Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [thread] Reader/Writer starvation
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-16 23:41:55
AMDG
Jérémy Coulon wrote:
> According to the documentation of Boost 1.34 (before the major rewrite
> of boost::thread), the read/write lock was offering different
> scheduling policies.
> Some of those policies were providing a solution to the starvation
> problem that usually occurs with this kind of lock.
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_34_1/doc/html/thread/concepts.html#thread.concepts.read-write-scheduling-policies
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_34_1/doc/html/thread/concepts.html#thread.concepts.sheduling-policies
>
>
> But I don't find any reference to starvation and scheduling policies
> in the current Boost documentation (1.37).
>
> So, I am wondering if this starvation problem is solved in the current
> boost::thread implementation ?
> What scheduling policy is actually the default one ?
> Can the documentation be improved ?
I believe that the current implementation should not starve
readers or writers.
In Christ,
Steven Watanabe