set priority for Parallel.For loop

Question

Ok, here\'s the situation: My main/UI thread (call it Thread1) is used for acquiring a batch of images from a phsycial document scanner. When a batch has been acquired, a se

Answer 1

public static void PriorityParallelForeach(this IEnumerable source, Action action, ThreadPriority threadPriority, int? maxDegreeOfParallelism = null)
   {
       if (maxDegreeOfParallelism == null || maxDegreeOfParallelism<1)
       {
           maxDegreeOfParallelism = Environment.ProcessorCount;
       }

       var blockingQueue = new BlockingCollection(new ConcurrentQueue(source));
       blockingQueue.CompleteAdding();

        var tasks = new List() ;

        for (int i = 0; i < maxDegreeOfParallelism; i++)
        {
            tasks.Add(Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
             {
                 while (!blockingQueue.IsCompleted)
                 {
                     T item;
                     try
                     {
                         item = blockingQueue.Take();
                     }
                     catch (InvalidOperationException)
                     {
                         // collection was already empty
                         break;
                     }

                     action(item);
                 }
             }, CancellationToken.None,
                  TaskCreationOptions.None,
                  new PriorityScheduler(threadPriority)));
        }

        Task.WaitAll(tasks.ToArray());

   }

Or just:

Parallel.ForEach(testList, item =>
            {

                var priviousePrio = Thread.CurrentThread.Priority;
                // Set your desired priority
                Thread.CurrentThread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;

                TestCalc(item);

                //Reset priviouse priority of the TPL Thread
                Thread.CurrentThread.Priority = priviousePrio;
            });