On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Peter Holmes wrote:
I have a related question - it would be great if someone could help me. Let's say there are multiple system scope pthreads running on an SMP system. Is there a chance that if a pthread holding a spinlock is scheduled out (due to a scheduling decision etc.) then other pthreads will be starved. Is there anything the system provides to guard against pthread starvation.
No, especially if the threads hold other locks. I have no idea why POSIX added spinlocks. I don't see why anyone would want to use them. -- DE _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
