concurrentfill.cxx File Reference

Detailed Description

 
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#include "ROOT/RHist.hxx"
#include "ROOT/RHistConcurrentFill.hxx"
 
#include <iostream>
#include <future>
#include <random>
 
using namespace ROOT;
 
double wasteCPUTime(std::mt19937 &gen)
{
   // Simulate number crunching through gen and ridiculous num bits
   return std::generate_canonical<double, 100>(gen) + std::generate_canonical<double, 100>(gen) +
          std::generate_canonical<double, 100>(gen) + std::generate_canonical<double, 100>(gen) +
          std::generate_canonical<double, 100>(gen);
}
 
using Filler_t = Experimental::RHistConcurrentFiller<Experimental::RH2D, 1024>;
 
/// This function is called within each thread: it spends some CPU time and then
/// fills a number into the histogram, through the Filler_t. This is repeated
/// several times.
void theTask(Filler_t filler)
{
   std::mt19937 gen;
 
   for (int i = 0; i < 3000000; ++i)
      filler.Fill({wasteCPUTime(gen), wasteCPUTime(gen)});
}
 
/// This example fills a histogram concurrently, from several threads.
void concurrentHistFill(Experimental::RH2D &hist)
{
   // RHistConcurrentFillManager allows multiple threads to fill the histogram
   // concurrently.
   //
   // Details: each thread's Fill() calls are buffered. once the buffer is full,
   // the RHistConcurrentFillManager locks and flushes the buffer into the
   // histogram.
   Experimental::RHistConcurrentFillManager<Experimental::RH2D> fillMgr(hist);
 
   std::array<std::thread, 8> threads;
 
   // Let the threads fill the histogram concurrently.
   for (auto &thr: threads) {
      // Each thread calls fill(), passing a dedicated filler per thread.
      thr = std::thread(theTask, fillMgr.MakeFiller());
   }
 
   // Join them.
   for (auto &thr: threads)
      thr.join();
}
 
void concurrentfill()
{
   // This histogram will be filled from several threads.
   Experimental::RH2D hist{{100, 0., 1.}, {{0., 1., 2., 3., 10.}}};
 
   concurrentHistFill(hist);
 
   std::cout << hist.GetEntries() << '\n';
}

Date

2015-07-09

Warning

This is part of the experimental API, which might change in the future. Feedback is welcome!

Author

Axel Naumann axel@.nosp@m.cern.nosp@m..ch

Definition in file concurrentfill.cxx.