Re: Request for comments about synchronized queue using boost
Hendrik Schober wrote:
Nordl?w wrote:
I am currently designing a synchronized queue used to communicate
between threads. Is the code given below a good solution? Am I
using mutex lock/unlock more than needed?
Are there any resources out there on the Internet on how to design
*thread-safe* *efficient* data-
structures?
comp.programming.threads?
/Nordl?w
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/// Pop and return value, possibly waiting forever.
T wait_pop() {
boost::mutex::scoped_lock sl(m); // NOTE: lock mutex
// wait until queue has at least on element()
c.wait(sl, boost::bind(&std::queue<T>::size, q));
T value = q.front();
q.pop();
return value;
}
I haven't done any threading in a decade or so, but I wonder how
in the above code anything could be put into the locked queue.
What am I missing?
Oh, and I wonder what 'c' is.
c is a condition variable:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/thread/synchronization.html#thread.synchronization.condvar_ref
You lock the mutex, then wait for a condition, which (automatically)
unlocks the mutex, and locks it again if the condition occurs.
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