use minimal number of forks taking serial, forks and play patterns into account

lib/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ class TaskQueueManager:
         self._callbacks_loaded = False
         self._callback_plugins = []
         self._start_at_done    = False
+        self._result_prc       = None
 
         # make sure the module path (if specified) is parsed and
         # added to the module_loader object
@@ -92,17 +93,17 @@ class TaskQueueManager:
         # plugins for inter-process locking.
         self._connection_lockfile = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
 
-        #FIXME: should this move to 'run' and get serial and play pattern applied as limiter?
-        # Treat "forks" config parameter as max value. Only create number of workers
-        # equal to number of hosts in inventory if less than max value.
-        num_workers = min(self._options.forks, len(self._inventory.list_hosts()))
-
         self._workers = []
-        for i in range(num_workers):
+
+    def _initialize_workers(self, num):
+        if num <= 0:
+            num = 1
+
+        for i in range(num):
             main_q = multiprocessing.Queue()
             rslt_q = multiprocessing.Queue()
 
-            prc = WorkerProcess(self, main_q, rslt_q, loader)
+            prc = WorkerProcess(self, main_q, rslt_q, self._loader)
             prc.start()
 
             self._workers.append((prc, main_q, rslt_q))
@@ -178,6 +179,11 @@ class TaskQueueManager:
         are done with the current task).
         '''
 
+        #FIXME: should this move to 'run' and get serial and play pattern applied as limiter?
+        # Treat "forks" config parameter as max value. Only create number of workers
+        # equal to number of hosts in inventory if less than max value.
+        self._initialize_workers(min( [ v for v in [self._options.forks, play.serial, len(self._inventory.get_hosts(play.hosts))] if v is not None] ))
+
         if not self._callbacks_loaded:
             self.load_callbacks()
 
@@ -227,6 +233,8 @@ class TaskQueueManager:
         self.terminate()
 
         self._final_q.close()
+
+        if self._result_prc:
             self._result_prc.terminate()
 
             for (worker_prc, main_q, rslt_q) in self._workers: