abg-workers.cc

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
// -*- Mode: C++ -*-
//
// Copyright (C) 2013-2023 Red Hat, Inc.
//
// Author: Dodji Seketeli
 
/// @file
///
/// This file implements the worker threads (or thread pool) design
/// pattern.  It aims at performing a set of tasks in parallel, using
/// the multi-threading capabilities of the underlying processor(s).
 
#include <assert.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <queue>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
 
#include "abg-fwd.h"
#include "abg-internal.h"
// <headers defining libabigail's API go under here>
ABG_BEGIN_EXPORT_DECLARATIONS
 
#include "abg-workers.h"
 
ABG_END_EXPORT_DECLARATIONS
// </headers defining libabigail's API>
 
namespace abigail
{
 
namespace workers
{
 
/// @defgroup thread_pool Worker Threads
/// @{
///
/// \brief Libabigail's implementation of Thread Pools.
///
/// The main interface of this pattern is a @ref queue of @ref tasks
/// to be performed.  Associated to that queue are a set of worker
/// threads (these are native posix threads) that sits there, idle,
/// until at least one @ref task is added to the queue.
///
/// When a @ref task is added to the @ref queue, one thread is woken
/// up, picks the @ref task, removes it from the @ref queue, and
/// executes the instructions it carries.  We say the worker thread
/// performs the @ref task.
///
/// When the worker thread is done performing the @ref task, the
/// performed @ref task is added to another queue, named as the "done
/// queue".  Then the thread looks at the @ref queue of tasks to be
/// performed again, and if there is at least one task in that queue,
/// the same process as above is done.  Otherwise, the thread blocks,
/// waiting for a new task to be added to the queue.
///
/// By default, the number of worker threads is equal to the number of
/// execution threads advertised by the underlying processor.
///
/// Note that the user of the queue can either wait for all the tasks
/// to be performed by the pool of threads,and them stop them, get the
/// vector of done tasks and proceed to whatever computation she may
/// need next.
///
/// Or she can choose to be asynchronously notified whenever a task is
/// performed and added to the "done queue".
///
///@}
 
/// @return The number of hardware threads of executions advertised by
/// the underlying processor.
size_t
get_number_of_threads()
{return sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);}
 
/// The abstraction of a worker thread.
///
/// This is an implementation detail of the @ref queue public
/// interface type of this worker thread design pattern.
struct worker
{
  pthread_t tid;
 
  worker()
    : tid()
  {}
 
  static queue::priv*
  wait_to_execute_a_task(queue::priv*);
}; // end struct worker
 
// </worker declarations>
 
// <queue stuff>
 
/// The private data structure of the task queue.
struct queue::priv
{
  // A boolean to say if the user wants to shutdown the worker
  // threads. guarded by tasks_todo_mutex.
  // TODO: once we have std::atomic<bool>, use it and reconsider the
  // synchronization around its reads and writes
  bool              bring_workers_down;
  // The number of worker threads.
  size_t            num_workers;
  // A mutex that protects the todo tasks queue from being accessed in
  // read/write by two threads at the same time.
  pthread_mutex_t       tasks_todo_mutex;
  // The queue condition variable.  This condition is used to make the
  // worker threads sleep until a new task is added to the queue of
  // todo tasks.  Whenever a new task is added to that queue, a signal
  // is sent to all a thread sleeping on this condition variable.
  pthread_cond_t        tasks_todo_cond;
  // A mutex that protects the done tasks queue from being accessed in
  // read/write by two threads at the same time.
  pthread_mutex_t       tasks_done_mutex;
  // A condition to be signalled whenever there is a task done. That is being
  // used to wait for tasks completed when bringing the workers down.
  pthread_cond_t        tasks_done_cond;
  // The todo task queue itself.
  std::queue<task_sptr> tasks_todo;
  // The done task queue itself.
  std::vector<task_sptr>    tasks_done;
  // This functor is invoked to notify the user of this queue that a
  // task has been completed and has been added to the done tasks
  // vector.  We call it a notifier.  This notifier is the default
  // notifier of the work queue; the one that is used when the user
  // has specified no notifier.  It basically does nothing.
  static task_done_notify   default_notify;
  // This is a reference to the the notifier that is actually used in
  // the queue.  It's either the one specified by the user or the
  // default one.
  task_done_notify&     notify;
  // A vector of the worker threads.
  std::vector<worker>       workers;
 
