> On Feb. 4, 2014, 4:53 p.m., Corey Farrell wrote:
> > I like what you've done in general, I think the use of ao2 objects in 
> > timing implementations can be possibly stopped.
> > 
> > Most (if not all) users of struct ast_timer are already protected by a lock 
> > or are owned exclusively by a single thread.  If I'm right the locking 
> > within timing implementations are of no use, except maybe in 
> > res_timing_pthread.
> > 
> > As for refcounting, most of it has been removed since you no longer 
> > ao2_find the timer data.  Since timer lifetime is controlled by 
> > ast_timer_open / ast_timer_close, refcounting is not useful.

I thought so as well but after looking back at why locking exists in timerfd 
for example it was added because in certain cases it wasn't protected by a 
lock. I wanted to keep my changes as minimal as possible so as to not cause 
regressions in that area.


- Joshua


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On Feb. 4, 2014, 3:16 p.m., Joshua Colp wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 4, 2014, 3:16 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
> 
> 
> Repository: Asterisk
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> The timing API is currently optimized for the case where timing 
> implementations provide a file descriptor and any API invocations directly 
> act on the file descriptor. In practice this turns out to not be the most 
> common case. Timing implementations commonly store a structure with 
> additional information and then have to use a container lookup on any API 
> invocation to get to it.
> 
> The attached change removes this container lookup requirement by allowing 
> implementations to store a pointer to their data directly. This removes the 
> container lookup and the world is happier.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   /trunk/res/res_timing_timerfd.c 407196 
>   /trunk/res/res_timing_pthread.c 407196 
>   /trunk/res/res_timing_kqueue.c 407196 
>   /trunk/res/res_timing_dahdi.c 407196 
>   /trunk/main/timing.c 407196 
>   /trunk/include/asterisk/timing.h 407196 
> 
> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3175/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> Ran the timing test using the various timing implementations on Linux and 
> confirmed they still work. I also placed some calls to a Playback and 
> confirmed it works.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joshua Colp
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>

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