Fix a hang in ThreadPool

The worker threads could exit prematurely if they finished processing
all items while the main thread was still adding items. In particular,
this caused hanging nix-store --serve processes in the build farm.

Also, process items from the main thread.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/thread-pool.hh b/src/libutil/thread-pool.hh
index 06a097ab5ea7..bb16b639a591 100644
--- a/src/libutil/thread-pool.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/thread-pool.hh
@@ -44,19 +44,22 @@ private:
 
     struct State
     {
-        std::queue<work_t> left;
+        std::queue<work_t> pending;
         size_t active = 0;
         std::exception_ptr exception;
         std::vector<std::thread> workers;
+        bool draining = false;
     };
 
     std::atomic_bool quit{false};
 
     Sync<State> state_;
 
-    std::condition_variable work, done;
+    std::condition_variable work;
 
-    void workerEntry();
+    void doWork(bool mainThread);
+
+    void shutdown();
 };
 
 /* Process in parallel a set of items of type T that have a partial