Using callgrind with the standalone test showed opportunities for
improvements for sub tasks addition and drain.
All sub task additions were performed after making sure we were
operating on a Context Task. The Context and Task were checked
again when adding the sub task.
Draining sub tasks was perfomed in a loop on every call places,
checking whether there were remaining sub tasks first. This
commit implements the loop and checks directly in
`executor::Task::drain_subtasks`, saving one `Mutex` lock and
one `thread_local` access per iteration when there are sub
tasks to drain.
The `PadSink` functions wrapper were performing redundant checks
on the `Context` presence and were adding the delayed Future only
when there were already sub tasks.
When the iteration loop is throttling, the call to `abort` on the
`loop_abort_handle` returns immediately, but the actual `Future`
for the iteration loop is aborted only when the scheduler throttling
completes. State transitions which requires the loop to be aborted &
which are serialized at the pipeline level can incur long delays.
This commit makes sure the Task Context's scheduler is awaken as soon
as the task loop is aborted.
The function `enter` is executed in a blocking way from the caller's
point of view. This means that we can guaranty that the provided
function and its output will outlive the underlying Scheduler Task
execution. This requires an unsafe call to
`async_task::spawn_unchecked`. See:
https://docs.rs/async-task/latest/async_task/fn.spawn_unchecked.html
The threadshare executor was based on a modified version of tokio
which implemented the throttling strategy in the BasicScheduler.
Upstream tokio codebase has significantly diverged from what it
was when the throttling strategy was implemented making it hard
to follow. This means that we can hardly get updates from the
upstream project and when we cherry pick fixes, we can't reflect
the state of the project on our fork's version. As a consequence,
tools such as cargo-deny can't check for RUSTSEC fixes in our fork.
The smol ecosystem makes it quite easy to implement and maintain
a custom async executor. This MR imports the smol parts that
need modifications to comply with the threadshare model and implements
a throttling executor in place of the tokio fork.
Networking tokio specific types are replaced with Async wrappers
in the spirit of [smol-rs/async-io]. Note however that the Async
wrappers needed modifications in order to use the per thread
Reactor model. This means that higher level upstream networking
crates such as [async-net] can not be used with our Async
implementation.
Based on the example benchmark with ts-udpsrc, performances seem on par
with what we achieved using the tokio fork.
Fixes https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/issues/118
Related to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/604
