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+// Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. |
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be |
+// found in the LICENSE file. |
+ |
+#ifndef CONTENT_COMMON_SHARED_MEMORY_SEQLOCK_BUFFER_H_ |
+#define CONTENT_COMMON_SHARED_MEMORY_SEQLOCK_BUFFER_H_ |
+ |
+#include "content/common/one_writer_seqlock.h" |
+ |
+namespace content { |
+ |
+// This structure is stored in shared memory that's shared between the browser |
+// which does the hardware polling, and the consumers of the data, |
+// i.e. the renderers. The performance characteristics are that |
+// we want low latency (so would like to avoid explicit communication via IPC |
+// between producer and consumer) and relatively large data size. |
+// |
+// Writer and reader operate on the same buffer assuming contention is low, and |
+// contention is detected by using the associated SeqLock. |
+ |
+class SharedMemorySeqLockBufferBase { |
darin (slow to review)
2013/06/27 17:33:26
Why do we need to carve out a Base class in this c
timvolodine
2013/06/27 21:08:43
ok, I've removed this base class and added an extr
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+ public: |
+ OneWriterSeqLock seqlock; |
+}; |
+ |
+template<class Data> |
+class SharedMemorySeqLockBuffer : public SharedMemorySeqLockBufferBase { |
+ public: |
+ Data data; |
+}; |
+ |
+} // namespace content |
+ |
+#endif // CONTENT_COMMON_SHARED_MEMORY_SEQLOCK_BUFFER_H_ |