From b20fa171a4ddc5bc57073a8e058da39557d25e03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "madmaxoft@gmail.com" Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:58:32 +0000 Subject: Added a little documentation on ChunkSender. git-svn-id: http://mc-server.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@378 0a769ca7-a7f5-676a-18bf-c427514a06d6 --- source/ChunkSender.h | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'source/ChunkSender.h') diff --git a/source/ChunkSender.h b/source/ChunkSender.h index e61c45d1e..d0e50f341 100644 --- a/source/ChunkSender.h +++ b/source/ChunkSender.h @@ -3,7 +3,19 @@ // Interfaces to the cChunkSender class representing the thread that waits for chunks becoming ready (loaded / generated) and sends them to clients - +/* +The whole thing is a thread that runs in a loop, waiting for either: + "finished chunks" (ChunkReady()), or + "chunks to send" (QueueSendChunkTo() ) +to come to a queue. +And once they do, it requests the chunk data and sends it all away, either + broadcasting (ChunkReady), or + sends to a specific client (QueueSendChunkTo) +Chunk data is queried using the cChunkDataCallback interface. +It is cached inside the ChunkSender object during the query and then processed after the query ends. +Note that the data needs to be compressed only *after* the query finishes, +because the query callbacks run with ChunkMap's CS locked. +*/ @@ -79,6 +91,7 @@ protected: virtual void Execute(void) override; // cChunkDataCallback overrides: + // (Note that they are called while the ChunkMap's CS is locked - don't do heavy calculations here!) virtual void BlockData(const char * a_Data) override; virtual void Entity(cEntity * a_Entity) override; virtual void BlockEntity(cBlockEntity * a_Entity) override; -- cgit v1.2.3