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mgmt/lang/funcs/structs/output.go
James Shubin 790b7199ca lang: New function engine
This mega patch primarily introduces a new function engine. The main
reasons for this new engine are:

1) Massively improved performance with lock-contended graphs.

Certain large function graphs could have very high lock-contention which
turned out to be much slower than I would have liked. This new algorithm
happens to be basically lock-free, so that's another helpful
improvement.

2) Glitch-free function graphs.

The function graphs could "glitch" (an FRP term) which could be
undesirable in theory. In practice this was never really an issue, and
I've not explicitly guaranteed that the new graphs are provably
glitch-free, but in practice things are a lot more consistent.

3) Simpler graph shape.

The new graphs don't require the private channels. This makes
understanding the graphs a lot easier.

4) Branched graphs only run half.

Previously we would run two pure side of an if statement, and while this
was mostly meant as an early experiment, it stayed in for far too long
and now was the right time to remove this. This also means our graphs
are much smaller and more efficient too.

Note that this changed the function API slightly. Everything has been
ported. It's possible that we introduce a new API in the future, but it
is unexpected to cause removal of the two current APIs.

In addition, we finally split out the "schedule" aspect from
world.schedule(). The "pick me" aspects now happen in a separate
resource, rather than as a yucky side-effect in the function. This also
lets us more precisely choose when we're scheduled, and we can observe
without being chosen too.

As usual many thanks to Sam for helping through some of the algorithmic
graph shape issues!
2025-09-11 23:19:45 -04:00

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// Mgmt
// Copyright (C) James Shubin and the project contributors
// Written by James Shubin <james@shubin.ca> and the project contributors
//
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// the original author, James Shubin, additional permission to update this
// additional permission if he deems it necessary to achieve the goals of this
// additional permission.
package structs
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/lang/interfaces"
"github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/lang/types"
)
const (
// OutputFuncArgName is the name for the edge which connects
// the input value to OutputFunc.
OutputFuncArgName = "out"
OutputFuncDummyArgName = "dummy"
)
// OutputFunc is a Func which receives values from upstream nodes and emits them
// downstream. It accepts (and ignores) a "dummy" arg as well.
type OutputFunc struct {
interfaces.Textarea // XXX: Do we want this here for this func as well ?
Name string
EdgeName string
Type *types.Type
init *interfaces.Init
last types.Value // last value received to use for diff
}
// String returns a simple name for this function. This is needed so this struct
// can satisfy the pgraph.Vertex interface.
func (obj *OutputFunc) String() string {
return obj.Name
}
// ArgGen returns the Nth arg name for this function.
func (obj *OutputFunc) ArgGen(index int) (string, error) {
seq := []string{obj.EdgeName, OutputFuncDummyArgName}
if l := len(seq); index >= l {
return "", fmt.Errorf("index %d exceeds arg length of %d", index, l)
}
return seq[index], nil
}
// Validate makes sure we've built our struct properly. It is usually unused for
// normal functions that users can use directly.
func (obj *OutputFunc) Validate() error {
return nil
}
// Info returns some static info about itself.
func (obj *OutputFunc) Info() *interfaces.Info {
// contains "dummy" return type
s := fmt.Sprintf("func(%s %s, %s nil) %s", obj.EdgeName, obj.Type, OutputFuncDummyArgName, obj.Type)
return &interfaces.Info{
Pure: false,
Memo: false,
Sig: types.NewType(s),
Err: obj.Validate(),
}
}
// Init runs some startup code for this function.
func (obj *OutputFunc) Init(init *interfaces.Init) error {
obj.init = init
return nil
}
// Call this function with the input args and return the value if it is possible
// to do so at this time.
func (obj *OutputFunc) Call(ctx context.Context, args []types.Value) (types.Value, error) {
if len(args) != 2 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("programming error, can't find edge")
}
// Send the useful input arg, not the dummy arg.
return args[0], nil
}