* rt: fix `Runtime::reactor()` as used by tokio-core
Up until Tokio v0.1.11, the handle returned by `Runtime::reactor()`
pointed to a reactor instance running in a background thread. The thread
was eagerly spawned.
As of v0.1.12, a reactor instance is created per runtime worker thread.
`Runtime::reactor()` was deprecated and updated to point to the reactor
for one of the worker threads.
A problem occurs when attempting to use the reactor before spawning a
task. Worker threads are spawned lazily, which means that the reactor
referenced by `Runtime::reactor()` is not yet running.
This patch changes `Runtime::reactor` back to a dedicated reactor
running on a background thread. However, the background thread is now
spawned lazily when the deprecated function is first called.
Fixes#720
* Fix comment
Co-Authored-By: carllerche <[email protected]>
Currently, the timer uses a `Now` trait to abstract the source of time.
This allows time to be mocked out. However, the current implementation
has a number of limitations as represented by #288 and #296.
The main issues are that `Now` requires `&mut self` which prevents a
value from being easily used in a concurrent environment. Also, when
wanting to write code that is abstract over the source of time, generics
get out of hand.
This patch provides an alternate solution. A new type, `Clock` is
provided which defaults to `Instant::now` as the source of time, but
allows configuring the actual source using a new iteration of the `Now`
trait. This time, `Now` is `Send + Sync + 'static`. Internally, `Clock`
stores the now value in an `Arc<Now>` value, which introduces dynamism
and allows `Clock` values to be cloned and be `Sync`.
Also, the current clock can be set for the current execution context
using the `with_default` pattern.
Because using the `Instant::now` will be the most common case by far, it
is special cased in order to avoid the need to allocate an `Arc` and use
dynamic dispatch.
This patch introduces a version of `Runtime` that runs all components on
the current thread. This allows users to spawn futures that do not implement
`Send`.
This patch integrate the new timer implementation with the runtime by
initializing a timer per worker thread. This allows minimizing the
amount of synchronization needed for using timers.
Carl Lerche