feat: Shutdown propogation and thread count arg

The Stop command will be handled specially by the Dispatcher to act as a
sort of broadcast into the thread pool. Instead of asking the caller to
feed in the appropriate number of stop commands, a single one will queue
up a stop for all threads. Important for the ergonomics of having a
variable number of threads (instead of the earlier magic constant).
Moreover, it's necessary if the dispatcher stops using the round-robin
style assignment.

The pool size is specifiable as an argument to Dispatcher::new().

src/main.rs

@@ -66,21 +66,16 @@ fn main() {
     };
 
     thread::scope(|s| {
-        let (mut dispatcher, scanline_receiver) = thread_utils::Dispatcher::new(&small_rng);
+        let (mut dispatcher, scanline_receiver) = thread_utils::Dispatcher::new(&small_rng, 4);
 
         s.spawn(move || {
             for y in (0..image.1).rev() {
                 eprintln!("Submitting scanline: {}", y);
                 let job = RenderCommand::Line { line_num: y, context: context.clone() };
-                dispatcher.submit_job(job);
+                dispatcher.submit_job(job).unwrap();
             }
-            //TODO: Dispatcher shutdown mechanism
-            // Just gonna take advantage of the round-robin dispatching to
-            // get a stop command to each thread
-            dispatcher.submit_job(RenderCommand::Stop);
-            dispatcher.submit_job(RenderCommand::Stop);
-            dispatcher.submit_job(RenderCommand::Stop);
-            dispatcher.submit_job(RenderCommand::Stop);
+
+            dispatcher.submit_job(RenderCommand::Stop).unwrap();
             // ... also I happen to know there are 4 threads.
         });
 

src/thread_utils.rs

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ use std::thread;
 use std::sync::mpsc;
 use rand::rngs::SmallRng;
 
+
+#[derive (Clone)]
 pub enum RenderCommand{
     Stop,
     Line { line_num: i32, context: RenderContext },
@@ -60,13 +62,13 @@ pub struct Dispatcher{
 }
 
 impl Dispatcher {
-    pub fn new(srng: &SmallRng) -> (Dispatcher, mpsc::Receiver<RenderResult> ) {
+    pub fn new(srng: &SmallRng, num_threads: usize) -> (Dispatcher, mpsc::Receiver<RenderResult> ) {
         let mut handles = Vec::new();
         let mut command_transmitters = Vec::<mpsc::SyncSender<RenderCommand>>::new();
 
         let (render_tx, render_rx) = mpsc::sync_channel::<RenderResult>(1);
 
-        for _ in 0..4 {
+        for _ in 0..num_threads {
             // create new command tx/rx pairs. Store tx in the list, give rx to the thread.
             let (command_tx, command_rx) = mpsc::sync_channel::<RenderCommand>(1);
             // TODO: Pick appropriate command queue depth (or make it controllable, even)
@@ -107,7 +109,14 @@ impl Dispatcher {
     // When passing the message to threads which are still busy, this function
     // will block (it's a sync_channel). While blocked, other threads could
     // become available and left idle.
-    pub fn submit_job(&mut self, command: RenderCommand) {
+    pub fn submit_job(&mut self, command: RenderCommand) -> Result<(), mpsc::SendError<RenderCommand>> {
+        // Stop command is special. We'll broadcast it to all threads.
+        if let RenderCommand::Stop = command {
+            for channel in &self.command_transmitters {
+                return channel.send(command.clone());
+            }
+        }
+
         // Check that `next_to_feed` is in-bounds, and then insert.
         // index is post-incremented with this function call.
 
@@ -117,12 +126,13 @@ impl Dispatcher {
         } else if self.next_to_feed > self.handles.len() {
             panic!("How the hell did a +=1 skip past the maximum allowed size?");
         }
-        
+
         match self.command_transmitters.get(self.next_to_feed){
             Some(target) => target.send(command).unwrap(),
             None => panic!("oh god oh fuck"),
         }
         self.next_to_feed += 1;
+        Ok(())
     }
 }