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Pipeline parallelism in TBB flow graph

Michael3
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Hello,

I am working on an image processing application which is built with tbb::flow_graph.
The input comes from a video file or a camera.
Each image processing node is wrapped in a multifunction_node (I need the multifunction_node's ability to selectively stop propagating graph messages).
Currently I am using graph.wait_for_all() after feeding each input frame into the root node, but I would like to be able to take advantage of pipeline parallelism.
I.e. if node A is connected to node B, I would like to let node A start working on its next input after it is done producing its output for B, instead of waiting for B to finish.

Could you please provide cues for how to do this efficiently and idiomatically?
I am new to TBB and I feel that I might be missing something obvious.

Thanks

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James_T_Intel
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I apologize for the delayed response on your question.


I recommend using the async_node class. You can set up the async_node to process node A's input while node B is still waiting. See https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/docs/help/reference/flow_graph/async_node_cls.html for details.


I am closing this thread for Intel support. Any future replies will be considered community only.


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