As an aside, you should maybe consider actually replying to the person posting code instead of replying to yourself. If you reply to another person, that person will get notified of your post.

The first part of the code is simply a loop that puts one undef for each thread into the queue. As all the thread code is written to stop when it encounters an undef, this serves to tell the threads that they are done. See See Thread::Queue for the ->enqueue command.

The second part simply launches the subroutine getData in a separate thread. See threads.