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David Wilson 43ecbe350c docs: rearrange more ansible risks 7 years ago
David Wilson 19a418cc6f docs: document mitogen_task_isolation. 7 years ago
David Wilson ba74f8f743 docs: remove Ansible risk 7 years ago
David Wilson 3613162bc0 ansible: enable forking when requested and for async jobs.
Closes #105.
References #155.

mitogen/service.py:
    Refactor services to support individually exposed methods with
    different security policies for each method.

    - @mitogen.service.expose() to expose a method and set its policy
    - @mitogen.service.arg_spec() to validate input.
    - Require basic service message format to be a tuple of
      `(method, kwargs)`, where kwargs is always a dict.
    - Update DeduplicatingService to match the new scheme.

ansible_mitogen/connection.py:
    - Rename 'method' to 'method_name' to disambiguate it from the
      service.call()'s method= argument.

ansible_mitogen/planner.py:
    - Generate an ID for every job, sync or not, and fetch job results
      from JobResultService rather than via the initiating function
      call's return value.
    - Planner subclasses now get to select whether their Runner should
      run in a forked process. The base implementation requests this if
      the 'mitogen_isolation_mode=fork' task variable is present.

ansible_mitogen/runner.py:
    Teach runners to deliver their result via JobResultService executing
    in their indirect parent mux process.

ansible_mitogen/plugins/actions/mitogen_async_status.py:
    Split the implementation up into methods, and more compatibly
    emulate Ansible's existing output.

ansible_mitogen/process.py:
    Mux processes now host JobResultService.

ansible_mitogen/services.py:
    Update existing services to the new mitogen.service scheme, and
    implement JobResultService:

    * listen() method for synchronous jobs. planner.invoke() registers a
      Sender with the service prior to invoking the job, then sleeps
      waiting for the service to write the job result to the
      corresponding Receiver.

    * Non-blocking get() method for implementing mitogen_async_status
      action.

    * Child-accessible push() method for delivering task results.

ansible_mitogen/target.py:
    New helpers for spawning a virginal subprocess on startup, from
    which asynchronous and mitogen_task_isolation=fork jobs are forked.
    Necessary to avoid a task inheriting potentially
    polluted/monkey-patched parent environment, since remaining jobs
    continue to run in the original child process.

docs/ansible.rst:
    Add/merge/remove some behaviours/risks.

tests/ansible/integration:
    New tests for forking/async.
7 years ago
David Wilson a643f13ebe issue #106: docs: tidyup. 7 years ago
David Wilson 432ebbca89 issue #106: docs: initial docs for how modules execute. 7 years ago
David Wilson b595314619 docs: fix intensely annoying _prefix, 2 years later. 7 years ago
David Wilson 6aeb4e9f05 issue #164: precisely emulate Ansible's stdio behaviour.
* Use identical logic to select when stdout/stderr are merged, so
  'stdout', 'stdout_lines', 'stderr', 'stderr_lines' contain the same
  output before/after the extension.

* When stdout/stderr are merged, synthesize carriage returns just like
  the TTY layer.

