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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+// for random()
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#include "TimestampScheduler.h"
+
+using namespace oboe;
+
+void TimestampScheduler::start(oboe_nanoseconds_t startTime) {
+    mStartTime = startTime;
+    mLastTime = startTime;
+}
+
+oboe_nanoseconds_t TimestampScheduler::nextAbsoluteTime() {
+    int64_t periodsElapsed = (mLastTime - mStartTime) / mBurstPeriod;
+    // This is an arbitrary schedule that could probably be improved.
+    // It starts out sending a timestamp on every period because we want to
+    // get an accurate picture when the stream starts. Then it slows down
+    // to the occasional timestamps needed to detect a slow drift.
+    int64_t minPeriodsToDelay = (periodsElapsed < 10) ? 1 :
+        (periodsElapsed < 100) ? 3 :
+        (periodsElapsed < 1000) ? 10 : 50;
+    oboe_nanoseconds_t sleepTime = minPeriodsToDelay * mBurstPeriod;
+    // Generate a random rectangular distribution one burst wide so that we get
+    // an uncorrelated sampling of the MMAP pointer.
+    sleepTime += (oboe_nanoseconds_t)(random() * mBurstPeriod / RAND_MAX);
+    mLastTime += sleepTime;
+    return mLastTime;
+}