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#if !defined(TaskDispatcher_h_)
#define TaskDispatcher_h_

#include "mozilla/AbstractThread.h"
#include "mozilla/Maybe.h"
#include "mozilla/UniquePtr.h"
#include "mozilla/Unused.h"

#include "nsISupportsImpl.h"
#include "nsTArray.h"
#include "nsThreadUtils.h"

#include <queue>

namespace mozilla {

/*
 * A classic approach to cross-thread communication is to dispatch asynchronous
 * runnables to perform updates on other threads. This generally works well, but
 * there are sometimes reasons why we might want to delay the actual dispatch of
 * these tasks until a specified moment. At present, this is primarily useful to
 * ensure that mirrored state gets updated atomically - but there may be other
 * applications as well.
 *
 * TaskDispatcher is a general abstract class that accepts tasks and dispatches
 * them at some later point. These groups of tasks are per-target-thread, and
 * contain separate queues for several kinds of tasks (see comments  below). - "state change tasks" (which
 * run first, and are intended to be used to update the value held by mirrors),
 * and regular tasks, which are other arbitrary operations that the are gated
 * to run after all the state changes have completed.
 */
class TaskDispatcher
{
public:
  TaskDispatcher() {}
  virtual ~TaskDispatcher() {}

  // Direct tasks are run directly (rather than dispatched asynchronously) when
  // the tail dispatcher fires. A direct task may cause other tasks to be added
  // to the tail dispatcher.
  virtual void AddDirectTask(already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable> aRunnable) = 0;

  // State change tasks are dispatched asynchronously always run before regular
  // tasks. They are intended to be used to update the value held by mirrors
  // before any other dispatched tasks are run on the target thread.
  virtual void AddStateChangeTask(AbstractThread* aThread,
                                  already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable> aRunnable) = 0;

  // Regular tasks are dispatched asynchronously, and run after state change
  // tasks.
  virtual void AddTask(AbstractThread* aThread,
                       already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable> aRunnable,
                       AbstractThread::DispatchFailureHandling aFailureHandling = AbstractThread::AssertDispatchSuccess) = 0;

  virtual void DispatchTasksFor(AbstractThread* aThread) = 0;
  virtual bool HasTasksFor(AbstractThread* aThread) = 0;
  virtual void DrainDirectTasks() = 0;
};

/*
 * AutoTaskDispatcher is a stack-scoped TaskDispatcher implementation that fires
 * its queued tasks when it is popped off the stack.
 */
class AutoTaskDispatcher : public TaskDispatcher
{
public:
  explicit AutoTaskDispatcher(bool aIsTailDispatcher = false)
    : mIsTailDispatcher(aIsTailDispatcher)
  {}

  ~AutoTaskDispatcher()
  {
    // Given that direct tasks may trigger other code that uses the tail
    // dispatcher, it's better to avoid processing them in the tail dispatcher's
    // destructor. So we require TailDispatchers to manually invoke
    // DrainDirectTasks before the AutoTaskDispatcher gets destroyed. In truth,
    // this is only necessary in the case where this AutoTaskDispatcher can be
    // accessed by the direct tasks it dispatches (true for TailDispatchers, but
    // potentially not true for other hypothetical AutoTaskDispatchers). Feel
    // free to loosen this restriction to apply only to mIsTailDispatcher if a
    // use-case requires it.
    MOZ_ASSERT(!HaveDirectTasks());

    for (size_t i = 0; i < mTaskGroups.Length(); ++i) {
      DispatchTaskGroup(Move(mTaskGroups[i]));
    }
  }

  bool HaveDirectTasks() const
  {
    return mDirectTasks.isSome() && !mDirectTasks->empty();
  }

  void DrainDirectTasks() override
  {
    while (HaveDirectTasks()) {
      nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable> r = mDirectTasks->front();
      mDirectTasks->pop();
      r->Run();
    }
  }

  void AddDirectTask(already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable> aRunnable) override
  {
    if (mDirectTasks.isNothing()) {
      mDirectTasks.emplace();
    }
    mDirectTasks->push(Move(aRunnable));
  }

  void AddStateChangeTask(AbstractThread* aThread,
                          already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable> aRunnable) override
  {
    EnsureTaskGroup(aThread).mStateChangeTasks.AppendElement(aRunnable);
  }

  void AddTask(AbstractThread* aThread,
               already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable> aRunnable,
               AbstractThread::DispatchFailureHandling aFailureHandling) override
  {
    PerThreadTaskGroup& group = EnsureTaskGroup(aThread);
    group.mRegularTasks.AppendElement(aRunnable);