* Mimic the SSH connection multiplexing message on stderr. Not really
  for user code, but so compare_output_test.sh needs fewer fixups.
7 years ago
David Wilson e0381606af Ensure remote_tmp is respected everywhere.
Logic is still somewhat different from Ansible: we don't have to care
about sudo/non-sudo cases, etc.
7 years ago
David Wilson 38311336e1 docs: link to Ansible video demo 7 years ago
David Wilson 380ef7376d ansible: Add support for free strategy. 7 years ago
David Wilson 8425b196e7 docs: merge duplicate risks 7 years ago
David Wilson 6dcefd631a issue #106: docs: remove built-in only limitation :> 7 years ago
David Wilson 6958b8ff09 docs: More getting started. 7 years ago
David Wilson 8674ec42dd docs: add new risk 7 years ago
David Wilson bbb0f1bbd8 issue #155: fix double-fork behaviour and test it this time. 7 years ago
David Wilson 6670cba41c Introduce handler policy functions; closes #138.
Now you can specify a function to add_handler() that authenticates the
message header, with has_parent_authority() and is_immediate_child()
built in.
7 years ago
David Wilson 80a97fbc9b core: Rename Sender.put() to Sender.send().
Been annoying me for months.
7 years ago
David Wilson b48d63f33b docs: add to_sender() and update serialization notes 7 years ago
David Wilson 8676c40674 core: make _start_transmit / _stop_transmit async-only
For now at least, these APIs are always used in an asynchronous context,
so stop using the defer mechanism.
7 years ago
David Wilson c33bc22f21 docs: fix reading time tracking :( 7 years ago
David Wilson 4903052f42 fork: reseed Python/SSL PRNGs
Mac's SSL seems to have a pthread_atfork handler or similar that does
this for us, no clue if Linux is the same.
7 years ago
David Wilson 7f4368db87 docs: pad out signal handlers note 7 years ago
David Wilson d68833757b docs: slightly bikeshed last testimonial 7 years ago
dw d23a6174a2
Merge pull request #167 from danielcompton/patch-1
Add testimonial from Clojars
7 years ago
David Wilson 0dbb63ae3d docs: typo 7 years ago
David Wilson b254373cd7 docs: add local task serialization risk 7 years ago
Daniel Compton 871b853b59
Add testimonial from Clojars 7 years ago
David Wilson 2813d1a968 docs: update 7 years ago
David Wilson 5579ac936b issue #155: docs: more fork() liability warnings 7 years ago
David Wilson f457f54758 docs: fix formatting 7 years ago
David Wilson d370290687 docs: one more warning 7 years ago
David Wilson 03e08e25fd docs: put huge liability notice in fork() docs. 7 years ago
David Wilson 48351a1889 issue #155: parent: support Context.shutdown(), reap children on exit.
This permits graceful shutdown of individual contexts, without tearing
down everything.

Update mitogen.parent.Stream to also wait for the child to exit, to
prevent the buildup of zombie processes. This introduces a blocking wait
for process exit on the Broker thread, let's see if we can get away with
it. Chances are reasonable that it'll cause needless hangs on heavily
loaded machines.
7 years ago
David Wilson 6a74edce6b issue #155: parent: move master.Context into parent.
The Context and Router APIs for constructing children and making
function calls should be available in every parent context, as user code
wants to have access to the same API.
7 years ago
David Wilson 447353ecb8 docs: ansible.rst: note multi-host perf isn't great right now 7 years ago
David Wilson 20780820a6 docs: typo 7 years ago
David Wilson 75b9e1d71e issue #155: docs: document behaviour of forked children 7 years ago
David Wilson 110fdf24cd docs: add mitogen.fork.Stream to internals.rst 7 years ago
David Wilson 1a8ac9f4d1 issue #155: introduce mitogen.fork / Router.fork() 7 years ago
David Wilson 27175e3126 docs: tidy up signals.rst a little. 7 years ago
David Wilson 732a610246 docs: add beginnings of section on func decorators 7 years ago
David Wilson 2abe87472c issue #162: docs: begin documenting mitogen.service 7 years ago
David Wilson 54ff1c90fa issue #155: add DEL_ROUTE, propagate ADD_ROUTE upwards
* IDs are allocated by the parent responsible for contructing a new
  child, using ALLOCATE_ID to the master as necessary to allocate new ID
  ranges.

* ADD_ROUTE is sent up the tree rather than down. This permits
  construction of the new context to complete concurrent to parent
  contexts learning about its existence. Since all streams are strictly
  ordered, it's not possible for any parent to observe messages from the
  new context prior to arrival of an ADD_ROUTE from the parent notifying
  of its existence.

  If the new context, for example, implements an Ansible async task, its
  parent can start executing that without waiting for any synchronous
  confirmation from any parent or the master.

* Since routes propagate up, it's no longer possible for a plain
  non-parent child to ever receive ADD_ROUTE, so that code can be moved
  out of core.py and into parent.py (-0.2kb compressed).

* Add a .routes attribute to parent.Stream, and respond to disconnection
  signal on the stream by propagating DEL_ROUTE for any ADD_ROUTE ever
  received from that stream.

