Max Laier wrote:
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 22:31:55 Attilio Rao wrote:
attilio 2008-04-01 20:31:55 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sys/kern kern_rwlock.c
sys/sys rwlock.h
Log:
Add rw_try_rlock() and rw_try_wlock() to rwlocks.
These functions try the specified operation (rlocking and wlocking)
and true is returned if the operation completes, false otherwise.
hmmm ... I'm certainly missing something here, but what's a possible
usecase for these? It seems there is not much you can do if you can't
obtain a rw_lock. I can understand the need for sx_try_* where you want
to avoid sleeping, but I can't figure out the need for it on a locking
primitive that will only spin or wait (not 100% sure about the
terminology here). This is especially strange for rw_try_wlock, unless
you plan to sleep manually on fail. But then again you'd have a good
chance that you have to do it over and over again if timing is
unfortunate.
One situation is that try_[rw]lock can be used to bail out completely if
you are doing something optional. e.g. you might have code that is
doing some optimization like prefetching of data that can be just
skipped if the lock (read or write) cannot be immediately obtained.
Kris
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