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What is the main issue with busy waiting in synchronization mechanisms?
In the context of synchronization, what problem is solved by the sleep and wakeup mechanism?
What is the purpose of using semaphores in the producer-consumer problem?
Which term describes a situation where a low-priority task holds a resource needed by a high-priority task?
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What role do mutexes play in Pthreads programming?
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Which type of process mainly spends its time waiting for I/O operations?
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What is a race condition in the context of process management?
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What is a critical region in process management?
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What is a requirement to avoid race conditions in process management?
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In process management, what does busy waiting refer to?
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What is one way to handle synchronization in process management?
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What problem arises when a low-priority task holds a resource needed by a high-priority task?
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What is a common defect of solutions that use busy waiting for mutual exclusion?
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In the context of critical regions, what can happen if a process using busy waiting is stuck in a tight loop?
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What issue can arise if a process with high priority is forced to wait on a process with lower priority due to busy waiting?
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What term describes the situation where a process is stuck in a loop continuously checking for entry into its critical region?
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What is one drawback of solutions that require busy waiting to enforce mutual exclusion?
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What problem arises when a high-priority process is unable to enter its critical region due to a low-priority process continuously holding it?
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Study Notes
- The text discusses the producer-consumer problem with a fatal race condition in the context of sleep and wakeup mechanisms, as well as using semaphores and mutexes in pthreads.
- In multiprogrammed systems, the CPU often handles multiple processes or threads simultaneously, requiring a scheduler to choose which process to run next based on a scheduling algorithm.
- Processes exhibit bursts of CPU usage alternating with periods of waiting for I/O, categorized as CPU-bound or I/O-bound based on their behavior.
- Race conditions arise when multiple processes attempt to access shared memory simultaneously, leading to critical regions where the final outcome depends on timing.
- To avoid race conditions, requirements include ensuring only one process is in its critical region at a time, not assuming CPU speeds or quantities, preventing processes outside critical regions from blocking others, and avoiding indefinite waits to enter critical regions.
- Different solutions for achieving mutual exclusion in critical regions include strict alternation, Peterson’s solution, and busy waiting with instructions like TSL or XCHG, although busy waiting can lead to issues like the priority inversion problem.
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Description
Explore scenarios involving the producer-consumer problem, examining the fatal race conditions and solutions using semaphores and mutexes in Pthreads. Learn about multiprogramming situations with multiple processes or threads vying for the CPU.
