add Pool.run_wait_block; rename Pool.run into Pool.run_async

README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The user can create several thread pools. These pools use regular posix threads,
 but the threads are spread across multiple domains (on OCaml 5), which enables
 parallelism.
 
-The function `Pool.run pool task` runs `task()` on one of the workers
+The function `Pool.run_async pool task` runs `task()` on one of the workers
 of `pool`, as soon as one is available. No result is returned.
 
 ```ocaml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ of `pool`, as soon as one is available. No result is returned.
 val pool : Moonpool.Pool.t = <abstr>
 
 # begin
-   Moonpool.Pool.run pool
+   Moonpool.Pool.run_async pool
     (fun () ->
         Thread.delay 0.1;
         print_endline "running from the pool");
@@ -40,6 +40,21 @@ running from the pool
 - : unit = ()
 ```
 
+To wait until the task is done, you can use `Pool.run_wait_block` instead:
+
+```ocaml
+# begin
+   Moonpool.Pool.run_wait_block pool
+    (fun () ->
+        Thread.delay 0.1;
+        print_endline "running from the pool");
+   print_endline "running from the caller (after waiting)";
+  end ;;
+running from the pool
+running from the caller (after waiting)
+- : unit = ()
+```
+
 The function `Fut.spawn ~on f` schedules `f ()` on the pool `on`, and immediately
 returns a _future_ which will eventually hold the result (or an exception).
 

src/pool.ml

@@ -54,13 +54,28 @@ let run_direct_ (self : t) (task : task) : unit =
 
 (** Run [task]. It will be wrapped with an effect handler to
     support {!Fut.await}. *)
-let run (self : t) (task : task) : unit =
+let run_async (self : t) (task : task) : unit =
   let task' () =
     (* run [f()] and handle [suspend] in it *)
     Suspend_.with_suspend task ~run:(run_direct_ self)
   in
   run_direct_ self task'
 
+let run = run_async
+
+let run_wait_block self task : unit =
+  let q = Bb_queue.create () in
+  run_async self (fun () ->
+      try
+        task ();
+        Bb_queue.push q (Ok ())
+      with exn ->
+        let bt = Printexc.get_raw_backtrace () in
+        Bb_queue.push q (Error (exn, bt)));
+  match Bb_queue.pop q with
+  | Ok () -> ()
+  | Error (exn, bt) -> Printexc.raise_with_backtrace exn bt
+
 let[@inline] size self = Array.length self.threads
 
 let num_tasks (self : t) : int =

src/pool.mli

@@ -71,8 +71,21 @@ val shutdown_without_waiting : t -> unit
 
 exception Shutdown
 
-val run : t -> (unit -> unit) -> unit
+val run_async : t -> (unit -> unit) -> unit
-(** [run pool f] schedules [f] for later execution on the pool
+(** [run_async pool f] schedules [f] for later execution on the pool
     in one of the threads. [f()] will run on one of the pool's
     worker threads.
-    @raise Shutdown if the pool was shut down before [run] was called. *)
+    @raise Shutdown if the pool was shut down before [run] was called.
+    @since 0.3 *)
+
+val run : t -> (unit -> unit) -> unit
+  [@@deprecated "use run_async"]
+(** deprecated alias to {!run_async} *)
+
+val run_wait_block : t -> (unit -> unit) -> unit
+(** [run_wait_block pool f] schedules [f] for later execution
+    on the pool, like {!run_async}.
+    It then blocks the current thread until [f()] is done executing.
+
+    {b NOTE} be careful with deadlocks (see notes in {!Fut.wait_block}).
+    @since 0.3 *)