[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