A Simple ThreadPool library for C

Quick start

Copy the cthreadpool.c and cthreadpool.h files into your project.

Example

See example.c.

Usage

Create the thread pool

sdm_threadpool_t *sdm_threadpool_create(size_t num_threads, size_t queue_size);

Creates a running pool of num_threads threads and an empty task queue with an initial capacity of queue_size jobs.

Add jobs to the queue

void sdm_threadpool_add(sdm_threadpool_t *pool, void (*function)(void *), void *arg);

Add a job to threadpool pool. This is done by specifying the function that is to be called and any arguments, arg. As seen in example.c, the *arg pointer may also contain an entry for any values returned from the wrapped function.

Wait for all jobs to run

void sdm_threadpool_join(sdm_threadpool_t *pool);

This will block until all jobs in the queue have been run and all the threads have finished.