improve wording of Waker::wake documentation

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Roland Kuhn 2022-02-20 12:23:26 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -220,12 +220,14 @@ unsafe impl Sync for Waker {}
impl Waker {
/// Wake up the task associated with this `Waker`.
///
/// Multiple wake-ups (through clones of this `Waker` or `wake_by_ref`) may be
/// coalesced into a single `poll` invocation by the runtime, and as long as
/// the runtime keeps running and the task is not finished it is expected that
/// each wake-up is followed by an invocation of `poll`, even in the absence of
/// other events. This makes it possible to yield to other tasks when running
/// potentially unbounded processing loops in order to maintain fairness.
/// As long as the runtime keeps running and the task is not finished, it is
/// guaranteed that each invocation of `wake` (or `wake_by_ref`) will be followed
/// by at least one `poll` of the task to which this `Waker` belongs. This makes
/// it possible to temporarily yield to other tasks while running potentially
/// unbounded processing loops.
///
/// Note that the above implies that multiple wake-ups may be coalesced into a
/// single `poll` invocation by the runtime.
#[inline]
#[stable(feature = "futures_api", since = "1.36.0")]
pub fn wake(self) {