In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> On 2019-10-22 7:42 PM, Peter Relson wrote:
> > You can spin for a while, but then really need to "wait" (or pause) until
> > "posted" (or released) when the resource becomes available..
> The code snippets I posted show that the code sleeps rather than waiting 
> to be signaled which I suspect may be
> cheaper on those platforms.
> > Note that this is not the same as a CS loop which loops until successful
> > but only re-does things if something has changed.
> This is quite common in the assembler code I see. A CS loop with a timer 
> (but no wait/post backoff).
> >
> > And for things like "enabled resources" (ENQ, LOCAL lock), the system may
> > attempt to manage the work unit priorities to give the "holder" some extra
> > CPU time.
> This is interesting for ENQ. Windows has a mechanism in place to raise 
> the priority of waiters to mitigate "priority inversion".
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/priority-inversion
> Is "priority inversion" not an issue on z/OS. I know that swapped out 
> address spaces go to the top of the dispatcher queue but
> how does it work for tasks?

You can call CHAP.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ieaa700/chap.htm

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