[erlang-questions] Calling multiple processes simultaneously

[Edmond Begumisa]

Actually,

  {reply, ok, _} = gen_server:call(foo, bar),

...should be ...

  _ = gen_server:call(foo, bar),

... since you don't care about the reply, but just want a reply.

- Edmond -

On Tue, 24 May 2011 06:50:54 +1000, Edmond Begumisa  
<ebegumisa@REDACTED> wrote:

> Another option...
>
> call_gen_servers(Pids) ->
>      Ref = erlang:make_ref(),
>      Caller = self(),
>      lists:foreach(fun(P) ->
>                      spawn_link(fun() ->
>                                      {reply, ok, _} =  
> gen_server:call(foo, bar),
>                                      Caller ! {self(), Ref}
>                                 end).
>                    end, Pids),
>      ok = wait_gen_servers(length(Pids), Ref).
>
> wait_gen_servers(0, _) ->
>      ok;
> wait_gen_servers(N, Ref) ->
>      receive
>          {_, Ref} ->
>              wait_gen_servers(N-1, Ref)
>      end.
>
> You could also add the timeout.
>
> - Edmond -
>
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 02:01:23 +1000, Martin Dimitrov  
> <mrtndimitrov@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Hi, please, advise on this one,
>>
>> We have several hundred processes (gen_servers) . At one point the
>> program has to send them a message that needs to be handled before the
>> calling process can continue executing. This naturally led us to use
>> gen_server:call in loop over the processes.
>>
>> I started to wonder if there is a more efficient way of doing it since
>> the calling process doesn’t care about the return value – just needs to
>> be sure that all processes had handled the message. Can we somehow call
>> the processes simultaneously? Something similar to gen_server:multi_call
>> but for one node with different processes?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Martin
>>
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