module MonitorMixin
In concurrent programming, a monitor is an object or module intended to be used safely by more than one thread. The defining characteristic of a monitor is that its methods are executed with mutual exclusion. That is, at each point in time, at most one thread may be executing any of its methods. This mutual exclusion greatly simplifies reasoning about the implementation of monitors compared to reasoning about parallel code that updates a data structure.
You can read more about the general principles on the Wikipedia page for Monitors
Examples¶ ↑
Simple object.extend¶ ↑
require 'monitor.rb' buf = [] buf.extend(MonitorMixin) empty_cond = buf.new_cond # consumer Thread.start do loop do buf.synchronize do empty_cond.wait_while { buf.empty? } print buf.shift end end end # producer while line = ARGF.gets buf.synchronize do buf.push(line) empty_cond.signal end end
The consumer thread waits for the producer thread to push a line to buf
while buf.empty?
. The producer thread (main thread) reads a
line from ARGF and pushes it into buf then calls
empty_cond.signal
to notify the consumer thread of new data.
Simple Class include¶ ↑
require 'monitor' class SynchronizedArray < Array include MonitorMixin def initialize(*args) super(*args) end alias :old_shift :shift alias :old_unshift :unshift def shift(n=1) self.synchronize do self.old_shift(n) end end def unshift(item) self.synchronize do self.old_unshift(item) end end # other methods ... end
SynchronizedArray
implements an Array with synchronized access
to items. This Class is implemented as subclass of
Array which includes the MonitorMixin
module.
Public Class Methods
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 159 def self.extend_object(obj) super(obj) obj.__send__(:mon_initialize) end
Use extend MonitorMixin
or include MonitorMixin
instead of this constructor. Have look at the examples above to understand
how to use this module.
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 231 def initialize(*args) super mon_initialize end
Public Instance Methods
Enters exclusive section.
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 183 def mon_enter if @mon_owner != Thread.current @mon_mutex.lock @mon_owner = Thread.current end @mon_count += 1 end
Leaves exclusive section.
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 194 def mon_exit mon_check_owner @mon_count -=1 if @mon_count == 0 @mon_owner = nil @mon_mutex.unlock end end
Enters exclusive section and executes the block. Leaves the exclusive
section automatically when the block exits. See example under
MonitorMixin
.
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 208 def mon_synchronize mon_enter begin yield ensure mon_exit end end
Attempts to enter exclusive section. Returns false
if lock
fails.
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 167 def mon_try_enter if @mon_owner != Thread.current unless @mon_mutex.try_lock return false end @mon_owner = Thread.current end @mon_count += 1 return true end
Creates a new MonitorMixin::ConditionVariable associated with the receiver.
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 222 def new_cond return ConditionVariable.new(self) end
Private Instance Methods
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 244 def mon_check_owner if @mon_owner != Thread.current raise ThreadError, "current thread not owner" end end
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 250 def mon_enter_for_cond(count) @mon_owner = Thread.current @mon_count = count end
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 255 def mon_exit_for_cond count = @mon_count @mon_owner = nil @mon_count = 0 return count end
Initializes the MonitorMixin after being included in a class or when an object has been extended with the MonitorMixin
# File lib/monitor.rb, line 238 def mon_initialize @mon_owner = nil @mon_count = 0 @mon_mutex = Mutex.new end