[libdispatch-dev] libdispatch's thread model

[Stacey Son]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Mark Heily wrote:

> Mario Schwalbe wrote:
>> I know that Apple's non-posix extension to pthread isn't available.
>> Nevertheless, it should be possible to at least use a bounded number of
>> worker threads less than MAX_THREAD_COUNT (255). What about dynamically
>> setting MAX_THREAD_COUNT (or a similar variable) to the number of processors
>> instead?
> 
> Stacy Son has kindly documented the pthread_workqueue(3) API which should be very helpful to get the correct semantics [4]. 

FYI, I didn't document all of apple's pthread_workqueue_*_np()  functions but just the more interesting ones.  

Also, my system call interface is very different from apple's and not documented but I wasn't trying to keep that compatible with their implementation.

> [4]
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sson/thrworkq/pthread_workqueue_2009_12_14.diff


You might find http://people.freebsd.org/~sson/thrworkq/pthread_workqueue.3.txt  a bit easier to read.

Regards,

-stacey.