Multithreading with STL container
- by Steven
I have an unordered map which stores a pointer of objects. I am not sure whether I am doing the correct thing to maintain the thread safety.
typedef std::unordered_map<string, classA*>MAP1;
MAP1 map1;
pthread_mutex_lock(&mutexA)
if(map1.find(id) != map1.end())
{
pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutexA); //already exist, not adding items
}
else
{
classA* obj1 = new classA;
map1[id] = obj1;
obj1->obtainMutex(); //Should I create a mutex for each object so that I could obtain mutex when I am going to update fields for obj1?
pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutexA); //release mutex for unordered_map so that other threads could access other object
obj1->field1 = 1;
performOperation(obj1); //takes some time
obj1->releaseMutex(); //release mutex after updating obj1
}
