JobTicket Class Reference

#include "steam/engine/job-ticket.hpp"

Description

execution plan for pulling a specific exit node.

Usable as blue print for generating actual render jobs. Job tickets are created on demand, specialised for each segment of the low-level model, and for each individual feed (corresponding to a single model port). Once created, they are final for this segment, stored together with the other descriptor objects (ProcNode and Connectivity) and finally discarded in bulk, in case that segment of the low-level model becomes obsolete and is replaced by a newly built new version of this model segment.

Job tickets are created by a classical recursive descent call on the exit node, which figures out everything to be done for generating data from this node. To turn a JobTicket into an actual job, we need the additional information regarding the precise frame number (=nominal time) and a handle for the DataSink exposing buffers to output generated data. Thus effectively the JobTicket acts as higher order function: a function generating on invocation another, specific function (= the job).

Note

JobTicket is effectively immutable after construction

Todo:

6/23 WIP rework and integration for »PlaybackVerticalSlice«

Definition at line 78 of file job-ticket.hpp.

Public Member Functions
template<class ALO >
	JobTicket (ExitNode const &exitNode, ALO &allocator)
Job	createJobFor (Time nominalTime)
	Core operation: build a concrete render job based on this blueprint. More...
bool	empty () const
Duration	getExpectedRuntime ()
	Core operation: guess expected runtime for rendering. More...
auto	getPrerequisites ()
	Core operation: iterate over the prerequisites, required to carry out a render operation based on this blueprint. More...
bool	isValid () const

Static Public Attributes
static JobTicket	NOP {}
	special »do nothing« JobTicket marker

Classes
struct	Prerequisite
struct	Provision

Protected Member Functions
bool	verifyInstance (JobFunctor &, InvocationInstanceID const &, Time) const
	Helper for tests: verify the given invocation parameters match this JobTicket.

Static Protected Member Functions
static InvocationInstanceID	timeHash (Time, InvocationInstanceID const &)
	Tag the precomputed invocation ID with the nominal frame time.

Private Types
using	Prerequisites = LinkedElements< Prerequisite >

Private Member Functions
	JobTicket ()
Private Member Functions inherited from NonCopyable
	NonCopyable (NonCopyable const &)=delete
NonCopyable &	operator= (NonCopyable const &)=delete

Static Private Member Functions
template<class ALO >
static Provision	buildProvisionSpec (ExitNode const &, ALO &)

Private Attributes
Provision	provision_

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

JobTicket()

JobTicket ( )

private

as NIL marker, a JobTicket can be empty

Definition at line 56 of file job-ticket.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

buildProvisionSpec()

JobTicket::Provision buildProvisionSpec ( ExitNode const &  exitNode, ALO &  allocTicket  )

inlinestaticprivate

prepare and assemble the working data structure to build a JobTicket.

Template Parameters

ALO	type of an allocator front-end for generating prerequisite JobTicket(s)

Parameters

exitNode

a (possibly recursive) tree of ExitNode, detailing points where to pull and process data from the render nodes network; these can refer to nested ExitNodes(s), which need to be processed beforehand, as prerequisite for invoking the given (dependent) ExitNode.

Returns

the final wired instance of the data structure to back the new JobTicket

Remarks

Note especially that those data structures linked together for use by the JobTicket are themselves allocated "elsewhere", and need to be attached to a memory management scheme (typically an AllocationCluster for some Segment of the Fixture datastructure). This data layout can be tricky to get right, and is chosen here for performance reasons, assuming that there is a huge number of segments, and these are updated frequently after each strike of edit operations, yet traversed and evaluated on a sub-second scale for ongoing playback.

Definition at line 204 of file job-ticket.hpp.

getPrerequisites()

auto getPrerequisites ( )

inline

Core operation: iterate over the prerequisites, required to carry out a render operation based on this blueprint.

Returns

iterator exposing the prerequisites as JobTicket&

Definition at line 155 of file job-ticket.hpp.

References JobTicket::createJobFor(), JobTicket::getExpectedRuntime(), JobTicket::timeHash(), lib::transformIterator(), and JobTicket::verifyInstance().

Referenced by JobPlanning::buildDependencyPlanning().

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createJobFor()

Job createJobFor

(

Time

nominalTime

)

Core operation: build a concrete render job based on this blueprint.

Generate a render job to invoke the render network configuration as defined and backing this JobTicket.

The generated job descriptor record will include a specific InvocationInstanceID, which factors in the nominal frame time, but also the specific backing render configuration. The actual implementation of the job functionality will be delegated to the JobClosure, which was set up for this Segment and JobTiket after the last Builder run created this part of the render network.

Definition at line 71 of file job-ticket.cpp.

Referenced by JobPlanning::buildJob(), Dispatcher::createJobFor(), JobTicket::getPrerequisites(), and MockSupport_test::verify_MockJobTicket().

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getExpectedRuntime()

Duration getExpectedRuntime

(

)

Core operation: guess expected runtime for rendering.

Use observed runtime values of past job invocations to guess a sensible bound for the calculation time to expect for next invocation.

Todo:

6/2023 placeholder implementation with hard wired values in ExitNode

Definition at line 94 of file job-ticket.cpp.

Referenced by JobPlanning_test::calculateDeadline(), JobTicket::getPrerequisites(), and JobPlanning::JobPlanning().

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Member Data Documentation

provision_

Provision provision_

private

reference to all information required for actual Job creation

Definition at line 111 of file job-ticket.hpp.

Referenced by JobTicket::verifyInstance().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• job-ticket.hpp
• job-ticket.cpp