C# -.NET Multithreading & "thread Has Already Entered The Lock"
Feb 9, 2010
In an ASP.NET application, I have a resource that is protected by a ReaderWriterLockSlim.
Normal requests call EnterReadLock, access the resource, call ExitReadLock and return.
At one moment, I accidently forgot to put a call to ExitReadLock somewhere in my code. On the next request, I got an exception stating that the thread had already entered the lock.
Fair enough: if at the end of request A the thread does not exit the lock, and that same thread is used to process request B, and tries to enter the lock, it will throw.
Now, my question: is the following scenario possible? reasons?
thread begins to process request A
thread enters lock
thread does, say, sleep, or do some IO, and so becomes available same thread begins to process request B, while request A is "on hold"
thread enters lock !! throws !!
If yes, what other solution do I have to protect said resource? Bearing in mind I want to use a ReaderWriterLockSlim because I also have other thread that may write to the resource?
edit: add some details: 1) This happens in the ProcessRequest method of an HttpHandler which generates, caches and serves images. These images are expensive to generate. So, the first request will generate and cache the image, and we want to put the other requests on hold while generating.
2) We have not tried to "reproduce" -- at the moment we're trying to know if it is possible or not that the same thread begins processing a request while already waiting for the image to become ready.
3) I am aware of the LockPolicyRecursion but I am not sure I fully understand its purpose, and whether it would be OK to set it to SupportsRecursion in our case.
edit: going further...According to the document pointed to by Ryan below, a thread will block and not return to the pool as long as we don't engage into async operations. So once we've locked the thread waiting for EnterReadLock to complete, it won't return to the pool nor process any other request.
So 1) we should be safe but 2) we might starve the thread pool. Assuming we don't want to immediately return a dummy "please wait" image, what solutions do we have?
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