Re: [LAD] a *simple* ring buffer, comments pls?

On Monday 11 July 2011 23:15:26 Tim E. Real wrote:
> On July 11, 2011 04:50:06 pm Chris Cannam wrote:
> > I know taking locks in a RT process is deeply frowned upon
>
> Likely been answered before, but good time for me to ask:
> What is the reason it is not recommended?
> Is it simply because of a long time involved in acquiring the lock, or is
> it because the lock might block some other Jack thread from running?
> The same reason why other things like 'malloc' or 'new' are not
> recommended either?

Real-time means "as fast as possible". Waiting to acquire a lock isn't exactly
what you would call "fast"...
Waiting for a lock is the same as waiting for the kernels/OSs memory managment
to allocate some space.

Have fun,

Arnold

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