On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 17:03, Matthias Kretz <m.kr...@gsi.de> wrote:
>
> On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2021 17:20:41 CEST Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 14:21, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> > > This does a try_lock on all lockabes even if any of them fails. I think
> > > that's
> > > not only more expensive but also non-conforming. I think you need to defer
> > > locking and then loop from beginning to end to break the loop on the first
> > > unsuccessful try_lock.
> >
> > Oops, good point. I'll add a test for that too. Here's the fixed code:
> >
> > template<typename _L0, typename... _Lockables>
> > inline int
> > __try_lock_impl(_L0& __l0, _Lockables&... __lockables)
> > {
> > #if __cplusplus >= 201703L
> > if constexpr ((is_same_v<_L0, _Lockables> && ...))
> > {
> > constexpr int _Np = 1 + sizeof...(_Lockables);
> > unique_lock<_L0> __locks[_Np] = {
> > {__l0, defer_lock}, {__lockables, defer_lock}...
> > };
> > for (int __i = 0; __i < _Np; ++__i)
>
> I thought coding style requires a { here?
Maybe for the compiler, but I don't think libstdc++ has such a rule. I
can add the braces though, it's probably better.
>
> > if (!__locks[__i].try_lock())
> > {
> > const int __failed = __i;
> > while (__i--)
> > __locks[__i].unlock();
> > return __i;
>
> You meant `return __failed`?
Yep, copy&paste error while trying to avoid the TABs in the real code
screwing up the gmail formatting :-(
> > }
> > for (auto& __l : __locks)
> > __l.release();
> > return -1;
> > }
> > else
> > #endif
> >
> > > [...]
> > > Yes, if only we had a wrapping integer type that wraps at an arbitrary N.
> > > Like
> > >
> > > unsigned int but with parameter, like:
> > > for (__wrapping_uint<_Np> __k = __idx; __k != __first; --__k)
> > >
> > > __locks[__k - 1].unlock();
> > >
> > > This is the loop I wanted to write, except --__k is simpler to write and
> > > __k -
> > > 1 would also wrap around to _Np - 1 for __k == 0. But if this is the only
> > > place it's not important enough to abstract.
> >
> > We might be able to use __wrapping_uint in std::seed_seq::generate too, and
> > maybe some other places in <random>. But we can add that later if we decide
> > it's worth it.
>
> OK.
>
> > > I also considered moving it down here. Makes sense unless you want to call
> > > __detail::__lock_impl from other functions. And if we want to make it work
> > > for
> > > pre-C++11 we could do
> > >
> > > using __homogeneous
> > >
> > > = __and_<is_same<_L1, _L2>, is_same<_L1, _L3>...>;
> > >
> > > int __i = 0;
> > > __detail::__lock_impl(__homogeneous(), __i, 0, __l1, __l2, __l3...);
> >
> > We don't need tag dispatching, we could just do:
> >
> > if _GLIBCXX17_CONSTEXPR (homogeneous::value)
> > ...
> > else
> > ...
> >
> > because both branches are valid for the homogeneous case, i.e. we aren't
> > using if-constexpr to avoid invalid instantiations.
>
> But for the inhomogeneous case the homogeneous code is invalid (initialization
> of C-array of unique_lock<_L1>).
Oops, yeah of course.
>
> > But given that the default -std option is gnu++17 now, I'm OK with the
> > iterative version only being used for C++17.
>
> Fair enough.
