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Author SHA1 Message Date
James Shubin
6d9be15035 pgraph: semaphore: Add lock around semaphore map
I forgot about the `concurrent map write` race, but now it's fixed. I
suppose we could probably pre-create all semaphores in the graph at once
before Start, and remove this lock, but that's an optimization for a
later day.
2017-03-11 09:06:18 -05:00
James Shubin
d8e19cd79a semaphore: Create a semaphore metaparam
This adds a P/V style semaphore mechanism to the resource graph. This
enables the user to specify a number of "id:count" tags associated with
each resource which will reduce the parallelism of the CheckApply
operation to that maximum count.

This is particularly interesting because (assuming I'm not mistaken) the
implementation is dead-lock free assuming that no individual resource
permanently ever blocks during execution! I don't have a formal proof of
this, but I was able to convince myself on paper that it was the case.

An actual proof that N P/V counting semaphores in a DAG won't ever
dead-lock would be particularly welcome! Hint: the trick is to acquire
them in alphabetical order while respecting the DAG flow. Disclaimer,
this assumes that the lock count is always > 0 of course.
2017-02-27 02:57:06 -05:00