- documentation and cleanup of threads package

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Martin Willi
2005-11-25 13:42:58 +00:00
parent 2a336de4cd
commit ca76df9736
9 changed files with 343 additions and 215 deletions
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/**
* @file thread_pool.h
*
* @brief Thread pool with some threads processing the job_queue
* @brief Interface for thread_pool_t.
*
*/
@@ -34,18 +34,20 @@ typedef struct thread_pool_t thread_pool_t;
* @brief A thread_pool contains a pool of threads processing the job queue.
*
* Current implementation uses as many threads as specified in constructor.
* A more improved version would dynamically increase thread count if necessary...
* A more improved version would dynamically increase thread count if necessary.
*
* @ingroup threads
*/
struct thread_pool_t {
/**
* @brief return currently instanciated threads
* @brief Return currently instanciated threads.
*
* @param thread_pool thread_pool_t object
* @return size of thread pool
*/
size_t (*get_pool_size) (thread_pool_t *thread_pool);
/**
* @brief destroy pool
* @brief Destroy a thread_pool_t.
*
* sends cancellation request to all threads and AWAITS their termination.
*
@@ -57,12 +59,14 @@ struct thread_pool_t {
};
/**
* @brief Create the thread pool using using pool_size of threads
*
* @brief Create the thread pool using using pool_size of threads.
*
* @param pool_size desired pool size
* @return
* - NULL if no threads could be created
* - thread_pool if one ore more threads could be instanciated
* @return
* - thread_pool_t if one ore more threads could be started, or
* - NULL if no threads could be created
*
* @ingroup threads
*/
thread_pool_t *thread_pool_create(size_t pool_size);