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itk::MultiThreader Class Reference

A class for performing multithreaded execution. More...

#include <itkMultiThreader.h>

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Classes

struct  ThreadInfoStruct

Public Types

typedef SmartPointer< const SelfConstPointer
typedef SmartPointer< SelfPointer
typedef MultiThreader Self
typedef Object Superclass

Public Member Functions

virtual LightObject::Pointer CreateAnother () const
virtual void DebugOff () const
virtual void DebugOn () const
virtual void Delete ()
CommandGetCommand (unsigned long tag)
bool GetDebug () const
MetaDataDictionaryGetMetaDataDictionary (void)
const MetaDataDictionaryGetMetaDataDictionary (void) const
virtual unsigned long GetMTime () const
virtual const char * GetNameOfClass () const
virtual int GetReferenceCount () const
bool HasObserver (const EventObject &event) const
void InvokeEvent (const EventObject &)
void InvokeEvent (const EventObject &) const
virtual void Modified () const
void MultipleMethodExecute ()
void Print (std::ostream &os, Indent indent=0) const
virtual void Register () const
void RemoveAllObservers ()
void RemoveObserver (unsigned long tag)
void SetDebug (bool debugFlag) const
void SetMetaDataDictionary (const MetaDataDictionary &rhs)
void SetMultipleMethod (int index, ThreadFunctionType, void *data)
virtual void SetReferenceCount (int)
void SetSingleMethod (ThreadFunctionType, void *data)
void SingleMethodExecute ()
int SpawnThread (ThreadFunctionType, void *data)
void TerminateThread (int thread_id)
virtual void UnRegister () const

void SetNumberOfThreads (int numberOfThreads)
virtual int GetNumberOfThreads () const

unsigned long AddObserver (const EventObject &event, Command *)
unsigned long AddObserver (const EventObject &event, Command *) const

Static Public Member Functions

static void BreakOnError ()
static Pointer New ()

static void SetGlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads (int val)
static int GetGlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads ()

static void SetGlobalDefaultNumberOfThreads (int val)
static int GetGlobalDefaultNumberOfThreads ()

static void SetGlobalWarningDisplay (bool flag)
static bool GetGlobalWarningDisplay ()
static void GlobalWarningDisplayOn ()
static void GlobalWarningDisplayOff ()

Protected Types

typedef int InternalReferenceCountType

Protected Member Functions

 MultiThreader ()
bool PrintObservers (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
void PrintSelf (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
 ~MultiThreader ()

virtual void PrintHeader (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const
virtual void PrintTrailer (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const

Protected Attributes

InternalReferenceCountType m_ReferenceCount
SimpleFastMutexLock m_ReferenceCountLock

Friends

class ProcessObject

Detailed Description

A class for performing multithreaded execution.

Multithreader is a class that provides support for multithreaded execution using sproc() on an SGI, or pthread_create on any platform supporting POSIX threads. This class can be used to execute a single method on multiple threads, or to specify a method per thread.

Note
If ITK_USE_SPROC is defined, then sproc() will be used to create multiple threads on an SGI. If ITK_USE_PTHREADS is defined, then pthread_create() will be used to create multiple threads (on a sun, for example).

Definition at line 138 of file itkMultiThreader.h.


Member Typedef Documentation

Reimplemented from itk::Object.

Definition at line 145 of file itkMultiThreader.h.

typedef int itk::LightObject::InternalReferenceCountType [protected, inherited]

Define the type of the reference count according to the target. This allows the use of atomic operations

Definition at line 139 of file itkLightObject.h.

Reimplemented from itk::Object.

Definition at line 144 of file itkMultiThreader.h.

Standard class typedefs.

Reimplemented from itk::Object.

Definition at line 142 of file itkMultiThreader.h.

Reimplemented from itk::Object.

Definition at line 143 of file itkMultiThreader.h.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

itk::MultiThreader::MultiThreader (  )  [protected]
itk::MultiThreader::~MultiThreader (  )  [protected]

Member Function Documentation

unsigned long itk::Object::AddObserver ( const EventObject event,
Command  
) [inherited]

Allow people to add/remove/invoke observers (callbacks) to any ITK object. This is an implementation of the subject/observer design pattern. An observer is added by specifying an event to respond to and an itk::Command to execute. It returns an unsigned long tag which can be used later to remove the event or retrieve the command. The memory for the Command becomes the responsibility of this object, so don't pass the same instance of a command to two different objects

unsigned long itk::Object::AddObserver ( const EventObject event,
Command  
) const [inherited]

