2005/10/30, Lars Luthman <larsl@email-addr-hidden>:
> It depends on how detailed information you want in the non-RT thread. If
> you just want to say "something happened!" you can use a counter of a
> datatype that you know is read and written atomically (int usually
> works) and increase it every time something happens. The non-RT thread
> can then compare the counter's value to the value it had last time it
> looked at it, and if it's different it knows that something has
> happened.
This would imply busy waiting, right?
related question, what happens if I use the lockfree ringbuffer, and
the non-realtime-thread tries to access it while it's full, how do I
know when to try again?
BTW. @all: thx for all the detailed answers.
-Richard
Received on Sun Oct 30 12:15:04 2005
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