Usually means: Lower priority tasks block higher.
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  1. priority inversion: Dictionary.com
  2. Priority inversion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. priority inversion: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Priority Inversion: CCI Computer
  3. priority inversion, Priority inversion: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Priority inversion)

noun:  In computer science, priority inversion is a scenario in scheduling in which a high-priority task is indirectly superseded by a lower-priority task, effectively inverting the assigned priorities of the tasks.


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