Avoid polling in worker

The polling architecture with 200 ms sleep in ProcessEventMessages()
has two drawbacks:

- it imposes a rate limit of 5 events per second for any input source
- it imposes an average latency of 100 ms per event

The polling loop can be avoided using a goroutine per worker that
posts incoming events to the `messageStream` channel, and pending on
that channel in ProcessEventMessages().

A short `messageStream` queue guarantees fairness: no worker's latest
event will be postponed for more than the length of the channel.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Learman <[email protected]>

worker/worker.go

@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ func (m *MessageHandlerRegistry) Add(mh interface {
 	}
 }
 
-func (m *MessageHandlerRegistry) Remove(name string) {
+func (m *MessageHandlerRegistry) remove(name string) {
 	if _, ok := m.Handlers[name]; ok {
 		delete(m.Handlers, name)
 	}
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ func eventHandler(incoming events.Message, workers *MessageHandlerRegistry) (str
 	switch incoming.(type) {
 	case *events.WorkerStopMessage:
 		msg, _ := incoming.(*events.WorkerStopMessage)
-		workers.Remove(msg.Name())
+		workers.remove(msg.Name())
 		workerStatusManager.SetWorkerStatus(msg.Name(), STATUS_TERMINATED)
 		return successMsg, nil
 	}
@@ -557,65 +557,48 @@ func eventHandler(incoming events.Message, workers *MessageHandlerRegistry) (str
 	return successMsg, nil
 }
 
-// This function combines all messages (events) from workers into a single global message queue. From this
-// global queue, each message will get delivered to each worker by the event handler function.
-func mux(workers *MessageHandlerRegistry, muxed chan events.Message) chan events.Message {
-
+// Start a goroutine for each worker to forward worker messages into the given "multiplexed" channel.
+// From this global queue, each message will get delivered to each worker by the event handler function.
+func mux(workers *MessageHandlerRegistry, muxed chan events.Message) {
 	for _, w := range workers.Handlers {
-		select {
-		case ev := <-(*w).Messages():
-			muxed <- ev
-		default: // nothing
-		}
+		go func(c <-chan events.Message) {
+			for v := range c {
+				muxed <- v
+			}
+		}((*w).Messages())
 	}
-
-	return muxed
 }
 
 func (workers *MessageHandlerRegistry) ProcessEventMessages() {
 
-	// 200 messages should be plenty. We will never get more than 1 message from every worker each time
-	// we write into this stream.
 	messageStream := make(chan events.Message, 200)
+	mux(workers, messageStream)
 
-	last := int64(0)
-
+	// Process messages on the combined worker message queue as they arrive
 	for {
 		// Exit the event processing loop if all workers have deregistered.
 		if workers.IsEmpty() {
 			glog.V(3).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Terminating")))
 			break
 		}
 
-		// Grab messages that are outbound from the workers.
-		messageStream = mux(workers, messageStream)
-
-		// Process any new messages on the combined worker message queue.
-		done := false
-		for !done {
-			select {
-			case msg := <-messageStream:
-				glog.V(3).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Handling Message (%T): %v\n", msg, msg.ShortString())))
-				glog.V(5).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Handling Message (%T): %v\n", msg, msg)))
-
-				// Push outbound messages into each worker.
-				if successMsg, err := eventHandler(msg, workers); err != nil {
-					// error! do some barfing and then continue
-					glog.Errorf(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Error occurred handling message: %s, Error: %v\n", msg, err)))
-				} else {
-					glog.V(2).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Success handling message: %s\n", successMsg)))
-				}
-			default:
-				now := time.Now().Unix()
-				if now-last > 30 {
-					glog.V(5).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("No incoming messages for router to handle")))
-					last = now
-				}
-				done = true
-			}
+		msg, ok := <-messageStream
+		if !ok {
+			// channel closed: currently won't happen
+			glog.V(3).Infof(mdLogString("Muxed channel closed: Terminating"))
+			break
 		}
 
-		time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
+		glog.V(3).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Handling Message (%T): %v\n", msg, msg.ShortString())))
+		glog.V(5).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Handling Message (%T): %v\n", msg, msg)))
+
+		// Push outbound messages into each worker.
+		if successMsg, err := eventHandler(msg, workers); err != nil {
+			// error! do some barfing and then continue
+			glog.Errorf(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Error occurred handling message: %s, Error: %v\n", msg, err)))
+		} else {
+			glog.V(2).Infof(mdLogString(fmt.Sprintf("Success handling message: %s\n", successMsg)))
+		}
 	}
 
 	// Brief delay just in case.