Allow people to add/remove/invoke observers (callbacks) to any ITK object. This is an implementation of the subject/observer design pattern. An observer is added by specifying an event to respond to and an itk::Command to execute. It returns an unsigned long tag which can be used later to remove the event or retrieve the command. The memory for the Command becomes the responsibility of this object, so don't pass the same instance of a command to two different objects

static void itk::LightObject::BreakOnError (  )  [static, inherited]

This method is called when itkExceptionMacro executes. It allows the debugger to break on error.

virtual LightObject::Pointer itk::Object::CreateAnother (  )  const [virtual, inherited]
virtual void itk::Object::DebugOff (  )  const [virtual, inherited]

Turn debugging output off.

virtual void itk::Object::DebugOn (  )  const [virtual, inherited]

Turn debugging output on.

virtual void itk::LightObject::Delete (  )  [virtual, inherited]

Delete an itk object. This method should always be used to delete an object when the new operator was used to create it. Using the C delete method will not work with reference counting.

Command* itk::Object::GetCommand ( unsigned long  tag  )  [inherited]

Get the command associated with the given tag. NOTE: This returns a pointer to a Command, but it is safe to asign this to a Command::Pointer. Since Command inherits from LightObject, at this point in the code, only a pointer or a reference to the Command can be used.

bool itk::Object::GetDebug (  )  const [inherited]

Get the value of the debug flag.

static int itk::MultiThreader::GetGlobalDefaultNumberOfThreads (  )  [static]

Set/Get the value which is used to initialize the NumberOfThreads in the constructor. It will be clamped to the range [1, m_GlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads ]. Therefore the caller of this method should check that the requested number of threads was accepted.

static int itk::MultiThreader::GetGlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads (  )  [static]

Set/Get the maximum number of threads to use when multithreading. It will be clamped to the range [ 1, ITK_MAX_THREADS ] because several arrays are already statically allocated using the ITK_MAX_THREADS number. Therefore the caller of this method should check that the requested number of threads was accepted.

static bool itk::Object::GetGlobalWarningDisplay (  )  [static, inherited]

This is a global flag that controls whether any debug, warning or error messages are displayed.

MetaDataDictionary& itk::Object::GetMetaDataDictionary ( void   )  [inherited]
Returns:
A reference to this objects MetaDataDictionary.
Warning:
This reference may be changed.
const MetaDataDictionary& itk::Object::GetMetaDataDictionary ( void   )  const [inherited]
Returns:
A constant reference to this objects MetaDataDictionary.
virtual unsigned long itk::Object::GetMTime (  )  const [virtual, inherited]

Return this objects modified time.

Reimplemented in itk::ImageRegistrationMethod< TFixedImage, TMovingImage >, itk::ImageToSpatialObjectRegistrationMethod< TFixedImage, TMovingSpatialObject >, itk::MultiResolutionImageRegistrationMethod< TFixedImage, TMovingImage >, itk::PointSetToImageRegistrationMethod< TFixedPointSet, TMovingImage >, itk::PointSetToPointSetRegistrationMethod< TFixedPointSet, TMovingPointSet >, itk::DeformationFieldSource< TOutputImage >, itk::InverseDeformationFieldImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >, itk::ResampleImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TInterpolatorPrecisionType >, itk::VectorResampleImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TInterpolatorPrecisionType >, itk::BoundingBox< TPointIdentifier, VPointDimension, TCoordRep, TPointsContainer >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, TAccessor >, itk::ResampleImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TInterpolatorPrecisionType >, itk::TransformToDeformationFieldSource< TOutputImage, TTransformPrecisionType >, itk::ImageSpatialObject< TDimension, TPixelType >, itk::MeshSpatialObject< TMesh >, itk::SceneSpatialObject< TSpaceDimension >, itk::SpatialObject< TDimension >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AsinPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::SqrtPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::TanPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::CosPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::VectorToRGBPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType::ValueType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::RGBToVectorPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType::ComponentType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToModulusPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AbsPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::SinPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::LogPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToPhasePixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< VectorImage< TPixelType, Dimension >, Accessor::VectorImageToImagePixelAccessor< TPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::Log10PixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AtanPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToRealPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToImaginaryPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ExpNegativePixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ExpPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AcosPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::RGBToLuminancePixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AddPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType > >, itk::ImageSpatialObject< TDimension, unsigned char >, itk::SpatialObject< 3 >, and itk::SpatialObject< ::itk::GetMeshDimension< TMesh >::PointDimension >.

Referenced by itk::SpatialObject< ::itk::GetMeshDimension< TMesh >::PointDimension >::GetObjectMTime().

virtual const char* itk::MultiThreader::GetNameOfClass (  )  const [virtual]

Run-time type information (and related methods).

