Less is More (Threading)

[Alessandro Ren]

On 8/19/2009 3:13 PM, Steven D. Morrey wrote:
> So I've implemented multi-threading in the main event loop to force high priority events to no longer block the main thread.
> It turned out to be brain dead simple to implement.
> That has me a bit worried actually.
>
> After going through the source line by line, I see no place where event_list_low and event_list_high could stomp on eachother, ergo no need for mutexes, semaphores etc, anywhere that I was able to find.
>
> The fix I followed was simply to cut the event list high code out and paste it into it's own function then perform a pthread_create right before we enter the main event loop.
> So now we have 2 threads where once there was only one.
> This appears to be working well, and my latencies are dropping quickly.
>    

     If possible, publish your patch, I´d like very much to test it.

     Tks.
> If it continues to drop and tends to stay that way I'll get a patch up, but in the meantime, is there any place those 2 threads could take eachothers cookies so to speak?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sincerely,
> Steve
>
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