[libdispatch-dev] Solaris portability / Pthread workqueue

[prakash sangappa]

Thanks Stacey,
-Prakash.

Stacey Son wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Prakash Sangappa wrote:
>
>> I am interested in finding out more about the pthread workqueue
>> API that libdispatch uses. Is there any documentation / man pages
>> available?
>
> Hi,
>
> I have spending some quality time with the pthread workqueue API and 
> all the documentation I could find was the source code (see pointers to 
> source below).  I suspect that there might be some internal apple docs
> given that a little dtracing reports that this API is very popular 
> with darwin
> apps.
>
> Kernel bits:
> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/bsd/kern/pthread_synch.c?v=xnu-1456.1.26
>
> Pthread bits:
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-583/pthreads/pthread.c
>
> Search for:
> 	- pthread_workqueue_init_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_create_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_additem_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_attr_init_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_attr_destroy_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_attr_setqueuepriority_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_attr_getovercommit_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_attr_setovercommit_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_requestconcurrency_np()
> 	- pthread_workqueue_getovercommit_np()
> Also, I have a preliminary implementation of the pthread workqueue API 
> for FreeBSD at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sson/thrworkq/ 
> <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Esson/thrworkq/>
>
> It "mostly" works on amd64/x86_64.   Hopefully, I will have some time 
> over the
> upcoming holiday to finish up some of the items I have listed on the 
> TODO list.
>
> -stacey.