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Re: can pthread_mutex_trylock() give up the timeslice?

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Brendon wrote:
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> My plan now will be just to go along and do the work using a try-lock
> (not a huge change) if it shows some issues then look at another
> solution. I just wanted to ask and see if anyone here has heard of
> pthread_mutex_trylock() prematurely giving up a timeslice and so far

Realtime aside, implementations of pthread_mutex_trylock() are allowed
to give up a time slice.

If you really think that that is a problem for your code then use C/C++
atomics to implement your own mutex with trylock() not giving up a
timeslice:

http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2004/05/65435.php
(auto_reset_event is a binary semaphore in posix speak)

regards,
alexander.

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can pthread_mutex_trylock() give up the timeslice? Brendon <brendon.j.costa@gmail.com> - 2011-10-13 16:05 -0700
  Re: can pthread_mutex_trylock() give up the timeslice? Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-10-14 11:50 +0200
  Re: can pthread_mutex_trylock() give up the timeslice? Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-10-14 13:43 -0700
    Re: can pthread_mutex_trylock() give up the timeslice? Brendon <brendon.j.costa@gmail.com> - 2011-10-14 16:56 -0700
      Re: can pthread_mutex_trylock() give up the timeslice? Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-10-15 13:53 +0200
  Re: can pthread_mutex_trylock() give up the timeslice? David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-10-15 21:41 -0700

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