libev out of context thread

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:12:57AM +1100, Varun Chandramohan <cvaruneng04 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Not sure why the code formatting is weird. I started
> using async watchers and it helped. I got it working with that.

Just keep in mind that ev_async_send is the only function you are allowed to
call cuncorrently from multiple threads :)

> remove one other thread as I felt it was not needed with async watcher.
> My solution is to use thread 1 to read from socket a packet add it to queue
> and immediately notify the async watcher of data available. I also added
> mutex lock to avoid race condition. Everything seem to be working well
> as expected. I have currently put the code under stress test. Thanks for
> the help.

Sounds cool. I forgot to mention that the EV::Loop::Async module is a
working example of this technique as well, using mutexes to protect the
loop and using async watchers to wake up the event loop to take note of
any changes.

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