Re: Efficient way to synchronize bool variables
On Nov 11, 1:09 pm, Faisal <faisal...@gmail.com> wrote:
In my program there are boolean vaiables which are shared between a
number of threads.
In the below code m_bRunning and m_bStopped are shared variables. The
function Execute() can be called from any of the threads.I want to
synchronize the accessing of the variable.
void OnStart()
{
m_bStopped = false;
m_bRunning = true;
}
void OnStop()
{
m_bRunning = false;
}
void Execute()
{
if( m_bRunning )
{
//Do some tasks
}
else
{
if( !m_bStopped )
{
//Do some tasks
m_bStopped = true;
}
}
}
Does simply declaring the variables as volatile would solve my
problem?
Or do i need interlockedXXX functions here.
Volatile is all but useless on any hardware that has any form of CPU
cache.
InterlockedXXX are OK. I use a class similar to (warning: compiled and
tested with head-compiler):
class CThreadSafeFlag
{
mutable LONG m_Flag;
public:
CThreadSafeFlag(bool bSet=false) : m_Flag(bSet) {}
bool IsSet() const { return InterlockedCompareExchange(&m_Flag, 2,
2) == true; }
void Set() { InterlockedExchange(&m_Flag, 1); }
void Reset() { InterlockedExchange(&m_Flag, 0); }
};
IsSet simply uses "impossible" exchange value to avoid changing
m_Flag, but still return it's value in a thread-safe manner.
Of course, this is all completely orthogonal to any race conditions I
might produce in rest of the code.
Goran.
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