Priority Inversion

In computer science, priority inversion is a problematic scenario in scheduling when a higher priority task is indirectly preempted by a lower priority task effectively "inverting" the relative priorities of the two tasks.

This violates the priority model that high priority tasks can only be prevented from running by higher priority tasks and briefly by low priority tasks which will quickly complete their use of a resource shared by the high and low priority tasks.

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