2 * $Id: heavy-thread.c,v 1.2 2005/04/25 16:42:24 paul Exp $
4 * This file is part of Quagga.
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22 /* This programme shows the effects of 'heavy' long-running functions
23 * on the cooperative threading model, as demonstrated by heavy.c, and how
24 * they can be mitigated using a background thread.
26 * Run it with a config file containing 'password whatever', telnet to it
27 * (it defaults to port 4000) and enter the 'clear foo string' command.
28 * then type whatever and observe that, unlike heavy.c, the vty interface
40 extern struct thread_master
*master
;
58 slow_func (struct vty
*vty
, const char *str
, const int i
)
63 for (j
= 0; j
< 300; j
++)
66 if ((i
% ITERS_LATER
) == 0)
67 printf ("%s: %d, temporary error, save this somehow and do it later..\n",
70 if ((i
% ITERS_ERR
) == 0)
71 printf ("%s: hard error\n", __func__
);
73 if ((i
% ITERS_PRINT
) == 0)
74 printf ("%s did %d, x = %g\n", str
, i
, x
);
78 clear_something (struct thread
*thread
)
80 struct work_state
*ws
= THREAD_ARG(thread
);
82 /* this could be like iterating through 150k of route_table
83 * or worse, iterating through a list of peers, to bgp_stop them with
84 * each having 150k route tables to process...
86 while (ws
->i
< ITERS_MAX
)
88 slow_func(ws
->vty
, ws
->str
, ws
->i
);
90 if (thread_should_yield(thread
))
92 thread_add_background(master
, clear_something
, ws
, 0);
98 XFREE (MTYPE_TMP
, ws
->str
);
99 XFREE (MTYPE_TMP
, ws
);
107 "arbitrary string\n")
110 struct work_state
*ws
;
114 vty_out (vty
, "%% string argument required%s", VTY_NEWLINE
);
118 str
= argv_concat (argv
, argc
, 0);
120 if ((ws
= XMALLOC(MTYPE_TMP
, sizeof(*ws
))) == NULL
)
122 zlog_err ("%s: unable to allocate work_state", __func__
);
126 if (!(ws
->str
= XSTRDUP (MTYPE_TMP
, str
)))
128 zlog_err ("%s: unable to xstrdup", __func__
);
129 XFREE (MTYPE_TMP
, ws
);
136 thread_add_background(master
, clear_something
, ws
, 0);
144 install_element (VIEW_NODE
, &clear_foo_cmd
);