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+// Copyright (C) 2009 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+//
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+
+#ifndef FAKE_RESOLUTION_H
+#define FAKE_RESOLUTION_H
+
+#include <boost/function.hpp>
+#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
+
+namespace isc {
+namespace resolver {
+namespace bench {
+
+/// \brief The kind of task a FakeQuery might want to perform.
+///
+/// The benchmark should examine which kind of task the query needs to perform
+/// to progress forward. According to the task, some resources might need to be
+/// locked, something re-scheduled, or such.
+enum Task {
+ /// \brief Some CPU-bound computation.
+ ///
+ /// The query needs to do some computation without any shared resources.
+ /// This might be parsing or rendering of the query, verification of
+ /// signatures, etc.
+ Compute,
+ /// \brief The query needs to read data from cache.
+ CacheRead,
+ /// \brief The query needs to modify the cache.
+ CacheWrite,
+ /// \brief A response is to be sent.
+ ///
+ /// This needs to access the interface/socket. If the socket is shared
+ /// between threads, it might need to lock it.
+ Send,
+ /// \brief An answer from upstream server is needed.
+ ///
+ /// The query needs to send a query to some authoritative server and wait
+ /// for the answer. Something might need to be locked (or not, depending
+ /// on the architecture of the thing that sends and receives). Also, the
+ /// task will not complete immediately, the callback of performTask
+ /// will be called at later time.
+ Upstream
+};
+
+class FakeInterface;
+
+/// \brief Imitation of the work done to resolve a query.
+///
+/// An object of this class represents some fake work that should look like
+/// the work needed to perform resolution of one query. No real work is done,
+/// but several steps are scheduled, with characteristics hopefully
+/// corresponding to steps of the real query.
+///
+/// The idea is that benchmark will repeatedly check if the query is done.
+/// If not, it examines the next task by calling nextTask(). Depending on
+/// the result, it'd lock or prepare any shared resources. After that, it'd
+/// call performTask() to do the task. Once the query calls the callback
+/// passed, it can proceed to the next step.
+///
+/// See naive_resolver.cc for example code how this could be done.
+class FakeQuery {
+public:
+ /// \brief Callback to signify a task has been performed.
+ typedef boost::function<void()> StepCallback;
+ /// \brief Is work on the query completely done?
+ ///
+ /// If this returns true, do not call performTask or nextTask any more.
+ /// The resolution is done.
+ ///
+ /// \throw isc::InvalidOperation if upstream query is still in progress.
+ bool done() const;
+ /// \brief Perform next step in the resolution.
+ ///
+ /// Do whatever is needed to be done for the next step of resolution.
+ /// Once the step is done, the callback is called.
+ ///
+ /// The callback is usually called from within this call. However, in
+ /// the case when the nextTask() returned `Upstream`, the call to the
+ /// callback is delayed for some period of time after the method
+ /// returns.
+ ///
+ /// \throw isc::InvalidOperation if it is called when done() is true, or
+ /// if an upstream query is still in progress (performTask was called
+ /// before and the callback was not called by the query yet).
+ void performTask(const StepCallback& callback);
+ /// \brief Examine the kind of the next resolution process.
+ ///
+ /// Call this to know what kind of task will performTask do next.
+ ///
+ /// \throw isc::InvalidOperation if it is called when done() is true, or
+ /// if an upstream query is still in progress (performTask was called
+ /// before and the callback was not called by the query yet).
+ Task nextTask() const;
+ /// \brief Move network communication to different interface.
+ ///
+ /// By default, a query does all the "communication" on the interface
+ /// it was born on. This may be used to move a query from one interface
+ /// to another.
+ ///
+ /// You don't have to lock either of the interfaces to do so, this
+ /// only switches the data in the query.
+ ///
+ /// \throw isc::InvalidOperation if it is called while an upstream query
+ /// is in progress.
+ void migrateTo(FakeInterface& dst_interface);
+};
+
+typedef boost::shared_ptr<FakeQuery> FakeQueryPtr;
+
+/// \brief An imitation of interface for receiving queries.
+///
+/// This is effectively a little bit smarter factory for queries. You can
+/// request a new query from it, or let process events (incoming answers).
+///
+/// It contains its own event loop. If the benchmark has more threads, have
+/// one in each of the threads (if the threads ever handles network
+/// communication -- if it accepts queries, sends answers or does upstream
+/// queries).
+///
+/// If the model simulated would share the same interface between multiple
+/// threads, it is better to have one in each thread as well, but lock
+/// access so only one is used at once (no idea what happens if ASIO loop is
+/// accessed from multiple threads).
+class FakeInterface {
+public:
+ /// \brief Wait for answers from upstream servers.
+ ///
+ /// Wait until at least one "answer" comes from the remote server. This
+ /// will effectively block the calling thread until it is time to call
+ /// a callback of performTask.
+ ///
+ /// It is not legal to call it without any outstanding upstream queries
+ /// on this interface. However, the situation is not explicitly checked.
+ ///
+ /// \note Due to internal implementation, it is not impossible no or more
+ /// than one callbacks to be called from within this method.
+ void processEvents();
+ /// \brief Accept another query.
+ ///
+ /// Generate a new fake query to resolve.
+ ///
+ /// This method might call callbacks of other queries waiting for upstream
+ /// answer.
+ ///
+ /// This returns a NULL pointer when there are no more queries to answer
+ /// (the number designated for the benchmark was reached).
+ FakeQueryPtr receiveQuery();
+};
+
+}
+}
+}
+
+#endif