gecko/xpcom/threads/nsTimerImpl.h
Boris Zbarsky dd94d998a3 Bug 650379. Add a new XPCOM timer type that is like TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE but does not swamp the event queue if the callback takes longer than the timer interval to run. r=cjones, sr=brendan
This implements proposal 3 from bug 650379 comment 13.  The main difference
between TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE and TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE_CAN_SKIP is to not
AddTimer the REPEATING_PRECISE_CAN_SKIP timer until after the callback has run;
this guarantees that no more timer events will be posted until after the
callback finishes executing.  A secondary change is to make
REPEATING_PRECISE_CAN_SKIP timers advance their firing time to mDelay from when
PostTimerEvent is called, not mDelay from the old mTimeout.  While this arguably
makes them less precise, the alternative is that if a timer is significantly
delayed for some reason (e.g. because the user puts the computer to sleep for a
while) it will then fire a whole bunch of times to "catch up" to where it's
supposed to be, advancing its firing time by mDelay at a time.  That seems
undesirable.

An alternate approach would have been to readd the timer from inside
PostTimerEvent, but only if we're not in the middle of firing the timer. That
would allow more precise timers in the case when the callback is not taking too
long, but still handle gracefully the case when the callback is
slow. Unfortunately this falls down if something _else_ is hogging the main
thread event loop (e.g. some other timer has a slow callback, or whatever); in
that case we would post multiple events for the one precise timer while the
event-loop-hogging operation is running. So I don't think we should do that.
2011-04-28 19:33:52 -04:00

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#ifndef nsTimerImpl_h___
#define nsTimerImpl_h___
//#define FORCE_PR_LOG /* Allow logging in the release build */
#include "nsITimer.h"
#include "nsIEventTarget.h"
#include "nsIObserver.h"
#include "nsCOMPtr.h"
#include "prlog.h"
#include "mozilla/TimeStamp.h"
#if defined(PR_LOGGING)
static PRLogModuleInfo *gTimerLog = PR_NewLogModule("nsTimerImpl");
#define DEBUG_TIMERS 1
#else
#undef DEBUG_TIMERS
#endif
#define NS_TIMER_CLASSNAME "Timer"
#define NS_TIMER_CID \
{ /* 5ff24248-1dd2-11b2-8427-fbab44f29bc8 */ \
0x5ff24248, \
0x1dd2, \
0x11b2, \
{0x84, 0x27, 0xfb, 0xab, 0x44, 0xf2, 0x9b, 0xc8} \
}
enum {
CALLBACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0,
CALLBACK_TYPE_INTERFACE = 1,
CALLBACK_TYPE_FUNC = 2,
CALLBACK_TYPE_OBSERVER = 3
};
class nsTimerImpl : public nsITimer
{
public:
typedef mozilla::TimeStamp TimeStamp;
nsTimerImpl();
static NS_HIDDEN_(nsresult) Startup();
static NS_HIDDEN_(void) Shutdown();
friend class TimerThread;
void Fire();
nsresult PostTimerEvent();
void SetDelayInternal(PRUint32 aDelay);
NS_DECL_ISUPPORTS
NS_DECL_NSITIMER
PRInt32 GetGeneration() { return mGeneration; }
private:
~nsTimerImpl();
nsresult InitCommon(PRUint32 aType, PRUint32 aDelay);
void ReleaseCallback()
{
// if we're the last owner of the callback object, make
// sure that we don't recurse into ReleaseCallback in case
// the callback's destructor calls Cancel() or similar.
PRUint8 cbType = mCallbackType;
mCallbackType = CALLBACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
if (cbType == CALLBACK_TYPE_INTERFACE)
NS_RELEASE(mCallback.i);
else if (cbType == CALLBACK_TYPE_OBSERVER)
NS_RELEASE(mCallback.o);
}
bool IsRepeating() const {
PR_STATIC_ASSERT(TYPE_ONE_SHOT < TYPE_REPEATING_SLACK);
PR_STATIC_ASSERT(TYPE_REPEATING_SLACK < TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE);
PR_STATIC_ASSERT(TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE < TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE_CAN_SKIP);
return mType >= TYPE_REPEATING_SLACK;
}
bool IsRepeatingPrecisely() const {
return mType >= TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE;
}
nsCOMPtr<nsIEventTarget> mEventTarget;
void * mClosure;
union CallbackUnion {
nsTimerCallbackFunc c;
nsITimerCallback * i;
nsIObserver * o;
} mCallback;
// Some callers expect to be able to access the callback while the
// timer is firing.
nsCOMPtr<nsITimerCallback> mTimerCallbackWhileFiring;
// These members are set by Init (called from NS_NewTimer) and never reset.
PRUint8 mCallbackType;
// These members are set by the initiating thread, when the timer's type is
// changed and during the period where it fires on that thread.
PRUint8 mType;
PRPackedBool mFiring;
// Use a PRBool (int) here to isolate loads and stores of these two members
// done on various threads under the protection of TimerThread::mLock, from
// loads and stores done on the initiating/type-changing/timer-firing thread
// to the above PRUint8/PRPackedBool members.
PRBool mArmed;
PRBool mCanceled;
// The generation number of this timer, re-generated each time the timer is
// initialized so one-shot timers can be canceled and re-initialized by the
// arming thread without any bad race conditions.
PRInt32 mGeneration;
PRUint32 mDelay;
TimeStamp mTimeout;
#ifdef DEBUG_TIMERS
TimeStamp mStart, mStart2;
static double sDeltaSum;
static double sDeltaSumSquared;
static double sDeltaNum;
#endif
};
#endif /* nsTimerImpl_h___ */