/* NAME ring.go - a structure that encapsulates a Buffer datastructure with conccurency functionality DESCRIPTION See Readme.md AUTHOR Dan Kortschak LICENSE ring.go is Copyright (C) 2017 the Australian Ocean Lab (AusOcean) It is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with revid in gpl.txt. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses. */ // Package ring provides a ring buffer of io.ReadWriters. package ring import ( "errors" "io" "time" ) var ( ErrTimeout = errors.New("ring: buffer cycle timeout") ErrDropped = errors.New("ring: dropped old write") ErrStall = errors.New("ring: unable to dump old write") ErrTooLong = errors.New("ring: write to long for buffer element") ) // Buffer implements a ring buffer. // // The buffer has a writable head and a readable tail with a queue from the head // to the tail. Concurrent read a write operations are safe. type Buffer struct { head, tail *Chunk full, empty chan *Chunk timeout time.Duration } // NewBuffer returns a Buffer with len elements of the given size. The timeout // parameter specifies how long a write operation will wait before failing with // a temporary timeout error. func NewBuffer(len, size int, timeout time.Duration) *Buffer { if len <= 0 || size <= 0 { return nil } b := Buffer{ full: make(chan *Chunk, len), empty: make(chan *Chunk, len), timeout: timeout, } for i := 0; i < len; i++ { b.empty <- newChunk(make([]byte, 0, size)) } return &b } // Len returns the number of full buffer elements. func (b *Buffer) Len() int { return len(b.full) } // Write writes the bytes in b to the next current or next available element of the ring buffer // it returns the number of bytes written and any error. // If no element can be gained within the timeout or stolen from the queue, ErrStall is returned // and if the len(p) is greater than the buffer's element size, ErrTooLong is returned. If a // write was successful but a previous write was dropped, ErrDropped is returned. // // Write is safe to use concurrently with Read, but may not be used concurrently with another // write operation. func (b *Buffer) Write(p []byte) (int, error) { var dropped bool if b.head == nil { timer := time.NewTimer(b.timeout) select { case <-timer.C: select { case b.head = <-b.full: b.head.reset() dropped = true default: // This should never happen. return 0, ErrStall } case b.head = <-b.empty: timer.Stop() } } if len(p) > b.head.cap() { return 0, ErrTooLong } if len(p) > b.head.cap()-b.head.len() { b.full <- b.head b.head = nil return b.Write(p) } n, err := b.head.write(p) if b.head.cap()-b.head.len() == 0 { b.full <- b.head b.head = nil } if dropped && err == nil { err = ErrDropped } return n, err } // Flush puts the currently writing element of the buffer into the queue for reading. Flush // is idempotent. // // Flush is safe to use concurrently with Read, but may not be used concurrently with another // another write operation. func (b *Buffer) Flush() { if b.head == nil { return } b.full <- b.head b.head = nil } // Close closes the buffer. The buffer may not be written to after a call to close, but can // be drained by calls to Read. // // Flush is safe to use concurrently with Read, but may not be used concurrently with another // another write operation. func (b *Buffer) Close() error { b.Flush() close(b.full) return nil } // Next gets the next element from the queue ready for reading, returning ErrTimeout if no // element is available within the timeout. If the Buffer has been closed Next returns io.EOF. // // Is it the responsibility of the caller to close the returned Chunk. // // Next is safe to use concurrently with write operations, but may not be used concurrently with // another Read call or Next call. A goroutine calling Next must not call Flush or Close. func (b *Buffer) Next(timeout time.Duration) (*Chunk, error) { if b.tail == nil { timer := time.NewTimer(timeout) var ok bool select { case <-timer.C: return nil, ErrTimeout case b.tail, ok = <-b.full: timer.Stop() if !ok { return nil, io.EOF } } } b.tail.owner = b return b.tail, nil } // Read reads bytes from the current tail of the ring buffer into p and returns the number of // bytes read and any error. // // Read is safe to use concurrently with write operations, but may not be used concurrently with // another Read call or Next call. A goroutine calling Read must not call Flush or Close. func (b *Buffer) Read(p []byte) (int, error) { if b.tail == nil { return 0, io.EOF } n, err := b.tail.read(p) if b.tail.len() == 0 { b.tail.reset() b.empty <- b.tail b.tail = nil } return n, err } // Chunk is a simplified version of byte buffer without the capacity to grow beyond the // buffer's original cap, and a modified WriteTo method that allows multiple calls without // consuming the buffered data. type Chunk struct { buf []byte off int owner *Buffer } func newChunk(buf []byte) *Chunk { return &Chunk{buf: buf[:0]} } func (b *Chunk) len() int { return len(b.buf) - b.off } func (b *Chunk) cap() int { return cap(b.buf) } func (b *Chunk) reset() { b.buf = b.buf[:0] b.off = 0 } func (b *Chunk) write(p []byte) (n int, err error) { if len(p) > cap(b.buf)-len(b.buf) { err = ErrTooLong } l := len(b.buf) m := l + len(p) if m > cap(b.buf) { m = cap(b.buf) } b.buf = b.buf[:m] n = copy(b.buf[l:], p) return n, err } func (b *Chunk) read(p []byte) (n int, err error) { if b.len() <= 0 { if len(p) == 0 { return 0, nil } return 0, io.EOF } n = copy(p, b.buf[b.off:]) b.off += n return n, nil } // WriteTo writes data to w until there's no more data to write or when an error occurs. // The return value n is the number of bytes written. Any error encountered during the // write is also returned. Repeated called to WriteTo will write the same data until // the Chunk's Close method is called. // // WriteTo will panic if the Chunk has not been obtained through a call to Buffer.Next or // has been closed. WriteTo must be used in the same goroutine as the call to Next. func (b *Chunk) WriteTo(w io.Writer) (n int, err error) { if b.owner == nil || b.owner.tail != b { panic("ring: invalid use of ring buffer chunk") } n, err = w.Write(b.buf) if n > len(b.buf) { panic("ring: invalid byte count") } if n != len(b.buf) { return n, io.ErrShortWrite } return n, nil } // Close closes the Chunk, reseting its data and releasing it back to the Buffer. A Chunk // may not be used after it has been closed. Close must be used in the same goroutine as // the call to Next. func (b *Chunk) Close() error { if b.owner == nil || b.owner.tail != b { panic("ring: invalid use of ring buffer chunk") } b.reset() b.owner.tail = nil empty := b.owner.empty b.owner = nil empty <- b return nil }