burritos/src/kernel/scheduler.rs

use crate::utility::list::List;
use crate::kernel::thread::Thread;
use crate::utility::system::{G_CURRENT_THREAD, G_THREAD_TO_BE_DESTROYED};


struct Scheduler {
    ready_list: List<Thread>
}

impl Scheduler {

    /// Constructor
    /// 
    /// Initilize the list of ready thread
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        Self {
            ready_list: List::new()
        }
    }

    /// Mark a thread as aready, but not necessarily running yet.
    /// 
    /// Put it in the ready list, for later scheduling onto the CPU.
    /// 
    /// ## Pamameter
    /// 
    /// **thread** is the thread to be put on the read list
    pub fn ready_to_run(&mut self, thread: Thread) {
        self.ready_list.push_back(thread);
    }
    
    /// Return the next thread to be scheduled onto the CPU.
    /// If there are no ready threads, return Option::None
    /// 
    /// Thread is removed from the ready list.
    /// 
    /// **return** Thread thread to be scheduled
    pub fn find_next_to_run(&mut self) -> Option<Thread> {
        self.ready_list.pop_back()
    }

    /// Dispatch the CPU to next_thread. Save the state of the old thread 
    /// and load the state of the new thread.
    /// 
    /// We assume the state of the previously running thread has already been changed from running to blocked or ready.
    /// 
    /// Global variable g_current_thread become next_thread
    /// 
    /// ## Parameter
    /// 
    /// **next_thread** thread to dispatch to the CPU
    pub fn switch_to(&self, next_thread: Thread) {
        match G_CURRENT_THREAD.write() {
            Ok(mut current_thread) => {
                let old_thread = current_thread.as_mut().unwrap();

                old_thread.save_processor_state();
                old_thread.save_simulator_state();

                if old_thread != &next_thread {
                    next_thread.restore_processor_state();
                    next_thread.restore_simulator_state();
                    current_thread.replace(next_thread);
                }

                match G_THREAD_TO_BE_DESTROYED.write() {
                    Ok(mut thread_to_be_destroyed) => {
                        if thread_to_be_destroyed.is_some() {
                            drop(thread_to_be_destroyed.take());
                        }
                    }, 
                    Err(err) => {
                        panic!("RwLock is poisonned: {}", err);
                    }
                }
            },
            Err(err) => {
                panic!("RwLock is poisonned: {}", err);
            }
        }
    }
}