* Centralize route management in a new parent.RouteMonitor class
7 years ago
David Wilson aeeeb45ccb docs: farewell, glorious iframe! 7 years ago
David Wilson 1ed86774b5 issue #156: document select exception 7 years ago
David Wilson 20f5d89dfa issue #156: fix several more races
* Don't need to sleep if queue>sleepers, can just pop the right queue
  element and return it.

* If queue>sleeping and waking==sleeping, no mechanism existed to ensure
  a thread newly added to sleeping would ever be woken. Above change
  fixes that.

* Cannot trust select() return value, scheduler might sleep us
  indefinitely while put() writes a byte.

* Sleeping threads didn't pop FIFO, they popped in whatever order
  scheduler woke them up. Must recover index and use it to pick the pop
  index.
7 years ago
David Wilson 526b0a514b issue #156: prevent Latch.close() triggering spurious wakeups 7 years ago
David Wilson 18e2977baf docs: annoying phrasing 7 years ago
David Wilson 2c22c41819 issue #156: don't decrement `waking` if we timed out rather than being woken. 7 years ago
David Wilson 07a8994ff5 issue #156: waking thread result dictionary with an integer. 7 years ago
David Wilson b5398bd17f issue #156: docs typo 7 years ago
David Wilson 512ff77a46 issue #156: prevent non-sleeping threads from starving sleeping threads.
See new docs
7 years ago
David Wilson 148ce1d703 issue #155: increase context ID width to 32 bits
Needed to make large range allocations (1000 per ALLOCATE_ID roundtrip)
feasible.
7 years ago
David Wilson 071d9fbfb3 docs: tidy ansible docs. 7 years ago
David Wilson f241eac5ce parent: allow Python to determine its install prefix from argv[0]
Fixes support for virtualenv. Closes #152.
7 years ago
David Wilson dec3af375a issue #144: ansible: increase default pool size to 16. 7 years ago
David Wilson 4f361be7e7 issue #144: teach Select() to close its latch
Causes all threads sleeping on the select to wake.
7 years ago
David Wilson 8aada2646c core: support throwing LatchError in every sleeping thread
This is to allow Select() to be used as a generic queueing primitive
that supports graceful shutdown.
7 years ago
David Wilson 7a74bb0a39 docs: update ansible risks/differences. 7 years ago
David Wilson bcc15987fc docs: extra ansible paragraph. 7 years ago
David Wilson 7a394dc73e ansible: allow establishment of duplicate SSH connections 7 years ago
David Wilson 4691ce0b95 issue #150: ansible: add basic Docker support. 7 years ago
David Wilson 67ff762ba5 issue #139: docs: remove note about bad buffering 7 years ago
David Wilson d1888f1908 docs: reorder sections 7 years ago
David Wilson 014247ce66 docs: another crazy Ansible success story 7 years ago
Alex Willmer 7063d172e9 tests: Add Tox config for Python 2.6 and 2.7
I could not get Python 2.5 or earlier to work. Too many packages
(critically docker) don't support it.
7 years ago
David Wilson 88c198ea05 issue #141: copy Ansible's connect_timeout for sudo too. 7 years ago
David Wilson 63c3fc623c docs: note the semantic difference in Mitogen vs. Ansible timeouts
Related to issue #141.
7 years ago
David Wilson 8f85943083 issue #139: mention relating buffering issue 7 years ago
David Wilson 1f1d691a28 docs: update to match @moreati's code golf birdies :) 7 years ago
Alex Willmer 9aa83ef77f docs: First round of Pickle-likes survey 7 years ago
Alex Willmer a1fc21bb06 docs: Maximum size of pencode values 7 years ago
Alex Willmer e24db89f3a docs: Disco comparison 7 years ago
Alex Willmer 04f4851138 docs: multiprocessing comparison
Not strictly a rival, but has enough commonalities to be worth noting
7 years ago
Alex Willmer 8c227b2bdd docs: More detail about Baker 7 years ago
Alex Willmer e06e438228 docs: More detail about execnet 7 years ago
Alex Willmer da58f8595d docs: More detail about chopsticks 7 years ago
Alex Willmer d7fbb9aef6 docs: Link compared projects to their website
All outgoing links checked with

```bash
cd docs
make linkcheck
```
7 years ago
Alex Willmer 4615ab1a8e docs: Enable sphinx-autobuild
```bash
cd docs
make
```

