Re: multiple delay alternative

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 03/06/2018 02:50 AM, Mehdi Saada wrote:
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> Before that, one thing I can't get, even after asking other people:
> for protected objects, in a protected procedure, when it's blocked, because a reading (protected function) or an entry is being served, are the calls to the procedure put on a queue as with entries ?
> Someone said me the advantage of protected procedures was that you don't have to wait, but I read also they were exclusive with each others... damn.

An entry call may block, because the barrier is False or the task is not 
executing an accept for it. A protected procedure call doesn't block, because it 
has no barrier, but it may have to wait to obtain exclusive access to the PO. 
Blocking and waiting are 2 different concepts.

If you have multiple calls to protected procedures of a PO at the same time, I 
don't see anything that prevents that being implemented with a queue of callers. 
The important thing is that the calls are mutually exclusive and higher priority 
callers have precedence over lower priority ones.

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