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Bryan O'Sullivan
worker: count the number of CPUs...
r18635 # worker.py - master-slave parallelism support
#
# Copyright 2013 Facebook, Inc.
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
Gregory Szorc
worker: use absolute_import
r25992 from __future__ import absolute_import
import errno
import os
import signal
import sys
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r35427 import threading
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r35448 import time
Gregory Szorc
worker: use absolute_import
r25992
Danny Hooper
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r38752 try:
import selectors
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r38752 selectors.BaseSelector
except ImportError:
from .thirdparty import selectors2 as selectors
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worker: use absolute_import
r25992 from .i18n import _
Jun Wu
worker: migrate to util.iterfile
r30396 from . import (
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r30635 encoding,
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r30396 error,
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r30639 pycompat,
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r30521 scmutil,
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r30396 util,
)
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r18635
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r18635 def countcpus():
'''try to count the number of CPUs on the system'''
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r26568
# posix
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r18635 try:
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r43906 n = int(os.sysconf('SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN'))
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r26568 if n > 0:
return n
except (AttributeError, ValueError):
pass
# windows
try:
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r43347 n = int(encoding.environ[b'NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS'])
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r26568 if n > 0:
return n
except (KeyError, ValueError):
pass
return 1
Bryan O'Sullivan
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r18636
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r18636 def _numworkers(ui):
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r43347 s = ui.config(b'worker', b'numcpus')
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r18636 if s:
try:
n = int(s)
if n >= 1:
return n
except ValueError:
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r43347 raise error.Abort(_(b'number of cpus must be an integer'))
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r18636 return min(max(countcpus(), 4), 32)
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Wojciech Lis
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r35427 if pycompat.isposix or pycompat.iswindows:
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r38753 _STARTUP_COST = 0.01
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r38754 # The Windows worker is thread based. If tasks are CPU bound, threads
# in the presence of the GIL result in excessive context switching and
# this overhead can slow down execution.
_DISALLOW_THREAD_UNSAFE = pycompat.iswindows
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r18636 else:
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r38753 _STARTUP_COST = 1e30
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r38754 _DISALLOW_THREAD_UNSAFE = False
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r18636
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r38754 def worthwhile(ui, costperop, nops, threadsafe=True):
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r18636 '''try to determine whether the benefit of multiple processes can
outweigh the cost of starting them'''
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r38754
if not threadsafe and _DISALLOW_THREAD_UNSAFE:
return False
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r18636 linear = costperop * nops
workers = _numworkers(ui)
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r38753 benefit = linear - (_STARTUP_COST * workers + linear / workers)
Bryan O'Sullivan
worker: estimate whether it's worth running a task in parallel...
r18636 return benefit >= 0.15
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r18637
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def worker(
ui, costperarg, func, staticargs, args, hasretval=False, threadsafe=True
):
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r18638 '''run a function, possibly in parallel in multiple worker
processes.
returns a progress iterator
costperarg - cost of a single task
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r42655 func - function to run. It is expected to return a progress iterator.
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r18638
staticargs - arguments to pass to every invocation of the function
args - arguments to split into chunks, to pass to individual
workers
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r38754
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r42655 hasretval - when True, func and the current function return an progress
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r42722 iterator then a dict (encoded as an iterator that yield many (False, ..)
then a (True, dict)). The dicts are joined in some arbitrary order, so
overlapping keys are a bad idea.
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r42655
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r38754 threadsafe - whether work items are thread safe and can be executed using
a thread-based worker. Should be disabled for CPU heavy tasks that don't
release the GIL.
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r18638 '''
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r43347 enabled = ui.configbool(b'worker', b'enabled')
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r38754 if enabled and worthwhile(ui, costperarg, len(args), threadsafe=threadsafe):
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r42655 return _platformworker(ui, func, staticargs, args, hasretval)
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r18638 return func(*staticargs + (args,))
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r42655 def _posixworker(ui, func, staticargs, args, hasretval):
Bryan O'Sullivan
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r18638 workers = _numworkers(ui)
Bryan O'Sullivan
worker: fix a race in SIGINT handling...
r18708 oldhandler = signal.getsignal(signal.SIGINT)
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)
Jun Wu
worker: change "pids" to a set...
