gecko-dev/xpcom/threads/nsMemoryPressure.h

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#ifndef nsMemoryPressure_h__
#define nsMemoryPressure_h__

#include "nscore.h"

enum MemoryPressureState
{
  /*
   * No memory pressure.
   */
  MemPressure_None = 0,

  /*
   * New memory pressure deteced.
   *
   * On a new memory pressure, we stop everything to start cleaning
   * aggresively the memory used, in order to free as much memory as
   * possible.
   */
  MemPressure_New,

  /*
   * Repeated memory pressure.
   *
   * A repeated memory pressure implies to clean softly recent allocations.
   * It is supposed to happen after a new memory pressure which already
   * cleaned aggressivley.  So there is no need to damage the reactivity of
   * Gecko by stopping the world again.
   *
   * In case of conflict with an new memory pressue, the new memory pressure
   * takes precedence over an ongoing memory pressure.  The reason being
   * that if no events are processed between 2 notifications (new followed
   * by ongoing, or ongoing followed by a new) we want to be as aggresive as
   * possible on the clean-up of the memory.  After all, we are trying to
   * keep Gecko alive as long as possible.
   */
  MemPressure_Ongoing
};

/**
 * Return and erase the latest state of the memory pressure event set by any of
 * the corresponding dispatch function.
 */
MemoryPressureState
NS_GetPendingMemoryPressure();

/**
 * This function causes the main thread to fire a memory pressure event
 * before processing the next event, but if there are no events pending in
 * the main thread's event queue, the memory pressure event would not be
 * dispatched until one is enqueued. It is infallible and does not allocate
 * any memory.
 *
 * You may call this function from any thread.
 */
void
NS_DispatchEventualMemoryPressure(MemoryPressureState aState);

/**
 * This function causes the main thread to fire a memory pressure event
 * before processing the next event. We wake up the main thread by adding a
 * dummy event to its event loop, so, unlike with
 * NS_DispatchEventualMemoryPressure, this memory-pressure event is always
 * fired relatively quickly, even if the event loop is otherwise empty.
 *
 * You may call this function from any thread.
 */
nsresult
NS_DispatchMemoryPressure(MemoryPressureState aState);

#endif // nsMemoryPressure_h__