Subj : Back-off?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : hjcho
Date : Thu Mar 03 2005 08:09 pm

I know the back-off is used to prevent the lock-free object from
starvation in multi-processors. But, is it also applicable to the
uniprocessor? If the tasks are aperiodic in the uniprocessor, we need
a sort of back-off scheme?
I would like to appreciate your advice in advance.

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