# frozen_string_literal: false # = monitor.rb # # Copyright (C) 2001 Shugo Maeda # # This library is distributed under the terms of the Ruby license. # You can freely distribute/modify this library. # # # In concurrent programming, a monitor is an object or module intended to be # used safely by more than one thread. The defining characteristic of a # monitor is that its methods are executed with mutual exclusion. That is, at # each point in time, at most one thread may be executing any of its methods. # This mutual exclusion greatly simplifies reasoning about the implementation # of monitors compared to reasoning about parallel code that updates a data # structure. # # You can read more about the general principles on the Wikipedia page for # Monitors[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_%28synchronization%29] # # == Examples # # === Simple object.extend # # require 'monitor.rb' # # buf = [] # buf.extend(MonitorMixin) # empty_cond = buf.new_cond # # # consumer # Thread.start do # loop do # buf.synchronize do # empty_cond.wait_while { buf.empty? } # print buf.shift # end # end # end # # # producer # while line = ARGF.gets # buf.synchronize do # buf.push(line) # empty_cond.signal # end # end # # The consumer thread waits for the producer thread to push a line to buf # while buf.empty?. The producer thread (main thread) reads a # line from ARGF and pushes it into buf then calls empty_cond.signal # to notify the consumer thread of new data. # # === Simple Class include # # require 'monitor' # # class SynchronizedArray < Array # # include MonitorMixin # # def initialize(*args) # super(*args) # end # # alias :old_shift :shift # alias :old_unshift :unshift # # def shift(n=1) # self.synchronize do # self.old_shift(n) # end # end # # def unshift(item) # self.synchronize do # self.old_unshift(item) # end # end # # # other methods ... # end # # +SynchronizedArray+ implements an Array with synchronized access to items. # This Class is implemented as subclass of Array which includes the # MonitorMixin module. # require 'monitor.so' module MonitorMixin # # FIXME: This isn't documented in Nutshell. # # Since MonitorMixin.new_cond returns a ConditionVariable, and the example # above calls while_wait and signal, this class should be documented. # class ConditionVariable # # Releases the lock held in the associated monitor and waits; reacquires the lock on wakeup. # # If +timeout+ is given, this method returns after +timeout+ seconds passed, # even if no other thread doesn't signal. # def wait(timeout = nil) @monitor.mon_check_owner @monitor.wait_for_cond(@cond, timeout) end # # Calls wait repeatedly while the given block yields a truthy value. # def wait_while while yield wait end end # # Calls wait repeatedly until the given block yields a truthy value. # def wait_until until yield wait end end # # Wakes up the first thread in line waiting for this lock. # def signal @monitor.mon_check_owner @cond.signal end # # Wakes up all threads waiting for this lock. # def broadcast @monitor.mon_check_owner @cond.broadcast end private def initialize(monitor) @monitor = monitor @cond = Thread::ConditionVariable.new end end def self.extend_object(obj) super(obj) obj.__send__(:mon_initialize) end # # Attempts to enter exclusive section. Returns +false+ if lock fails. # def mon_try_enter @mon_data.try_enter end # For backward compatibility alias try_mon_enter mon_try_enter # # Enters exclusive section. # def mon_enter @mon_data.enter end # # Leaves exclusive section. # def mon_exit mon_check_owner @mon_data.exit end # # Returns true if this monitor is locked by any thread # def mon_locked? @mon_data.mon_locked? end # # Returns true if this monitor is locked by current thread. # def mon_owned? @mon_data.mon_owned? end # # Enters exclusive section and executes the block. Leaves the exclusive # section automatically when the block exits. See example under # +MonitorMixin+. # def mon_synchronize(&b) @mon_data.synchronize(&b) end alias synchronize mon_synchronize # # Creates a new MonitorMixin::ConditionVariable associated with the # Monitor object. # def new_cond unless defined?(@mon_data) mon_initialize @mon_initialized_by_new_cond = true end return ConditionVariable.new(@mon_data) end private # Use extend MonitorMixin or include MonitorMixin instead # of this constructor. Have look at the examples above to understand how to # use this module. def initialize(*args) super mon_initialize end # Initializes the MonitorMixin after being included in a class or when an # object has been extended with the MonitorMixin def mon_initialize if defined?(@mon_data) if defined?(@mon_initialized_by_new_cond) return # already initalized. elsif @mon_data_owner_object_id == self.object_id raise ThreadError, "already initialized" end end @mon_data = ::Monitor.new @mon_data_owner_object_id = self.object_id end def mon_check_owner @mon_data.mon_check_owner end end # Use the Monitor class when you want to have a lock object for blocks with # mutual exclusion. # # require 'monitor' # # lock = Monitor.new # lock.synchronize do # # exclusive access # end # class Monitor def new_cond ::MonitorMixin::ConditionVariable.new(self) end # for compatibility alias try_mon_enter try_enter alias mon_try_enter try_enter alias mon_enter enter alias mon_exit exit alias mon_synchronize synchronize end # Documentation comments: # - All documentation comes from Nutshell. # - MonitorMixin.new_cond appears in the example, but is not documented in # Nutshell. # - All the internals (internal modules Accessible and Initializable, class # ConditionVariable) appear in RDoc. It might be good to hide them, by # making them private, or marking them :nodoc:, etc. # - RDoc doesn't recognise aliases, so we have mon_synchronize documented, but # not synchronize. # - mon_owner is in Nutshell, but appears as an accessor in a separate module # here, so is hard/impossible to RDoc. Some other useful accessors # (mon_count and some queue stuff) are also in this module, and don't appear # directly in the RDoc output. # - in short, it may be worth changing the code layout in this file to make the # documentation easier