syndicate-2017/racket/prospect/drivers/timer.rkt

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#lang racket/base
;; Timer driver.
;; Uses mutable state internally, but because the scope of the
;; mutation is limited to each timer process alone, it's easy to show
;; correct linear use of the various pointers.
(require racket/set)
(require racket/match)
(require data/heap)
(require "../main.rkt")
(struct pending-timer (deadline label) #:transparent)
(provide (struct-out set-timer)
(struct-out timer-expired)
spawn-timer-driver)
(struct set-timer (label msecs kind) #:prefab)
(struct timer-expired (label msecs) #:prefab)
(define expiry-projection (at-meta (?! (timer-expired ? ?))))
(define (spawn-timer-driver)
(define control-ch (make-channel))
(thread (lambda () (timer-driver-thread-main control-ch)))
(define (timer-driver e count)
(match e
[(patch added _removed)
;; Previously, this driver caused the background thread to call
;; send-ground-message to indicate that a timer had expired.
;; However, this can lead to a race! In cases where a timer
;; expires very soon, the channel-put of the set-timer
;; instruction leads shortly thereafter to a
;; send-ground-message which then races the establishment of
;; the metalevel-1 subscription to the timer-expired events
;; that are coming from the background thread.
;;
;; The race cannot occur in the sequential implementation
;; because the network makes sure to enqueue the transition
;; actions resulting from the set-timer message delivery ahead
;; of any enqueueing of the timer-expired ground message, so
;; that by the time the ground message is processed, the
;; relevant subscription always exists.
;;
;; In a looser implementation, however, this level of
;; synchronised activity may not exist, and the ground message
;; may overtake the subscription establishment.
;;
;; Therefore, I've changed the driver to instead use ground
;; /assertions/ to signal expired timers. Upon processing of
;; such an assertion, the driver cleans it up. This is very
;; similar to hardware interrupts, where the driver has to
;; "clear the interrupt" in order to let the system continue
;; properly.
(define-values (new-count actions-rev interrupt-clearing-patch)
(for/fold [(count count)
(actions-rev '())
(interrupt-clearing-patch patch-empty)]
[(expiry (trie-project/set/single added expiry-projection))]
(values (- count 1)
(cons (message expiry) actions-rev)
(patch-seq interrupt-clearing-patch
(retract expiry)))))
(send-ground-patch interrupt-clearing-patch)
(transition new-count
(cons (reverse actions-rev)
(when (zero? new-count) (unsub (timer-expired ? ?) #:meta-level 1))))]
[(message (and instruction (set-timer _ _ _)))
(channel-put control-ch instruction)
(transition (+ count 1)
(when (= count 0) (sub (timer-expired ? ?) #:meta-level 1)))]
[_ #f]))
(spawn timer-driver
0 ;; initial count
(patch-seq (sub (set-timer ? ? ?))
(pub (timer-expired ? ?)))))
(define (timer-driver-thread-main control-ch)
(define heap (make-timer-heap))
(let loop ()
(sync (match (next-timer heap)
[#f never-evt]
[t (handle-evt (timer-evt (pending-timer-deadline t))
(lambda (now)
(send-ground-patch
(for/fold [(interrupt-asserting-patch patch-empty)]
[(expiry (fire-timers! heap now))]
(patch-seq interrupt-asserting-patch (assert expiry))))
(loop)))])
(handle-evt control-ch
(match-lambda
[(set-timer label msecs 'relative)
(install-timer! heap label (+ (current-inexact-milliseconds) msecs))
(loop)]
[(set-timer label msecs 'absolute)
(install-timer! heap label msecs)
(loop)]
['quit (void)])))))
(define (make-timer-heap)
(make-heap (lambda (t1 t2) (<= (pending-timer-deadline t1) (pending-timer-deadline t2)))))
(define (next-timer heap)
(and (positive? (heap-count heap))
(heap-min heap)))
(define (fire-timers! heap now)
(if (zero? (heap-count heap))
'()
(let ((m (heap-min heap)))
(if (<= (pending-timer-deadline m) now)
(begin (heap-remove-min! heap)
(cons (timer-expired (pending-timer-label m) now)
(fire-timers! heap now)))
'()))))
(define (install-timer! heap label deadline)
(define now (current-inexact-milliseconds))
(heap-add! heap (pending-timer deadline label)))
;; Racket's alarm-evt is almost the right design for timeouts: its
;; synchronisation value should be the (or some) value of the clock
;; after the asked-for time. That way it serves as timeout and
;; clock-reader in one.
(define (timer-evt msecs)
(handle-evt (alarm-evt msecs)
(lambda (_) (current-inexact-milliseconds))))