Re: pthread_mutex_unlock (was Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow)

From: Helge Hafting
Date: Mon Jan 30 2006 - 03:37:19 EST


linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:

To fix the current problem, you can substitute usleep(0); It will
give the CPU to somebody if it's computable, then give it back to
you. It seems to work in every case that sched_yield() has
mucked up (perhaps 20 to 30 here).


Isn't that dangerous? Someday, someone working on linux (or some
other unixish os) might come up with an usleep implementation where
usleep(0) just returns and becomes a no-op. Which probably is ok
with the usleep spec - it did sleep for zero time . . .

Helge Hafting
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