I want to implement Circular Buffer using 2 threads. One Thread that reads from the buffer and the other one writes to the buffer as follow:
Assuming that process P is the writer process and process Q is the reader process.
After starting both processes from the main class, how can I pass to process P (the writer) the value I want it to write to the buffer each time I want to write to the buffer? Similarly, how can I ask process Q (the reader) to read from the buffer (i.e. how can I call it to return the value that it has read from the buffer)?
I am confused because the implementation of both processes is done in the run() method and this method is executed when we issue the .start() command. However, once started, how can we keep passing and reading parameters while it is in the run mode.
I am following the implementation in the following example mentioned in the following question : Circular Buffer with Threads Consumer and Producer: it get stucks some executions
Shared Variables:
public class BufferCircular {
volatile int[] array;
volatile int p;
volatile int c;
volatile int nElem;
public BufferCircular(int[] array) {
this.array = array;
this.p = 0;
this.c = 0;
this.nElem = 0;
}
public void writeData (int data) {
this.array[p] = data;
this.p = (p + 1) % array.length;
this.nElem++;
}
public int readData() {
int data = array[c];
this.c = (c + 1) % array.length;
this.nElem--;
return data;
}
}
Writer Process:
public class Producer extends Thread {
BufferCircular buffer;
int bufferTam;
int contData;
public Productor(BufferCircular buff) {
this.buffer = buff;
this.bufferTam = buffer.array.length;
this.contData = 0;
}
public void produceData() {
this.contData++;
this.buffer.writeData(contData);
}
public void run() {
for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
while (this.buffer.nElem == this.bufferTam) {
Thread.yield();
}
this.produceData();
}
}
}
Reader Process:
public class Consumer extends Thread {
BufferCircular buffer;
int cont;
public Consumer(BufferCircular buff) {
this.buffer = buff;
this.cont = 0;
}
public void consumeData() {
int data = buffer.readData();
cont++;
System.out.println("data " + cont + ": " + data);
}
public void run() {
for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
while (this.buffer.nElem == 0) {
Thread.yield();
}
this.consumeData();
}
}
}
Main:
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Random ran = new Random();
int tamArray = ran.nextInt(21) + 1;
int[] array = new int[tamArray];
BufferCircular buffer = new BufferCircular(array);
Producer producer = new Producer (buffer);
Consumer consumer = new Consumer (buffer);
producer.start();
consumer.start();
try {
producer.join();
consumer.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.err.println("Error with Threads");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
