co-mutex

Mutex primitive for generator flow control.

Installation

Node.js

co-mutex is available through npm:

npm install co-mutex

Example

var co = require('co');
var Mutex = require('co-mutex').Mutex;
 
var queue = [];
var DONE = false;
 
/**
 * Produce a line of data simulating async when
 * mutex has given the producer access. Wait
 * if the queue has reached its high watermark.
 *
 * @param {Mutex} 
 */
 
function *producer(mutex) {
  while (true) {
    yield mutex.lock(function*(cond) {
      // wait for shift
      while (10 == queue.length && !DONE) yield cond.wait('shift');
      if (DONE) return;
 
      // compute
      var num = rand();
      yield wait(num);
      queue.push(num);
 
      // emit push event
      cond.signal('push');
    });
 
    if (DONE) break;
  }
}
 
/**
 * Consume a line of data simulating async when
 * the mutex has given the consumer access. Wait
 * if the queue is empty.
 *
 * @param {Mutex} 
 */
 
function *consumer(mutex) {
  while (true) {
    yield mutex.lock(function*(cond) {
      // wait for push
      while (!queue.length && !DONE) yield cond.wait('push');
      if (DONE && !queue.length) return;
 
      // compute
      var num = queue.shift();
      yield wait(num);
      console.log('(consumer) recv:', num);
 
      // emit shift event
      cond.signal('shift');
    });
 
    if (DONE && !queue.length) break;
  }
}
 
/**
 * Create a mutex to be shared between the
 * consumer and the producer. Spawn the coroutines
 * then wait 10 seconds before signalling shutdown.
 */
 
co(function *main() {
  var mutex = new Mutex();
  co(producer)(mutex);
  co(consumer)(mutex);
  yield wait(10000);
  DONE = true;
})();
 
/*!
 * Random data generator
 */
 
function rand() {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * 100) * 10;
}

Usage

Mutex implementation that uses a closure to ensure of lock release on error. Can use optional Condvar to drop then re-aquire lock on future state change.

.locked

Get the lock status of this mutex.

• @return {Boolean} locked

if (mutex.locked) {
  // ...
}

.lock(blk)

Acquire access to mutex resources in closure. Will release access on return or error before forwarding result to yield.

• @param {Generator} closure*(cond)

var result = yield mutex.lock(function*(condvar) {
  // do resource altering stuff
  return res;
});

.acquire()

Acquire access and lock the mutex. Cannot safegaurd against deadlock scenarios.

yield mutex.acquire();

.release()

Relase access and unlock the mutex. Cannot safegaurd against deadlock scenarios.

yield mutex.release();

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Jake Luer jake@alogicalparadox.com

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