Since all the current hooks are defined specifically for a particular event
type, we can register the hooks in a hash table using the event type as key
for faster event hook collection.
Also, hooks that are not specific to a particular event type, like constraints
such as 'event.type=*', will be registered in both the undefined hook list,
and also in all the hash table defined hook lists so they are always evaluated.
Even though 'wp_event_dispatcher_new_hooks_iterator()' can still be used, it is
now marked as deprecated because it is slower. The event hook collection uses
'wp_event_dispatcher_new_hooks_for_event_type_iterator()' now because it is
much faster.
Previously, the more hooks we were registering, the slower WirePlumber would
process events as all hooks needed to be evaluated for all events constantly.
This is not the case anymore with this patch. We can register thousands of
hooks, and if only 1 of those runs for a particular event, only 1 will be
evaluated instead of all of them.
See #824
This is an attempt to unclutter the API of WpProxy and
split functionality into smaller pieces, making it easier
to work with.
In this new class layout, we have the following classes:
- WpObject: base class for everything; handles activating
| and deactivating "features"
|- WpProxy: base class for anything that wraps a pw_proxy;
| handles events from pw_proxy and nothing more
|- WpGlobalProxy: handles integration with the registry
All the other classes derive from WpGlobalProxy. The reason
for separating WpGlobalProxy from WpProxy, though, is that
classes such as WpImplNode / WpSpaDevice can also derive from
WpProxy now, without interfacing with the registry.
All objects that come with an "info" structure and have properties
and/or params also implement the WpPipewireObject interface. This
provides the API to query properties and get/set params. Essentially,
this is implemented by all classes except WpMetadata (pw_metadata
does not have info)
This interface is implemented on each object separately, using
a private "mixin", which is a set of vfunc implementations and helper
functions (and macros) to facilitate the implementation of this interface.
A notable difference to the old WpProxy is that now features can be
deactivated, so it is possible to enable something and later disable
it again.
This commit disables modules, tests, tools, etc, to avoid growing the
patch more, while ensuring that the project compiles.
