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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-09 13:16:35 +0000
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Adding upstream version 9.1.upstream/9.1
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Timer Wheel
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Cumulus Networks, Inc.
+ * Donald Sharp
+ */
+#ifndef __WHEEL_H__
+#define __WHEEL_H__
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+struct timer_wheel {
+ char *name;
+ struct event_loop *master;
+ int slots;
+ long long curr_slot;
+ unsigned int period;
+ unsigned int nexttime;
+ unsigned int slots_to_skip;
+
+ struct list **wheel_slot_lists;
+ struct event *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 event_loop *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 *);
+
+/*
+ * 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