Which describes priority inheritance, used to prevent priority inversion?

Related terms

Real-time operating system (RTOS) Mutex Priority inheritance Baud rate Bootloader Brown-out detection Contact bounce Debouncing Duty cycle GPIO

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