Source code for cobra.util.process_pool

"""Provide a process pool with enhanced performance on Windows."""


import multiprocessing
import os
import pickle
from pathlib import Path
from platform import system
from tempfile import mkstemp
from types import TracebackType
from typing import Any, Callable, Optional, Tuple, Type


__all__ = ("ProcessPool",)


def _init_win_worker(filename: str) -> None:
    """Retrieve worker initialization code from a pickle file and call it."""
    with open(filename, mode="rb") as handle:
        func, *args = pickle.load(handle)
    func(*args)


[docs]class ProcessPool: """Define a process pool that handles the Windows platform specially.""" def __init__( self, processes: Optional[int] = None, initializer: Optional[Callable] = None, initargs: Tuple = (), maxtasksperchild: Optional[int] = None, **kwargs ) -> None: """ Initialize a process pool. Add a thin layer on top of the `multiprocessing.Pool` that, on Windows, passes initialization code to workers via a pickle file rather than directly. This is done to avoid a performance issue that exists on Windows. Please, also see the discussion [1_]. References ---------- .. [1] https://github.com/opencobra/cobrapy/issues/997 """ super().__init__(**kwargs) self._filename = None if initializer is not None and system() == "Windows": descriptor, self._filename = mkstemp(suffix=".pkl") # We use the file descriptor to the open file returned by `mkstemp` to # ensure that the resource is closed and can later be removed. Otherwise # Windows will cause a `PermissionError`. with os.fdopen(descriptor, mode="wb") as handle: pickle.dump((initializer,) + initargs, handle) initializer = _init_win_worker initargs = (self._filename,) self._pool = multiprocessing.Pool( processes=processes, initializer=initializer, initargs=initargs, maxtasksperchild=maxtasksperchild, )
[docs] def __getattr__(self, name: str, **kwargs) -> Any: """Defer attribute access to the pool instance.""" return getattr(self._pool, name, **kwargs)
[docs] def __enter__(self) -> "ProcessPool": """Enable context management.""" self._pool.__enter__() return self
[docs] def __exit__( self, exc_type: Optional[Type[BaseException]], exc_val: Optional[BaseException], exc_tb: Optional[TracebackType], ) -> Optional[bool]: """Clean up resources when leaving a context.""" # The `multiprocessing.Pool.__exit__` only terminates pool processes. For a # clean exit, we close the pool and join the pool processes first. try: self._pool.close() self._pool.join() finally: self._clean_up() result = self._pool.__exit__(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb) return result
[docs] def close(self) -> None: """ Close the process pool. Prevent any more tasks from being submitted to the pool. Once all the tasks have been completed, the worker processes will exit. """ try: self._pool.close() finally: self._clean_up()
[docs] def _clean_up(self) -> None: """Remove the dump file if it exists.""" if self._filename is not None and Path(self._filename).exists(): Path(self._filename).unlink()