Reimplemented from itk::Object.

virtual int itk::MultiThreader::GetNumberOfThreads (  )  const [virtual]

Get/Set the number of threads to create. It will be clamped to the range [ 1, m_GlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads ], so the caller of this method should check that the requested number of threads was accepted.

virtual int itk::LightObject::GetReferenceCount (  )  const [inline, virtual, inherited]

Gets the reference count on this object.

Definition at line 106 of file itkLightObject.h.

static void itk::Object::GlobalWarningDisplayOff (  )  [inline, static, inherited]

This is a global flag that controls whether any debug, warning or error messages are displayed.

Definition at line 100 of file itkObject.h.

References itk::Object::SetGlobalWarningDisplay().

static void itk::Object::GlobalWarningDisplayOn (  )  [inline, static, inherited]

This is a global flag that controls whether any debug, warning or error messages are displayed.

Definition at line 98 of file itkObject.h.

References itk::Object::SetGlobalWarningDisplay().

bool itk::Object::HasObserver ( const EventObject event  )  const [inherited]

Return true if an observer is registered for this event.

void itk::Object::InvokeEvent ( const EventObject  )  [inherited]

Call Execute on all the Commands observing this event id.

void itk::Object::InvokeEvent ( const EventObject  )  const [inherited]

Call Execute on all the Commands observing this event id. The actions triggered by this call doesn't modify this object.

virtual void itk::Object::Modified (  )  const [virtual, inherited]

Update the modification time for this object. Many filters rely on the modification time to determine if they need to recompute their data.

Reimplemented in itk::NormalizeImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, TAccessor >, itk::MiniPipelineSeparableImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TFilter >, itk::GrayscaleDilateImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TKernel >, itk::GrayscaleErodeImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TKernel >, itk::GrayscaleMorphologicalClosingImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TKernel >, itk::GrayscaleMorphologicalOpeningImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TKernel >, itk::MorphologicalGradientImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, TKernel >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AsinPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::SqrtPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::TanPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::CosPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::VectorToRGBPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType::ValueType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::RGBToVectorPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType::ComponentType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToModulusPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AbsPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::SinPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::LogPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToPhasePixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< VectorImage< TPixelType, Dimension >, Accessor::VectorImageToImagePixelAccessor< TPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::Log10PixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AtanPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToRealPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ComplexToImaginaryPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ExpNegativePixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::ExpPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AcosPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::RGBToLuminancePixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType, TOutputPixelType > >, itk::ImageAdaptor< TImage, Accessor::AddPixelAccessor< TImage::PixelType > >, and itk::MiniPipelineSeparableImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage, RankImageFilter< TInputImage, TInputImage, FlatStructuringElement< ::itk::GetImageDimension< TInputImage >::ImageDimension > > >.

Referenced by itk::NarrowBandImageFilterBase< TInputImage, Image< TOutputPixelType,::itk::GetImageDimension< TInputImage >::ImageDimension > >::InsertNarrowBandNode(), itk::MatrixOffsetTransformBase< TScalarType, 3, 3 >::SetCenter(), itk::MatrixOffsetTransformBase< TScalarType, 3, 3 >::SetMatrix(), itk::NarrowBandImageFilterBase< TInputImage, Image< TOutputPixelType,::itk::GetImageDimension< TInputImage >::ImageDimension > >::SetNarrowBand(), itk::NarrowBandImageFilterBase< TInputImage, Image< TOutputPixelType,::itk::GetImageDimension< TInputImage >::ImageDimension > >::SetNarrowBandInnerRadius(), itk::NarrowBandImageFilterBase< TInputImage, Image< TOutputPixelType,::itk::GetImageDimension< TInputImage >::ImageDimension > >::SetNarrowBandTotalRadius(), itk::MatrixOffsetTransformBase< TScalarType, 3, 3 >::SetOffset(), itk::ThresholdLabelerImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >::SetRealThresholds(), itk::ThresholdLabelerImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >::SetThresholds(), itk::Statistics::GoodnessOfFitFunctionBase< TInputHistogram >::SetTotalObservedScale(), and itk::MatrixOffsetTransformBase< TScalarType, 3, 3 >::SetTranslation().

void itk::MultiThreader::MultipleMethodExecute (  ) 

Execute the MultipleMethods (as define by calling SetMultipleMethod for each of the required m_NumberOfThreads methods) using m_NumberOfThreads threads. As a side effect the m_NumberOfThreads will be checked against the current m_GlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads and clamped if necessary.

static Pointer itk::MultiThreader::New (  )  [static]

Method for creation through the object factory.

