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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 09:53:30 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 09:53:30 +0000 |
commit | 2c7cac91ed6e7db0f6937923d2b57f97dbdbc337 (patch) | |
tree | c05dc0f8e6aa3accc84e3e5cffc933ed94941383 /lib/wheel.h | |
parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 8.4.4.upstream/8.4.4upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/lib/wheel.h b/lib/wheel.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..401789e --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/wheel.h @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +/* + * Timer Wheel + * Copyright (C) 2016 Cumulus Networks, Inc. + * Donald Sharp + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + * (at your option) any later version. + * + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but + * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU + * General Public License for more details. + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along + * with this program; see the file COPYING; if not, write to the Free Software + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA + */ +#ifndef __WHEEL_H__ +#define __WHEEL_H__ + +#ifdef __cplusplus +extern "C" { +#endif + +struct timer_wheel { + char *name; + struct thread_master *master; + int slots; + long long curr_slot; + unsigned int period; + unsigned int nexttime; + unsigned int slots_to_skip; + + struct list **wheel_slot_lists; + struct thread *timer; + /* + * Key to determine what slot the item belongs in + */ + unsigned int (*slot_key)(const void *); + + void (*slot_run)(void *); +}; + +/* + * Creates a timer wheel + * + * master - Thread master structure for the process + * period - The Time in seconds that the timer wheel will + * take before it starts issuing commands again + * for items in each slot + * slots - The number of slots to have in this particular + * timer wheel + * slot_key - A hashing function of some sort that will allow + * the timer wheel to put items into individual slots + * slot_run - The function to run over each item in a particular slot + * + * Creates a timer wheel that will wake up 'slots' times over the entire + * wheel. Each time the timer wheel wakes up it will iterate through + * and run the slot_run function for each item stored in that particular + * slot. + * + * The timer code is 'intelligent' in that it notices if anything is + * in a particular slot and can schedule the next timer to skip + * the empty slot. + * + * The general purpose of a timer wheel is to reduce events in a system. + * A perfect example of usage for this is say hello packets that need + * to be sent out to all your neighbors. Suppose a large routing protocol + * has to send keepalive packets every Y seconds to each of it's peers. + * At scale we can have a very large number of peers, X. + * This means that we will have X timing events every Y seconds. + * If you replace these events with a timer wheel that has Z slots + * you will have at most Y/Z timer events if each slot has a work item + * in it. + * + * When X is large the number of events in a system can quickly escalate + * and cause significant amount of time handling thread events instead + * of running your code. + */ +struct timer_wheel *wheel_init(struct thread_master *master, int period, + size_t slots, + unsigned int (*slot_key)(const void *), + void (*slot_run)(void *), const char *run_name); + +/* + * Delete the specified timer wheel created + */ +void wheel_delete(struct timer_wheel *); + +/* + * Pause the Wheel from running + */ +int wheel_stop(struct timer_wheel *wheel); + +/* + * Start the wheel running again + */ +int wheel_start(struct timer_wheel *wheel); + +/* + * wheel - The Timer wheel being modified + * item - The generic data structure that will be handed + * to the slot_run function. + * + * Add item to a slot setup by the slot_key, + * possibly change next time pop. + */ +int wheel_add_item(struct timer_wheel *wheel, void *item); + +/* + * wheel - The Timer wheel being modified. + * item - The item to remove from one of the slots in + * the timer wheel. + * + * Remove a item to a slot setup by the slot_key, + * possibly change next time pop. + */ +int wheel_remove_item(struct timer_wheel *wheel, void *item); + +#ifdef __cplusplus +} +#endif + +#endif |