trio-parallel 1.0.0

CPU parallelism for Trio

Do you have CPU-bound work that just keeps slowing down your Trio event loop no matter what you try? Do you need to get all those cores humming at once? This is the library for you!

The aim of trio-parallel is to use the lightest-weight, lowest-overhead, lowest-latency method to achieve CPU parallelism of arbitrary Python code with a dead-simple API.

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Example

import functools
import multiprocessing
import trio
import trio_parallel


def loop(n):
    # Arbitrary CPU-bound work
    for _ in range(n):
        pass
    print("Loops completed:", n)


async def amain():
    t0 = trio.current_time()
    async with trio.open_nursery() as nursery:
        # Do CPU-bound work in parallel
        for i in [6, 7, 8] * 4:
            nursery.start_soon(trio_parallel.run_sync, loop, 10 ** i)
        # Event loop remains responsive
        t1 = trio.current_time()
        await trio.sleep(0)
        print("Scheduling latency:", trio.current_time() - t1)
        # This job could take far too long, make it cancellable!
        nursery.start_soon(
            functools.partial(
                trio_parallel.run_sync, loop, 10 ** 20, cancellable=True
            )
        )
        await trio.sleep(2)
        # Only explicitly cancellable jobs are killed on cancel
        nursery.cancel_scope.cancel()
    print("Total runtime:", trio.current_time() - t0)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    multiprocessing.freeze_support()
    trio.run(amain)

Additional examples and the full API are available in the documentation.

Features

• Bypasses the GIL for CPU-bound work

• Minimal API complexity

  • looks and feels like Trio threads

• Minimal internal complexity

  • No reliance on multiprocessing.Pool, ProcessPoolExecutor, or any background threads

• Cross-platform

• print just works

• Seamless interoperation with

  • coverage.py

  • viztracer

  • cloudpickle

• Automatic LIFO caching of subprocesses

• Cancel seriously misbehaving code via SIGKILL/TerminateProcess

• Convert segfaults and other scary things to catchable errors

FAQ

How does trio-parallel run Python code in parallel?

Currently, this project is based on multiprocessing subprocesses and has all the usual multiprocessing caveats (freeze_support, pickleable objects only, executing the __main__ module). The case for basing these workers on multiprocessing is that it keeps a lot of complexity outside of the project while offering a set of quirks that users are likely already familiar with.

The pickling limitations can be partially alleviated by installing cloudpickle.

Can I have my workers talk to each other?

This is currently possible through the use of multiprocessing.Manager, but we don’t and will not officially support it.

This package focuses on providing a flat hierarchy of worker subprocesses to run synchronous, CPU-bound functions. If you are looking to create a nested hierarchy of processes communicating asynchronously with each other, while preserving the power, safety, and convenience of structured concurrency, look into tractor. Or, if you are looking for a more customized solution, try using trio.run_process to spawn additional Trio runs and have them talk to each other over sockets.

Can I let my workers outlive the main Trio process?

No. Trio’s structured concurrency strictly bounds job runs to within a given trio.run call, while cached idle workers are shutdown and killed if necessary by our atexit handler, so this use case is not supported.

How should I map a function over a collection of arguments?

This is fully possible but we leave the implementation of that up to you. Think of us as a loky for your joblib, but natively async and Trionic. We take care of the worker handling so that you can focus on the best concurrency for your application. That said, some example parallelism patterns can be found in the documentation.

Also, look into aiometer?

Contributing

If you notice any bugs, need any help, or want to contribute any code, GitHub issues and pull requests are very welcome! Please read the code of conduct.