[erlang-questions] Abusing OTP-8623 for high-priority messages

[Tony Rogvall]

Now we are getting somewhere !
Good thinking ulf. 

:-)

/Tony

On 11 apr 2014, at 12:52, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote:

> 
> On 11 Apr 2014, at 11:04, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> This plan could almost work (theoretically), but would spam ManagerPid for every call to probe for 
>> high prio message. And you surly add latency since you need to wait more than 0
>> millis for a high prio response.
>> 
>> In other words, with my current mindset, the scheme is not really working.
>> But with some new and fresh input this may inspire to even more abuse :-)
> 
> This is how to do it, of course:   ;-)
> 
> PrioRef = make_ref(),
> ManagerPid ! {send_me_prio_request_with_this_ref, PrioRef},
> erlang:hibernate(
>     fun() ->
>         receive
>             {PrioRef, From, Msg} -> handle_call(From, Msg, State)
>         after 0 ->
>             receive
>                 Msg -> gen_server_like_dispatch_msg(Msg)
>         end
>     end).
> 
> Of course, hibernate/1 doesn’t exist, and the compiler would have
> to make the fun ‘inherit’ the receive mark.
> 
> BR,
> Ulf
> 
> Ulf Wiger, Co-founder & Developer Advocate, Feuerlabs Inc.
> http://feuerlabs.com
> 
> 
> 

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