/* * 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