Re: [gentoo-dev] multiprocessing.eclass: doing parallel work in bash

[Mike Frysinger]

v2
-mike

# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

# @ECLASS: multiprocessing.eclass
# @MAINTAINER:
# base-system@g.o
# @AUTHOR:
# Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
# Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
# @BLURB: parallelization with bash (wtf?)
# @DESCRIPTION:
# The multiprocessing eclass contains a suite of functions that allow ebuilds
# to quickly run things in parallel using shell code.
# @EXAMPLE:
#
# @CODE
# # First initialize things:
# multijob_init
#
# # Then hash a bunch of files in parallel:
# for n in {0..20} ; do
# 	multijob_child_init md5sum data.${n} > data.${n}
# done
#
# # Then wait for all the children to finish:
# multijob_finish
# @CODE

if [[ ${___ECLASS_ONCE_MULTIPROCESSING} != "recur -_+^+_- spank" ]] ; then
___ECLASS_ONCE_MULTIPROCESSING="recur -_+^+_- spank"

# @FUNCTION: makeopts_jobs
# @USAGE: [${MAKEOPTS}]
# @DESCRIPTION:
# Searches the arguments (defaults to ${MAKEOPTS}) and extracts the jobs number
# specified therein.  Useful for running non-make tools in parallel too.
# i.e. if the user has MAKEOPTS=-j9, this will echo "9" -- we can't return the
# number as bash normalizes it to [0, 255].  If the flags haven't specified a
# -j flag, then "1" is shown as that is the default `make` uses.  Since there's
# no way to represent infinity, we return 999 if the user has -j without a number.
makeopts_jobs() {
	[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && set -- ${MAKEOPTS}
	# This assumes the first .* will be more greedy than the second .*
	# since POSIX doesn't specify a non-greedy match (i.e. ".*?").
	local jobs=$(echo " $* " | sed -r -n \
		-e 's:.*[[:space:]](-j|--jobs[=[:space:]])[[:space:]]*([0-9]+).*:\2:p' \
		-e 's:.*[[:space:]](-j|--jobs)[[:space:]].*:999:p')
	echo ${jobs:-1}
}

# @FUNCTION: redirect_alloc_fd
# @USAGE: <var> <file> [redirection]
# @DESCRIPTION:
# Find a free fd and redirect the specified file via it.  Store the new
# fd in the specified variable.  Useful for the cases where we don't care
# about the exact fd #.
redirect_alloc_fd() {
	local var=$1 file=$2 redir=${3:-"<>"}

	if [[ $(( (BASH_VERSINFO[0] << 8) + BASH_VERSINFO[1] )) -ge $(( (4 << 8) + 1 )) ]] ; then
		# Newer bash provides this functionality.
		eval "exec {${var}}${redir}'${file}'"
	else
		# Need to provide the functionality ourselves.
		local fd=10
		while :; do
			if [[ ! -L /dev/fd/${fd} ]] ; then
				eval "exec ${fd}${redir}'${file}'" && break
			fi
			[[ ${fd} -gt 1024 ]] && return 1 # sanity
			: $(( ++fd ))
		done
		: $(( ${var} = fd ))
	fi
}

# @FUNCTION: multijob_init
# @USAGE: [${MAKEOPTS}]
# @DESCRIPTION:
# Setup the environment for executing code in parallel.
# You must call this before any other multijob function.
multijob_init() {
	# When something goes wrong, try to wait for all the children so we
	# don't leave any zombies around.
	has wait ${EBUILD_DEATH_HOOKS} || EBUILD_DEATH_HOOKS+=" wait"

	# Setup a pipe for children to write their pids to when they finish.
	mj_control_pipe="${T}/multijob.pipe"
	mkfifo "${mj_control_pipe}"
	redirect_alloc_fd mj_control_fd "${mj_control_pipe}"
	rm -f "${mj_control_pipe}"

	# See how many children we can fork based on the user's settings.
	mj_max_jobs=$(makeopts_jobs "$@")
	mj_num_jobs=0
}

# @FUNCTION: multijob_child_init
# @USAGE: [command to run in background]
# @DESCRIPTION:
# This function has two forms.  You can use it to execute a simple command
# in the background (and it takes care of everything else), or you must
# call this first thing in your forked child process.
#
# @CODE
# # 1st form: pass the command line as arguments:
# multijob_child_init ls /dev
#
# # 2nd form: execute multiple stuff in the background:
# (
# multijob_child_init
# out=`ls`
# if echo "${out}" | grep foo ; then
# 	echo "YEAH"
# fi
# ) &
# multijob_post_fork
# @CODE
multijob_child_init() {
	if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then
		trap 'echo ${BASHPID} $? >&'${mj_control_fd} EXIT
		trap 'exit 1' INT TERM
	else
		( multijob_child_init ; "$@" ) &
		multijob_post_fork
	fi
}

# @FUNCTION: multijob_post_fork
# @DESCRIPTION:
# You must call this in the parent process after forking a child process.
# If the parallel limit has been hit, it will wait for one child to finish
# and return the its exit status.
multijob_post_fork() {
	[[ $# -eq 0 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME} takes no arguments"

	: $(( ++mj_num_jobs ))
	if [[ ${mj_num_jobs} -ge ${mj_max_jobs} ]] ; then
		multijob_finish_one
	fi
	return $?
}

# @FUNCTION: multijob_finish_one
# @DESCRIPTION:
# Wait for a single process to exit and return its exit code.
multijob_finish_one() {
	[[ $# -eq 0 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME} takes no arguments"

	local pid ret
	read -r -u ${mj_control_fd} pid ret || die
	: $(( --mj_num_jobs ))
	return ${ret}
}

# @FUNCTION: multijob_finish
# @DESCRIPTION:
# Wait for all pending processes to exit and return the bitwise or
# of all their exit codes.
multijob_finish() {
	local ret=0
	while [[ ${mj_num_jobs} -gt 0 ]] ; do
		multijob_finish_one
		: $(( ret |= $? ))
	done
	# Let bash clean up its internal child tracking state.
	wait

	# Do this after reaping all the children.
	[[ $# -eq 0 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME} takes no arguments"

	return ${ret}
}

fi