[Omp] Waiting on a condition variable

[Michael Suess]

On Friday 12 January 2007 04:52, hpc wire wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would like to find out if OMP supports this functionality of waiting on a
> condition variable?

Hi,

sorry for the long time with no response. No, OpenMP does not support that 
functionality. I have presented a proposal for a solution to this problem at 
last years IWOMP (the paper is online here, if you are interested:
http://iwomp.univ-reims.fr/cd/papers/WSL06.pdf), but the idea was not met with 
too much enthusiasm, so don't expect this to end up in OpenMP anytime 
soon :-).

> Pthread has "pthread_cond_wait" and "pthread_cond_signal". Does OMP have
> something similar?
>
> If not, what do most people do to achieve this?

All you can basically do is busy-wait, i.e. spin in a loop until your 
condition becomes true.

Best regards,
Michael

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