toniq v1.2.3 Toniq.JobConcurrencyLimiter

Summary

Functions

Invoked when the server is started. start_link/3 or start/3 will block until it returns

“run” gets called by all client processes. E.g. if you enqueue 10000 jobs, this gets called 10000 times. Each call tells the concurrency limiter about itself and waits for it’s turn to run

Functions

init(args)

Invoked when the server is started. start_link/3 or start/3 will block until it returns.

args is the argument term (second argument) passed to start_link/3.

Returning {:ok, state} will cause start_link/3 to return {:ok, pid} and the process to enter its loop.

Returning {:ok, state, timeout} is similar to {:ok, state} except handle_info(:timeout, state) will be called after timeout milliseconds if no messages are received within the timeout.

Returning {:ok, state, :hibernate} is similar to {:ok, state} except the process is hibernated before entering the loop. See c:handle_call/3 for more information on hibernation.

Returning :ignore will cause start_link/3 to return :ignore and the process will exit normally without entering the loop or calling c:terminate/2. If used when part of a supervision tree the parent supervisor will not fail to start nor immediately try to restart the GenServer. The remainder of the supervision tree will be (re)started and so the GenServer should not be required by other processes. It can be started later with Supervisor.restart_child/2 as the child specification is saved in the parent supervisor. The main use cases for this are:

  • The GenServer is disabled by configuration but might be enabled later.
  • An error occurred and it will be handled by a different mechanism than the Supervisor. Likely this approach involves calling Supervisor.restart_child/2 after a delay to attempt a restart.

Returning {:stop, reason} will cause start_link/3 to return {:error, reason} and the process to exit with reason reason without entering the loop or calling c:terminate/2.

Callback implementation for GenServer.init/1.

run(job)

“run” gets called by all client processes. E.g. if you enqueue 10000 jobs, this gets called 10000 times. Each call tells the concurrency limiter about itself and waits for it’s turn to run.

The limiter keeps a count of running jobs and if there are more running jobs than the max_concurrency limit, then the jobs are stored for later.

When a job is done this function tells the limiter about it by calling “confirm_run” which updates the current state and allows another job to run.

start_link()