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Rust Async
#![allow(unused)]
use {
futures::{
future::{BoxFuture, FutureExt},
task::{ArcWake, waker_ref},
},
std::{
future::Future,
pin::Pin,
sync::{Arc, Mutex},
sync::mpsc::{Receiver, sync_channel, SyncSender},
task::{Context, Poll, Waker},
thread,
time::Duration,
},
};
pub struct TimerFuture {
shared_state: Arc<Mutex<SharedState>>,
}
/// Shared state between the future and the waiting thread
struct SharedState {
/// Whether or not the sleep time has elapsed
completed: bool,
/// The waker for the task that `TimerFuture` is running on.
/// The thread can use this after setting `completed = true` to tell
/// `TimerFuture`'s task to wake up, see that `completed = true`, and
/// move forward.
waker: Option<Waker>,
}
impl Future for TimerFuture {
type Output = ();
fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
// Look at the shared state to see if the timer has already completed.
let mut shared_state = self.shared_state.lock().unwrap();
if shared_state.completed {
Poll::Ready(())
} else {
// Set waker so that the thread can wake up the current task
// when the timer has completed, ensuring that the future is polled
// again and sees that `completed = true`.
//
// It's tempting to do this once rather than repeatedly cloning
// the waker each time. However, the `TimerFuture` can move between
// tasks on the executor, which could cause a stale waker pointing
// to the wrong task, preventing `TimerFuture` from waking up
// correctly.
//
// N.B. it's possible to check for this using the `Waker::will_wake`
// function, but we omit that here to keep things simple.
shared_state.waker = Some(cx.waker().clone());
Poll::Pending
}
}
}
impl TimerFuture {
/// Create a new `TimerFuture` which will complete after the provided
/// timeout.
pub fn new(duration: Duration) -> Self {
let shared_state = Arc::new(Mutex::new(SharedState {
completed: false,
waker: None,
}));
// Spawn the new thread
let thread_shared_state = shared_state.clone();
thread::spawn(move || {
thread::sleep(duration);
let mut shared_state = thread_shared_state.lock().unwrap();
// Signal that the timer has completed and wake up the last
// task on which the future was polled, if one exists.
shared_state.completed = true;
if let Some(waker) = shared_state.waker.take() {
waker.wake()
}
});
TimerFuture { shared_state }
}
}
/// Task executor that receives tasks off of a channel and runs them.
struct Executor {
ready_queue: Receiver<Arc<Task>>,
}
/// `Spawner` spawns new futures onto the task channel.
#[derive(Clone)]
struct Spawner {
task_sender: SyncSender<Arc<Task>>,
}
/// A future that can reschedule itself to be polled by an `Executor`.
struct Task {
/// In-progress future that should be pushed to completion.
///
/// The `Mutex` is not necessary for correctness, since we only have
/// one thread executing tasks at once. However, Rust isn't smart
/// enough to know that `future` is only mutated from one thread,
/// so we need to use the `Mutex` to prove thread-safety. A production
/// executor would not need this, and could use `UnsafeCell` instead.
future: Mutex<Option<BoxFuture<'static, ()>>>,
/// Handle to place the task itself back onto the task queue.
task_sender: SyncSender<Arc<Task>>,
}
fn new_executor_and_spawner() -> (Executor, Spawner) {
// Maximum number of tasks to allow queueing in the channel at once.
// This is just to make `sync_channel` happy, and wouldn't be present in
// a real executor.
const MAX_QUEUED_TASKS: usize = 10_000;
let (task_sender, ready_queue) = sync_channel(MAX_QUEUED_TASKS);
(Executor { ready_queue }, Spawner { task_sender })
}
impl ArcWake for Task {
fn wake_by_ref(arc_self: &Arc<Self>) {
// Implement `wake` by sending this task back onto the task channel
// so that it will be polled again by the executor.
let cloned = arc_self.clone();
arc_self.task_sender.send(cloned).expect("too many tasks queued");
}
}
impl Spawner {
fn spawn(&self, future: impl Future<Output=()> + 'static + Send) {
let future = future.boxed();
let task = Arc::new(Task {
future: Mutex::new(Some(future)),
task_sender: self.task_sender.clone(),
});
self.task_sender.send(task).expect("too many tasks queued");
}
}
impl Executor {
fn run(&self) {
while let Ok(task) = self.ready_queue.recv() {
// Take the future, and if it has not yet completed (is still Some),
// poll it in an attempt to complete it.
let mut future_slot = task.future.lock().unwrap();
if let Some(mut future) = future_slot.take() {
// Create a `LocalWaker` from the task itself
let waker = waker_ref(&task);
let context = &mut Context::from_waker(&*waker);
// `BoxFuture<T>` is a type alias for
// `Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = T> + Send + 'static>>`.
// We can get a `Pin<&mut dyn Future + Send + 'static>`
// from it by calling the `Pin::as_mut` method.
if let Poll::Pending = future.as_mut().poll(context) {
// We're not done processing the future, so put it
// back in its task to be run again in the future.
*future_slot = Some(future);
}
}
}
}
}
fn main() {
let (executor, spawner) = new_executor_and_spawner();
// Spawn a task to print before and after waiting on a timer.
spawner.spawn(async {
println!("howdy!");
// Wait for our timer future to complete after two seconds.
TimerFuture::new(Duration::new(2, 0)).await;
println!("done!");
});
// Drop the spawner so that our executor knows it is finished and won't
// receive more incoming tasks to run.
drop(spawner);
// Run the executor until the task queue is empty.
// This will print "howdy!", pause, and then print "done!".
executor.run();
}
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