// nih-plug: plugins, but rewritten in Rust
// Copyright (C) 2022 Robbert van der Helm
//
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//
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//
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//! An event loop implementation for Linux. APIs on Linux are generally thread safe, so the context
//! of a main thread does not exist there. Because of that, this mostly just serves as a way to
//! delegate expensive processing to another thread.
use crossbeam::channel;
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::thread::{self, JoinHandle, ThreadId};
use super::{EventLoop, MainThreadExecutor};
use crate::nih_log;
use crate::util::ThreadSpawnUnchecked;
/// See [super::EventLoop].
pub(crate) struct LinuxEventLoop {
/// The thing that ends up executing these tasks. The tasks are usually executed from the worker
/// thread, but if the current thread is the main thread then the task cna also be executed
/// directly.
executor: Arc,
/// The ID of the main thread. In practice this is the ID of the thread that created this task
/// queue.
main_thread_id: ThreadId,
/// A thread that act as our worker thread. When [do_maybe_async] is called, this thread will be
/// woken up to execute the task on the executor. This is wrapped in an `Option` so the thread
/// can be taken out of it and joined when this struct gets dropped.
worker_thread: Option>,
/// A channel for waking up the worker thread and having it perform one of the tasks from
/// [Message].
worker_thread_channel: channel::Sender>,
}
/// A message for communicating with the worker thread.
enum Message {
/// A new task for the event loop to execute.
Task(T),
/// Shut down the worker thread.
Shutdown,
}
impl EventLoop for LinuxEventLoop
where
T: Send,
E: MainThreadExecutor,
{
fn new_and_spawn(executor: Arc) -> Self {
let (sender, receiver) = channel::bounded(super::TASK_QUEUE_CAPACITY);
Self {
executor: executor.clone(),
main_thread_id: thread::current().id(),
// With our drop implementation we guarentee that this thread never outlives this struct
worker_thread: Some(unsafe {
thread::Builder::new()
.name(String::from("worker"))
// The worker thread gets joined when this struct gets dropped, and if this
// struct never gets dropped it just sits there idly. Panics cannot be unwound,
// but in plugin-land we have bigger worries than that.
// This is the same as the `.spawn_unchecked()` function, but without requiring
// a nightly compiler.
.spawn_unchecked_2(move || worker_thread(receiver, executor))
.expect("Could not spawn worker thread")
}),
worker_thread_channel: sender,
}
}
fn do_maybe_async(&self, task: T) -> bool {
if self.is_main_thread() {
self.executor.execute(task);
true
} else {
self.worker_thread_channel
.try_send(Message::Task(task))
.is_ok()
}
}
fn is_main_thread(&self) -> bool {
thread::current().id() == self.main_thread_id
}
}
impl Drop for LinuxEventLoop {
fn drop(&mut self) {
self.worker_thread_channel
.send(Message::Shutdown)
.expect("Failed while sending worker thread shutdown request");
if let Some(join_handle) = self.worker_thread.take() {
join_handle.join().expect("Worker thread panicked");
}
}
}
/// The worker thread used in [EventLoop] that executes incmoing tasks on the event loop's executor.
fn worker_thread(receiver: channel::Receiver>, executor: Arc)
where
T: Send,
E: MainThreadExecutor,
{
loop {
match receiver.recv() {
Ok(Message::Task(task)) => executor.execute(task),
Ok(Message::Shutdown) => return,
Err(err) => {
nih_log!(
"Worker thread got disconnected unexpectedly, shutting down: {}",
err
);
return;
}
}
}
}