r30413 pids, problem = set(), [0]
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Jun Wu
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r30410 def killworkers():
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r30423 # unregister SIGCHLD handler as all children will be killed. This
# function shouldn't be interrupted by another SIGCHLD; otherwise pids
# could be updated while iterating, which would cause inconsistency.
signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, oldchldhandler)
Jun Wu
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r30410 # if one worker bails, there's no good reason to wait for the rest
for p in pids:
try:
os.kill(p, signal.SIGTERM)
except OSError as err:
if err.errno != errno.ESRCH:
raise
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r30412 def waitforworkers(blocking=True):
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r30414 for pid in pids.copy():
p = st = 0
while True:
try:
p, st = os.waitpid(pid, (0 if blocking else os.WNOHANG))
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r30422 break
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r30414 except OSError as e:
if e.errno == errno.EINTR:
continue
elif e.errno == errno.ECHILD:
Yuya Nishihara
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r30425 # child would already be reaped, but pids yet been
# updated (maybe interrupted just after waitpid)
pids.discard(pid)
break
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r30414 else:
raise
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r31063 if not p:
# skip subsequent steps, because child process should
# be still running in this case
continue
pids.discard(p)
st = _exitstatus(st)
Jun Wu
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r30410 if st and not problem[0]:
problem[0] = st
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r43346
Jun Wu
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r30415 def sigchldhandler(signum, frame):
waitforworkers(blocking=False)
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r30424 if problem[0]:
killworkers()
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r43346
Jun Wu
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r30415 oldchldhandler = signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, sigchldhandler)
David Soria Parra
worker: flush ui buffers before running the worker...
r31696 ui.flush()
Jun Wu
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r32112 parentpid = os.getpid()
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r38752 pipes = []
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r42722 retval = {}
for pargs in partition(args, workers):
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r38752 # Every worker gets its own pipe to send results on, so we don't have to
# implement atomic writes larger than PIPE_BUF. Each forked process has
# its own pipe's descriptors in the local variables, and the parent
# process has the full list of pipe descriptors (and it doesn't really
# care what order they're in).
rfd, wfd = os.pipe()
pipes.append((rfd, wfd))
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r32112 # make sure we use os._exit in all worker code paths. otherwise the
# worker may do some clean-ups which could cause surprises like
# deadlock. see sshpeer.cleanup for example.
# override error handling *before* fork. this is necessary because
# exception (signal) may arrive after fork, before "pid =" assignment
# completes, and other exception handler (dispatch.py) can lead to
# unexpected code path without os._exit.
ret = -1
try:
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0:
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, oldhandler)
signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, oldchldhandler)
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r30521
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r32112 def workerfunc():
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r38752 for r, w in pipes[:-1]:
os.close(r)
os.close(w)
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r32112 os.close(rfd)
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r38553 for result in func(*(staticargs + (pargs,))):
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r42722 os.write(wfd, util.pickle.dumps(result))
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r32112 return 0
ret = scmutil.callcatch(ui, workerfunc)
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r43346 except: # parent re-raises, child never returns
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r32112 if os.getpid() == parentpid:
raise
exctype = sys.exc_info()[0]
force = not issubclass(exctype, KeyboardInterrupt)
ui.traceback(force=force)
finally:
if os.getpid() != parentpid:
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r31118 try:
ui.flush()
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r43346 except: # never returns, no re-raises
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r32112 pass
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r30521 finally:
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r32112 os._exit(ret & 255)
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r30413 pids.add(pid)
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r38752 selector = selectors.DefaultSelector()
for rfd, wfd in pipes:
os.close(wfd)
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r43906 selector.register(os.fdopen(rfd, 'rb', 0), selectors.EVENT_READ)
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r18638 def cleanup():
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, oldhandler)
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r30416 waitforworkers()
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r30415 signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, oldchldhandler)
Yuya Nishihara
worker: call selector.close() to release polling resources
r38763 selector.close()
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worker: do not swallow exception occurred in main process...
r41024 return problem[0]
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r18638 try:
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r38752 openpipes = len(pipes)
while openpipes > 0:
for key, events in selector.select():
try:
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r42722 res = util.pickle.load(key.fileobj)
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r42655 if hasretval and res[0]:
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r42722 retval.update(res[1])
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r42655 else:
yield res
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r38752 except EOFError:
selector.unregister(key.fileobj)
key.fileobj.close()
openpipes -= 1
except IOError as e:
if e.errno == errno.EINTR:
continue
raise
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r43346 except: # re-raises
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r18709 killworkers()
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r18638 cleanup()
raise
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r41024 status = cleanup()
if status:
if status < 0:
os.kill(os.getpid(), -status)
sys.exit(status)
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r42655 if hasretval:
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r42722 yield True, retval
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r18638
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r18707 def _posixexitstatus(code):
'''convert a posix exit status into the same form returned by
os.spawnv
returns None if the process was stopped instead of exiting'''
if os.WIFEXITED(code):
return os.WEXITSTATUS(code)
elif os.WIFSIGNALED(code):
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r43346 return -(os.WTERMSIG(code))
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r18707
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r42655 def _windowsworker(ui, func, staticargs, args, hasretval):
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r35427 class Worker(threading.Thread):
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r43346 def __init__(
self, taskqueue, resultqueue, func, staticargs, *args, **kwargs
):
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r40475 threading.Thread.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
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r35427 self._taskqueue = taskqueue
self._resultqueue = resultqueue
self._func = func
self._staticargs = staticargs
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r35428 self._interrupted = False
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r35448 self.daemon = True
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r35428 self.exception = None
def interrupt(self):
self._interrupted = True
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r35427
def run(self):
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r35428 try:
while not self._taskqueue.empty():
try:
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r42722 args = self._taskqueue.get_nowait()
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r35428 for res in self._func(*self._staticargs + (args,)):
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r42722 self._resultqueue.put(res)
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r35428 # threading doesn't provide a native way to
