bugGNU Parallel - Bugs: bug #43930, Pre-spawn open3

 
 

bug #43930: Pre-spawn open3

Submitter:  Ole Tange <tange>
Submitted:  Sun 04 Jan 2015 11:09:38 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  None Status:  None
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Sat 12 Oct 2019 10:37:56 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Instead of passing fileno, use exec:

create fifo-stdin, fifo-stderr, fifo-stdout

#!/bin/sh
exec < fifo-stdin > fifo-stdout 2>fifo-stderr
rm fifo-stdin fifo-stdout fifo-stderr
exec $the_shell

This way we do not need to know the output names before spawning.

Instead of fifo-stdout and fifo-stderr these can be the temporary/permanent files. Permanent files should not be rm'ed.

To get started we probably need to pass the fileno of stdin along with the pid to the master process.

By using 'exec $the_shell' big multiline programs can be run. Such as big environment.


Ole Tange <tange>
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Fri 18 Aug 2017 09:36:11 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Idea:

spawn job that reads a perlscript from STDIN. The job's output is pipe-filehandles similar to --linebuffer.

The script will open output file if that is needed and compress if needed.

Status is communicated through tmpfile.

How does the job communicate that it died? Is that SIGCHLD sent top parent if threading?

Ole Tange <tange>
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Sun 26 Feb 2017 10:04:48 AM UTC, comment #4: 

--results can put files on a different file system than --tmpdir, so use dir of --results if set.

Ole Tange <tange>
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Sun 26 Feb 2017 10:00:26 AM UTC, comment #3: 
Ole Tange <tange>
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Wed 31 Aug 2016 08:32:44 AM UTC, comment #2: 

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut.html#Queues%3a-Passing-Data-Around

for #of_cpu:
  spawn 1 open3-slave thread

slave:
while queue < #of_cpu:
  open3 with compression if needed
  push $pid, $stdin, $stdout, $stderr, $compress_pid, $decomp_pid
  sleep until queue changes

Can we re-link a tmpfile? So we default to anonymous filenames and name them if needed.


Ole Tange <tange>
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Mon 05 Jan 2015 07:29:25 AM UTC, comment #1: 

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=493754

It seems you can share a filehandle between threads by using 'fileno' and "<&=$fileno".

So maintain a queue with preopened open3 filehandles:

slave:
share @q;
$exec_first = "exec hexdecode(<STDIN>)";
if @q < 40 :
  my $out = tmpfile(); unlink $out;
  my $err = tmpfile(); unlink $err;
  my $pid = open3(my $in, $out, $err, $exec_first);
  # how to deal with errors?
  push @q, $pid, $in, $out, $err;
sleep until @q < 40

master:
$TMPDIR=--retults or $TMPDIR or /tmp;
fork slave;
sleep until @q >= 4
my ($pid, $in, $out, $err) = pop @q, pop @q, pop @q;
# How to deal with --compress?
# Who gets SIGCHILD?

Ole Tange <tange>
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Sun 04 Jan 2015 11:09:38 AM UTC, original submission:  

According to:

  perl -d:NYTProf parallel true ::: {1..1000}
  nytprofcg; kcachegrind nytprof.callgrind

open3 is the major limitation. Can they somehow be pre-spawned on a different core?

One core does open3 of a command that reads from stdin and execs what was read. This waiting process is then handed off to the mother process that gives it the real task.

Maybe something similar can be done with printing? A single task does nothing but printing and reads filehandle-objects from a queue.

Ole Tange <tange>
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