/// <summary>
/// A default static constructor that initializes the pool threads.
/// </summary>
static SmartThreadPool()
{
//create a scheduler for threads created outside the computation system.
//By default this is a heap scheduller since there can be much more threads,
//thus heap sort is more efficient.
artificialThreadScheduler = Configuration.ArtificialThreadScheduler;
uint physicalProcessors = Unsafe.GetPhysicalCores();
//the idea here is {core_count} * 2 the rest should be spawned as fibers.
ISchedulableThread[] threads = new ISchedulableThread[physicalProcessors * 2];
for (int i = 0; i < threads.Length; i++)
{
threads[i] = new SmartThread(true, -1);
threads[i].SchedulableIndex = i;
if (Configuration.SmartThreadPoolPreLoadThreads)
{
threads[i].Start();
}
}
//Load the default thread scheduler.
threadScheduler = Configuration.SmartPoolScheduler;
threadScheduler.Create(threads);
}
/// <summary>
/// Tries to steal workload from other heavy loaded threads.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>a boolan flag indicating the steal success or failure.</returns>
internal bool TryStealWork()
{
//1. Ask the pool for a thread with the worst stats.
//2. Access it's internal queue by calling count and then doing Dequeue
// Here we eith hold a lock or we dont lock at all and handle all queue empty exception.
SmartThread threadToSteal = (SmartThread)SmartThreadPool.GetThreadToSteal(isInitializedInPool);
//This code is needed as ThreadPool might tell us that in some sittuations that we can steal
//work from ourselvs for e.g if other thread will join or we will fork ourselfs and the operations
//is running.
if (threadToSteal.id != this.id)
{
//perform a steal but only if the window is grater then 1 this means that we will
//try to snach the item when no one is asking for it, if we fail we still do it in lock free
//fashion but we may spin.
bool result = TryStealFromQueue(threadToSteal.scheduler, stealCondition);
//update the stats.
if (result)
{
SmartThreadPool.Reschedule(isInitializedInPool, threadToSteal, SchedulerAction.Dequeue);
}
return(result);
}
return(false);
}
public static int GetThreadLoad()
{
SmartThread thread = (SmartThread)threadScheduler.GetBestThread();
return(thread.scheduler.UnsafeCount);
}
/// <summary>
/// Removes the given thread that not orginated in a thread pool from the artificial scheduler.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="thread">SmartThread</param>
internal static void RemoveFromArtificialScheduler(SmartThread thread)
{
artificialThreadScheduler.Remove(thread);
}
/// <summary>
/// Inserts a thread that not orginated in a thread pool to the artificial scheduler,
/// in order to enable fair work scheduling and work stealing.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="thread">SmartThread.</param>
internal static void InsertToArtificialScheduler(SmartThread thread)
{
artificialThreadScheduler.Add(thread);
}
