class WinDispatcher

A class to provide an interface to Windows native I/O multiplexing. More...

 
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A WinDispatcher provides an entity where callbacks for pending I/O operations on Windows sockets and other Windows system objects may be registered. The callbacks are invoked when the wait_and_dispatch method is called, and I/O is pending on a descriptor, or a Windows object's state has been set to signalled.

The entire event loop is driven from the Win32 API call WaitForMultipleObjects(), which means there is a hard 64-object limit.

This class is the glue which binds XORP to Windows. There are tricks in the AsyncFileOperator classes which are tightly coupled with what happens here. Most of these tricks exist because systems-level asynchronous I/O facilities cannot easily be integrated into XORP's current design.

There is no way of telling specific I/O events apart on objects other than sockets without actually trying to service the I/O. The class uses WSAEventSelect() internally to map socket handles to event handles, and much of the complexity in this class is there to deal with this schism in Windows low-level I/O.

The class emulates the ability of UNIX-like systems to interrupt a process waiting in select() for pending I/O on pipes, by using a time-slice quantum to periodically poll the pipes. This quantum is currently hard-coded to 250ms.

Sockets are optimized to be the faster dispatch path, as this is where the bulk of XORP I/O processing happens.

WinDispatcher should only be exposed to EventLoop.

 WinDispatcher (ClockBase *clock)

WinDispatcher

Default constructor.

 ~WinDispatcher ()

~WinDispatcher

[virtual]

Destructor.

bool  add_ioevent_cb (XorpFd fd, IoEventType type, const IoEventCb& cb, int priority = XorpTask::PRIORITY_DEFAULT)

add_ioevent_cb

Add a hook for pending I/O operations on a callback.

Only one callback may be registered for each possible IoEventType, with the following exceptions.

If the XorpFd maps to a Windows socket handle, multiple callbacks may be registered for different IoEventTypes, but one and only one callback may be registered for the handle if a callback is registered for the IOT_ACCEPT event.

If the XorpFd maps to a Windows pipe or console handle, callbacks may only be registered for the IOT_READ and IOT_DISCONNECT events.

If the XorpFd corresponds to any other kind of Windows object handle, only a single callback may be registered, and the IoEventType must be IOT_EXCEPTION. This mechanism is typically used to direct the class to wait on Windows event or process handles.

Parameters:

fda Windows object handle encapsulated in a XorpFd .
typethe IoEventType which should trigger the callback.
cbcallback object which shall be invoked when the event is triggered.
prioritythe XorpTask priority at which this callback should be run.

Returns: true if function succeeds, false otherwise.

bool  remove_ioevent_cb (XorpFd fd, IoEventType type)

remove_ioevent_cb

Remove hooks for pending I/O operations.

Parameters:

fdthe file descriptor.
typethe IoEventType to remove the callback for; the special value IOT_ANY may be specified to remove all such callbacks.

Returns: true if function succeeds, false otherwise.

bool  ready ()

ready

Find out if any of the selectors are ready.

Returns: true if any selector is ready.

int  get_ready_priority ()

get_ready_priority

Find out the highest priority from the ready file descriptors.

Returns: the priority of the highest priority ready file descriptor.

void  wait_and_dispatch (TimeVal& timeout)

wait_and_dispatch

Wait for a pending I/O events and invoke callbacks when they become ready.

Parameters:

timeoutthe maximum period to wait for.
void  wait_and_dispatch (int ms)

wait_and_dispatch

Wait for a pending I/O events and invoke callbacks when they become ready.

Parameters:

millisecsthe maximum period in milliseconds to wait for.
size_t  descriptor_count ()

descriptor_count

[const]

Get the count of the descriptors that have been added.

Returns: the count of the descriptors that have been added.

void  dispatch_sockevent (HANDLE hevent, XorpFd fd)

dispatch_sockevent

[protected]

No user-servicable parts here at the moment.


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