[libdispatch-dev] Experimental Pthread Work Queue Support for FreeBSD

[David Leimbach]

Hi,

Thanks for clarifying!  That's very exciting!  I really like some things
about libdispatch and am glad to see it being embraced for more than just
Mac OS X.

Dave

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Stacey Son <sson at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Robert was the one that asked me if I could look into this so hopefully he
> has not already done this...  :)
>
> Currently the GCD port for FreeBSD uses the user-level thread worker code
> in libdispatch and not the pthread_workqueue_*_np() calls like darwin.   The
> pthread work queue code below pretty much follows the same idea that darwin
> uses.   It is a kernel assisted thread pool implementation. The kernel
> manages the creation and destruction of threads in the work pool based on if
> it sees lots of the worker threads blocking, being idle for a (relatively)
> long time, etc.   I don't know if it performs any better than the user-level
> thread pool since I have not yet done any performance testing.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> -stacey.
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:26 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
>
> I think Robert Watson has already done this?
>
> My understanding is that 8-STABLE supports this.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Stacey Son <sson at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just in time for the holidays I have created a couple of patches for
>> FreeBSD-Current to add apple-like pthread workqueues.   You can find the
>> patches at:
>>
>>        http://people.freebsd.org/~sson/thrworkq/
>>
>> The first patch (kern_thrworkq_*.diff) adds the kernel support and
>> thr_workq() system call.  To compile it into the kernel "options THRWORKQ"
>> needs to be added to the kernel config file.  The second patch
>> (pthread_workqueue_*.diff) is for the libthr code and adds the
>> pthread_workqueue_*_np() functions.  (See
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~sson/thrworkq/pthread_workqueue.3.txt for the
>> man page.)   I have only done a limited amount of testing so I am sure there
>> are bugs.   Any questions, comments, bug reports, and/or patches are
>> welcomed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -stacey.
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