btThreads.h

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Copyright (c) 2003-2014 Erwin Coumans  http://bullet.googlecode.com
 
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#ifndef BT_THREADS_H
#define BT_THREADS_H
 
#include "btScalar.h"  // has definitions like SIMD_FORCE_INLINE
 
#if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1600
// give us a compile error if any signatures of overriden methods is changed
#define BT_OVERRIDE override
#endif
 
#ifndef BT_OVERRIDE
#define BT_OVERRIDE
#endif
 
// Don't set this to larger than 64, without modifying btThreadSupportPosix
// and btThreadSupportWin32. They use UINT64 bit-masks.
const unsigned int BT_MAX_THREAD_COUNT = 64;  // only if BT_THREADSAFE is 1
 
// for internal use only
bool btIsMainThread();
bool btThreadsAreRunning();
unsigned int btGetCurrentThreadIndex();
void btResetThreadIndexCounter();  // notify that all worker threads have been destroyed
 
class btSpinMutex
{
        int mLock;
 
public:
        btSpinMutex()
        {
                mLock = 0;
        }
        void lock();
        void unlock();
        bool tryLock();
};
 
//
// NOTE: btMutex* is for internal Bullet use only
//
// If BT_THREADSAFE is undefined or 0, should optimize away to nothing.
// This is good because for the single-threaded build of Bullet, any calls
// to these functions will be optimized out.
//
// However, for users of the multi-threaded build of Bullet this is kind
// of bad because if you call any of these functions from external code
// (where BT_THREADSAFE is undefined) you will get unexpected race conditions.
//
SIMD_FORCE_INLINE void btMutexLock(btSpinMutex* mutex)
{
#if BT_THREADSAFE
        mutex->lock();
#else
        (void)mutex;
#endif  // #if BT_THREADSAFE
}
 
SIMD_FORCE_INLINE void btMutexUnlock(btSpinMutex* mutex)
{
#if BT_THREADSAFE
        mutex->unlock();
#else
        (void)mutex;
#endif  // #if BT_THREADSAFE
}
 
SIMD_FORCE_INLINE bool btMutexTryLock(btSpinMutex* mutex)
{
#if BT_THREADSAFE
        return mutex->tryLock();
#else
        (void)mutex;
        return true;
#endif  // #if BT_THREADSAFE
}
 
//
// btIParallelForBody -- subclass this to express work that can be done in parallel
//
class btIParallelForBody
{
public:
        virtual ~btIParallelForBody() {}
        virtual void forLoop(int iBegin, int iEnd) const = 0;
};
 
//
// btIParallelSumBody -- subclass this to express work that can be done in parallel
//                       and produces a sum over all loop elements
//
class btIParallelSumBody
{
public:
        virtual ~btIParallelSumBody() {}
        virtual btScalar sumLoop(int iBegin, int iEnd) const = 0;
};
 
//
// btITaskScheduler -- subclass this to implement a task scheduler that can dispatch work to
//                     worker threads
//
class btITaskScheduler
{
public:
        btITaskScheduler(const char* name);
        virtual ~btITaskScheduler() {}
        const char* getName() const { return m_name; }
 
        virtual int getMaxNumThreads() const = 0;
        virtual int getNumThreads() const = 0;
        virtual void setNumThreads(int numThreads) = 0;
        virtual void parallelFor(int iBegin, int iEnd, int grainSize, const btIParallelForBody& body) = 0;
        virtual btScalar parallelSum(int iBegin, int iEnd, int grainSize, const btIParallelSumBody& body) = 0;
        virtual void sleepWorkerThreadsHint() {}  // hint the task scheduler that we may not be using these threads for a little while
 
        // internal use only
        virtual void activate();
        virtual void deactivate();
 
protected:
        const char* m_name;
        unsigned int m_savedThreadCounter;
        bool m_isActive;
};
 
// set the task scheduler to use for all calls to btParallelFor()
// NOTE: you must set this prior to using any of the multi-threaded "Mt" classes
void btSetTaskScheduler(btITaskScheduler* ts);
 
// get the current task scheduler
btITaskScheduler* btGetTaskScheduler();
 
// get non-threaded task scheduler (always available)
btITaskScheduler* btGetSequentialTaskScheduler();
 
// create a default task scheduler (Win32 or pthreads based)
btITaskScheduler* btCreateDefaultTaskScheduler();
 
// get OpenMP task scheduler (if available, otherwise returns null)
btITaskScheduler* btGetOpenMPTaskScheduler();
 
// get Intel TBB task scheduler (if available, otherwise returns null)
btITaskScheduler* btGetTBBTaskScheduler();
 
// get PPL task scheduler (if available, otherwise returns null)
btITaskScheduler* btGetPPLTaskScheduler();
 
// btParallelFor -- call this to dispatch work like a for-loop
//                 (iterations may be done out of order, so no dependencies are allowed)
void btParallelFor(int iBegin, int iEnd, int grainSize, const btIParallelForBody& body);
 
// btParallelSum -- call this to dispatch work like a for-loop, returns the sum of all iterations
//                 (iterations may be done out of order, so no dependencies are allowed)
btScalar btParallelSum(int iBegin, int iEnd, int grainSize, const btIParallelSumBody& body);
 
#endif