git_policy_cli/foundation/parallel_runner.rs
1//! What:
2//! Runs independent items on a bounded number of threads and reports what they say and what they return in input order,
3//! as if they had run one after another.
4//! Why:
5//! Items that share nothing (one worktree each, one directory each) need not wait for each other, but a person reads one
6//! stream of lines. The calling thread is the only consumer: workers hand it lines and results over a channel, it prints the
7//! lines of the first unfinished item as they arrive (so progress stays live), holds the lines of later items until every item
8//! before them is complete, and then prints them in order. No lock is taken: the channel and one atomic counter that hands out
9//! the lanes are the whole of the sharing, and every item has exactly one owner.
10//!
11//! In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
12//! ```ts
13//! await runOrdered({ items, lanes, workers, work: (index, item, say) => convert(item, say), onEvent });
14//! ```
15
16use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
17use std::sync::mpsc::{Sender, channel};
18
19/// What:
20/// What the consumer is told, always in input order.
21/// Why:
22/// An item begins when every item before it is complete, says its lines, and ends with its result.
23///
24/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
25/// ```ts
26/// type Event<R> = { begin: number } | { line: [number, string] } | { end: [number, R] };
27/// ```
28#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
29pub enum Event<'line, R> {
30 /// The item at this index is the first unfinished one; its lines follow.
31 Begin(usize),
32 /// A line the item at this index said.
33 Line(usize, &'line str),
34 /// The item at this index is complete, with its result.
35 End(usize, R),
36}
37
38/// What a worker hands the consumer.
39enum Message<R> {
40 /// A line an item said.
41 Line(usize, String),
42 /// An item is complete.
43 Done(usize, R),
44}
45
46/// What:
47/// Everything one ordered run needs.
48/// Why:
49/// One value names the inputs, so the call reads as a list of facts.
50///
51/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
52/// ```ts
53/// type OrderedRun<T, R> = { items: T[]; lanes: number[][]; workers: number; work: (index, item, say) => R; onEvent: (event) => void };
54/// ```
55pub struct OrderedRun<'run, T, R> {
56 /// The items, in the order their output is reported.
57 pub items: &'run [T],
58 /// The indices of the items, grouped: the items of a lane run one after another on one worker, lanes run side by side.
59 /// Every index appears in exactly one lane. Items that must not overlap (the same worktree named twice) share a lane.
60 pub lanes: &'run [Vec<usize>],
61 /// The most threads that run at once; at least one, and never more than there are lanes.
62 pub workers: usize,
63 /// What one item does, given its index, itself and a function that says one line.
64 pub work: &'run (dyn Fn(usize, &T, &mut dyn FnMut(&str)) -> R + Sync),
65 /// The consumer, called on the calling thread only.
66 pub on_event: &'run mut dyn FnMut(Event<'_, R>),
67}
68
69/// What the calling thread has reported so far.
70struct Cursor<R> {
71 /// The first item that is not complete.
72 head: usize,
73 /// Whether `Begin` was reported for `head`.
74 begun: bool,
75 /// The lines of items that are not the head yet, by index.
76 held_lines: Vec<Vec<String>>,
77 /// The results of items that are complete but not reported, by index.
78 finished: Vec<Option<R>>,
79}
80
81impl<R> Cursor<R> {
82 /// Report everything that is now reportable: the head begins, its held lines follow, and a complete head ends and the
83 /// next item becomes the head.
84 fn advance(&mut self, on_event: &mut dyn FnMut(Event<'_, R>)) {
85 loop {
86 if self.head >= self.finished.len() {
87 return;
88 }
89 if !self.begun {
90 on_event(Event::Begin(self.head));
91 self.begun = true;
92 for text in std::mem::take(&mut self.held_lines[self.head]) {
93 on_event(Event::Line(self.head, text.as_str()));
94 }
95 }
96 match self.finished[self.head].take() {
97 Some(result) => {
98 on_event(Event::End(self.head, result));
99 self.head += 1;
100 self.begun = false;
101 }
102 None => return,
103 }
104 }
105 }
106}
107
108/// What a worker does: take lanes until none is left, run the items of each lane in order, and send every line and result.
109fn work_lanes<T, R>(run: (&[T], &[Vec<usize>], &AtomicUsize, &(dyn Fn(usize, &T, &mut dyn FnMut(&str)) -> R + Sync)), sender: &Sender<Message<R>>) {
110 let (items, lanes, next_lane, work) = run;
111 loop {
112 let lane_index: usize = next_lane.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
113 let Some(lane) = lanes.get(lane_index) else { return };
114 for &index in lane {
115 let Some(item) = items.get(index) else { continue };
116 let result: R = work(index, item, &mut |text: &str| {
117 // The consumer is gone only when the calling thread panicked, and that panic is reported by the scope.
118 let _sent = sender.send(Message::Line(index, text.to_string()));
119 });
120 let _sent = sender.send(Message::Done(index, result));
121 }
122 }
123}
124
125/// What:
126/// Run every item and report in input order.
127/// Why:
128/// See the module description. A panic in a worker ends the run: the channel closes when every worker is gone, the
129/// consumer stops waiting, and the scope raises the worker's panic on the calling thread.
130///
131/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
132/// ```ts
133/// await runOrdered({ items, lanes, workers, work, onEvent });
134/// ```
135///
136/// # Panics
137/// When a lane names an index that is not an item, or the lanes do not cover every item exactly once.
138pub fn run_ordered<T: Sync, R: Send>(run: OrderedRun<'_, T, R>) {
139 let OrderedRun { items, lanes, workers, work, on_event } = run;
140 let mut covered: Vec<bool> = vec![false; items.len()];
141 for &index in lanes.iter().flatten() {
142 let slot: &mut bool = covered.get_mut(index).unwrap_or_else(|| { panic!("a lane names item {index}, but there are {} items", items.len()); });
143 assert!(!*slot, "item {index} is in two lanes");
144 *slot = true;
145 }
146 assert!(covered.iter().all(|seen: &bool| { return *seen; }), "a lane set must cover every item");
147 let next_lane: AtomicUsize = AtomicUsize::new(0);
148 let (sender, receiver) = channel::<Message<R>>();
149 let mut cursor: Cursor<R> = Cursor { head: 0, begun: false, held_lines: items.iter().map(|_item: &T| { return Vec::new(); }).collect(), finished: items.iter().map(|_item: &T| { return None; }).collect() };
150 std::thread::scope(|scope| {
151 for _worker in 0..workers.max(1).min(lanes.len().max(1)) {
152 let worker_sender: Sender<Message<R>> = sender.clone();
153 let next: &AtomicUsize = &next_lane;
154 scope.spawn(move || { work_lanes((items, lanes, next, work), &worker_sender); });
155 }
156 drop(sender);
157 cursor.advance(on_event);
158 while let Ok(message) = receiver.recv() {
159 match message {
160 Message::Line(index, text) => {
161 if index == cursor.head && cursor.begun {
162 on_event(Event::Line(index, text.as_str()));
163 } else {
164 cursor.held_lines[index].push(text);
165 }
166 }
167 Message::Done(index, result) => cursor.finished[index] = Some(result),
168 }
169 cursor.advance(on_event);
170 }
171 });
172}
173
174/// Ordered run controls stay out of the release executable.
175#[cfg(test)]
176#[path = "parallel_runner_tests.rs"]
177mod tests;