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It is an elementary mistake done by the programmer of the audio application. I think that's the reason the author wrote this article.

Kernel designers solve that by temporarily boosting the priority of the lower (blocking) thread to be equal or higher than the priority of the blocked thread (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/pr...). It's called priority inheritance.



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