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Gabriel S.
Gabriel S.

Reputation: 1347

Non-blocking synchronization using System.Threading.Task

Is there a way to benefit from the advantages of non-blocking thread synchronization, such as that described here, but while using the System.Threading.Task objects in the current .Net framework versions?

What i'm looking for essentially is changing this code

new Task(() =>
{
    lock (_lock)
    {
        ...            
    }
});

into something that won't block the threadpool thread that will be used by the Task in performing the operation protected by the lock.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 821

Answers (1)

svick
svick

Reputation: 244767

If you want to do this using .Net 4.0 TPL, you can use a custom TaskScheduler, for example LimitedConcurrencyLevelTaskScheduler from ParallelExtensionsExtras.

If you can use C# 5.0, you could use await together with SemaphoreSlim.WaitAsync() or AsyncLock from Nito AsyncEx.

Upvotes: 2

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