    // The task group needs to assert dispatch success if any of the runnables
    // it's dispatching want to assert it.
    if (aFailureHandling == AbstractThread::AssertDispatchSuccess) {
      group.mFailureHandling = AbstractThread::AssertDispatchSuccess;
    }
  }

  bool HasTasksFor(AbstractThread* aThread) override
  {
    return !!GetTaskGroup(aThread) ||
           (aThread == AbstractThread::GetCurrent() && HaveDirectTasks());
  }

  void DispatchTasksFor(AbstractThread* aThread) override
  {
    for (size_t i = 0; i < mTaskGroups.Length(); ++i) {
      if (mTaskGroups[i]->mThread == aThread) {
        DispatchTaskGroup(Move(mTaskGroups[i]));
        mTaskGroups.RemoveElementAt(i);
        return;
      }
    }
  }

private:

  struct PerThreadTaskGroup
  {
  public:
    explicit PerThreadTaskGroup(AbstractThread* aThread)
      : mThread(aThread), mFailureHandling(AbstractThread::DontAssertDispatchSuccess)
    {
      MOZ_COUNT_CTOR(PerThreadTaskGroup);
    }

    ~PerThreadTaskGroup() { MOZ_COUNT_DTOR(PerThreadTaskGroup); }

    RefPtr<AbstractThread> mThread;
    nsTArray<nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable>> mStateChangeTasks;
    nsTArray<nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable>> mRegularTasks;
    AbstractThread::DispatchFailureHandling mFailureHandling;
  };

  class TaskGroupRunnable : public Runnable
  {
    public:
      explicit TaskGroupRunnable(UniquePtr<PerThreadTaskGroup>&& aTasks) : mTasks(Move(aTasks)) {}

      NS_IMETHOD Run() override
      {
        // State change tasks get run all together before any code is run, so
        // that all state changes are made in an atomic unit.
        for (size_t i = 0; i < mTasks->mStateChangeTasks.Length(); ++i) {
          mTasks->mStateChangeTasks[i]->Run();
        }

        // Once the state changes have completed, drain any direct tasks
        // generated by those state changes (i.e. watcher notification tasks).
        // This needs to be outside the loop because we don't want to run code
        // that might observe intermediate states.
        MaybeDrainDirectTasks();

        for (size_t i = 0; i < mTasks->mRegularTasks.Length(); ++i) {
          mTasks->mRegularTasks[i]->Run();

          // Scope direct tasks tightly to the task that generated them.
          MaybeDrainDirectTasks();
        }

        return NS_OK;
      }

    private:
      void MaybeDrainDirectTasks()
      {
        AbstractThread* currentThread = AbstractThread::GetCurrent();
        if (currentThread) {
          currentThread->TailDispatcher().DrainDirectTasks();
        }
      }

      UniquePtr<PerThreadTaskGroup> mTasks;
  };

  PerThreadTaskGroup& EnsureTaskGroup(AbstractThread* aThread)
  {
    PerThreadTaskGroup* existing = GetTaskGroup(aThread);
    if (existing) {
      return *existing;
    }

    mTaskGroups.AppendElement(new PerThreadTaskGroup(aThread));
    return *mTaskGroups.LastElement();
  }

  PerThreadTaskGroup* GetTaskGroup(AbstractThread* aThread)
  {
    for (size_t i = 0; i < mTaskGroups.Length(); ++i) {
      if (mTaskGroups[i]->mThread == aThread) {
        return mTaskGroups[i].get();
      }
    }

    // Not found.
    return nullptr;
  }

  void DispatchTaskGroup(UniquePtr<PerThreadTaskGroup> aGroup)
  {
    RefPtr<AbstractThread> thread = aGroup->mThread;

    AbstractThread::DispatchFailureHandling failureHandling = aGroup->mFailureHandling;
    AbstractThread::DispatchReason reason = mIsTailDispatcher ? AbstractThread::TailDispatch
                                                              : AbstractThread::NormalDispatch;
    nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable> r = new TaskGroupRunnable(Move(aGroup));
    thread->Dispatch(r.forget(), failureHandling, reason);
  }

  // Direct tasks. We use a Maybe<> because (a) this class is hot, (b)
  // mDirectTasks often doesn't get anything put into it, and (c) the
  // std::queue implementation in GNU libstdc++ does two largish heap
  // allocations when creating a new std::queue.
  mozilla::Maybe<std::queue<nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable>>> mDirectTasks;

  // Task groups, organized by thread.
  nsTArray<UniquePtr<PerThreadTaskGroup>> mTaskGroups;

  // True if this TaskDispatcher represents the tail dispatcher for the thread
  // upon which it runs.
  const bool mIsTailDispatcher;
};

// Little utility class to allow declaring AutoTaskDispatcher as a default
// parameter for methods that take a TaskDispatcher&.
template<typename T>
class PassByRef
{
public:
  PassByRef() {}
  operator T&() { return mVal; }
private:
  T mVal;
};

} // namespace mozilla

#endif