// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package semaphore_test import ( "context" "fmt" "log" "runtime" "golang.org/x/sync/semaphore" ) // Example_workerPool demonstrates how to use a semaphore to limit the number of // goroutines working on parallel tasks. // // This use of a semaphore mimics a typical “worker pool” pattern, but without // the need to explicitly shut down idle workers when the work is done. func Example_workerPool() { ctx := context.TODO() var ( maxWorkers = runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0) sem = semaphore.NewWeighted(int64(maxWorkers)) out = make([]int, 32) ) // Compute the output using up to maxWorkers goroutines at a time. for i := range out { // When maxWorkers goroutines are in flight, Acquire blocks until one of the // workers finishes. if err := sem.Acquire(ctx, 1); err != nil { log.Printf("Failed to acquire semaphore: %v", err) break } go func(i int) { defer sem.Release(1) out[i] = collatzSteps(i + 1) }(i) } // Acquire all of the tokens to wait for any remaining workers to finish. // // If you are already waiting for the workers by some other means (such as an // errgroup.Group), you can omit this final Acquire call. if err := sem.Acquire(ctx, int64(maxWorkers)); err != nil { log.Printf("Failed to acquire semaphore: %v", err) } fmt.Println(out) // Output: // [0 1 7 2 5 8 16 3 19 6 14 9 9 17 17 4 12 20 20 7 7 15 15 10 23 10 111 18 18 18 106 5] } // collatzSteps computes the number of steps to reach 1 under the Collatz // conjecture. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture.) func collatzSteps(n int) (steps int) { if n <= 0 { panic("nonpositive input") } for ; n > 1; steps++ { if steps < 0 { panic("too many steps") } if n%2 == 0 { n /= 2 continue } const maxInt = int(^uint(0) >> 1) if n > (maxInt-1)/3 { panic("overflow") } n = 3*n + 1 } return steps }