Programming with POSIX® Threads

14 void *counter_thread (void *arg)

15 {

16 int status;

17 int spin;

18

19 /*

20 * Until end_time, increment the counter each second. Instead of

21 * just incrementing the counter, it sleeps for another second

22 * with the mutex locked, to give monitor_thread a reasonable

23 * chance of running.

24 */

25 while (time (NULL) < end_time)

26 {

27  status = pthread_mutex_lock (&mutex);

28  if (status != 0)

29  err_abort (status, "Lock mutex");

30  for (spin = 0; spin < SPIN; spin++)

31  counter++;

32  status = pthread_mutex_unlock (&mutex);

33  if (status != 0)

34  err_abort (status, "Unlock mutex");

35  sleep (1);

36 }

37 printf ("Counter is %#lx\n", counter);

38 return NULL;

39 }

40

41 /*

42 * Thread start routine to "monitor" the counter. Every 3

43 * seconds, try to lock the mutex and read the counter. If the

44 * trylock fails, skip this cycle.

45 */

46 void *monitor_thread (void *arg)

47 {

48 int status;

49 int misses = 0;

50

51

52 /*

53 * Loop until end_time, checking the counter every 3 seconds.

54 */

55 while (time (NULL) < end_time)

56 {

57  sleep (3);

58  status = pthread_mutex_trylock (&mutex);

59  if (status != EBUSY)

60  {

61  if (status != 0)

62  err_abort (status, "Trylock mutex");

63  printf ("Counter is %ld\n", counter/SPIN);

64  status = pthread_mutex_unlock (&mutex);

65  if (status != 0)

66  err_abort (status, "Unlock mutex");

67  } else

68  misses++; /* Count "misses" on the lock */

69  }

70  printf ("Monitor thread missed update %d times.\n", misses);

71 return NULL;

72 }

73

74 int main (int argc, char *argv[])

75 {

76 int status;

77 pthread_t counter_thread_id;

78 pthread_t monitor_thread_id; 79

80 #ifdef sun

81 /*

82 * On Solaris 2.5, threads are not timesliced. To ensure

83 * that our threads can run concurrently, we need to

84 * increase the concurrency level to 2.

85 */

86 DPRINTF (("Setting concurrency level to 2\n"));

87 thr_setconcurrency (2);

88 #endif 89

90 end_time = time (NULL) + 60; /* Run for 1 minute */

91 status = pthread_create (

92  &counter_thread_id, NULL, counter_thread, NULL);

93 if (status != 0)

94  err_abort (status, "Create counter thread");

95 status = pthread_create (

96  &monitor_thread_id, NULL, monitor_thread, NULL);

97 if (status != 0)

98  err_abort (status, "Create monitor thread");

99 status = pthread_join (counter_thread_id, NULL);

100 if (status != 0)

101  err_abort (status, "Join counter thread");

102 status = pthread_join (monitor_thread_id, NULL);

103 if (status != 0)

104  err_abort (status, "Join monitor thread");

105 return 0;

106 }

3.2.3 Using mutexes for atomicity