to run a webserver that automatically rerenders whenever the rST is
modified.
7 years ago
David Wilson f8c85b549f docs: typo 7 years ago
David Wilson dc9dda08e1 Add link to IRC; closes #116 7 years ago
David Wilson b2a433dcc4 ssh: CompressionLevel is a v1-only option.
It's ignored by newer SSHes, which only pay attention to Compression.
7 years ago
Alex Willmer 1c20c61605 docs: Convert all URLs that support https://
Excluded: graphml XML namespaces, links to e.g. Fabric homepage

Fixes #128
7 years ago
David Wilson 089f39716e docs: beginnings of testimonials section 7 years ago
David Wilson 500c4f419c docs: update limitations list for Ansible. 7 years ago
David Wilson 537a263261 docs: So many typos 7 years ago
David Wilson 6bd4c5ead5 docs: Ansible logging update (#111) 7 years ago
David Wilson 4f352d7d4b Pin Sphinx version 7 years ago
David Wilson 53e51c4af8 docs: update Python 3 support to match reality. 7 years ago
David Wilson ce9a1fef26 docs: fix float 7 years ago
David Wilson 04bb5881b6 ansible: doc updates 7 years ago
David Wilson 9515291024 docs: small fix 7 years ago
David Wilson 3ddbf1a503 ansible: basic support for ssh_args 7 years ago
David Wilson 1b28252ad0 docs: get rid of "medium risk" category 7 years ago
David Wilson da00437f1e ansible: Support ansible_ssh_private_key_file 7 years ago
David Wilson a87b665099 ansible: limited support for become_flags, more docs. 7 years ago
David Wilson 235e1df987 sudo: support parsing sudo flags back out into parameters 7 years ago
David Wilson cd53023768 docs: Fix install docs now Ansible package layout changed. 7 years ago
David Wilson 03e51fdaa7 docs: mitogen.core.Latch docs 7 years ago
David Wilson 712e5dfca1 docs: fix image labels 7 years ago
David Wilson c2793b7102 docs: import but don't link compared.rst 7 years ago
David Wilson 2ecc6f43a4 docs: Import, but do not yet link signals.rst 7 years ago
David Wilson 7cf2edc3a8 ansible: Support many more common playbook variables. 7 years ago
David Wilson ba644e184d docs: Split up limitations list, add warning 7 years ago
David Wilson 3183dd4147 ansible: initial support for async jobs
Running in a thread to begin with, but this must change.
7 years ago
David Wilson e913c11e50 docs: new Ansible limitation 7 years ago
David Wilson 860a635500 docs: remove delegate_to limitation 7 years ago
David Wilson dfdb7ab128 docs: more Ansible 7 years ago
David Wilson cf7f8ff490 docs: document one more Ansible limitation 7 years ago
David Wilson 7179ca163b docs: Replace shifty hacker dude with plebey skater dude
Farewell, shifty hacker dude! May your 0days be many and your
indictments be few
7 years ago
David Wilson 0c056ddbe2 docs: new Ansible limitation, add new heading
Some differences are eventually likely to become permanent, because the
existing behaviour is unforgiveable.
7 years ago
David Wilson 14251539cd docs: Docker typo. 7 years ago
David Wilson 5036a9448f Add Docker method. 7 years ago
David Wilson 77f6b31e5c docs: more images. 7 years ago
David Wilson 56b563161b docs: single-threaded connection is the most important limitation 7 years ago
David Wilson c1bea0dd49 docs: store blog images for fear of laptop crash
There is only so much trackpad-driven yEd work one man can handle
7 years ago
David Wilson dd9d3494e0 docs: small ansible.rst updates 7 years ago
David Wilson ce6648da51 docs: mention CPU usage reduction 7 years ago
David Wilson 270db025c0 docs: fix up Ansible install docs. 7 years ago
David Wilson e9060b3b7f docs: more modest and accurate numbers for Ansible 7 years ago
David Wilson b221eaaa10 ansible: log call timings 7 years ago
David Wilson a817f5e9e8 docs: more marketing, add lots of drama bold. 7 years ago
David Wilson 5933723d70 docs: a little more marketing 7 years ago
David Wilson de1b3602e5 docs: tidy up ansible.rst 7 years ago
David Wilson 52da0d882e ansible: add a new limitation 7 years ago
David Wilson 14b5c4d504 docs: remove fixed Ansible limitation
The solution was that Mitogen's loader should emulate the behaviour of
ansible.executor.module_common, which restricts dependency scanning to
the ansible.module_utils namespace.
7 years ago
David Wilson 91116810a1 ansible: delete utils.py and promote cast() to mitogen.utils 7 years ago
David Wilson 18eaf14dca ansible: migrate logging variables into utils. 7 years ago
David Wilson 10c2de2845 examples: rename playbooks for clarity. 7 years ago
David Wilson ea126bb7e8 docs: add stats tracking 7 years ago
David Wilson 875ee29d4f docs: initial Ansible extension docs. 7 years ago
David Wilson bdd8648bae ssh: enable compression by default
Using the same test as in 7af97c0365,
transmitted wire bytes drops from 135,531 to 133,071 (-1.81%), while
received drops from 21,073 to 14,775 (-30%).

