libWorkQueue

This library is a priority work queue scheduler.

Possible applications of this library is prioritizing, queuing, and/or scheduling:

• Queue, parallelize, and/or schedule transactions to a synchronous database API.

• Hardware I/O to a device where commands must be queued.

• Periodic work that must be scheduled every X period for example:

  • A software watchdog to check that your system is OK.
  • A periodic check of network I/O
  • a cron job scheduler

• If you have many threads that spend most of the time sleeping or blocked, use libworkqueue to reduce the number of threads and to queue the jobs. The result may be a lower memory footprint by a lower number of threads.

• If you have other threads and wich to serialize operations you may use libworkqueue to make a FIFO or priority queue.

• A thread pool. Send work tasks to the pool.

Linux/UNIX

Help on Configure options

	./autogen.sh
	./configure --help

Dependencies to compile: * C compiler * libtool, autoconf, automake (gnu auto tools)

To compile library:

	./autogen.sh
	./configure
	make

To compile examples:

make examples

To install:

make install

To build doxygen documentation graphvis is required:

make doxygen-doc

MS windows

• Tested on Windows XP SP3 with MS Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition. Load solution libworkqueue.sln