Re: [Boost-users] Using boost::thread to keep all cores busy

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Using boost::thread to keep all cores busy
From: James C. Sutherland (James.Sutherland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-26 13:10:38

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Eric J. Holtman <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>  On 7/26/2010 9:37 AM, Internet Retard wrote:
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> All at once? What if I have millions of tasks rather than a few? I want to
> be working on 2 tasks all the time. If my queue is not empty, then as a
> thread ends, it sees there are more tasks in the queue and gets one.
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> You only launch *two* tasks.   They keep going back to the
> queue to get new work when they finished their current item.
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You might want to look at the threadpool project:
  http://threadpool.sourceforge.net/
This is built on boost::thread and has a very nice implementation for
queuing work for threads.  It has various types of queues (priority, fifo,
etc).