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+// Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_PERIODIC_SAMPLER_H_
+#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_PERIODIC_SAMPLER_H_
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+#include <atomic>
+
+#include "absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h"
+#include "absl/base/optimization.h"
+
+namespace absl {
+namespace base_internal {
+
+// PeriodicSamplerBase provides the basic period sampler implementation.
+//
+// This is the base class for the templated PeriodicSampler class, which holds
+// a global std::atomic value identified by a user defined tag, such that
+// each specific PeriodSampler implementation holds its own global period.
+//
+// PeriodicSamplerBase is thread-compatible except where stated otherwise.
+class PeriodicSamplerBase {
+ public:
+  // PeriodicSamplerBase is trivial / copyable / movable / destructible.
+  PeriodicSamplerBase() = default;
+  PeriodicSamplerBase(PeriodicSamplerBase&&) = default;
+  PeriodicSamplerBase(const PeriodicSamplerBase&) = default;
+
+  // Returns true roughly once every `period` calls. This is established by a
+  // randomly picked `stride` that is counted down on each call to `Sample`.
+  // This stride is picked such that the probability of `Sample()` returning
+  // true is 1 in `period`.
+  inline bool Sample() noexcept;
+
+  // The below methods are intended for optimized use cases where the
+  // size of the inlined fast path code is highly important. Applications
+  // should use the `Sample()` method unless they have proof that their
+  // specific use case requires the optimizations offered by these methods.
+  //
+  // An example of such a use case is SwissTable sampling. All sampling checks
+  // are in inlined SwissTable methods, and the number of call sites is huge.
+  // In this case, the inlined code size added to each translation unit calling
+  // SwissTable methods is non-trivial.
+  //
+  // The `SubtleMaybeSample()` function spuriously returns true even if the
+  // function should not be sampled, applications MUST match each call to
+  // 'SubtleMaybeSample()' returning true with a `SubtleConfirmSample()` call,
+  // and use the result of the latter as the sampling decision.
+  // In other words: the code should logically be equivalent to:
+  //
+  //    if (SubtleMaybeSample() && SubtleConfirmSample()) {
+  //      // Sample this call
+  //    }
+  //
+  // In the 'inline-size' optimized case, the `SubtleConfirmSample()` call can
+  // be placed out of line, for example, the typical use case looks as follows:
+  //
+  //   // --- frobber.h -----------
+  //   void FrobberSampled();
+  //
+  //   inline void FrobberImpl() {
+  //     // ...
+  //   }
+  //
+  //   inline void Frobber() {
+  //     if (ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(sampler.SubtleMaybeSample())) {
+  //       FrobberSampled();
+  //     } else {
+  //       FrobberImpl();
+  //     }
+  //   }
+  //
+  //   // --- frobber.cc -----------
+  //   void FrobberSampled() {
+  //     if (!sampler.SubtleConfirmSample())) {
+  //       // Spurious false positive
+  //       FrobberImpl();
+  //       return;
+  //     }
+  //
+  //     // Sampled execution
+  //     // ...
+  //   }
+  inline bool SubtleMaybeSample() noexcept;
+  bool SubtleConfirmSample() noexcept;
+
+ protected:
+  // We explicitly don't use a virtual destructor as this class is never
+  // virtually destroyed, and it keeps the class trivial, which avoids TLS
+  // prologue and epilogue code for our TLS instances.
+  ~PeriodicSamplerBase() = default;
+
+  // Returns the next stride for our sampler.
+  // This function is virtual for testing purposes only.
+  virtual int64_t GetExponentialBiased(int period) noexcept;
+
+ private:
+  // Returns the current period of this sampler. Thread-safe.
+  virtual int period() const noexcept = 0;
+
+  int64_t stride_ = 0;
+  ExponentialBiased rng_;
+};
+
+inline bool PeriodicSamplerBase::SubtleMaybeSample() noexcept {
+  // We explicitly count up and not down, as the compiler does not generate
+  // ideal code for counting down. See also https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/FTPDSM
+  //
+  // With `if (ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(++stride_ < 0))`
+  //    add     QWORD PTR fs:sampler@tpoff+8, 1
+  //    jns     .L15
+  //    ret
+  //
+  // With `if (ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(--stride_ > 0))`
+  //    mov     rax, QWORD PTR fs:sampler@tpoff+8
+  //    sub     rax, 1
+  //    mov     QWORD PTR fs:sampler@tpoff+8, rax
+  //    test    rax, rax
+  //    jle     .L15
+  //    ret
+  //    add     QWORD PTR fs:sampler@tpoff+8, 1
+  //    jns     .L15
+  //    ret
+  //
+  // --stride >= 0 does work, but makes our logic slightly harder as in that
+  // case we have less convenient zero-init and over-run values.
+  if (ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(++stride_ < 0)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+inline bool PeriodicSamplerBase::Sample() noexcept {
+  return ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(SubtleMaybeSample()) ? SubtleConfirmSample()
+                                                 : false;
+}
+
+// PeriodicSampler is a concreted periodic sampler implementation.
+// The user provided Tag identifies the implementation, and is required to
+// isolate the global state of this instance from other instances.
+//
+// Typical use case:
+//
+//   struct HashTablezTag {};
+//   thread_local PeriodicSampler sampler;
+//
+//   void HashTableSamplingLogic(...) {
+//     if (sampler.Sample()) {
+//       HashTableSlowSamplePath(...);
+//     }
+//   }
+//
+template <typename Tag, int default_period = 0>
+class PeriodicSampler final : public PeriodicSamplerBase {
+ public:
+  ~PeriodicSampler() = default;
+
+  int period() const noexcept final {
+    return period_.load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
+  }
+
+  // Sets the global period for this sampler. Thread-safe.
+  // Setting a period of 0 disables the sampler, i.e., every call to Sample()
+  // will return false. Setting a period of 1 puts the sampler in 'always on'
+  // mode, i.e., every call to Sample() returns true.
+  static void SetGlobalPeriod(int period) {
+    period_.store(period, std::memory_order_relaxed);
+  }
+
+ private:
+  static std::atomic<int> period_;
+};
+
+template <typename Tag, int default_period>
+std::atomic<int> PeriodicSampler<Tag, default_period>::period_(default_period);
+
+}  // namespace base_internal
+}  // namespace absl
+
+#endif  // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_PERIODIC_SAMPLER_H_