[boost] Re: Re: Re: Boost::thread feature request: thread priority

From: Maxim Egorushkin (e-maxim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-01 00:19:35

"William E. Kempf" <wekempf_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:1960.167.16.75.51.1057006070.squirrel_at_frodo.kempf-ville.com...

> Now, what you're describing sounds more like this:
>
> class timer
> {
> public:
>    timer(boost::function<void> on_event, int ms, bool repeat=false);
> };
>
> Which do you really want?

Yes, this is what I needed.

>
> As for "the problem was that I could be sure that the scheduler thread
> would receive its time slice exactly every 250 ms", you simply can't do
> this, portably or not.  Granularity issues of the underlying clock aside,
> I'm not aware of any scheduler that would give you this sort of control,
> and fiddling with the priorities will only give you the illusion that
> you've accomplished what you want.

Totally agreed. I didn't solve the problem, rather I tryed to alleviate it.
You can look at it in the attachments. Finally, I switched to using win32
::CreateWaitableTimer() and ::RegisterWaitForSingleObject() functions.

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