9.3. Summary

In this chapter, we’ve looked at various “advanced” thread-management techniques: thread pools and interrupting threads. You’ve seen how the use of local work queues and work stealing can reduce the synchronization overhead and potentially improve the throughput of the thread pool and how running other tasks from the queue while waiting for a subtask to complete can eliminate the potential for deadlock.

We’ve also looked at various ways of allowing one thread to interrupt the processing of another, such as the use of specific interruption points and functions that perform what would otherwise be a blocking wait in a way that can be interrupted.