  /// A constructor of @ref queue::priv.
  ///
  /// @param nb_workers the number of worker threads to have in the
  /// thread pool.
  ///
  /// @param task_done_notify a functor object that is invoked by the
  /// worker thread which has performed the task, right after it's
  /// added that task to the vector of the done tasks.
  priv(size_t nb_workers = get_number_of_threads(),
          task_done_notify& n = default_notify)
    : bring_workers_down(),
      num_workers(nb_workers),
      tasks_todo_mutex(),
      tasks_todo_cond(),
      tasks_done_mutex(),
      tasks_done_cond(),
      notify(n)
  {create_workers();}
 
  /// Create the worker threads pool and have all threads sit idle,
  /// waiting for a task to be added to the todo queue.
  void
  create_workers()
  {
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < num_workers; ++i)
      {
    worker w;
    ABG_ASSERT(pthread_create(&w.tid,
                  /*attr=*/0,
                  (void*(*)(void*))&worker::wait_to_execute_a_task,
                  this) == 0);
    workers.push_back(w);
      }
  }
 
  /// Submit a task to the queue of tasks to be performed.
  ///
  /// This wakes up one thread from the pool which immediatly starts
  /// performing the task.  When it's done with the task, it goes back
  /// to be suspended, waiting for a new task to be scheduled.
  ///
  /// @param t the task to schedule.  Note that a nil task won't be
  /// scheduled.  If the queue is empty, the task @p t won't be
  /// scheduled either.
  ///
  /// @return true iff the task @p t was successfully scheduled.
  bool
  schedule_task(const task_sptr& t)
  {
    if (workers.empty() || !t)
      return false;
 
    pthread_mutex_lock(&tasks_todo_mutex);
    tasks_todo.push(t);
    pthread_mutex_unlock(&tasks_todo_mutex);
    pthread_cond_signal(&tasks_todo_cond);
    return true;
  }
 
  /// Submit a vector of task to the queue of tasks to be performed.
  ///
  /// This wakes up threads of the pool which immediatly start
  /// performing the tasks.  When they are done with the task, they go
  /// back to be suspended, waiting for new tasks to be scheduled.
  ///
  /// @param tasks the tasks to schedule.
  bool
  schedule_tasks(const tasks_type& tasks)
  {
    bool is_ok= true;
    for (tasks_type::const_iterator t = tasks.begin(); t != tasks.end(); ++t)
      is_ok &= schedule_task(*t);
    return is_ok;
  }
 
  /// Signal all the threads (of the pool) which are suspended and
  /// waiting to perform a task, so that they wake up and end up their
  /// execution.  If there is no task to perform, they just end their
  /// execution.  If there are tasks to perform, they finish them and
  /// then end their execution.
  ///
  /// This function then joins all the tasks of the pool, waiting for
  /// them to finish, and then it returns.  In other words, this
  /// function suspends the thread of the caller, waiting for the
  /// worker threads to finish their tasks, and end their execution.
  ///
  /// If the user code wants to work with the thread pool again,
  /// she'll need to create them again, using the member function
  /// create_workers().
  void
  do_bring_workers_down()
  {
    if (workers.empty())
      return;
 
    // Wait for the todo list to be empty to make sure all tasks got picked up
    pthread_mutex_lock(&tasks_todo_mutex);
    while (!tasks_todo.empty())
      pthread_cond_wait(&tasks_done_cond, &tasks_todo_mutex);
 
    bring_workers_down = true;
    pthread_mutex_unlock(&tasks_todo_mutex);
 
    // Now that the task queue is empty, drain the workers by waking them up,
    // letting them finish their final task before termination.
    ABG_ASSERT(pthread_cond_broadcast(&tasks_todo_cond) == 0);
 
    for (std::vector<worker>::const_iterator i = workers.begin();
     i != workers.end();
     ++i)
      ABG_ASSERT(pthread_join(i->tid, /*thread_return=*/0) == 0);
    workers.clear();
  }
 
  /// Destructors of @ref queue::priv type.
  ~priv()
  {do_bring_workers_down();}
 
}; //end struct queue::priv
 
// default initialize the default notifier.
queue::task_done_notify queue::priv::default_notify;
 
/// Default constructor of the @ref queue type.
///
/// By default the queue is created with a number of worker threaders
/// which is equals to the number of simultaneous execution threads
/// supported by the underlying processor.
queue::queue()
  : p_(new priv())
{}
 
/// Constructor of the @ref queue type.
///
/// @param number_of_workers the number of worker threads to have in
/// the pool.
queue::queue(unsigned number_of_workers)
  : p_(new priv(number_of_workers))
{}
 
