global_mutexes.h File Reference

#include "system/dtpthread.h"

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Functions
dt_pthread_mutex_t *	dt_pipeline_threadsafe_mutex (void)

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dt_pipeline_threadsafe_mutex()

dt_pthread_mutex_t * dt_pipeline_threadsafe_mutex

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void

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Prevents concurrent export/thumbnail pipelines from running at the same time. This buys no throughput – the CPU is the bottleneck and the pixel code is already multi-threaded internally through OpenMP – it bounds peak memory instead.

Definition at line 603 of file darktable.c.

References darktable, and darktable_t::pipeline_threadsafe.

Referenced by dt_dev_pixelpipe_process().