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

[Timo Kreuzer]

What about an Interlocked Singly Linked List?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/interlocked_singly_linked_lists.asp

Christian Wallukat schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have a problem with CriticalSection / InterlockIncrement / Decrement on
> WinXP (sorry for bother but maybe it is also important for us):
>
> In my program I work with around 200 threads which access a list of objects
> (pointer). Between the Enter and Leave the Threads delete or add an object.
>
> Sometimes it take more than 5 seconds to enter the critical section (every
> thread need for the operation around 5 ms (5 * 200 = 1000 ms -> 1 second)) I
> also see that the Enter has taken 10 seconds ...
>
> There is no load on that system (around 10 %).
>
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