lib/cpp/src/concurrency/ThreadManager.h

// Copyright (c) 2006- Facebook
// Distributed under the Thrift Software License
//
// See accompanying file LICENSE or visit the Thrift site at:
// http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/

#ifndef _THRIFT_CONCURRENCY_THREADMANAGER_H_
#define _THRIFT_CONCURRENCY_THREADMANAGER_H_ 1

#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include "Thread.h"

namespace facebook { namespace thrift { namespace concurrency { 

using namespace boost;

/**
 * Thread Pool Manager and related classes
 *
 * @author marc
 * @version $Id:$
 */
class ThreadManager;

/**
 * ThreadManager class
 *
 * This class manages a pool of threads. It uses a ThreadFactory to create
 * threads. It never actually creates or destroys worker threads, rather
 * It maintains statistics on number of idle threads, number of active threads,
 * task backlog, and average wait and service times and informs the PoolPolicy
 * object bound to instances of this manager of interesting transitions. It is
 * then up the PoolPolicy object to decide if the thread pool size needs to be
 * adjusted and call this object addWorker and removeWorker methods to make
 * changes.
 *
 * This design allows different policy implementations to used this code to
 * handle basic worker thread management and worker task execution and focus on
 * policy issues. The simplest policy, StaticPolicy, does nothing other than
 * create a fixed number of threads.
 */
class ThreadManager {

 protected:
  ThreadManager() {}

 public:
  virtual ~ThreadManager() {}

  /**
   * Starts the thread manager. Verifies all attributes have been properly
   * initialized, then allocates necessary resources to begin operation
   */
  virtual void start() = 0;

  /**
   * Stops the thread manager. Aborts all remaining unprocessed task, shuts
   * down all created worker threads, and realeases all allocated resources.
   * This method blocks for all worker threads to complete, thus it can
   * potentially block forever if a worker thread is running a task that 
   * won't terminate.
   */
  virtual void stop() = 0;

  /**
   * Joins the thread manager. This is the same as stop, except that it will
   * block until all the workers have finished their work. At that point
   * the ThreadManager will transition into the STOPPED state.
   */
  virtual void join() = 0;

  enum STATE {
    UNINITIALIZED,
    STARTING,
    STARTED,
    JOINING,
    STOPPING,
    STOPPED
  };
  
  virtual const STATE state() const = 0;

  virtual shared_ptr<ThreadFactory> threadFactory() const = 0;

  virtual void threadFactory(shared_ptr<ThreadFactory> value) = 0;

  virtual void addWorker(size_t value=1) = 0;

  virtual void removeWorker(size_t value=1) = 0;

  /**
   * Gets the current number of idle worker threads
   */
  virtual size_t idleWorkerCount() const = 0;

  /**
   * Gets the current number of total worker threads
   */
  virtual size_t workerCount() const = 0;

  /**
   * Gets the current number of pending tasks
   */
  virtual size_t pendingTaskCount() const  = 0;

  /**
   * Gets the current number of pending and executing tasks
   */
  virtual size_t totalTaskCount() const = 0;

  /**
   * Adds a task to be execued at some time in the future by a worker thread.
   *
   * @param value The task to run
   */
  virtual void add(shared_ptr<Runnable>value) = 0;

  /**
   * Removes a pending task
   */
  virtual void remove(shared_ptr<Runnable> task) = 0;

  static shared_ptr<ThreadManager> newThreadManager();

  /**
   * Creates a simple thread manager the uses count number of worker threads
   */
  static shared_ptr<ThreadManager> newSimpleThreadManager(size_t count=4);

  class Task;
  
  class Worker;

  class Impl;
};

}}} // facebook::thrift::concurrency

#endif // #ifndef _THRIFT_CONCURRENCY_THREADMANAGER_H_