This roughly mimics `std::thread(...).detach()` except it allows to
customize the stack size. Required for https://reviews.llvm.org/D50993.
I've decided against reusing the existing `llvm_execute_on_thread` because
it's not obvious what to do with the ownership of the passed
function/arguments:
1. If we pass possibly owning functions data to `llvm_execute_on_thread`,
we'll lose the ability to pass small non-owning non-allocating functions
for the joining case (as it's used now). Is it important enough?
2. If we use the non-owning interface in the new use case, we'll force
clients to transfer ownership to the spawned thread manually, but
similar code would still have to exist inside
`llvm_execute_on_thread(_async)` anyway (as we can't just pass the same
non-owning pointer to pthreads and Windows implementations, and would be
forced to wrap it in some structure, and deal with its ownership.
Patch by Dmitry Kozhevnikov!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51103
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
Based on post-commit review for D25585/r284180, rename
hardware_physical_concurrency to heavyweight_hardware_concurrency,
to better reflect what type of tasks it should be used for and
to enable other systems to map this to something other than the
number of physical cores.
llvm-svn: 284390
Summary:
This will be used by ThinLTO to set the amount of backend
parallelism, which performs better when restricted to the number
of physical cores (on X86 at least, where getHostNumPhysicalCores is
currently defined). If not available this falls back to
thread::hardware_concurrency.
Note I didn't add to the thread class since that is a typedef to
std::thread where available.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: beanz, llvm-commits, mgorny
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25585
llvm-svn: 284180