Reimplemented from itk::Object.

void itk::LightObject::Print ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent = 0 
) const [inherited]

Cause the object to print itself out.

Referenced by itk::WeakPointer< ProcessObject >::Print().

virtual void itk::LightObject::PrintHeader ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent 
) const [protected, virtual, inherited]

Methods invoked by Print() to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes.

bool itk::Object::PrintObservers ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent 
) const [protected, inherited]
void itk::MultiThreader::PrintSelf ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent 
) const [protected, virtual]

Methods invoked by Print() to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes.

Reimplemented from itk::Object.

virtual void itk::LightObject::PrintTrailer ( std::ostream &  os,
Indent  indent 
) const [protected, virtual, inherited]

Methods invoked by Print() to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes.

virtual void itk::Object::Register (  )  const [virtual, inherited]

Increase the reference count (mark as used by another object).

Reimplemented from itk::LightObject.

void itk::Object::RemoveAllObservers (  )  [inherited]

Remove all observers .

void itk::Object::RemoveObserver ( unsigned long  tag  )  [inherited]

Remove the observer with this tag value.

void itk::Object::SetDebug ( bool  debugFlag  )  const [inherited]

Set the value of the debug flag. A non-zero value turns debugging on.

static void itk::MultiThreader::SetGlobalDefaultNumberOfThreads ( int  val  )  [static]

Set/Get the value which is used to initialize the NumberOfThreads in the constructor. It will be clamped to the range [1, m_GlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads ]. Therefore the caller of this method should check that the requested number of threads was accepted.

Referenced by main().

static void itk::MultiThreader::SetGlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads ( int  val  )  [static]

Set/Get the maximum number of threads to use when multithreading. It will be clamped to the range [ 1, ITK_MAX_THREADS ] because several arrays are already statically allocated using the ITK_MAX_THREADS number. Therefore the caller of this method should check that the requested number of threads was accepted.

static void itk::Object::SetGlobalWarningDisplay ( bool  flag  )  [static, inherited]

This is a global flag that controls whether any debug, warning or error messages are displayed.

Referenced by itk::Object::GlobalWarningDisplayOff(), and itk::Object::GlobalWarningDisplayOn().

void itk::Object::SetMetaDataDictionary ( const MetaDataDictionary rhs  )  [inherited]
Returns:
Set the MetaDataDictionary
void itk::MultiThreader::SetMultipleMethod ( int  index,
ThreadFunctionType  ,
void *  data 
)

Set the MultipleMethod at the given index to f() and the UserData field of the ThreadInfoStruct that is passed to it will be data.

void itk::MultiThreader::SetNumberOfThreads ( int  numberOfThreads  ) 

Get/Set the number of threads to create. It will be clamped to the range [ 1, m_GlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads ], so the caller of this method should check that the requested number of threads was accepted.

virtual void itk::Object::SetReferenceCount ( int   )  [virtual, inherited]

Sets the reference count (use with care)

Reimplemented from itk::LightObject.

void itk::MultiThreader::SetSingleMethod ( ThreadFunctionType  ,
void *  data 
)

Set the SingleMethod to f() and the UserData field of the ThreadInfoStruct that is passed to it will be data. This method (and all the methods passed to SetMultipleMethod) must be of type itkThreadFunctionType and must take a single argument of type void *.

void itk::MultiThreader::SingleMethodExecute (  ) 

Execute the SingleMethod (as define by SetSingleMethod) using m_NumberOfThreads threads. As a side effect the m_NumberOfThreads will be checked against the current m_GlobalMaximumNumberOfThreads and clamped if necessary.

int itk::MultiThreader::SpawnThread ( ThreadFunctionType  ,
void *  data 
)

Create a new thread for the given function. Return a thread id which is a number between 0 and ITK_MAX_THREADS - 1. This id should be used to kill the thread at a later time.

void itk::MultiThreader::TerminateThread ( int  thread_id  ) 

Terminate the thread that was created with a SpawnThreadExecute()

virtual void itk::Object::UnRegister (  )  const [virtual, inherited]

Decrease the reference count (release by another object).

Reimplemented from itk::LightObject.


Friends And Related Function Documentation

friend class ProcessObject [friend]

Friends of Multithreader. ProcessObject is a friend so that it can call PrintSelf() on its Multithreader.

Definition at line 335 of file itkMultiThreader.h.


Member Data Documentation

Number of uses of this object by other objects.

Definition at line 144 of file itkLightObject.h.

Mutex lock to protect modification to the reference count

Definition at line 147 of file itkLightObject.h.


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