# interrupt execution. handle it manually at every
# iteration.
if self._interrupted:
return
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r37863 except pycompat.queue.Empty:
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r35428 break
except Exception as e:
# store the exception such that the main thread can resurface
# it as if the func was running without workers.
self.exception = e
raise
threads = []
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r35448 def trykillworkers():
# Allow up to 1 second to clean worker threads nicely
cleanupend = time.time() + 1
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r35428 for t in threads:
t.interrupt()
for t in threads:
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r35448 remainingtime = cleanupend - time.time()
t.join(remainingtime)
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r35428 if t.is_alive():
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r35448 # pass over the workers joining failure. it is more
# important to surface the inital exception than the
# fact that one of workers may be processing a large
# task and does not get to handle the interruption.
Augie Fackler
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r43346 ui.warn(
_(
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r43347 b"failed to kill worker threads while "
b"handling an exception\n"
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r43346 )
)
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r35448 return
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r35427
workers = _numworkers(ui)
Gregory Szorc
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r37863 resultqueue = pycompat.queue.Queue()
taskqueue = pycompat.queue.Queue()
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r42722 retval = {}
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r35427 # partition work to more pieces than workers to minimize the chance
# of uneven distribution of large tasks between the workers
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r42722 for pargs in partition(args, workers * 20):
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r35427 taskqueue.put(pargs)
for _i in range(workers):
t = Worker(taskqueue, resultqueue, func, staticargs)
threads.append(t)
t.start()
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r35448 try:
while len(threads) > 0:
while not resultqueue.empty():
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r42722 res = resultqueue.get()
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r42655 if hasretval and res[0]:
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r42722 retval.update(res[1])
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r42655 else:
yield res
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r35448 threads[0].join(0.05)
finishedthreads = [_t for _t in threads if not _t.is_alive()]
for t in finishedthreads:
if t.exception is not None:
raise t.exception
threads.remove(t)
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r43346 except (Exception, KeyboardInterrupt): # re-raises
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r35448 trykillworkers()
raise
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r35427 while not resultqueue.empty():
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r42722 res = resultqueue.get()
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r42655 if hasretval and res[0]:
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r42722 retval.update(res[1])
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r42655 else:
yield res
if hasretval:
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r42722 yield True, retval
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r35427
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r35427 if pycompat.iswindows:
_platformworker = _windowsworker
else:
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r18638 _platformworker = _posixworker
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r18707 _exitstatus = _posixexitstatus
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r18638
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r18637 def partition(lst, nslices):
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r28181 '''partition a list into N slices of roughly equal size
The current strategy takes every Nth element from the input. If
we ever write workers that need to preserve grouping in input
we should consider allowing callers to specify a partition strategy.
Gregory Szorc
worker: document poor partitioning scheme impact...
r28292
mpm is not a fan of this partitioning strategy when files are involved.
In his words:
Single-threaded Mercurial makes a point of creating and visiting
files in a fixed order (alphabetical). When creating files in order,
a typical filesystem is likely to allocate them on nearby regions on
disk. Thus, when revisiting in the same order, locality is maximized
and various forms of OS and disk-level caching and read-ahead get a
chance to work.
This effect can be quite significant on spinning disks. I discovered it
circa Mercurial v0.4 when revlogs were named by hashes of filenames.
Tarring a repo and copying it to another disk effectively randomized
the revlog ordering on disk by sorting the revlogs by hash and suddenly
performance of my kernel checkout benchmark dropped by ~10x because the
"working set" of sectors visited no longer fit in the drive's cache and
the workload switched from streaming to random I/O.
What we should really be doing is have workers read filenames from a
ordered queue. This preserves locality and also keeps any worker from
getting more than one file out of balance.
Gregory Szorc
worker: change partition strategy to every Nth element...
r28181 '''
for i in range(nslices):
yield lst[i::nslices]