Re: [Libevent-users] priorities and bases for different threads

[Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

> "Active events with a lower priority are always processed before events with
> a higher priority.”
>
> Does is apply across multiple bases with multiple threads?
>
> Example:
>
> Thread A and Thread B each have their own bases and each use
> event_base_priority_init(<base>, 5) on their bases
> Thread A creates an event with priority 2
> Thread B creates an event with priority 0
> Tons of packets come in to Thread A’s event queue.  It starts processing
> them, occasionally writing data to the pipe that Thread B has its 0 priority
> event on, but there are still many packets already queued up for Thread A’s
> event queue
>
>
> I’m hoping what happens here is that once Thread A writes to the pipe that
> Thread B has its 0 priority event on, Thread B will pick up that event from
> its base before more of Thread A’s base continues to feed Thread A its
> events.
>
> Do I have that right?

Indeed, since this is really different threads.

  Azat.
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