Ahhhhhh this is great, and so refreshing. I'm so happy we're starting to bring some order to our threading situation!
Thanks so much to you and your team! On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 11:51, Kristen Wright <kwri...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hello! > Now that Bug 1584568 <http://bugzil.la/1584568> just landed I wanted to > mention the new background thread pool for general purpose and blocking IO > runnables. Existing one-off threads, as well as new jobs that you may want > to run async in the background, can go to the new background thread pool > with NS_DispatchBackgroundTask(...) > < > https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/2f09184ec781a2667feec87499d4b81b32b6c48e/xpcom/threads/nsThreadUtils.h#1710 > >. > If you've got something that cares about what order it runs in you would > want to use NS_CreateBackgroundTaskQueue > < > https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/2f09184ec781a2667feec87499d4b81b32b6c48e/xpcom/threads/nsThreadUtils.h#1722 > > > instead. > > In the past, we've sent a lot of general I/O jobs to the stream transport > service. For a lot of cases, it's now possible to use the dedicated > background threads instead. To access the I/O threads when dispatching to > the pool or to a background task queue, use the NS_DISPATCH_EVENT_MAY_BLOCK > < > https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/923eec8d2fb8078ebc7a33a9e1ce73eac01f7446/xpcom/threads/nsIEventTarget.idl#63 > > > flag, to ensure that blocking I/O goes to its dedicated thread pool. > > For a lot of cases, converting your existing async jobs or adding new ones > is pretty straightforward. Some examples of using background dispatch can > be found in Bug 1594858 <http://bugzil.la/1594858> for a basic background > task, Bug 1595242 <http://bugzil.la/1595242> for some background I/O, and > Bug > 1594814 <http://bugzil.la/1594814> for one that needs to use a background > task queue. Our tracking bug for this work is Bug 1595241 > <http://bugzil.la/1595241>. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
