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Re: Have you ever seen real world lost wake-up problems?

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> And what CV implementation allows one to specify the thread that should
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> be woken up?  If there can be only one waiting thread, there's nothing
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> lost by using the conventional signalling mechanism, and if there can be
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> many waiting threads, targeting the notification is almost certainly
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> going to cause problems.
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What does it mean? Why multi-waiting-threads is going to cause problems?

 
> You might also lack some knowledge as well.  Obviously I can't tell, but
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> the example above looks so wrong it doesn't seem likely to be common
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> patter for a bug.
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You're right, it's too naive. CV shouldn't be used like that.


> It's not clear what the bug is you are talking about.  Anyway, I lack the
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> experience to estimate how common any particular synchronisation bug is.
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The bug which I'm talking about can be concluded like this: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5137/sync-30/index.html

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> Yes.  You just need to use CVs correctly -- associate them with a real
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> condition and a mutex (or lock) and test the condition in a loop with
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> the correct locking:
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> 
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>   mutex.lock()
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>   while (the condition I need is not true)
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>      cv.wait(mutex);
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>   mutex.unlock();
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> If you find examples of incorrectly used condition variables, that would
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> have some value (you could submit bug reports for example) but if it is
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> valuable enough to spend time looking for them, I can't say.
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It's helpful, thank you Ben.


-- TT

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Have you ever seen real world lost wake-up problems? Tian Tan <silverbullettt@gmail.com> - 2012-12-20 00:19 -0800
  Re: Have you ever seen real world lost wake-up problems? Lucas Levrel <lucas.levrel@u-pec.fr> - 2012-12-21 14:33 +0100
    Re: Have you ever seen real world lost wake-up problems? Tian Tan <silverbullettt@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 07:11 -0800
  Re: Have you ever seen real world lost wake-up problems? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-21 14:40 +0000
    Re: Have you ever seen real world lost wake-up problems? Tian Tan <silverbullettt@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 20:02 -0800

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