ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger Class Reference

TBufferMerger is a class to facilitate writing data in parallel from multiple threads, while writing to a single output file.

A TBufferMergerFile is similar to a TMemFile, but when data is written to it, it is appended to the TBufferMerger queue.

Its purpose is similar to TParallelMergingFile, but instead of using processes that connect to a network socket, TBufferMerger uses threads that each write to a TBufferMergerFile, which in turn push data into a queue managed by the TBufferMerger.

The TBufferMerger merges all data into the output file on disk.

Definition at line 41 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

Public Member Functions
	TBufferMerger (const char *name, Option_t *option="RECREATE", Int_t compress=ROOT::RCompressionSetting::EDefaults::kUseGeneralPurpose)
	Constructor. More...
	TBufferMerger (std::unique_ptr< TFile > output)
	Constructor. More...
virtual	~TBufferMerger ()
	Destructor. More...
size_t	GetAutoSave () const
	Returns the current value of the auto save setting in bytes (default = 0). More...
std::shared_ptr< TBufferMergerFile >	GetFile ()
	Returns a TBufferMergerFile to which data can be written. More...
size_t	GetQueueSize () const
	Returns the number of buffers currently in the queue. More...
void	SetAutoSave (size_t size)
	By default, TBufferMerger will call TFileMerger::PartialMerge() for each buffer pushed onto its merge queue. More...

Private Member Functions
	TBufferMerger ()
	TBufferMerger has no default constructor. More...
	TBufferMerger (const TBufferMerger &)
	TBufferMerger has no copy constructor. More...
void	Init (std::unique_ptr< TFile >)
void	Merge ()
TBufferMerger &	operator= (const TBufferMerger &)
	TBufferMerger has no copy operator. More...
void	Push (TBufferFile *buffer)

Private Attributes
std::vector< std::weak_ptr< TBufferMergerFile > >	fAttachedFiles
size_t	fAutoSave {0}
size_t	fBuffered {0}
std::mutex	fMergeMutex
TFileMerger	fMerger {false, false}
std::queue< TBufferFile * >	fQueue
std::mutex	fQueueMutex

Friends
class	TBufferMergerFile

#include <ROOT/TBufferMerger.hxx>

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

TBufferMerger() [1/4]

ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::TBufferMerger	(	const char *	name,
		Option_t *	option = "RECREATE",
		Int_t	compress = ROOT::RCompressionSetting::EDefaults::kUseGeneralPurpose
	)

Constructor.

Parameters

name	Output file name
option	Output file creation options
compression	Output file compression level

Definition at line 24 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

TBufferMerger() [2/4]

ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::TBufferMerger

(

std::unique_ptr< TFile >

output

)

Constructor.

Parameters

output

Output TFile

Definition at line 32 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

~TBufferMerger()

ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::~TBufferMerger ( )

virtual

Destructor.

Definition at line 45 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

TBufferMerger() [3/4]

ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::TBufferMerger ( )

private

TBufferMerger has no default constructor.

TBufferMerger() [4/4]

ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::TBufferMerger ( const TBufferMerger &  )

private

TBufferMerger has no copy constructor.

Member Function Documentation

GetAutoSave()

size_t ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::GetAutoSave

(

)

const

Returns the current value of the auto save setting in bytes (default = 0).

Definition at line 80 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

GetFile()

std::shared_ptr< TBufferMergerFile > ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::GetFile

(

)

Returns a TBufferMergerFile to which data can be written.

At the end, all TBufferMergerFiles get merged into the output file. The user is responsible to "cd" into the file to associate objects such as histograms or trees to it.

After the creation of this file, the user must reset the kMustCleanup bit on any objects attached to it and take care of their deletion, as there is a possibility that a race condition will happen that causes a crash if ROOT manages these objects.

Definition at line 54 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

GetQueueSize()

size_t ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::GetQueueSize

(

)

const

Returns the number of buffers currently in the queue.

Definition at line 63 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

Init()

void ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::Init ( std::unique_ptr< TFile >  output )

private

Definition at line 37 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

Merge()

void ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::Merge ( )

private

Definition at line 90 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

operator=()

TBufferMerger & ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::operator= ( const TBufferMerger &  )

private

TBufferMerger has no copy operator.

Push()

void ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::Push ( TBufferFile *  buffer )

private

Definition at line 68 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

SetAutoSave()

void ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::SetAutoSave

(

size_t

size

)

By default, TBufferMerger will call TFileMerger::PartialMerge() for each buffer pushed onto its merge queue.

This function lets the user change this behaviour by telling TBufferMerger to accumulate at least size bytes in memory before performing a partial merge and flushing to disk. This can be useful to avoid an excessive amount of work to happen in the output thread, as the number of TTree headers (which require compression) written to disk can be reduced.

Definition at line 85 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

Friends And Related Function Documentation

TBufferMergerFile

friend class TBufferMergerFile

friend

Definition at line 86 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

Member Data Documentation

fAttachedFiles

std::vector<std::weak_ptr<TBufferMergerFile> > ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::fAttachedFiles

private

Definition at line 109 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

fAutoSave

size_t ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::fAutoSave {0}

private

Definition at line 103 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

fBuffered

size_t ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::fBuffered {0}

private

Definition at line 104 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

fMergeMutex

std::mutex ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::fMergeMutex

private

Definition at line 106 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

fMerger

TFileMerger ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::fMerger {false, false}

private

Definition at line 105 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

fQueue

std::queue<TBufferFile *> ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::fQueue

private

Definition at line 108 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

fQueueMutex

std::mutex ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::fQueueMutex

private

Definition at line 107 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

Libraries for ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger:

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