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authorGravatar Craig Tiller <craig.tiller@gmail.com>2015-07-05 21:08:33 -0700
committerGravatar Craig Tiller <craig.tiller@gmail.com>2015-07-05 21:08:33 -0700
commit27166a6f65581a9ee820882e5d7506d6bd07ade6 (patch)
tree0e89c5e09a955b2a074a8b34e0f3fe0a4135f346 /src/core/iomgr/pollset_kick_posix.h
parent4efb6966bdfb62c725c6614b0d85ea374250bb51 (diff)
parentd1dd3a68a2d4af56f1409327c197590dac6968cb (diff)
Merge github.com:grpc/grpc into flow-like-lava-to-a-barnyard
Conflicts: src/core/surface/call.c src/core/transport/chttp2_transport.c src/core/transport/transport.h
Diffstat (limited to 'src/core/iomgr/pollset_kick_posix.h')
-rw-r--r--src/core/iomgr/pollset_kick_posix.h22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/core/iomgr/pollset_kick_posix.h b/src/core/iomgr/pollset_kick_posix.h
index b35c2cfbe0..77e32a8d51 100644
--- a/src/core/iomgr/pollset_kick_posix.h
+++ b/src/core/iomgr/pollset_kick_posix.h
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
#include "src/core/iomgr/wakeup_fd_posix.h"
#include <grpc/support/sync.h>
+/* pollset kicking allows breaking a thread out of polling work for
+ a given pollset.
+ writing a byte to a pipe is used as a posix-ly portable base
+ mechanism, and eventfds are utilized on Linux for better performance. */
+
typedef struct grpc_kick_fd_info {
grpc_wakeup_fd_info wakeup_fd;
/* used for polling list and free list */
@@ -51,7 +56,8 @@ typedef struct grpc_pollset_kick_state {
struct grpc_kick_fd_info fd_list;
} grpc_pollset_kick_state;
-#define GRPC_POLLSET_KICK_GET_FD(kick_fd_info) GRPC_WAKEUP_FD_GET_READ_FD(&(kick_fd_info)->wakeup_fd)
+#define GRPC_POLLSET_KICK_GET_FD(kick_fd_info) \
+ GRPC_WAKEUP_FD_GET_READ_FD(&(kick_fd_info)->wakeup_fd)
/* This is an abstraction around the typical pipe mechanism for waking up a
thread sitting in a poll() style call. */
@@ -66,18 +72,22 @@ void grpc_pollset_kick_destroy(grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state);
* applicable. Intended for testing. */
void grpc_pollset_kick_global_init_fallback_fd(void);
-/* Must be called before entering poll(). If return value is -1, this consumed
+/* Must be called before entering poll(). If return value is NULL, this consumed
an existing kick. Otherwise the return value is an FD to add to the poll set.
*/
-grpc_kick_fd_info *grpc_pollset_kick_pre_poll(grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state);
+grpc_kick_fd_info *grpc_pollset_kick_pre_poll(
+ grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state);
/* Consume an existing kick. Must be called after poll returns that the fd was
readable, and before calling kick_post_poll. */
-void grpc_pollset_kick_consume(grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state, grpc_kick_fd_info *fd_info);
+void grpc_pollset_kick_consume(grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state,
+ grpc_kick_fd_info *fd_info);
/* Must be called after pre_poll, and after consume if applicable */
-void grpc_pollset_kick_post_poll(grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state, grpc_kick_fd_info *fd_info);
+void grpc_pollset_kick_post_poll(grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state,
+ grpc_kick_fd_info *fd_info);
+/* Actually kick */
void grpc_pollset_kick_kick(grpc_pollset_kick_state *kick_state);
-#endif /* GRPC_INTERNAL_CORE_IOMGR_POLLSET_KICK_POSIX_H */
+#endif /* GRPC_INTERNAL_CORE_IOMGR_POLLSET_KICK_POSIX_H */