Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Article about multithreading
From: Vincent Touquet (vincent_AT_ulyssis.org)
Date: Sun Jun 17 2001 - 22:33:59 EEST
Paul Davis wrote:
> deadlock avoidance is an bit of an illusory goal. there has been some
> mostly theoretical work on such things, but once again, you lose
> performance (a lot, if you use mutexes a lot), and in general, a
> pathological situation can still cause deadlocks that were not found
> by an analytical stage.
Just how bad is this performance penalty ?
Setting a mutex shouldn't be that bad ?
[cut] OTOH, there is demonstrable evidence that very few
> managers are good at this either, so there may be no hope :)
*lol* :)
-vincent
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