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If not, see . */ #ifndef __ZMQ_YPIPE_HPP_INCLUDED__ #define __ZMQ_YPIPE_HPP_INCLUDED__ #include "atomic_ptr.hpp" #include "yqueue.hpp" #include "platform.hpp" namespace zmq { // Lock-free queue implementation. // Only a single thread can read from the pipe at any specific moment. // Only a single thread can write to the pipe at any specific moment. // T is the type of the object in the queue. // N is granularity of the pipe, i.e. how many items are needed to // perform next memory allocation. template class ypipe_t { public: // Initialises the pipe. inline ypipe_t () { // Insert terminator element into the queue. queue.push (); // Let all the pointers to point to the terminator. // (unless pipe is dead, in which case c is set to NULL). r = w = f = &queue.back (); c.set (&queue.back ()); } // The destructor doesn't have to be virtual. It is mad virtual // just to keep ICC and code checking tools from complaining. inline virtual ~ypipe_t () { } // Following function (write) deliberately copies uninitialised data // when used with zmq_msg. Initialising the VSM body for // non-VSM messages won't be good for performance. #ifdef ZMQ_HAVE_OPENVMS #pragma message save #pragma message disable(UNINIT) #endif // Write an item to the pipe. Don't flush it yet. If incomplete is // set to true the item is assumed to be continued by items // subsequently written to the pipe. Incomplete items are never // flushed down the stream. inline void write (const T &value_, bool incomplete_) { // Place the value to the queue, add new terminator element. queue.back () = value_; queue.push (); // Move the "flush up to here" poiter. if (!incomplete_) f = &queue.back (); } #ifdef ZMQ_HAVE_OPENVMS #pragma message restore #endif // Pop an incomplete item from the pipe. Returns true is such // item exists, false otherwise. inline bool unwrite (T *value_) { if (f == &queue.back ()) return false; queue.unpush (); *value_ = queue.back (); return true; } // Flush all the completed items into the pipe. Returns false if // the reader thread is sleeping. In that case, caller is obliged to // wake the reader up before using the pipe again. inline bool flush () { // If there are no un-flushed items, do nothing. if (w == f) return true; // Try to set 'c' to 'f'. if (c.cas (w, f) != w) { // Compare-and-swap was unseccessful because 'c' is NULL. // This means that the reader is asleep. Therefore we don't // care about thread-safeness and update c in non-atomic // manner. We'll return false to let the caller know // that reader is sleeping. c.set (f); w = f; return false; } // Reader is alive. Nothing special to do now. Just move // the 'first un-flushed item' pointer to 'f'. w = f; return true; } // Check whether item is available for reading. inline bool check_read () { // Was the value prefetched already? If so, return. if (&queue.front () != r && r) return true; // There's no prefetched value, so let us prefetch more values. // Prefetching is to simply retrieve the // pointer from c in atomic fashion. If there are no // items to prefetch, set c to NULL (using compare-and-swap). r = c.cas (&queue.front (), NULL); // If there are no elements prefetched, exit. // During pipe's lifetime r should never be NULL, however, // it can happen during pipe shutdown when items // are being deallocated. if (&queue.front () == r || !r) return false; // There was at least one value prefetched. return true; } // Reads an item from the pipe. Returns false if there is no value. // available. inline bool read (T *value_) { // Try to prefetch a value. if (!check_read ()) return false; // There was at least one value prefetched. // Return it to the caller. *value_ = queue.front (); queue.pop (); return true; } // Applies the function fn to the first elemenent in the pipe // and returns the value returned by the fn. // The pipe mustn't be empty or the function crashes. inline bool probe (bool (*fn)(T &)) { bool rc = check_read (); zmq_assert (rc); return (*fn) (queue.front ()); } protected: // Allocation-efficient queue to store pipe items. // Front of the queue points to the first prefetched item, back of // the pipe points to last un-flushed item. Front is used only by // reader thread, while back is used only by writer thread. yqueue_t queue; // Points to the first un-flushed item. This variable is used // exclusively by writer thread. T *w; // Points to the first un-prefetched item. This variable is used // exclusively by reader thread. T *r; // Points to the first item to be flushed in the future. T *f; // The single point of contention between writer and reader thread. // Points past the last flushed item. If it is NULL, // reader is asleep. This pointer should be always accessed using // atomic operations. atomic_ptr_t c; // Disable copying of ypipe object. ypipe_t (const ypipe_t&); const ypipe_t &operator = (const ypipe_t&); }; } #endif