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1 /*
2  * QEMU block layer thread pool
3  *
4  * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2008
5  * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2012
6  *
7  * Authors:
8  *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
9  *  Paolo Bonzini     <pbonzini@redhat.com>
10  *
11  * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
12  * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
13  *
14  * Contributions after 2012-01-13 are licensed under the terms of the
15  * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
16  */
17 
18 #ifndef QEMU_THREAD_POOL_H
19 #define QEMU_THREAD_POOL_H
20 
21 #include "block/aio.h"
22 
23 #define THREAD_POOL_MAX_THREADS_DEFAULT         64
24 
25 typedef int ThreadPoolFunc(void *opaque);
26 
27 typedef struct ThreadPoolAio ThreadPoolAio;
28 
29 ThreadPoolAio *thread_pool_new_aio(struct AioContext *ctx);
30 void thread_pool_free_aio(ThreadPoolAio *pool);
31 
32 /*
33  * thread_pool_submit_{aio,co} API: submit I/O requests in the thread's
34  * current AioContext.
35  */
36 BlockAIOCB *thread_pool_submit_aio(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg,
37                                    BlockCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque);
38 int coroutine_fn thread_pool_submit_co(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg);
39 void thread_pool_update_params(ThreadPoolAio *pool, struct AioContext *ctx);
40 
41 /* ------------------------------------------- */
42 /* Generic thread pool types and methods below */
43 typedef struct ThreadPool ThreadPool;
44 
45 /* Create a new thread pool. Never returns NULL. */
46 ThreadPool *thread_pool_new(void);
47 
48 /*
49  * Free the thread pool.
50  * Waits for all the previously submitted work to complete before performing
51  * the actual freeing operation.
52  */
53 void thread_pool_free(ThreadPool *pool);
54 
55 /*
56  * Submit a new work (task) for the pool.
57  *
58  * @opaque_destroy is an optional GDestroyNotify for the @opaque argument
59  * to the work function at @func.
60  */
61 void thread_pool_submit(ThreadPool *pool, ThreadPoolFunc *func,
62                         void *opaque, GDestroyNotify opaque_destroy);
63 
64 /*
65  * Submit a new work (task) for the pool, making sure it starts getting
66  * processed immediately, launching a new thread for it if necessary.
67  *
68  * @opaque_destroy is an optional GDestroyNotify for the @opaque argument
69  * to the work function at @func.
70  */
71 void thread_pool_submit_immediate(ThreadPool *pool, ThreadPoolFunc *func,
72                                   void *opaque, GDestroyNotify opaque_destroy);
73 
74 /*
75  * Wait for all previously submitted work to complete before returning.
76  *
77  * Can be used as a barrier between two sets of tasks executed on a thread
78  * pool without destroying it or in a performance sensitive path where the
79  * caller just wants to wait for all tasks to complete while deferring the
80  * pool free operation for later, less performance sensitive time.
81  */
82 void thread_pool_wait(ThreadPool *pool);
83 
84 /* Set the maximum number of threads in the pool. */
85 bool thread_pool_set_max_threads(ThreadPool *pool, int max_threads);
86 
87 /*
88  * Adjust the maximum number of threads in the pool to give each task its
89  * own thread (exactly one thread per task).
90  */
91 bool thread_pool_adjust_max_threads_to_work(ThreadPool *pool);
92 
93 #endif
94