frameschedulerworkunits.h

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#ifndef _frameschedulerworkunits_h
#define _frameschedulerworkunits_h

#include "datatypes.h"

#if !defined(SWIG) || defined(SWIG_THREADING) // Do not read when in swig and not in the threading module
#include "workunit.h"
#include "workunitkey.h"
#endif
/// @file
/// @brief This defines a number of workunits that are required for doing some tasks that the Framescheduler requires.

namespace Mezzanine
{
    namespace Threading
    {
        // Forward Declare
        class FrameScheduler;

        /// @brief Gather all the thread specific logs and commit them to the main log.
        /// @details All the logs are double buffered. This reads from the commitable buffer
        /// which should otherwise be unused. This task was separated from the log swapper
        /// top minimize contention.
        class MEZZ_LIB LogAggregator : public DefaultWorkUnit
        {
            private:
                /// @brief The frameScheduler to aggregate;
                /// @note On Linux AMD64 this pointer brings the size of this class to 64 bytes a common cache line size.
                FrameScheduler* AggregationTarget;

            public:
                /// @brief Create a default log agregator with no target
                LogAggregator();

                /// @brief Virtual Deconstructor
                virtual ~LogAggregator();

                /// @brief This does the actual work of log aggregation.
                /// @param CurrentThreadStorage This is used to retrieve the framescheduler that will have its log aggregated.
                /// @details If there is no currently set aggregation target this sets it to whatever scheduler is in
                /// the passed ThreadSpecificStorage
                virtual void DoWork(DefaultThreadSpecificStorage::Type& CurrentThreadStorage);

                /// @brief Get the current Aggregation Target
                /// @return A FrameScheduler pointer or NULL if one is not set
                FrameScheduler* GetAggregationTarget() const;

                /// @brief Set which framescheduler will be aggregated.
                /// @param NewTarget A pointer to the  FrameScheduler to aggregate.
                /// @details If set to NULL this will use whatever FrameScheduler is in the next
                /// ThreadSpecificStorage passed during DoWork. This will never delete a framescheduler.
                void SetAggregationTarget(FrameScheduler* NewTarget);
        }; //LogAggregator

        /// @brief Sorts all of the WorkUnits in the @ref FrameScheduler.
        class MEZZ_LIB WorkSorter : public DefaultWorkUnit
        {
                friend class FrameScheduler;
            protected:
                /// @brief 1 in every this many frames Sorting happens.
                Whole SortingFrequency;

                /// @brief How long since the last sort?
                Whole FramesSinceLastSort;

                /// @brief A freshly sorted WorkUnitsMain or an empty vector.
                std::vector<WorkUnitKey> WorkUnitsMain;

                /// @brief A freshly sorted WorkUnitsAffinity or an empty vector.
                std::vector<WorkUnitKey> WorkUnitsAffinity;

            public:
                /// @brief Default constructor.
                WorkSorter();

                /// @brief This usually does nothing, but sometimes it will do a whole bunch of work sorting.
                /// @param CurrentThreadStorage Just to get a reference to the framescheduler. So the WorkUnits can sorted and passed back to the Scheduler outisde of scheduling.
                virtual void DoWork(DefaultThreadSpecificStorage::Type& CurrentThreadStorage);

                /// @brief Set how often this actually does work
                /// @param FramesBetweenSorts 1 in every this many frame this will sort the work units.
                virtual void SetSortingFrequency(Whole FramesBetweenSorts);

                /// @brief Check how often this sorts.
                /// @return A Whole containing the sorting frequency.
                virtual Whole GetSortingFrequency();
        };//WorkSorter
    }//Threading
}//Mezzanine

#endif