Create a scheduler thread for lightweight tasks

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 47cbda32f5..51f3671c1d 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include "net.h"
 #include "rpcserver.h"
 #include "script/standard.h"
+#include "scheduler.h"
 #include "txdb.h"
 #include "ui_interface.h"
 #include "util.h"
@@ -564,7 +565,7 @@ bool InitSanityCheck(void)
 /** Initialize bitcoin.
  *  @pre Parameters should be parsed and config file should be read.
  */
-bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
+bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup, CScheduler& scheduler)
 {
     // ********************************************************* Step 1: setup
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
@@ -890,6 +891,10 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
             threadGroup.create_thread(&ThreadScriptCheck);
     }
 
+    // Start the lightweight task scheduler thread
+    CScheduler::Function serviceLoop = boost::bind(&CScheduler::serviceQueue, &scheduler);
+    threadGroup.create_thread(boost::bind(&TraceThread<CScheduler::Function>, "scheduler", serviceLoop));
+
     /* Start the RPC server already.  It will be started in "warmup" mode
      * and not really process calls already (but it will signify connections
      * that the server is there and will be ready later).  Warmup mode will