这是否意味着两个线程不能同时更改底层数据?或者它是否意味着当多个线程执行给定的代码段时,该代码段将以可预测的结果运行?
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一个信息量更大的问题是,是什么使代码不线程安全——答案是,有四个条件必须成立……想象一下下面的代码(它是机器语言翻译)
totalRequests = totalRequests + 1
MOV EAX, [totalRequests] // load memory for tot Requests into register
INC EAX // update register
MOV [totalRequests], EAX // store updated value back to memory
The first condition is that there are memory locations that are accessible from more than one thread. Typically, these locations are global/static variables or are heap memory reachable from global/static variables. Each thread gets its own stack frame for function/method scoped local variables, so these local function/method variables, otoh, (which are on the stack) are accessible only from the one thread that owns that stack. The second condition is that there is a property (often called an invariant), which is associated with these shared memory locations, that must be true, or valid, for the program to function correctly. In the above example, the property is that “totalRequests must accurately represent the total number of times any thread has executed any part of the increment statement”. Typically, this invariant property needs to hold true (in this case, totalRequests must hold an accurate count) before an update occurs for the update to be correct. The third condition is that the invariant property does NOT hold during some part of the actual update. (It is transiently invalid or false during some portion of the processing). In this particular case, from the time totalRequests is fetched until the time the updated value is stored, totalRequests does not satisfy the invariant. The fourth and final condition that must occur for a race to happen (and for the code to therefore NOT be "thread-safe") is that another thread must be able to access the shared memory while the invariant is broken, thereby causing inconsistent or incorrect behavior.
其他回答
完成其他回答:
只有当方法中的代码做以下两件事之一时,同步才会令人担忧:
使用一些非线程安全的外部资源。 读取或更改持久对象或类字段
这意味着在方法中定义的变量总是线程安全的。对方法的每次调用都有自己版本的这些变量。如果方法是由另一个线程调用的,或者是由同一线程调用的,甚至是方法调用自身(递归),这些变量的值是不共享的。
线程调度不保证是循环的。一个任务可能会以牺牲相同优先级的线程为代价完全占用CPU。你可以使用Thread.yield()来获得良心。你可以使用(java) thread . setpriority (thread . norm_priority -1)来降低线程的优先级
另外还要注意:
迭代这些“线程安全”结构的应用程序的巨大运行时成本(已经被其他人提到)。 Thread.sleep(5000)应该休眠5秒。但是,如果有人更改了系统时间,您可能会睡很长时间或根本没有时间。操作系统记录唤醒时间是绝对的,而不是相对的。
是的,是的。它意味着数据不会被多个线程同时修改。然而,您的程序可能会像预期的那样工作,并且看起来是线程安全的,即使它根本不是。
请注意,结果的不可预测性是“竞态条件”的结果,它可能导致数据以与预期顺序不同的顺序被修改。
与其认为代码或类是线程安全的,我认为将操作视为线程安全的更有帮助。如果两个操作在从任意线程上下文运行时按照指定的方式运行,那么它们就是线程安全的。在许多情况下,类将以线程安全的方式支持一些操作组合,而其他则不支持。
例如,许多像数组列表和散列集这样的集合可以保证,如果它们最初只由一个线程访问,并且在引用对任何其他线程可见后永远不会被修改,那么它们可以被任何线程组合以任意方式读取而不受干扰。
More interestingly, some hash-set collections such as the original non-generic one in .NET, may offer a guarantee that as long as no item is ever removed, and provided that only one thread ever writes to them, any thread that tries to read the collection will behave as though accessing a collection where updates might be delayed and occur in arbitrary order, but which will otherwise behave normally. If thread #1 adds X and then Y, and thread #2 looks for and sees Y and then X, it would be possible for thread #2 to see that Y exists but X doesn't; whether or not such behavior is "thread-safe" would depend upon whether thread #2 is prepared to deal with that possibility.
As a final note, some classes--especially blocking communications libraries--may have a "close" or "Dispose" method which is thread-safe with respect to all other methods, but no other methods that are thread-safe with respect to each other. If a thread performs a blocking read request and a user of the program clicks "cancel", there would be no way for a close request to be issued by the thread that's attempting to perform the read. The close/dispose request, however, may asynchronously set a flag which will cause the read request to be canceled as soon as possible. Once close is performed on any thread, the object would become useless, and all attempts at future actions would fail immediately, but being able to asynchronously terminate any attempted I/O operations is better than require that the close request be synchronized with the read (since if the read blocks forever, the synchronization request would be likewise blocked).
让我们举个例子来回答这个问题:
class NonThreadSafe {
private int count = 0;
public boolean countTo10() {
count = count + 1;
return (count == 10);
}
countTo10方法将1加到计数器上,如果计数达到10则返回true。它应该只返回true一次。
只要只有一个线程在运行代码,这就可以工作。如果两个线程同时运行代码,就会出现各种问题。
例如,如果count从9开始,一个线程可以将1加到count(得到10),但随后第二个线程可以进入该方法,在第一个线程有机会执行与10的比较之前再次加1(得到11)。然后两个线程进行比较,发现count是11,并且都不返回true。
所以这段代码不是线程安全的。
从本质上讲,所有多线程问题都是由这类问题的某些变体引起的。
解决方案是确保加法和比较操作不能分开(例如,用某种同步代码包围这两个语句),或者设计一个不需要两个操作的解决方案。这样的代码是线程安全的。
是也不是。
线程安全不仅仅是确保共享数据一次只能被一个线程访问。您必须确保对共享数据的顺序访问,同时避免竞争条件、死锁、活动锁和资源短缺。
当多个线程同时运行时,不可预知的结果并不是线程安全代码的必要条件,但这通常是一种副产品。例如,您可以使用一个共享队列、一个生产者线程和几个消费者线程来设置生产者-消费者方案,并且数据流可能完全可预测。如果你开始引入更多的消费者,你会看到更多随机的结果。