On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:10:30PM -0400, Juan Pablo L
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, i m new to libev and i m trying to use ev_async to signal some threads
> for some events, everything is ok but when the threads end
> they take very long to be joined, like in minutes which makes the
> application not responsive (i need them to be joinable in the real
> application), i m sure the problem is with ev_async,
> i have tested without it and with it, the problem is the ev_async but i have
> no idea where the problem is, doing strace it shows that the loop gets stack
> at epoll in a futex call,
libev doesn't do any futex calls, so if it gets stuck in one, it means it'S
in somebody elses code.
> void *the_thread_function(struct ev_loop *evt_loop)
> {
> ev_run(evt_loop,0);
> pthread_exit(NULL);
> }
this is one thread.
> while(--i >= 0)
> {
> printf("i = %d\n",i);
> ev_async_send(evt_loop,&as_evt);
> sleep(1);
> }
>
> ev_break(evt_loop,EVBREAK_ALL);
>
> printf("stopping watcher\n");
> ev_async_stop(evt_loop,&as_evt);
and this is another. I don't see you locking the loop, so this is the first
thing you need to fix: the only call allowed on an event loop used in another
thread is ev_async_send, no other calls may be done.
if you want to join the thread, you could make the thread
cancelable/uncanceble via ev_set_loop_release_cb, and just cancel it.
or you could pthread_exit in the async watcher callback, and
ev_async_send, then join.
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