How to give priority to privileged thread in mutex locking?

Question

First of all: I am completely a newbie in mutex/multithread programming, so sorry for any error in advance...

I have a program that runs multiple threads. The threads

Answer 1

Since thread priorities isn't working for you:

Create 2 mutexes, a regular lock and a priority lock.

Regular threads must first lock the normal lock, and then the priority lock. The priority thread only has to lock the priority lock:

Mutex mLock;
Mutex mPriLock;


doNormal()
{
   mLock.lock();
   pthread_yield();
   doPriority();
   mLock.unlock();
}

doPriority()
{
   mPriLock.lock();
   doStuff();
   mPriLock.unlock();
}