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      1 // Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef CONTENT_COMMON_SHARED_MEMORY_SEQLOCK_BUFFER_H_
      6 #define CONTENT_COMMON_SHARED_MEMORY_SEQLOCK_BUFFER_H_
      7 
      8 #include "content/common/one_writer_seqlock.h"
      9 
     10 namespace content {
     11 
     12 // This structure is stored in shared memory that's shared between the browser
     13 // which does the hardware polling, and the consumers of the data,
     14 // i.e. the renderers. The performance characteristics are that
     15 // we want low latency (so would like to avoid explicit communication via IPC
     16 // between producer and consumer) and relatively large data size.
     17 //
     18 // Writer and reader operate on the same buffer assuming contention is low, and
     19 // contention is detected by using the associated SeqLock.
     20 
     21 template<class Data>
     22 class SharedMemorySeqLockBuffer {
     23  public:
     24   OneWriterSeqLock seqlock;
     25   Data data;
     26 };
     27 
     28 }  // namespace content
     29 
     30 #endif  // CONTENT_COMMON_SHARED_MEMORY_SEQLOCK_BUFFER_H_
     31