void task()
{
dlog << LINFO << "task start";
future<int> var;
var = 1;
// Here we ask the thread pool to call this->subtask() and this->subtask2().
// Note that calls to add_task() will return immediately if there is an
// available thread to hand the task off to. However, if there isn't a
// thread ready then add_task() blocks until there is such a thread.
// Also note that since task() is executed within the thread pool (see main() below)
// calls to add_task() will execute the requested task within the calling thread
// in cases where the thread pool is full. This means it is always safe to
// spawn subtasks from within another task, which is what we are doing here.
tp.add_task(*this,&test::subtask,var); // schedule call to this->subtask(var)
tp.add_task(*this,&test::subtask2); // schedule call to this->subtask2()
// Since var is a future, this line will wait for the test::subtask task to
// finish before allowing us to access the contents of var. Then var will
// return the integer it contains. In this case result will be assigned
// the value 2 since var was incremented by subtask().
int result = var;
// print out the result
dlog << LINFO << "var = " << result;
// Wait for all the tasks we have started to finish. Note that
// wait_for_all_tasks() only waits for tasks which were started
// by the calling thread. So you don't have to worry about other
// unrelated parts of your application interfering. In this case
// it just waits for subtask2() to finish.
tp.wait_for_all_tasks();
dlog << LINFO << "task end" ;
}
int main()
{
// tell the logger to print out everything
dlog.set_level(LALL);
dlog << LINFO << "schedule a few tasks";
test mytask;
// Schedule the thread pool to call mytask.task(). Note that all forms of add_task()
// pass in the task object by reference. This means you must make sure, in this case,
// that mytask isn't destructed until after the task has finished executing.
tp.add_task(mytask, &test::task);
// You can also pass task objects to a thread pool by value. So in this case we don't
// have to worry about keeping our own instance of the task. Here we construct a temporary
// add_value object and pass it right in and everything works like it should.
future<int> num = 3;
tp.add_task_by_value(add_value(7), num); // adds 7 to num
int result = num.get();
dlog << LINFO << "result = " << result; // prints result = 10
// uncomment this line if your compiler supports the new C++0x lambda functions
//#define COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CPP0X_LAMBDA_FUNCTIONS
#ifdef COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CPP0X_LAMBDA_FUNCTIONS
// In the above examples we had to explicitly create task objects which is
// inconvenient. If you have a compiler which supports C++0x lambda functions
// then you can use the following simpler method.
// make a task which will just log a message
tp.add_task_by_value([](){
dlog << LINFO << "A message from a lambda function running in another thread.";
});
// Here we make 10 different tasks, each assigns a different value into
// the elements of the vector vect.
std::vector<int> vect(10);
for (unsigned long i = 0; i < vect.size(); ++i)
{
// Make a lambda function which takes vect by reference and i by value. So what
// will happen is each assignment statement will run in a thread in the thread_pool.
tp.add_task_by_value([&vect,i](){
vect[i] = i;
});
}
// Wait for all tasks which were requested by the main thread to complete.
tp.wait_for_all_tasks();
for (unsigned long i = 0; i < vect.size(); ++i)
{
dlog << LINFO << "vect["<<i<<"]: " << vect[i];
}
#endif
/* A possible run of this program might produce the following output (the first column is
the time the log message occurred and the value in [] is the thread id for the thread
that generated the log message):
1 INFO [0] main: schedule a few tasks
1 INFO [1] main: task start
1 INFO [0] main: result = 10
201 INFO [2] main: subtask end
201 INFO [1] main: var = 2
201 INFO [2] main: A message from a lambda function running in another thread.
301 INFO [3] main: subtask2 end
301 INFO [1] main: task end
301 INFO [0] main: vect[0]: 0
301 INFO [0] main: vect[1]: 1
301 INFO [0] main: vect[2]: 2
301 INFO [0] main: vect[3]: 3
301 INFO [0] main: vect[4]: 4
301 INFO [0] main: vect[5]: 5
301 INFO [0] main: vect[6]: 6
301 INFO [0] main: vect[7]: 7
301 INFO [0] main: vect[8]: 8
301 INFO [0] main: vect[9]: 9
*/
}
void file_manager::safe_add_visited_dir(path const & dir, thread_pool & thread_pool, suffix_array_builder & sa_builder)
{
boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> locker(lock_);
boost::shared_future<void> dir_future = thread_pool.add_task(boost::bind(&file_manager::get_files_from_dir, this, dir, boost::ref(thread_pool), boost::ref(sa_builder)));
remaining_dirs_.push(dir_future);
}
