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| author | rpj <rpj> | 2001-07-08 16:44:06 +0000 |
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| committer | rpj <rpj> | 2001-07-08 16:44:06 +0000 |
| commit | f58aab44e671bb39b8afb29804a9ca94c238c523 (patch) | |
| tree | d1bac0558d5146c6468f8f421f22762f382c6c6e /ChangeLog | |
| parent | 704925281289e0f937eab045bd327b4275b2e03a (diff) | |
Barriers fixed and tested more extensively.
* barrier.c: Fix several bugs in all routines. Now passes
tests/barrier5.c which is fairly rigorous. There is still
a non-optimal work-around for a race condition between
the barrier breeched event signal and event wait. Basically
the last (signalling) thread to hit the barrier yields
to allow any other threads, which may have lost the race,
to complete.
tests/ChangeLog:
* barrier3.c: Fixed.
* barrier4.c: Fixed.
* barrier5.c: New; proves that all threads in the group
reaching the barrier wait and then resume together. Repeats
the test using groups of 1 to 16 threads. Each group of
threads must negotiate a large number of barriers (10000).
* spin4.c: Fixed.
* test.h (error_string): Modified the success (0) value.
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@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ +2001-07-09 Ross Johnson <rpj@setup1.ise.canberra.edu.au>
+
+ * barrier.c: Fix several bugs in all routines. Now passes
+ tests/barrier5.c which is fairly rigorous. There is still
+ a non-optimal work-around for a race condition between
+ the barrier breeched event signal and event wait. Basically
+ the last (signalling) thread to hit the barrier yields
+ to allow any other threads, which may have lost the race,
+ to complete.
+
+2001-07-07 Ross Johnson <rpj@setup1.ise.canberra.edu.au>
+
+ * barrier.c: Changed synchronisation mechanism to a
+ Win32 manual reset Event and use PulseEvent to signal
+ waiting threads. If the implementation continued to use
+ a semaphore it would require a second semaphore and
+ some management to use them alternately as barriers. A
+ single semaphore allows threads to cascade from one barrier
+ through the next, leaving some threads blocked at the first.
+ * implement.h (pthread_barrier_t_): As per above.
+ * general: Made a number of other routines inlinable.
+
2001-07-07 Ross Johnson <rpj@setup1.ise.canberra.edu.au>
* spin.c: Revamped and working; included static initialiser.
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