comp.programming.threads

Ramine

10/22/2014 1:39:00 AM

The Sleep(0) is on Windows, to give up he time slice.



On 10/21/2014 6:10 PM, Ramine wrote:
> Hello,
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> Please read the following paper to know why i have invented my
> scalable MLock:
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> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linu...
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> But you have to be carefull, the Ticket spinlock with a proportional
> backoff is not good, cause if there is more context switch the thread
> that is scheduled has to use all its quantum time and this will slow
> a lot the Ticket spinlock with a proportional backoff , so you have
> to use a Sleep(0) just after the proportional backoff to solve this
> problem, but i have benchmarked it by adding the sleep(0) and i have
> noticed that my scalable MLock will give better performance than
> the Ticket spinlock with a proportional backoff and with a sleep(0)
> just after the proportional backoff, so i advice you to use my scalable
> MLock instead cause it's faster and better.
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> You can download my scalable MLock from:
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> https://sites.google.com/site...
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> Thank you,
> Amine Moulay Ramdane.
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