support/scripts/pkg-stats: retrieve packages latest version using processes

The major bottleneck in pkg-stats is the time spent waiting for
answers from remote servers. Two functions involve such communication
with remote servers:

- 'check_package_urls' which checks that each package upstream website
  is up, it is efficient due to the use of process-pools thanks to
  Matt Weber.

- 'check_package_latest_version' which fetches the latest package
  version from release-monitoring, it uses a http-pool but runs
  sequentially.

This patch extends the use of process-pools to 'check_latest_version'.
Due to some limitations of multiprocess callbacks, this patch loses
the overall progress of packages in favour of just the current package
name.

Runtimes for this function are ~3m vs ~25m for the linear version.
Tested on an i7 7500U (2/4 cores/threads @3.5GHz) with 15ms ping.

Note: There have already been work trying to parallelize this function
using threads but there were a failure on some configurations [1].
This implementation rely on a dedicated module already in use on this
script, so it's unlikely to see failure with this version.

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-March/215368.html

Signed-off-by: Victor Huesca <victor.huesca@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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Victor Huesca 2019-08-01 17:12:44 +02:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
parent 3938afe1b5
commit 294fc3218c

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@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ RM_API_STATUS_FOUND_BY_DISTRO = 2
RM_API_STATUS_FOUND_BY_PATTERN = 3
RM_API_STATUS_NOT_FOUND = 4
# Used to make multiple requests to the same host. It is global
# because it's used by sub-processes.
http_pool = None
class Package:
all_licenses = list()
@ -316,6 +320,15 @@ def release_monitoring_get_latest_version_by_guess(pool, name):
return (RM_API_STATUS_NOT_FOUND, None, None)
def check_package_latest_version_worker(name):
"""Wrapper to try both by name then by guess"""
print(name)
res = release_monitoring_get_latest_version_by_distro(http_pool, name)
if res[0] == RM_API_STATUS_NOT_FOUND:
res = release_monitoring_get_latest_version_by_guess(http_pool, name)
return res
def check_package_latest_version(packages):
"""
Fills in the .latest_version field of all Package objects
@ -331,18 +344,15 @@ def check_package_latest_version(packages):
- id: string containing the id of the project corresponding to this
package, as known by release-monitoring.org
"""
pool = HTTPSConnectionPool('release-monitoring.org', port=443,
cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED', ca_certs=certifi.where(),
timeout=30)
count = 0
for pkg in packages:
v = release_monitoring_get_latest_version_by_distro(pool, pkg.name)
if v[0] == RM_API_STATUS_NOT_FOUND:
v = release_monitoring_get_latest_version_by_guess(pool, pkg.name)
pkg.latest_version = v
print("[%d/%d] Package %s" % (count, len(packages), pkg.name))
count += 1
global http_pool
http_pool = HTTPSConnectionPool('release-monitoring.org', port=443,
cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED', ca_certs=certifi.where(),
timeout=30)
worker_pool = Pool(processes=64)
results = worker_pool.map(check_package_latest_version_worker, (pkg.name for pkg in packages))
for pkg, r in zip(packages, results):
pkg.latest_version = r
del http_pool
def calculate_stats(packages):