/*
* Starting point for in-class problem:
* find the maximum value in a set of N values using M threads
* parallelize the finding the max part
*
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#define MAX_M 64
#define MAX_RANGE 1000000 // restrict the range of values generated
// you can set this to something small for
// testing for correctness (so you can more
// easily see the max value)
// TODO: your thread main routine must match this prototype:
void *thread_mainloop(void *arg);
// TODO: global variables shared by all threads
// (you may add more if you like):
static long *values; // the array of values from which max is found
static long result;
// TODO:if you want some shared synchronization primatives, declare
// them here (you can also init them here too). For example:
//static pthread_mutex_t my_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
// TODO:if you want to pass each thread's main function more than a single
// value, you should define a new struct type with field values for
// each argument you want to pass it
// some functions I've implemented to create the array fo values from
// which your threads should compute max
void init_values(long *values, unsigned long n);
// print function to test for correctness (just try on very small n):
void print_values(long *values, unsigned long n);
/***************************************************************/
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int ntids;
unsigned long n;
printf("This is a parallization of finding the max in an array\n");
printf("of N values, using M threads (between 1 and %d)\n", MAX_M);
if(argc != 3) {
printf("usage: ./max N num_threads\n");
exit(1);
}
result = 0;
n = atol(argv[1]);
ntids = atoi(argv[2]);
// make ntids a sane value if insane
if((ntids < 1)) { ntids = 1; }
if((ntids > MAX_M)) { ntids = MAX_M; }
printf("%d threads finding max of %lu values\n", ntids, n);
values = malloc(sizeof(long)*n);
if(!values) {
printf("mallocing up %lu longs failed\n", n);
exit(1);
}
init_values(values, n);
// TODO: you can uncomment this to see all the values...but don't
// run for large size N if you do this
//print_values(values, n);
// TODO: add your soution below
/////////////////////////
///////////////////////////
printf("max value is: %ld\n", result);
free(values);
values = 0;
exit(0);
}
/****************************************************************/
// TODO: implement your thread main loop function here
void *thread_mainloop(void *arg) {
return NULL; // temporary: you might want to change this
}
/****************************************************************/
// inits an array to random values
// values: the array to init
// n: size of the array
void init_values(long *values, unsigned long n) {
unsigned long i;
// seed the random number generator: different values based on current time
srand(time(0));
for(i=0; i < n; i++) {
values[i] = rand() % MAX_RANGE; // let's just make these a sane range
}
}
/****************************************************************/
// prints out an array of values
// values: the array to init
// n: size of the array
void print_values(long *values, unsigned long n) {
unsigned long i;
for(i=0; i < n; i++) {
printf("%6ld ", values[i]);
if((i<(n-1)) && (((i+1)%10) == 0)) {
printf("\n");
}
}
printf("\n");
}