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      1 /* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
      2  * Copyright (C) 1995-1997  Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald
      3  *
      4  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      5  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
      6  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
      7  * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
      8  *
      9  * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     10  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     11  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the GNU
     12  * Lesser General Public License for more details.
     13  *
     14  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
     15  * License along with this library; if not, write to the
     16  * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
     17  * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
     18  */
     19 
     20 /*
     21  * Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-2000.  See the AUTHORS
     22  * file for a list of people on the GLib Team.  See the ChangeLog
     23  * files for a list of changes.  These files are distributed with
     24  * GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
     25  */
     26 
     27 #if defined(G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES) && !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
     28 #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
     29 #endif
     30 
     31 #ifndef __G_THREADPOOL_H__
     32 #define __G_THREADPOOL_H__
     33 
     34 #include <glib/gthread.h>
     35 
     36 G_BEGIN_DECLS
     37 
     38 typedef struct _GThreadPool     GThreadPool;
     39 
     40 /* Thread Pools
     41  */
     42 
     43 /* The real GThreadPool is bigger, so you may only create a thread
     44  * pool with the constructor function */
     45 struct _GThreadPool
     46 {
     47   GFunc func;
     48   gpointer user_data;
     49   gboolean exclusive;
     50 };
     51 
     52 /* Get a thread pool with the function func, at most max_threads may
     53  * run at a time (max_threads == -1 means no limit), exclusive == TRUE
     54  * means, that the threads shouldn't be shared and that they will be
     55  * prestarted (otherwise they are started as needed) user_data is the
     56  * 2nd argument to the func */
     57 GThreadPool*    g_thread_pool_new             (GFunc            func,
     58                                                gpointer         user_data,
     59                                                gint             max_threads,
     60                                                gboolean         exclusive,
     61                                                GError         **error);
     62 
     63 /* Push new data into the thread pool. This task is assigned to a thread later
     64  * (when the maximal number of threads is reached for that pool) or now
     65  * (otherwise). If necessary a new thread will be started. The function
     66  * returns immediatly */
     67 void            g_thread_pool_push            (GThreadPool     *pool,
     68                                                gpointer         data,
     69                                                GError         **error);
     70 
     71 /* Set the number of threads, which can run concurrently for that pool, -1
     72  * means no limit. 0 means has the effect, that the pool won't process
     73  * requests until the limit is set higher again */
     74 void            g_thread_pool_set_max_threads (GThreadPool     *pool,
     75                                                gint             max_threads,
     76                                                GError         **error);
     77 gint            g_thread_pool_get_max_threads (GThreadPool     *pool);
     78 
     79 /* Get the number of threads assigned to that pool. This number doesn't
     80  * necessarily represent the number of working threads in that pool */
     81 guint           g_thread_pool_get_num_threads (GThreadPool     *pool);
     82 
     83 /* Get the number of unprocessed items in the pool */
     84 guint           g_thread_pool_unprocessed     (GThreadPool     *pool);
     85 
     86 /* Free the pool, immediate means, that all unprocessed items in the queue
     87  * wont be processed, wait means, that the function doesn't return immediatly,
     88  * but after all threads in the pool are ready processing items. immediate
     89  * does however not mean, that threads are killed. */
     90 void            g_thread_pool_free            (GThreadPool     *pool,
     91                                                gboolean         immediate,
     92                                                gboolean         wait_);
     93 
     94 /* Set the maximal number of unused threads before threads will be stopped by
     95  * GLib, -1 means no limit */
     96 void            g_thread_pool_set_max_unused_threads (gint      max_threads);
     97 gint            g_thread_pool_get_max_unused_threads (void);
     98 guint           g_thread_pool_get_num_unused_threads (void);
     99 
    100 /* Stop all currently unused threads, but leave the limit untouched */
    101 void            g_thread_pool_stop_unused_threads    (void);
    102 
    103 /* Set sort function for priority threading */
    104 void            g_thread_pool_set_sort_function      (GThreadPool      *pool,
    105 		                                      GCompareDataFunc  func,
    106 						      gpointer          user_data);
    107 
    108 /* Set maximum time a thread can be idle in the pool before it is stopped */
    109 void            g_thread_pool_set_max_idle_time      (guint             interval);
    110 guint           g_thread_pool_get_max_idle_time      (void);
    111 
    112 G_END_DECLS
    113 
    114 #endif /* __G_THREADPOOL_H__ */
    115