Suspension locking in a multilevel multiprocessor
R.J. Curran, T.H. Hillock, Eugene M. Thomas · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1983
For multilevel processors in which independent processing of tasks is possible at a plurality of processing levels, current processing taking place at the most significant level at which a priority task exists, a processor in which a potential owner is suspended becomes, in general, free to continue processing at some other level.