Combined, both changes shave 13,914 bytes (-8.6%) off aggregate
bandwidth usage.

Make it configurable as compression hurts in some scenarios.
7 years ago
David Wilson 4d940f08ae importer: drop redundant prefix from pkg_present
For the 52 submodules of ansible.modules.system, this produced a 1602
byte pkg_present list. After stripping it becomes 406 bytes, and the
entire LOAD_MODULE size drops from 1988 bytes to 792 bytes (-60%).

For the 68 submodules of ansible.module_utils, 1902 bytes pkg_present
becomes 474 bytes (-75%), and LOAD_MODULE size drops from 2867 bytes to
1439 bytes (-49%).

In a simple test running Ansible's "setup" module followed by its "apt"
module, wire bytes sent drops from 140,357 to 135,531 (-3.4%).
7 years ago
David Wilson 71a6b9e32a master: Select.all() sugar 7 years ago
David Wilson ac4a42a43e docs: fix Select() example for new style API. 7 years ago
Alex Willmer a69d9650ad Fix indentation of Router.route anchor 7 years ago
Alex Willmer eb1ad66469 docs: Fix out of date get_data() snippets
As of adc8fe3aed Receiver objects do not
have a get_data() method and Receiver.get() does not unpickle the
message.
7 years ago
David Wilson 20afa5b90c Latch v2: combined queue + one self-pipe-per-thread
Turns out it is far too easy to burn through available file descriptors,
so try something else: self-pipes are per thread, and only temporarily
associated with a Lack that wishes to sleep.

Reduce pointless locking by giving Latch its own queue, and removing
Queue.Queue() use in some places.

Temporarily undo merging of of Waker and Latch, let's do this one step
at a time.
7 years ago
David Wilson e63e9d299e docs: add Message documentation 7 years ago
David Wilson dd088908df select: clean up API. 7 years ago
David Wilson a39cd44bf2 core: add auth_id field. 7 years ago
David Wilson 07d4d799f1 Add mitogen.main() decorator mainly for docs and demo use. 7 years ago
David Wilson 09eb3fd9ba utils: support log_to_file(usec=True) 7 years ago
David Wilson 592ebd59c2 docs: reorder sections 7 years ago
David Wilson dee856f6f4 docs: remove obsolete warning 7 years ago
David Wilson b941bce964 docs: sphinx-autobuild default target. 7 years ago
David Wilson 4d9d21c808 docs: fix typo 7 years ago
David Wilson 4a6d55ced6 docs: vastly simplify importer concurrency docs 7 years ago
David Wilson 984b39180e importer: Beginnings of howitworks section. 7 years ago