foundationdb/flow/ThreadSafeQueue.h

// ThreadSafeQueue<T> is a multi-producer, single-consumer queue.  

// It is almost but not quite lock-free (the exception is that if a thread is 
// stopped in a very narrow window in push(), pop() will "block" in the sense
// of returning Optional<T>() to the consumer until the former thread makes progress)

// It has an extra facility for event-loop integration: calling canSleep() before blocking
// the consumer thread and waking the consumer thread whenever push() returns true will permit
// the consumer thread to block when the queue is empty with a minimum of overhead.  A caller
// can ignore this facility by simply not calling canSleep and ignoring the return value of push().

// Based in part on the queue at http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/queues/intrusive-mpsc-node-based-queue
// which is covered by this BSD license:
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template <class T>
class ThreadSafeQueue : NonCopyable {
	struct BaseNode {
		BaseNode* volatile  next;
	};

	struct Node : BaseNode, FastAllocated<Node>
	{
		T data;
		Node( T const& data ) : data(data) {}
	};
	BaseNode* volatile  head;
	BaseNode*           tail;
	BaseNode stub, sleeping;
	bool sleepy;

	BaseNode* popNode() {
		BaseNode* tail = this->tail;
		BaseNode* next = tail->next;
		if (tail == &this->stub) {
			if (0 == next)
				return 0;
			this->tail = next;
			tail = next;
			next = next->next;
		}
		if (next)
		{
			this->tail = next;
			return tail;
		}
		BaseNode* head = this->head;
		if (tail != head)
			return 0;
		pushNode( &this->stub );
		next = tail->next;
		if (next)
		{
			this->tail = next;
			return tail;
		}
		return 0;
	}

	// Pushes n at the end of the queue and returns the node immediately before it
	BaseNode* pushNode( BaseNode* n ) {
		n->next = 0;
		BaseNode* prev = interlockedExchangePtr( &head, n );
		prev->next = n;
		return prev;
	}
public:
	ThreadSafeQueue() {
		this->head = &this->stub;
		this->tail = &this->stub;
		this->stub.next = 0;
		this->sleeping.next = 0;
		this->sleepy = false;
	}
	~ThreadSafeQueue() {
		while (pop().present());
	}

	// If push() returns true, the consumer may be sleeping and should be woken
	bool push( T const& data ) {
		Node* n = new Node(data);
		n->data = data;
		return pushNode( n ) == &sleeping;
	}

	///////////// The below functions may only be called by a single, consumer thread //////////////////

	// If canSleep returns true, then the queue is empty and the next push() will return true
	bool canSleep() {
		if (sleepy) return false;  // We already have sleeping in the queue from a previous call to canSleep.  Pop it and then maybe you can sleep!
		if (this->tail != &stub || this->tail->next != 0) return false;  // There is definitely something in the queue.  This is a rejection test not needed for correctness, but avoids calls to pushNode
		// sleeping is definitely not in the queue, so we can safely try...
		bool ok = pushNode( &sleeping ) == &stub;
		sleepy = true; // sleeping is in the queue, regardless of whether it's the first thing; we need to pop it before sleeping again
		return ok;
	}

	Optional<T> pop() {
		BaseNode* b = popNode();
		if (b == &sleeping) { sleepy = false; b = popNode(); }
		if ( b == &sleeping ) ASSERT(false);
		if ( b == &stub ) ASSERT(false);
		if (!b) return Optional<T>();

		Node* n = (Node*)b;
		T data = std::move(n->data);
		delete n;
		return Optional<T>( std::move(data) );
	}
};