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//! Strategies that determine the behaviour of locks when encountering contention.
/// A trait implemented by spinning relax strategies.
pub trait RelaxStrategy {
/// Perform the relaxing operation during a period of contention.
fn relax();
}
/// A strategy that rapidly spins while informing the CPU that it should power down non-essential components via
/// [`core::hint::spin_loop`].
///
/// Note that spinning is a 'dumb' strategy and most schedulers cannot correctly differentiate it from useful work,
/// thereby misallocating even more CPU time to the spinning process. This is known as
/// ['priority inversion'](https://matklad.github.io/2020/01/02/spinlocks-considered-harmful.html).
///
/// If you see signs that priority inversion is occurring, consider switching to [`Yield`] or, even better, not using a
/// spinlock at all and opting for a proper scheduler-aware lock. Remember also that different targets, operating
/// systems, schedulers, and even the same scheduler with different workloads will exhibit different behaviour. Just
/// because priority inversion isn't occurring in your tests does not mean that it will not occur. Use a scheduler-
/// aware lock if at all possible.
pub struct Spin;
impl RelaxStrategy for Spin {
#[inline(always)]
fn relax() {
// Use the deprecated spin_loop_hint() to ensure that we don't get
// a higher MSRV than we need to.
#[allow(deprecated)]
core::sync::atomic::spin_loop_hint();
}
}
/// A strategy that yields the current time slice to the scheduler in favour of other threads or processes.
///
/// This is generally used as a strategy for minimising power consumption and priority inversion on targets that have a
/// standard library available. Note that such targets have scheduler-integrated concurrency primitives available, and
/// you should generally use these instead, except in rare circumstances.
#[cfg(feature = "std")]
#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "std")))]
pub struct Yield;
#[cfg(feature = "std")]
#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "std")))]
impl RelaxStrategy for Yield {
#[inline(always)]
fn relax() {
std::thread::yield_now();
}
}
/// A strategy that rapidly spins, without telling the CPU to do any powering down.
///
/// You almost certainly do not want to use this. Use [`Spin`] instead. It exists for completeness and for targets
/// that, for some reason, miscompile or do not support spin hint intrinsics despite attempting to generate code for
/// them (i.e: this is a workaround for possible compiler bugs).
pub struct Loop;
impl RelaxStrategy for Loop {
#[inline(always)]
fn relax() {}
}