you will be given a functioning program, called minor5.c, that
simply reads user input keys and echoes them back to the screen using the producerconsumer
paradigm. The single producer thread reads user input keys and adds them
to the shared buffer while two consumer threads read the added keys from the buffer
and echo them back to the screen. To complicate matters, each key is read and echoed
by exactly one consumer thread. A shared variable, called shared_count, keeps track
of the number of items in the shared buffer.
While this program does work (thanks to the mutex locks and unlocks already provided),
it is unfortunately very inefficient. To see just how inefficient this program is, compile the
original minor5.c program (using the pthread library) and execute the program. You
should type in some keys and see them echoed back on the screen in their correct
order. To see the inefficiency, though, run the top command from another shell (don’t
just run the minor5.c program in the background and then run top, but actually open
up another shell/window). Then check out the %CPU column in the top command and
you should see your (original) minor5.c program using up a significant percentage of
the CPU, which is not good.
Your goal for this assignment is to modify this program to use condition variables that
will drastically reduce its CPU percentage usage. Here are the details:
• You will modify the original minor5.c file to add condition varabiables, but does
not change the “spirit” of the program other than necessary changes that are
needed for how conditional variables work.
• You will add two global pthread condition variables – one to handle when the
shared buffer is full (and therefore, nothing else can be added to the until a key is
removed from the buffer) and one to handle when the shared buffer is empty
(and therefore, nothing can be read/echoed back to the screen until a key is
added to the buffer).
• In the main function, you will initialize and destroy the both of the condition
variables.
• You will modify the code in the producer function to wait on and signal the
appropriate condition variable(s) based on what is happening with the shared
variables (i.e., the shared buffer and shared counter). Note that this will require
some small changes in logic to accomplish, but you should not change the lines
that work with the prod_index variable.
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• You will modify the code in the consumer function to wait on and signal the
appropriate condition variable(s) based on what is happening with the shared
variables (i.e., the shared buffer and shared counter). Note that this will require
some small changes in logic to accomplish, but you should not change the lines
that work with the cons_index variable.
Be sure to run your solution along with the top command to verify that the program is
more efficient (i.e., does not use nearly as much percentage of the CPU).
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