Abstract definition of rt-scheduler policy

[ardour.git] / libs / pbd / pbd / pthread_utils.h

diff --git a/libs/pbd/pbd/pthread_utils.h b/libs/pbd/pbd/pthread_utils.h
index c66feb73a51a5968267e1caae8390090bde5170f..a1660eb073d4ef9b6a518e9d6ab6cc2d1f01f4d9 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/pbd/pbd/pthread_utils.h
+++ b/libs/pbd/pbd/pthread_utils.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-    Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Paul Davis 
+    Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Paul Davis
 
     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -20,7 +20,26 @@
 #ifndef __pbd_pthread_utils__
 #define __pbd_pthread_utils__
 
+/* Accommodate thread setting (and testing) for both
+ * 'libpthread' and 'libpthread_win32' (whose implementations
+ * of 'pthread_t' are subtlely different)
+ */
+#ifndef PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED
+#define PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED
+#ifdef  PTW32_VERSION  /* pthread_win32 */
+#define mark_pthread_inactive(threadID)  threadID.p=0
+#define is_pthread_active(threadID)      threadID.p!=0
+#else                 /* normal pthread */
+#define mark_pthread_inactive(threadID)  threadID=0
+#define is_pthread_active(threadID)      threadID!=0
+#endif  /* PTW32_VERSION */
+#endif  /* PTHREAD_MACROS_DEFINED */
+
+#ifdef COMPILER_MSVC
+#include <ardourext/pthread.h>
+#else
 #include <pthread.h>
+#endif
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <string>
 #include <stdint.h>
@@ -35,9 +54,30 @@ LIBPBD_API void pthread_kill_all (int signum);
 LIBPBD_API const char* pthread_name ();
 LIBPBD_API void pthread_set_name (const char* name);
 
+LIBPBD_API int pbd_realtime_pthread_create (
+               const int policy, int priority, const size_t stacksize,
+               pthread_t *thread,
+               void *(*start_routine) (void *),
+               void *arg);
+
+LIBPBD_API int pbd_set_thread_priority (pthread_t, const int policy, int priority);
+
 namespace PBD {
-       LIBPBD_API extern void notify_gui_about_thread_creation (std::string, pthread_t, std::string, int requests = 256);
-       LIBPBD_API extern PBD::Signal4<void,std::string,pthread_t,std::string,uint32_t> ThreadCreatedWithRequestSize;
+       LIBPBD_API extern void notify_event_loops_about_thread_creation (pthread_t, const std::string&, int requests = 256);
+       LIBPBD_API extern PBD::Signal3<void,pthread_t,std::string,uint32_t> ThreadCreatedWithRequestSize;
 }
 
+/* pthread-w32 does not support realtime scheduling
+ * (well, windows, doesn't..) and only supports SetThreadPriority()
+ *
+ * pthread_setschedparam() returns ENOTSUP if the policy is not SCHED_OTHER.
+ *
+ * however, pthread_create() with attributes, ignores the policy and
+ * only sets the priority (when PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED is used).
+ */
+#ifdef PLATFORM_WINDOWS
+#define PBD_SCHED_FIFO SCHED_OTHER
+#else
+#define PBD_SCHED_FIFO SCHED_FIFO
+#endif
 #endif /* __pbd_pthread_utils__ */