atomic-bus

Atomic Bus: An unbounded, lock-free, multi-producer, multi-consumer pub/sub implementation that utilizes atomic operations.

Examples

Basic Send/Subscribe

The following example will start a sender thread and printing subscriber thread.

Code

use atomic_bus::AtomicBus;
use std::{sync::Arc, time::Duration, thread};

// create the bus
let bus: AtomicBus<String> = AtomicBus::new();

// subscribing before spawning the sender thread guarantees all sent messages will be received
let mut subscriber = bus.subscribe_mut();

// create and spawn a sender
let sender = bus.create_sender();
let arc_message = Arc::new("all messages are an Arc".to_owned());
thread::spawn(move || {
    sender.send("hello world!".to_owned());
    sender.send(arc_message);
    sender.send("done".to_owned());
});

// spawn printing subscriber and wait for it to complete
thread::spawn(move || loop {
    match subscriber.next() {
        None => thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1)),
        Some(x) => {
            println!("subscriber received: {x:?}");
            if x.as_ref() == "done" {
                return;
            }
        }
    }
})
.join()
.unwrap();

Output

subscriber received: "hello world!"
subscriber received: "all messages are an Arc"
subscriber received: "done"

Load Balancing Subscription

The following example will start a sender thread and multiple subscriber threads that shared the same AtomicSubscriber in order to load balance received events between multiple threads. For the sake of this example, the subscriber threads will always sleep after attempting to poll in order to simulate load and avoid a single greedy consumer receiving all events before others have had a chance to start.

Code

use atomic_bus::AtomicBus;
use std::{sync::Arc, time::Duration, thread};

// create the bus
let bus: AtomicBus<String> = AtomicBus::new();

// subscribing before spawning the sender thread guarantees all sent messages will be received
let subscriber = Arc::new(bus.subscribe());

// create and spawn a sender
let sender = bus.create_sender();
thread::spawn(move || {
    for i in 0..10 {
        sender.send(format!("message #{i}"));
    }
});

// spawn printing subscriber threads that share a single AtomicSubscription
let mut handles = Vec::new();
{
    for i in 0..3 {
        let subscriber = Arc::clone(&subscriber);
        let handle = thread::spawn(move || loop {
            if let Some(x) = subscriber.next() {
                println!("subscriber {i} received: {x:?}");
                if x.as_ref() == "done" {
                    return;
                }
            }
            thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
        });
        handles.push(handle);
    }
};

Output

subscriber 0 received: "message #0"
subscriber 1 received: "message #1"
subscriber 2 received: "message #2"
subscriber 0 received: "message #3"
subscriber 1 received: "message #4"
subscriber 2 received: "message #5"
subscriber 0 received: "message #6"
subscriber 1 received: "message #7"
subscriber 2 received: "message #8"
subscriber 0 received: "message #9"

License: MIT OR Apache-2.0