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@JiayiFeng JiayiFeng commented Mar 7, 2018

fixes #8847

Please review #8913 first.

@JiayiFeng JiayiFeng requested review from dzhwinter and reyoung March 7, 2018 12:46
write_pos_(0),
read_pos_(0) {
std::thread prefetch(
std::bind(&DoubleBufferReader::PrefetchThreadFunc, this));
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delete the bind is ok here.

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Amazing! Thanks.

if (read_pos_ >= kDoubleBufferSize) {
read_pos_ = 0;
}
buffer_not_full_.notify_all();
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should be notify_one?

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For there is only one producer and one consumer here, notify_all() and notify_one() is same.

private:
void PrefetchThreadFunc();

std::vector<std::vector<framework::LoDTensor>> buffer_;
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Maybe a thread safe channel (queue) is better here.

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I'll take a look at that. Thanks.

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Looks Great. Only one comment, now we have two runtime type(the real type is decided in runtime -- framework::VarDesc::Raw, ReaderHolder. Could we figure out a better way to unify the runtime type?


prog = fluid.framework.Program()
block = prog.current_block()
startup_prog = fluid.framework.Program()
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Why make the reader operator as a part of startup program?

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Because a reader should be created only once.

@JiayiFeng JiayiFeng merged commit aa3f505 into PaddlePaddle:develop Mar 9, 2018
@JiayiFeng JiayiFeng deleted the dev_double_buffer_for_cpp_reader branch March 9, 2018 09:21
@JiayiFeng JiayiFeng changed the title Basic double buffer for cpp reader Double buffer for cpp reader Mar 12, 2018
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Double buffer for C++ data feeding

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