Question

I am working on a networking program using C++ and I’d like to implement a pthread pool. Whenever, I receive an event from the receive socket, I will put the data into the queue in the thread pool. I am thinking about creating 5 separate threads and will consistently check the queue to see if there is anything incoming data to be done.

This is quite straight forward topic but I am not a expert so I would like to hear anything that might help to implement this.

Please let me know any tutorials or references or problems I should aware.

Answer 1

Use Boost.Asio and have each thread in the pool invoke io_service::run().

Multiple threads may call
io_service::run() to set up a pool of
threads from which completion handlers
may be invoked. This approach may also
be used with io_service::post() to use
a means to perform any computational
tasks across a thread pool.

Note that all threads that have joined
an io_service’s pool are considered
equivalent, and the io_service may
distribute work across them in an
arbitrary fashion.