IMB_thumb: add thread locking API.

General idea is that, if several threads are handling thumbnails at the same time,
they can end working on the same file at some point, which will generate conflict.

To avoid this, threads can now lock a given filepath.

Note that locking data is allocated on a ref-count basis, to avoid keeping the GSet
in memory when not needed. Also, we are using global LOCK_IMAGE mutex for now.

Needed for upcomming filebrowser rework.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_thumbs.h b/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_thumbs.h
index f2f75973bcd..13237fe26a1 100644
--- a/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_thumbs.h
+++ b/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_thumbs.h
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ void   IMB_thumb_overlay_blend(unsigned int *thumb, int width, int height, float
 ImBuf *IMB_thumb_load_font(const char *filename, unsigned int x, unsigned int y);
 bool IMB_thumb_load_font_get_hash(char *r_hash);
 
+/* Threading */
+void IMB_thumb_locks_acquire(void);
+void IMB_thumb_locks_release(void);
+void IMB_thumb_path_lock(const char *path);
+void IMB_thumb_path_unlock(const char *path);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif /* __cplusplus */