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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2018-05-06 18:27:18 +0200
committerwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2018-05-24 19:56:34 +0200
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command: add infrastructure for async commands
This enables two types of command behavior: 1. Plain async behavior, like "loadfile" not completing until the file is fully loaded. 2. Running parts of the command on worker threads, e.g. for I/O, such as "sub-add" doing network accesses on a thread while the core continues. Both have no implementation yet, and most new code is actually inactive. The plan is to implement a number of useful cases in the following commits. The most tricky part is handling internal keybindings (input.conf) and the multi-command feature (concatenating commands with ";"). It requires a bunch of roundabout code to make it do the expected thing in combination with async commands. There is the question how commands should be handled that come in at a higher rate than what can be handled by the core. Currently, it will simply queue up input.conf commands as long as memory lasts. The client API is limited by the size of the reply queue per client. For commands which require a worker thread, the thread pool is limited to 30 threads, and then will queue up work in memory. The number is completely arbitrary.
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