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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2003-2018, Great Software Laboratory Pvt. Ltd.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright (c) 2019, Infosys Ltd.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __THREAD_POOL_H
+#define __THREAD_POOL_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C"{
+#endif
+
+struct thread_pool;
+typedef void (* JobFunction) (void *);
+
+/*
+ * Creates new thread pool
+ * on success return pointer to thread_pool
+ * on failure return NULL
+ */
+extern struct thread_pool *thread_pool_new(int count);
+
+/*
+ * Stops all threads and
+ * destroy the thread pool
+ * on success return 0
+ * on failure return -1
+ */
+extern int thread_pool_destroy(struct thread_pool *pool);
+
+/*
+ * Queues the job to thread pool
+ * idle threads will pick the job
+ * on success it return 0
+ * on failure returns -ve values
+ */
+extern int insert_job(struct thread_pool *pool, JobFunction function,
+		void *userdata);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif
+