Re: [ros-dev] Mayday ... Critical Section problems

[Alex Ionescu]

Rick Parrish wrote:
>   Christian Wallukat wrote:
>  
> >  I have a problem with CriticalSection /
> > InterlockIncrement / Decrement on
> > WinXP (sorry for bother but maybe it is also important for us):
> >    
>  
>  Try this ... add a call to Sleep(0) just before attempting to acquire 
>  the lock. That *may* produce better average performance.
>  
>  -rick
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You should never use Sleep(0), that's a horrible suggestion.

Use Sleep(1) and/or, SwitchToThread(), and/or YieldProcessor() and /or
__mm_pause ("pause").

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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Project Lead, TinyKRNL
Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS