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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::kUseCompiledDefault)
 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< TBufferMergerFileGetFile ()
 Returns a TBufferMergerFile to which data can be written. More...
 
const char * GetMergeOptions ()
 Returns the current merge options. 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...
 
void SetMergeOptions (const TString &options)
 Sets the merge options. 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 ()
 
TBufferMergeroperator= (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::kUseCompiledDefault 
)

Constructor.

Parameters
nameOutput file name
optionOutput file creation options
compressionOutput 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
outputOutput 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.

◆ GetMergeOptions()

const char * ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::GetMergeOptions ( )

Returns the current merge options.

Definition at line 85 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 101 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 91 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

◆ SetMergeOptions()

void ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger::SetMergeOptions ( const TString options)

Sets the merge options.

SetMergeOptions("fast") will disable recompression of input data into the output if they have different compression settings.

Parameters
optionsTFileMerger/TFileMergeInfo merge options

Definition at line 96 of file TBufferMerger.cxx.

Friends And Related Function Documentation

◆ TBufferMergerFile

friend class TBufferMergerFile
friend

Definition at line 96 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

Member Data Documentation

◆ fAttachedFiles

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

Definition at line 119 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

◆ fAutoSave

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

Definition at line 113 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

◆ fBuffered

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

Definition at line 114 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

◆ fMergeMutex

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

Definition at line 116 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

◆ fMerger

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

Definition at line 115 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

◆ fQueue

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

Definition at line 118 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

◆ fQueueMutex

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

Definition at line 117 of file TBufferMerger.hxx.

Libraries for ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger:
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