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plotter/include/plot/data/ring_buffer.hpp
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Martino Ferrari d9909f2115 fix(data): level-per-emission pyramid cover, relaxed-atomic ring slots
cover_buckets chose one level per pass, so an odd first whole bucket (half of all

measurement ranges) never reached a level above 0 and folded every remaining

bucket at level 0 -- 15624 entries for a 1e6-sample pyramid. Pick the largest

aligned, in-range, materialised level at each cursor instead; the new cost test

counts folded entries through a PLOT_PYRAMID_COUNT_COVERS-only hook (absent from

normal builds) and fails on the old body.

Ring slots are now relaxed std::atomic: overwrite-on-full means the producer

reuses the slot of a snapshot's oldest sample while the consumer reads it, which

was a data race, not just a stale value. copy_from loads explicitly instead of

std::copy; push stays lock-free. A new producer/consumer case is the one TSan

flags without this.

Also extends the wrapped-window test with x0/bounds/pyramid/sum/sumsq/gather

checks, and corrects the StreamSeries threading note to the sample-count bound.
2026-09-27 21:42:53 +02:00

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#pragma once
#include <atomic>
#include <bit>
#include <vector>
#include <plot/core/types.hpp>
namespace plot::data {
/// Single-producer / single-consumer ring of at most `capacity` elements.
///
/// The capacity is rounded up to a power of two so slot addressing is a mask
/// instead of a modulo. The producer writes a slot and then publishes the new
/// sample count with a release store; a consumer that observes that count with an
/// acquire load is guaranteed to see the slot contents written before it.
///
/// Slots are std::atomic and every slot access is relaxed. Because the ring
/// *overwrites*, the producer's next push reuses the slot of the snapshot's
/// oldest retained element while the consumer may still be reading it, so a plain
/// load/store there would be a data race (UB), not merely a stale value. A
/// relaxed atomic load/store is a plain mov/ldr/str on the supported targets, so
/// the sample path costs the same. Relaxed is enough because the ordering lives in
/// the count handshake above; the count fixes *which* indices a snapshot reads,
/// not that the slots still hold those samples (see StreamSeries).
///
/// A push into a full ring silently discards the oldest element: for a live
/// plotting stream the newest sample is the interesting one and the retained
/// window slides forward.
///
/// Two indexing conventions, deliberately named apart:
/// - retained-window (operator[], index 0 = oldest element still held) is a
/// single-threaded view: it re-derives the window from the live count, so a
/// producer pushing concurrently would move it under the reader's feet.
/// - absolute (base(), copy_from()) fixes one count for a whole read, which is
/// what a consumer holding a snapshot must use. StreamSeries::acquire() takes
/// such a snapshot and then reads only absolute indices.
template <typename T>
class RingBuffer {
static_assert(std::atomic<T>::is_always_lock_free,
"RingBuffer slots are atomic and must be lock-free: the sample path may not lock");
public:
explicit RingBuffer(u64 capacity)
: cap_(std::bit_ceil(capacity < 1 ? u64{1} : capacity)),
mask_(cap_ - 1),
buf_(static_cast<usize>(cap_)) {}
/// Producer thread only.
void push(T v) {
const u64 i = produced_.load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
buf_[static_cast<usize>(i & mask_)].store(v, std::memory_order_relaxed);
produced_.store(i + 1, std::memory_order_release);
}
/// Producer thread only. Equivalent to n calls to push().
void push(const T* vs, u64 n) {
for (u64 i = 0; i < n; ++i) push(vs[i]);
}
/// Consumer: retained element count, saturating at capacity().
u64 size() const noexcept {
const u64 p = produced_.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
return p < cap_ ? p : cap_;
}
/// Consumer: total number of elements ever pushed (monotonic).
u64 produced() const noexcept { return produced_.load(std::memory_order_acquire); }
u64 capacity() const noexcept { return cap_; }
/// Consumer: absolute index of the oldest element still retained. 0 until the
/// ring has wrapped.
u64 base() const noexcept {
const u64 p = produced_.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
return p > cap_ ? p - cap_ : 0;
}
/// Single-threaded: retained-window index (0 = oldest retained). `i` must be
/// < size(). Returns by value: the slot is an atomic, so a relaxed load is the
/// only way to observe it.
T operator[](u64 i) const noexcept {
return buf_[static_cast<usize>((base() + i) & mask_)].load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
}
/// Consumer: copies the `n` elements at absolute indices [absolute, absolute+n)
/// into `out`, masking the index to wrap. The caller must hold a snapshot
/// that retains those indices; this never consults the live count, so
/// a pushing producer cannot shift the read -- but it fixes only *which*
/// indices are read, not that the slots still hold those samples: a producer
/// that overtakes capacity() has already rewritten the oldest ones (see the
/// class note).
void copy_from(u64 absolute, u64 n, T* out) const {
if (n == 0) return;
// Explicit relaxed loads: std::copy cannot read atomic slots, and the mask
// makes the wrap split unnecessary.
for (u64 i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
out[i] = buf_[static_cast<usize>((absolute + i) & mask_)].load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
}
}
/// Consumer thread only: discards every element (not safe while a producer is
/// pushing).
void clear() noexcept { produced_.store(0, std::memory_order_relaxed); }
private:
u64 cap_;
u64 mask_;
std::vector<std::atomic<T>> buf_;
std::atomic<u64> produced_{0};
};
} // namespace plot::data