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GH-98023: Change default child watcher to PidfdChildWatcher on supported systems #98024

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The unicode failure will be fixed by #98036 and is unrelated.

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This LGTM, but...

I reviewed the child watcher architecture with @1st1 and we want to first do a refactoring on PidfdChildWatcher. Basically the current PidfdChildWatcher attaches itself to the event loop in the main thread, and if it is called from a loop in another thread it won't work. ThreadedChildWatcher doesn't have this problem.

HOWEVER, Yury has a simple refactoring of PidfdChildWatcher in mind that will solve this problem! It will make attach_loop() a no-op, and is_active() will always be True -- just as it is for the ThreadedChildWatcher.

So once Yury's change is merged, this can be merged. (We don't quite have a PR but there will be one soon, I promise.)

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gvanrossum commented Oct 7, 2022

Actually, @grangert already has a complete PR (GH-94184) to make PidfdChildWatcher independent from the loop, so we'll merge that, then this.

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The docs failure is due to something that was accidentally merged, no point in updating and re-running all the tests. The Azure failure is due to the same thing. Still waiting for GH-94184 to go green and merge.

@gvanrossum gvanrossum merged commit 8ba9378 into python:main Oct 8, 2022
@kumaraditya303 kumaraditya303 deleted the pidfd branch October 8, 2022 06:15
carljm added a commit to carljm/cpython that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2022
* main:
  pythongh-68686: Retire eptag ptag scripts (python#98064)
  pythongh-97922: Run the GC only on eval breaker (python#97920)
  GitHub Workflows security hardening (python#96492)
  Add `@ezio-melotti` as codeowner for `.github/`. (python#98079)
  pythongh-97913 Docs: Add walrus operator to the index (python#97921)
  [doc] Fix broken links to C extensions accelerating stdlib modules (python#96914)
  pythongh-97822: Fix http.server documentation reference to test() function (python#98027)
  pythongh-91052: Add PyDict_Unwatch for unwatching a dictionary (python#98055)
  pythonGH-98023: Change default child watcher to PidfdChildWatcher on supported systems (python#98024)
  pythonGH-94182: Run the PidfdChildWatcher on the running loop (python#94184)
carljm added a commit to carljm/cpython that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2022
* main: (5519 commits)
  Minor edits to the Descriptor HowTo Guide (pythonGH-24901)
  Fix link to Lifecycle of a Pull Request in CONTRIBUTING (python#98102)
  pythonGH-94597: deprecate `SafeChildWatcher`, `FastChildWatcher` and `MultiLoopChildWatcher` child watchers  (python#98089)
  Auto-cancel old builds when new commit pushed to branch (python#98009)
  pythongh-95011: Migrate syslog module to Argument Clinic (pythonGH-95012)
  pythongh-68686: Retire eptag ptag scripts (python#98064)
  pythongh-97922: Run the GC only on eval breaker (python#97920)
  GitHub Workflows security hardening (python#96492)
  Add `@ezio-melotti` as codeowner for `.github/`. (python#98079)
  pythongh-97913 Docs: Add walrus operator to the index (python#97921)
  [doc] Fix broken links to C extensions accelerating stdlib modules (python#96914)
  pythongh-97822: Fix http.server documentation reference to test() function (python#98027)
  pythongh-91052: Add PyDict_Unwatch for unwatching a dictionary (python#98055)
  pythonGH-98023: Change default child watcher to PidfdChildWatcher on supported systems (python#98024)
  pythonGH-94182: Run the PidfdChildWatcher on the running loop (python#94184)
  pythongh-92886: make test_ast pass with -O (assertions off) (pythonGH-98058)
  pythongh-92886: make test_coroutines pass with -O (assertions off) (pythonGH-98060)
  pythongh-57179: Add note on symlinks for os.walk (python#94799)
  pythongh-94808: Fix regex on exotic platforms (python#98036)
  pythongh-90085: Remove vestigial -t and -c timeit options (python#94941)
  ...
mpage pushed a commit to mpage/cpython that referenced this pull request Oct 11, 2022
bdraco added a commit to bdraco/home-assistant that referenced this pull request Feb 12, 2023
This is a backport from cpython 3.12

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-policy.html
> PidfdChildWatcher is a “Goldilocks” child watcher implementation. It doesn’t require signals or threads, doesn’t interfere with any processes launched outside the event loop, and scales linearly with the number of subprocesses launched by the event loop. The main disadvantage is that pidfds are specific to Linux, and only work on recent (5.3+) kernels.

python/cpython#98024
There are some additional fixes in cpython 3.12
in python/cpython#94184
when there is no event loop running in the main thread
but this is not a problem we have
balloob pushed a commit to home-assistant/core that referenced this pull request Feb 12, 2023
This is a backport from cpython 3.12

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-policy.html
> PidfdChildWatcher is a “Goldilocks” child watcher implementation. It doesn’t require signals or threads, doesn’t interfere with any processes launched outside the event loop, and scales linearly with the number of subprocesses launched by the event loop. The main disadvantage is that pidfds are specific to Linux, and only work on recent (5.3+) kernels.

python/cpython#98024
There are some additional fixes in cpython 3.12
in python/cpython#94184
when there is no event loop running in the main thread
but this is not a problem we have
AlePerla pushed a commit to AlePerla/homeassistant_core that referenced this pull request Feb 17, 2023
This is a backport from cpython 3.12

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-policy.html
> PidfdChildWatcher is a “Goldilocks” child watcher implementation. It doesn’t require signals or threads, doesn’t interfere with any processes launched outside the event loop, and scales linearly with the number of subprocesses launched by the event loop. The main disadvantage is that pidfds are specific to Linux, and only work on recent (5.3+) kernels.

python/cpython#98024
There are some additional fixes in cpython 3.12
in python/cpython#94184
when there is no event loop running in the main thread
but this is not a problem we have
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