Re: suspendable/resumable/prioritizable task dispatcher

Gavin Lambert via Boost-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 29/08/2022 01:58, chris-boostusers wrote:
> I have a list of CPU-bound tasks I need to perform.  I'll list two of 
> them here:
> 
>     a) compute first zillion digits of pi (low priority)
>     b) add two plus two (high priority)
> 
> I co_spawn (a).  Later, while (a) is running, I co_spawn (b).  (a) will 
> be suspended at a "co_suspension_point" so that (b) can take over.  Of 
> course when (b) completes, (a) will resume.
> 
> For bonus points, it will support multiple threads (probably easy) and a 
> task's priority can change over time (probably hard).

Scheduling coroutines is in Boost.Fiber's wheelhouse.  I don't think it 
provides a priority-based scheduler out of the box, but it does discuss 
it as a customisation point at:

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_80_0/libs/fiber/doc/html/fiber/scheduling.html
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