Defer broadcasts to slow-handling apps
When an app takes a long time to handle broadcasts, we start deferring further broadcasts to it to make sure that other broadcast traffic in the system can continue to make progress. Global delivery order is technically rearranged, but delivery order from the point of view of any given app remains consistent with issuance order. When alarm broadcasts are issued, we prioritize delivery of deferred alarms to the alarm recipients (i.e. we suspend the deferral policy and catch up as promptly as possible) in order to minimize wake time spent waiting for the alarm broadcast to be delivered. Once an app with a deferred broadcast backlog is no longer the target of an in-flight alarm, we re-impose deferral policy on it. This policy intentionally trades off increased broadcast delivery latency to apps that take a "long" time to handle broadcasts, in exchange for lowering delivery latency to all other apps in the system that would previously have had to wait behind the slow app. In addition, broadcast dispatch policy parameters can now be overlaid via the usual global Settings mechanism. In particular, configuring the "bcast_slow_time" parameter to a value in milliseconds higher than the queue's broadcast timeout period will disable the new slow-receiver policies. Bug: 111404343 Test: device boots & runs Test: tests/ActivityTests Change-Id: I76ac79bdf41ca3cfcc48515bca779ea0f5744c0b
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