Re: Reading into a buffer and writing from it at the same time

From:
"A. Farber" <alexander.farber@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:59:38 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<defbfadc-d6d6-4f10-9546-3664ea9479e4@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
Hello,

On 14 Okt., 15:33, Rze=C5=BAnik <marcin.rzezni...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 14 Pa=C5=BA, 15:18, "A. Farber" <alexander.far...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm programming an embedded device which
receives data over USB device and saves it to
a file.


Won't this:http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/loc=

ks/Read...

suit you better? It is lightweight, lock-free implementation.


unfortunately I don't have ReadWriteLock at the device.

I've come up with a solution that I've listed below,
but it is missing something minor - reports an
IllegalMonitorStateException even though
I have put synchronized(this) around the _writeLock.notify();

You should consider making _head and _tail volatile, you might end up
reading stalled value from cache without memory barrier.
(ReadwriteLock states memory barrier)


Could you explain this?

Regards
Alex

PS: Here is my current try:

     CyclicBuffer readBuffer = new CyclicBuffer(2 *
_conn._readBufferSize);
.......
                while (true) {
                    if (readBuffer.read(in) <= 0)
                        break;
                    readBuffer.write(out);

final class CyclicBuffer
{
    private final static int UNKNOWN = 0;
    private final static int EMPTY = 1;
    private final static int FULL = 2;

/*
 * _head shows to the next free position in the buffer
 * _tail shows to the last occupied position in the buffer
 * If _tail == _head then buffer is either full or empty (depends on
_state)
 */

    private byte[] _buf;
    private int _head;
    private int _tail;
    private int _state;
    /* package */ Object _readLock;
    /* package */ Object _writeLock;

    public CyclicBuffer(int len)
    {
        _buf = new byte[len];
        _head = 0;
        _tail = 0;
        _state = EMPTY;
        _readLock = new Object();
        _writeLock = new Object();
    }

    public int read(InputStream in) throws IOException
    {
        int nbytes;

        if (_state == FULL)
            throw new IllegalStateException();

        if (_tail <= _head) {
            /*
            * _buf: [_][_][_][x][x][x][x][_][_][_][_]
            * ^ ^ ^
            * | | |
            * _tail _head _buf.length
            */

            nbytes = in.read(_buf, _head, _buf.length - _head);
        } else {
            /*
            * _buf: [x][x][_][_][_][_][_][_][x][x][x]
            * ^ ^ ^
            * | | |
            * _head _tail _buf.length
            */

            nbytes = in.read(_buf, _head, _tail - _head);
        }

        if (nbytes <= 0)
            return -1;

        // advance to the next free position in buffer
        _head = (_head + nbytes) % _buf.length;

        synchronized(this) {
            if (_tail == _head) {
                _state = FULL;
                try {
                    // the buffer is full, so stop reading for now
                    _readLock.wait();
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                }
            } else
                _state = UNKNOWN;

            // something has been read into buffer, so allow writing
again
            _writeLock.notify();
        }

        return nbytes;
    }

    public void write(OutputStream out) throws IOException
    {
        int nbytes;

        if (_state == EMPTY)
            throw new IllegalStateException();

        if (_tail < _head) {
            /*
            * _buf: [_][_][_][x][x][x][x][_][_][_][_]
            * ^ ^ ^
            * | | |
            * _tail _head _buf.length
            */

            nbytes = _head - _tail;
            out.write(_buf, _tail, nbytes);
        } else {
            /*
            * _buf: [x][x][_][_][_][_][_][_][x][x][x]
            * ^ ^ ^
            * | | |
            * _head _tail _buf.length
            */

            nbytes = _buf.length - _tail;
            out.write(_buf, _tail, nbytes);

            if (_head != 0) {
                out.write(_buf, 0, _head);
                nbytes += _head;
            }
       }

        // advance to the next occupied position in buffer
        _tail = (_tail + nbytes) % _buf.length;

        synchronized(this) {
            if (_tail == _head) {
                _state = EMPTY;
                try {
                    // the buffer is empty, so stop writing for now
                    _writeLock.wait();
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                }
            } else
                _state = UNKNOWN;

            // something has been written out, so allow reading again
            _readLock.notify();
        }
    }
}

(and I probably can get rid of the _state later)

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