/* This file is part of Raul. Copyright 2007-2012 David Robillard Raul is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. Raul 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 Raul. If not, see . */ #ifndef RAUL_DOUBLE_BUFFER_HPP #define RAUL_DOUBLE_BUFFER_HPP #include "raul/AtomicInt.hpp" #include "raul/AtomicPtr.hpp" namespace Raul { /** Double buffer. * * Can be thought of as a wrapper class to make a non-atomic type atomically * settable (with no locking). * * Read/Write realtime safe, many writers safe - but set calls may fail. * * Space: 2*sizeof(T) + sizeof(int) + sizeof(void*) * \ingroup raul */ template class DoubleBuffer { public: inline DoubleBuffer(T val) : _state(RAUL_DB_READ_WRITE) { _vals[0] = val; _read_val = &_vals[0]; } inline DoubleBuffer(const DoubleBuffer& copy) : _state(RAUL_DB_READ_WRITE) { T val = copy.get(); _vals[0] = val; _read_val = &_vals[0]; } inline T& get() const { return *_read_val.get(); } inline bool set(T new_val) { if (_state.compare_and_exchange(RAUL_DB_READ_WRITE, RAUL_DB_READ_LOCK)) { // locked _vals[1] for write _vals[1] = new_val; _read_val = &_vals[1]; _state = RAUL_DB_WRITE_READ; return true; // concurrent calls here are fine. good, actually - caught // the WRITE_READ state immediately after it was set above } else if (_state.compare_and_exchange(RAUL_DB_WRITE_READ, RAUL_DB_LOCK_READ)) { // locked _vals[0] for write _vals[0] = new_val; _read_val = &_vals[0]; _state = RAUL_DB_READ_WRITE; return true; } else { return false; } } private: enum States { // vals[0] state _ vals[1] state RAUL_DB_READ_WRITE = 0, RAUL_DB_READ_LOCK, RAUL_DB_WRITE_READ, RAUL_DB_LOCK_READ }; AtomicInt _state; AtomicPtr _read_val; T _vals[2]; }; } // namespace Raul #endif // RAUL_DOUBLE_BUFFER_HPP