interaction between Queue and pool of Threads?

Question

I am creating a C++ application that receives data from an external provider. The amount of data per second can be very big. I have thought of using a thread that pushes the data into a Queue. then a pool of threads will fetch data from that Queue.

my questions are:

1. is this a good way to deal with this problem?

2. if not what is the best solution?

Thanks.

Answer 1

1- is this a good way to deal with this problem.

It's a well known pattern, and used in many applications.

You can use a std:queue to implement this. Just protect the read/write operations on it using a std:mutex . Also you should have a condition variable or semaphore, where the pooled threads are waiting, and be notified, when new data is available in the queue.