// 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 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); }