Merge pull request #6495 from mheon/parallel_execution

Add parallel execution code for container operations

cmd/podman/root.go

@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path"
+	"runtime"
 	"runtime/pprof"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/cmd/podman/registry"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/cmd/podman/validate"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/domain/entities"
+	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/parallel"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/rootless"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/tracing"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/version"
@@ -137,6 +139,13 @@ func persistentPreRunE(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		opentracing.StartSpanFromContext(cfg.SpanCtx, cmd.Name())
 	}
 
+	if cfg.MaxWorks <= 0 {
+		return errors.Errorf("maximum workers must be set to a positive number (got %d)", cfg.MaxWorks)
+	}
+	if err := parallel.SetMaxThreads(uint(cfg.MaxWorks)); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
 	// Setup Rootless environment, IFF:
 	// 1) in ABI mode
 	// 2) running as non-root
@@ -216,7 +225,7 @@ func rootFlags(opts *entities.PodmanConfig, flags *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	flags.StringVar(&cfg.Containers.DefaultMountsFile, "default-mounts-file", cfg.Containers.DefaultMountsFile, "Path to default mounts file")
 	flags.StringVar(&cfg.Engine.EventsLogger, "events-backend", cfg.Engine.EventsLogger, `Events backend to use ("file"|"journald"|"none")`)
 	flags.StringSliceVar(&cfg.Engine.HooksDir, "hooks-dir", cfg.Engine.HooksDir, "Set the OCI hooks directory path (may be set multiple times)")
-	flags.IntVar(&opts.MaxWorks, "max-workers", 0, "The maximum number of workers for parallel operations")
+	flags.IntVar(&opts.MaxWorks, "max-workers", (runtime.NumCPU()*3)+1, "The maximum number of workers for parallel operations")
 	flags.StringVar(&cfg.Engine.Namespace, "namespace", cfg.Engine.Namespace, "Set the libpod namespace, used to create separate views of the containers and pods on the system")
 	flags.StringVar(&cfg.Engine.StaticDir, "root", "", "Path to the root directory in which data, including images, is stored")
 	flags.StringVar(&opts.RegistriesConf, "registries-conf", "", "Path to a registries.conf to use for image processing")

pkg/domain/infra/abi/containers.go

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/checkpoint"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/domain/entities"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/domain/infra/abi/terminal"
+	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/parallel"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/ps"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/rootless"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/pkg/signal"
@@ -321,21 +322,25 @@ func (ic *ContainerEngine) ContainerRm(ctx context.Context, namesOrIds []string,
 		return reports, nil
 	}
 
-	for _, c := range ctrs {
-		report := entities.RmReport{Id: c.ID()}
+	errMap, err := parallel.ParallelContainerOp(ctx, ctrs, func(c *libpod.Container) error {
 		err := ic.Libpod.RemoveContainer(ctx, c, options.Force, options.Volumes)
 		if err != nil {
 			if options.Ignore && errors.Cause(err) == define.ErrNoSuchCtr {
 				logrus.Debugf("Ignoring error (--allow-missing): %v", err)
-				reports = append(reports, &report)
-				continue
+				return nil
 			}
 			logrus.Debugf("Failed to remove container %s: %s", c.ID(), err.Error())
-			report.Err = err
-			reports = append(reports, &report)
-			continue
 		}
-		reports = append(reports, &report)
+		return err
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	for ctr, err := range errMap {
+		report := new(entities.RmReport)
+		report.Id = ctr.ID()
+		report.Err = err
+		reports = append(reports, report)
 	}
 	return reports, nil
 }

pkg/parallel/parallel.go

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package parallel
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"golang.org/x/sync/semaphore"
+)
+
+var (
+	// Maximum number of jobs that will be used.
+	// Set a low, but non-zero, default. We'll be overriding it by default
+	// anyways.
+	numThreads uint = 8
+	// Semaphore to control thread creation and ensure numThreads is
+	// respected.
+	jobControl *semaphore.Weighted
+	// Lock to control changing the semaphore - we don't want to do it
+	// while anyone is using it.
+	jobControlLock sync.RWMutex
+)
+
+// SetMaxThreads sets the number of threads that will be used for parallel jobs.
+func SetMaxThreads(threads uint) error {
+	if threads == 0 {
+		return errors.New("must give a non-zero number of threads to execute with")
+	}
+
+	jobControlLock.Lock()
+	defer jobControlLock.Unlock()
+
+	numThreads = threads
+	jobControl = semaphore.NewWeighted(int64(threads))
+	logrus.Infof("Setting parallel job count to %d", threads)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// GetMaxThreads returns the current number of threads that will be used for
+// parallel jobs.
+func GetMaxThreads() uint {
+	return numThreads
+}

pkg/parallel/parallel_linux.go

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package parallel
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/containers/libpod/libpod"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+// ParallelContainerOp performs the given function on the given set of
+// containers, using a number of parallel threads.
+// If no error is returned, each container specified in ctrs will have an entry
+// in the resulting map; containers with no error will be set to nil.
+func ParallelContainerOp(ctx context.Context, ctrs []*libpod.Container, applyFunc func(*libpod.Container) error) (map[*libpod.Container]error, error) {
+	jobControlLock.RLock()
+	defer jobControlLock.RUnlock()
+
+	// We could use a sync.Map but given Go's lack of generic I'd rather
+	// just use a lock on a normal map...
+	// The expectation is that most of the time is spent in applyFunc
+	// anyways.
+	var (
+		errMap  map[*libpod.Container]error = make(map[*libpod.Container]error)
+		errLock sync.Mutex
+		allDone sync.WaitGroup
+	)
+
+	for _, ctr := range ctrs {
+		// Block until a thread is available
+		if err := jobControl.Acquire(ctx, 1); err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "error acquiring job control semaphore")
+		}
+
+		allDone.Add(1)
+
+		c := ctr
+		go func() {
+			logrus.Debugf("Launching job on container %s", c.ID())
+
+			err := applyFunc(c)
+			errLock.Lock()
+			errMap[c] = err
+			errLock.Unlock()
+
+			allDone.Done()
+			jobControl.Release(1)
+		}()
+	}
+
+	allDone.Wait()
+
+	return errMap, nil
+}
+
+// TODO: Add an Enqueue() function that returns a promise