[argobots-discuss] Take a task out of an Argobot pool?

[Quincey Koziol]

Hi Halim,
	Excellent, thanks for the pointer!

		Quincey


> On Feb 27, 2019, at 11:27 AM, Amer, Abdelhalim via discuss <discuss at lists.argobots.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Quincey,
> 
> What you are describing is the role of the scheduler. The scheduler is 
> the one that is responsible for pulling user-level threads (ULTs) and 
> tasklets from pools and executing them. Think of a scheduler as a 
> Pthread. A quick description of how schedulers work can be found at 
> https://github.com/pmodels/argobots/wiki/Scheduler. You can also 
> checkout an example of how a work stealing scheduler could be 
> implemented in `test/basic/sched_user_ws.c` manually.
> 
> Halim
> www.mcs.anl.gov/~aamer
> 
> On 2/27/19 10:57 AM, Quincey Koziol via discuss wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 	I need to pull a task out of an Argobot pool and execute it “now”, in the current thread.  Any suggestions for the best way to do that?  I am thinking about calling ABT_task_cancel() to get it out of the pool, then just call the task_func (that we gave to ABT_task_create) directly from the place we took it out of the pool.  Will that work?   Is there a better way?
>> 
>> 	Thanks,
>> 		Quincey
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