Noting down improvement ideas for procs

runtime/lightproc/src/lightproc.rs

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ pub struct LightProc {
 
 // LightProc is both Sync and Send because it explicitly handles synchronization internally:
 // The state of a `LightProc` is only modified atomically guaranteeing a consistent view from all
-// threads. Existing handles are atomically reference counted so the proc itself will not be dropped
-// until all pointers to it are themselves dropped.
+// threads. Existing wakers (and the proc_handle) are atomically reference counted so the proc
+// itself will not be dropped until all pointers to it are themselves dropped.
 // However, if the future or result inside the LightProc is !Send the executor must ensure that
 // the `schedule` function does not move the LightProc to a different thread.
 unsafe impl Send for LightProc {}

runtime/lightproc/src/proc_handle.rs

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use crate::state::*;
 use std::fmt::{self, Debug, Formatter};
 use std::future::Future;
 use std::marker::{PhantomData, Unpin};
+use std::mem::MaybeUninit;
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::ptr::NonNull;
 use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ pub struct ProcHandle<R> {
     /// A marker capturing the generic type `R`.
     // TODO: Instead of writing the future output to the RawProc on heap, put it in the handle
     //       (if still available).
-    pub(crate) result: PhantomData<R>,
+    pub(crate) result: MaybeUninit<R>,
 }
 
 unsafe impl<R: Send> Send for ProcHandle<R> {}
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ impl<R> ProcHandle<R> {
     pub(crate) fn new(raw_proc: NonNull<()>) -> Self {
         Self {
             raw_proc,
-            result: PhantomData,
+            result: MaybeUninit::uninit(),
         }
     }
 
@@ -50,6 +51,13 @@ impl<R> ProcHandle<R> {
         let pdata = ptr as *const ProcData;
 
         unsafe {
+            let id = (&(*pdata).span).id().map(|id| id.into_u64()).unwrap_or(0);
+            tracing::trace!(
+                target: "executor::handle",
+                op = "handle.cancel",
+                task.id = id,
+            );
+
             let mut state = (*pdata).state.load(Ordering::Acquire);
 
             loop {

runtime/lightproc/src/raw_proc.rs

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ use tracing::Span;
 
 /// Raw pointers to the fields of a proc.
 // TODO: Make generic over the Allocator used!
+// TODO: The actual layout stored could be expressed as a struct w/ union. Maybe do that?
 pub(crate) struct RawProc<'a, F, R, S> {
     pub(crate) pdata: *const ProcData,
     pub(crate) schedule: *const S,
@@ -30,10 +31,13 @@ pub(crate) struct RawProc<'a, F, R, S> {
 
     // Make the lifetime 'a of the future invariant
     _marker: PhantomData<&'a ()>,
-    // TODO: We should link a proc to a process bucket for scheduling and tracing
-    //      => nope, do that via scheduling func
-    // TODO: A proc should be able to be assigned a name for tracing and reporting
-    //       This could also be implemented via storing a Span similar to `Instrumented`
+    // TODO: We should link a proc to a process group for scheduling and tracing
+    //    - sub-tasks should start in the same group by default
+    //    - that data needs to be available when calling `spawn` and to decide which task to run.
+    //      So there must be a thread-local reference to it that's managed by the executor, and
+    //      updated when a new task is being polled.
+    //      Additionally `schedule` must have a reference to it to be able to push to the right
+    //      queue? The `schedule` fn could just come from the group instead.
 }
 
 impl<'a, F, R, S> RawProc<'a, F, R, S>