2 Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Paul Davis
3 Author: David Robillard
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20 #ifndef __ardour_worker_h__
21 #define __ardour_worker_h__
25 #include <glibmm/threads.h>
27 #include "pbd/ringbuffer.h"
28 #include "pbd/semutils.h"
30 #include "ardour/libardour_visibility.h"
37 An object that needs to schedule non-RT work in the audio thread.
39 class LIBARDOUR_API Workee {
44 Do some work in the worker thread.
46 virtual int work(Worker& worker, uint32_t size, const void* data) = 0;
49 Handle a response from the worker thread in the audio thread.
51 virtual int work_response(uint32_t size, const void* data) = 0;
55 A worker for non-realtime tasks scheduled from another thread.
57 A worker may be a separate thread that runs to execute scheduled work
58 asynchronously, or unthreaded, in which case work is executed immediately
59 upon scheduling by the calling thread.
61 class LIBARDOUR_API Worker
64 Worker(Workee* workee, uint32_t ring_size, bool threaded=true);
68 Schedule work (audio thread).
69 @return false on error.
71 bool schedule(uint32_t size, const void* data);
74 Respond from work (worker thread).
75 @return false on error.
77 bool respond(uint32_t size, const void* data);
80 Emit any pending responses (audio thread).
82 void emit_responses();
85 Enable or disable synchronous execution.
87 If enabled, all work is performed immediately in schedule() regardless
88 of whether or not the worker is threaded. This is used for exporting,
89 where we want to temporarily execute all work synchronously but the
90 worker is typically used threaded for live rolling.
92 void set_synchronous(bool synchronous) { _synchronous = synchronous; }
97 Peek in RB, get size and check if a block of 'size' is available.
99 Handle the unlikley edge-case, if we're called in between the
100 responder writing 'size' and 'data'.
102 @param rb the ringbuffer to check
103 @return true if the message is complete, false otherwise
105 bool verify_message_completeness(RingBuffer<uint8_t>* rb);
108 RingBuffer<uint8_t>* _requests;
109 RingBuffer<uint8_t>* _responses;
112 Glib::Threads::Thread* _thread;
117 } // namespace ARDOUR
119 #endif /* __ardour_worker_h__ */