Trying to fix hanging job tests on windows

The issue might be that the worker's m_running flag is not set atomically. It is possible that the finalize message is pushed and is consumed before setting the running flag to false. See the loop in BoostThreadWorker::run

src/slic3r/GUI/Jobs/BoostThreadWorker.cpp

@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ void BoostThreadWorker::WorkerMessage::deliver(BoostThreadWorker &runner)
 void BoostThreadWorker::run()
 {
     bool stop = false;
+
     while (!stop) {
         m_input_queue
-            .consume_one(BlockingWait{0, &m_running}, [this, &stop](JobEntry &e) {
+            .consume_one(BlockingWait{0}, [this, &stop](JobEntry &e) {
                 if (!e.job)
                     stop = true;
                 else {
@@ -60,7 +61,6 @@ void BoostThreadWorker::run()
                     e.canceled = m_canceled.load();
                     m_output_queue.push(std::move(e)); // finalization message
                 }
-                m_running.store(false);
             });
     };
 }
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ std::future<void> BoostThreadWorker::call_on_main_thread(std::function<void ()>
 BoostThreadWorker::BoostThreadWorker(std::shared_ptr<ProgressIndicator> pri,
                                      boost::thread::attributes &attribs,
                                      const char *               name)
-    : m_progress(std::move(pri)), m_name{name}
+    : m_progress(std::move(pri)), m_input_queue{m_running}, m_output_queue{m_running}, m_name{name}
 {
     if (m_progress)
         m_progress->set_cancel_callback([this](){ cancel(); });

src/slic3r/GUI/Jobs/BoostThreadWorker.hpp

@@ -67,8 +67,51 @@ class BoostThreadWorker : public Worker, private Job::Ctl
         void deliver(BoostThreadWorker &runner);
     };
 
-    using JobQueue     = ThreadSafeQueueSPSC<JobEntry>;
+    template<class El>
-    using MessageQueue = ThreadSafeQueueSPSC<WorkerMessage>;
+    class RawQueue: public std::deque<El> {
+        std::atomic<bool> *m_running_ptr = nullptr;
+
+    public:
+        using std::deque<El>::deque;
+        explicit RawQueue(std::atomic<bool> &rflag): m_running_ptr{&rflag} {}
+
+        void set_running() { m_running_ptr->store(true); }
+        void set_stopped() { m_running_ptr->store(false); }
+    };
+
+    template<class El>
+    class RawJobQueue: public RawQueue<El> {
+    public:
+        using RawQueue<El>::RawQueue;
+        void pop_front()
+        {
+            RawQueue<El>::pop_front();
+            this->set_running();
+        }
+    };
+
+    template<class El>
+    class RawMsgQueue: public RawQueue<El> {
+    public:
+        using RawQueue<El>::RawQueue;
+        void push_back(El &&entry)
+        {
+            this->emplace_back(std::move(entry));
+        }
+
+        template<class...EArgs>
+        auto & emplace_back(EArgs&&...args)
+        {
+            auto &el = RawQueue<El>::emplace_back(std::forward<EArgs>(args)...);
+            if (el.get_type() == WorkerMessage::Finalize)
+                this->set_stopped();
+
+            return el;
+        }
+    };
+
+    using JobQueue     = ThreadSafeQueueSPSC<JobEntry, RawJobQueue>;
+    using MessageQueue = ThreadSafeQueueSPSC<WorkerMessage, RawMsgQueue>;
 
     boost::thread                      m_thread;
     std::atomic<bool>                  m_running{false}, m_canceled{false};

src/slic3r/GUI/Jobs/ThreadSafeQueue.hpp

@@ -19,11 +19,6 @@ struct BlockingWait
 {
     // Timeout to wait for the arrival of new element into the queue.
     unsigned timeout_ms = 0;
-
-    // An optional atomic flag to set true if an incoming element gets
-    // consumed. The flag will be atomically set to true when popping the
-    // front of the queue.
-    std::atomic<bool> *pop_flag = nullptr;
 };
 
 // A thread safe queue for one producer and one consumer.
@@ -35,10 +30,20 @@ class ThreadSafeQueueSPSC
     std::queue<T, Container<T, ContainerArgs...>> m_queue;
     mutable std::mutex m_mutex;
     std::condition_variable m_cond_var;
+
 public:
+    template<class...Qargs>
+    ThreadSafeQueueSPSC(Qargs &&...qargs)
+        : m_queue{Container<T, ContainerArgs...>{std::forward<Qargs>(qargs)...}} {}
+
+    ThreadSafeQueueSPSC(const ThreadSafeQueueSPSC&) = default;
+    ThreadSafeQueueSPSC(ThreadSafeQueueSPSC&&) = default;
+    ThreadSafeQueueSPSC& operator=(const ThreadSafeQueueSPSC&) = default;
+    ThreadSafeQueueSPSC& operator=(ThreadSafeQueueSPSC &&) = default;
 
     // Consume one element, block if the queue is empty.
-    template<class Fn> bool consume_one(const BlockingWait &blkw, Fn &&fn)
+    template<class Fn>
+    bool consume_one(const BlockingWait &blkw, Fn &&fn)
     {
         static_assert(!std::is_reference_v<T>, "");
         static_assert(std::is_default_constructible_v<T>, "");
@@ -63,13 +68,10 @@ public:
                 el = m_queue.front();
 
             m_queue.pop();
-
-            if (blkw.pop_flag)
-                // The optional flag is set before the lock us unlocked.
-                blkw.pop_flag->store(true);
         }
 
         fn(el);
+
         return true;
     }
 
@@ -96,7 +98,8 @@ public:
     }
 
     // Push element into the queue.
-    template<class...TArgs> void push(TArgs&&...el)
+    template<class...TArgs>
+    void push(TArgs&&...el)
     {
         std::lock_guard lk{m_mutex};
         m_queue.emplace(std::forward<TArgs>(el)...);