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Actually protect against deadlock in Dining Philosophers async exercise (#1772)

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Swapping forks for one philosopher feels like cheating. It's like one of
the philosophers is facing away from the table. Or perhaps it's the only
right-handed philosopher at the table.

More importantly, there is no effective mechanism to prevent deadlocks.
Add that mechanism, it's useful for learning Rust.

The new code demonstrates let-else, drop and returning values from a
loop. `std::mem::swap` remains in the thread version of the Dining
Philosophers exercise for now.

This also fixes compilation. `left_fork` and `right_fork` had to be
`mut` in `main()` for the workaround to compile.
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Pavel Roskin 2024-01-30 17:00:19 -08:00 committed by GitHub
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src/exercises/concurrency/dining-philosophers-async.rs
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@ -41,13 +41,28 @@ impl Philosopher {
// ANCHOR: Philosopher-eat
async fn eat(&self) {
// Pick up forks...
// Keep trying until we have both forks
// ANCHOR_END: Philosopher-eat
let _first_lock = self.left_fork.lock().await;
// Add a delay before picking the second fork to allow the execution
// to transfer to another task
time::sleep(time::Duration::from_millis(1)).await;
let _second_lock = self.right_fork.lock().await;
let (_left_fork, _right_fork) = loop {
// Pick up forks...
let left_fork = self.left_fork.try_lock();
let right_fork = self.right_fork.try_lock();
let Ok(left_fork) = left_fork else {
// If we didn't get the left fork, drop the right fork if we
// have it and let other tasks make progress.
drop(right_fork);
time::sleep(time::Duration::from_millis(1)).await;
continue;
};
let Ok(right_fork) = right_fork else {
// If we didn't get the right fork, drop the left fork and let
// other tasks make progress.
drop(left_fork);
time::sleep(time::Duration::from_millis(1)).await;
continue;
};
break (left_fork, right_fork);
};
// ANCHOR: Philosopher-eat-body
println!("{} is eating...", &self.name);
@ -76,12 +91,6 @@ async fn main() {
for (i, name) in PHILOSOPHERS.iter().enumerate() {
let left_fork = Arc::clone(&forks[i]);
let right_fork = Arc::clone(&forks[(i + 1) % PHILOSOPHERS.len()]);
// To avoid a deadlock, we have to break the symmetry
// somewhere. This will swap the forks without deinitializing
// either of them.
if i == 0 {
std::mem::swap(&mut left_fork, &mut right_fork);
}
philosophers.push(Philosopher {
name: name.to_string(),
left_fork,