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SubjectRe: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup
Paul Cassella wrote:
> The sync variable version of the dmabuf code snippet (assuming the
> dmabuf_mutex is never acquired from an interrupt) would look like this:
>
> dmabuf_init(...);
> {
> ...
> spin_lock_init(&dmabuf_spin);
> sv_init(&dmabuf_sv, &dmabuf_spin, SV_MON_SPIN);
> ...
> }
>
> dmabuf_alloc(...)
> {
>
> ...
> while (1) {
> spin_lock(&dmabuf_spin);
> attempt to grab a free buffer;
> if (success){
> spin_unlock(&dmabuf_spin);
> return;
> } else {
> sv_wait(&dmabuf_sv);
> }
> }
> }
>
> dmabuf_free(...)
> {
> ...
> spin_lock(&dmabuf_spin);
> free up buffer;
> sv_broadcast(&dmabuf_sv);
> spin_unlock(&dmabuf_spin);
> }
>

But isn't this actually a simple situation? How about:

dmabuf_alloc(...)
{
...
while (1) {
spin_lock(&dmabuf_lock);
attempt to grab a free buffer;
spin_unlock(&dmabuf_lock);
if (success)
return;
down(&dmabuf_wait);
}
}

dmabuf_free(...)
{
...
spin_lock(&dmabuf_lock);
free up buffer;
spin_unlock(&dmabuf_lock);
up(&dmabuf_wait);
}

--
Daniel
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