/// Constructor of the @ref queue type.
///
/// @param number_of_workers the number of worker threads to have in
/// the pool.
///
/// @param the notifier to invoke when a task is done doing its job.
/// Users should create a type that inherit this @ref task_done_notify
/// class and overload its virtual task_done_notify::operator()
/// operator function.  Note that the code of that
/// task_done_notify::operator() is assured to run in *sequence*, with
/// respect to the code of other task_done_notify::operator() from
/// other tasks.
queue::queue(unsigned number_of_workers,
         task_done_notify& notifier)
  : p_(new priv(number_of_workers, notifier))
{}
 
/// Getter of the size of the queue.  This gives the number of task
/// still present in the queue.
///
/// @return the number of task still present in the queue.
size_t
queue::get_size() const
{return p_->tasks_todo.size();}
 
/// Submit a task to the queue of tasks to be performed.
///
/// This wakes up one thread from the pool which immediatly starts
/// performing the task.  When it's done with the task, it goes back
/// to be suspended, waiting for a new task to be scheduled.
///
/// @param t the task to schedule.  Note that if the queue is empty or
/// if the task is nil, the task is not scheduled.
///
/// @return true iff the task was successfully scheduled.
bool
queue::schedule_task(const task_sptr& t)
{return p_->schedule_task(t);}
 
/// Submit a vector of tasks to the queue of tasks to be performed.
///
/// This wakes up one or more threads from the pool which immediatly
/// start performing the tasks.  When the threads are done with the
/// tasks, they goes back to be suspended, waiting for a new task to
/// be scheduled.
///
/// @param tasks the tasks to schedule.
bool
queue::schedule_tasks(const tasks_type& tasks)
{return p_->schedule_tasks(tasks);}
 
/// Suspends the current thread until all worker threads finish
/// performing the tasks they are executing.
///
/// If the worker threads were suspended waiting for a new task to
/// perform, they are woken up and their execution ends.
///
/// The execution of the current thread is resumed when all the
/// threads of the pool have finished their execution and are
/// terminated.
void
queue::wait_for_workers_to_complete()
{p_->do_bring_workers_down();}
 
/// Getter of the vector of tasks that got performed.
///
/// @return the vector of tasks that got performed.
std::vector<task_sptr>&
queue::get_completed_tasks() const
{return p_->tasks_done;}
 
/// Destructor for the @ref queue type.
queue::~queue()
{}
 
/// The default function invocation operator of the @ref queue type.
///
/// This does nothing.
void
queue::task_done_notify::operator()(const task_sptr&/*task_done*/)
{
}
 
// </queue stuff>
 
// <worker definitions>
 
/// Wait to be woken up by a thread condition signal, then look if
/// there is a task to be executed.  If there is, then pick one (in a
/// FIFO manner), execute it, and put the executed task into the set
/// of done tasks.
///
/// @param t the private data of the "task queue" type to consider.
///
/// @param return the same private data of the task queue type we got
/// in argument.
queue::priv*
worker::wait_to_execute_a_task(queue::priv* p)
{
  while (true)
    {
      pthread_mutex_lock(&p->tasks_todo_mutex);
      // If there is no more tasks to perform and the queue is not to
      // be brought down then wait (sleep) for new tasks to come up.
      while (p->tasks_todo.empty() && !p->bring_workers_down)
    pthread_cond_wait(&p->tasks_todo_cond, &p->tasks_todo_mutex);
 
      // We were woken up.  So maybe there are tasks to perform?  If
      // so, get a task from the queue ...
      task_sptr t;
      if (!p->tasks_todo.empty())
    {
      t = p->tasks_todo.front();
      p->tasks_todo.pop();
    }
      pthread_mutex_unlock(&p->tasks_todo_mutex);
 
      // If we've got a task to perform then perform it and when it's
      // done then add to the set of tasks that are done.
      if (t)
    {
      t->perform();
 
      // Add the task to the vector of tasks that are done and
      // notify listeners about the fact that the task is done.
      //
      // Note that this (including the notification) is not
      // happening in parallel.  So the code performed by the
      // notifier during the notification is running sequentially,
      // not in parallel with any other task that was just done
      // and that is notifying its listeners.
      pthread_mutex_lock(&p->tasks_done_mutex);
      p->tasks_done.push_back(t);
      p->notify(t);
      pthread_mutex_unlock(&p->tasks_done_mutex);
      pthread_cond_signal(&p->tasks_done_cond);
    }
 
      // ensure we access bring_workers_down always guarded
      bool drop_out = false;
      pthread_mutex_lock(&p->tasks_todo_mutex);
      drop_out = p->bring_workers_down;
      pthread_mutex_unlock(&p->tasks_todo_mutex);
      if (drop_out)
    break;
    }
 
  return p;
}
// </worker definitions>
} //end namespace workers
} //end namespace abigail