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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: pthread_lock
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:02:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21589.1362463371@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:02:45 +0530." <CAC+QLdSaL0cc+uNmYSrvRCbh9tZfirqS0dTcYbC_V0PDejRMYw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:02:45 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu said:

> next schedule. I think the waiting threads (processes) will moved from
> the wait queue to the run queue from where they will be scheduled to
> run.

For bonus points, read source code and/or comments and figure out what
Linux does to prevent the 'thundering herd' problem (consider 100 threads
all waiting on the same mutex - if you blindly wake all 100 up, you'll schedule
them all, the first will find the mutex available and then re-take it, and
then the next 99 will get run only to find it contended and go back to
sleep.  So figure out what Linux does in that case. :)
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05  4:44 pthread_lock ishare
2013-03-05  5:32 ` pthread_lock Mandeep Sandhu
2013-03-05  6:02   ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [this message]
2013-03-05  8:09     ` pthread_lock Mandeep Sandhu
2013-03-05 10:05       ` pthread_lock ishare
2013-03-12 12:48         ` pthread_lock Prabhu nath
2013-03-13  4:10           ` pthread_lock ishare
2013-03-13  5:20             ` pthread_lock Prabhu nath

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