jos/user/primes.c

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// Concurrent version of prime sieve of Eratosthenes.
// Invented by Doug McIlroy, inventor of Unix pipes.
// See http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/.
// The picture halfway down the page and the text surrounding it
// explain what's going on here.
//
// Since NENV is 1024, we can print 1022 primes before running out.
// The remaining two environments are the integer generator at the bottom
// of main and user/idle.
#include <inc/lib.h>
unsigned
primeproc(void)
{
int i, id, p;
envid_t envid;
// fetch a prime from our left neighbor
top:
p = ipc_recv(&envid, 0, 0);
cprintf("CPU %d: %d ", thisenv->env_cpunum, p);
// fork a right neighbor to continue the chain
if ((id = fork()) < 0)
panic("fork: %e", id);
if (id == 0)
goto top;
// filter out multiples of our prime
while (1) {
i = ipc_recv(&envid, 0, 0);
if (i % p)
ipc_send(id, i, 0, 0);
}
}
void
umain(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i, id;
// fork the first prime process in the chain
if ((id = fork()) < 0)
panic("fork: %e", id);
if (id == 0)
primeproc();
// feed all the integers through
for (i = 2; ; i++)
ipc_send(id, i, 0, 0);
}