ParameterServerController.h

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#pragma once

#include "ParameterServer2.h"
#include "ParameterServerConfig.pb.h"
#include "RDMANetwork.h"
#include "paddle/utils/StringUtil.h"

namespace paddle {

/**
 * @brief ParameterServerController is used for create, init and manage multi
 * parameter server instances. The num of the instances is decided by port
 * num(the ports number for parameter send) and network devices configured
 * by gflags or proto.
 */
class ParameterServerController final {
public:
  DISABLE_COPY(ParameterServerController);

  /**
   * @brief Ctor, Create a ParameterServerController from ParameterServerConfig.
   */
  explicit ParameterServerController(const ParameterServerConfig& config);

  /**
   * @brief Dtor.
   */
  ~ParameterServerController();

  /**
   * @brief create ParameterServerController from gflags, this is used for
   * compatibility with the old usage of configuration by gflags.
   */
  static ParameterServerController* createFromGflags();

  /**
   * @brief create ParameterServerController with ParameterServerConfig, remove
   * gflags from ParameterServer. Init all ParameterServer2 instances according
   * to
   * the config.
   */
  static ParameterServerController* create(const ParameterServerConfig& config);

  /**
   * @brief start all ParameterServer2 instances in this
   * ParameterServerController.
   */
  void start();

  /**
   * @brief join and wait for all ParameterServer2 instances thread in this
   * ParameterServerController.
   */
  void wait();

private:
  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<ParameterServer2>> parameterServers_;
};

}  // namespace paddle