[parallel] Improve documentation

bin/parallel.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def __init__(self, f, pin):
         self.total_tasks = 0
         self.missing = 0
 
-        self.abort = False
+        self.aborted = False
 
         # mutex to lock parallel access
         self.mutex = threading.RLock()
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ def join(self):
     def done(self):
         raise "Abstract method"
 
-    def stop(self):
-        self.abort = True
+    def abort(self):
+        self.aborted = True
 
 
 class SequentialQueue(AbstractQueue):
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ def __init__(self, f, pin):
 
     # Add one task. Higher priority => done first
     def put(self, task, priority=0):
-        # no task will be handled after self.abort so skip adding
-        if self.abort:
+        # no task will be handled after self.abort() so skip adding
+        if self.aborted:
             return
 
         self.total_tasks += 1
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ def done(self):
             cores = list(os.sched_getaffinity(0))
             os.sched_setaffinity(0, {cores[0]})
 
-        # no task will be handled after self.abort
-        while self.tasks and not self.abort:
+        # no task will be handled after self.abort()
+        while self.tasks and not self.aborted:
             self.f(heapq.heappop(self.tasks).task)
 
         if self.pin:
@@ -128,16 +128,16 @@ def _worker(self, cores: bool | list[int] = False):
             os.sched_setaffinity(0, cores)
         while True:
             with self.mutex:
-                # if self.abort we need no item in the queue and can stop
+                # if self.aborted we need no item in the queue and can stop
                 # if self.finish we may need to wake up if all tasks were completed earlier
                 # else we need an item to handle
-                self.todo.wait_for(lambda: len(self.tasks) > 0 or self.abort or self.finish)
+                self.todo.wait_for(lambda: len(self.tasks) > 0 or self.aborted or self.finish)
 
-                if self.abort:
-                    # we dont handle the queue on abort
+                if self.aborted:
+                    # we don't handle the queue if self.aborted
                     break
                 elif self.finish and len(self.tasks) == 0:
-                    # on finish we can only stop after the queue runs empty
+                    # if self.finish, we can only stop after the queue runs empty
                     break
                 else:
                     # get item from queue (update self.missing after the task is done)
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def _worker(self, cores: bool | list[int] = False):
                 current_error = None
                 self.f(task)
             except Exception as e:
-                self.stop()
+                self.abort()
                 current_error = e
 
             with self.mutex:
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ def put(self, task, priority=0):
         with self.mutex:
             # no task should be added after .done() was called
             assert not self.finish
-            # no task will be handled after self.abort so skip adding
-            if not self.abort:
+            # no task will be handled after self.aborted so skip adding
+            if not self.aborted:
                 # mark task as to be done and notify workers
                 self.missing += 1
                 self.total_tasks += 1
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ def done(self):
 
     # Discard all remaining work in the queue and stop all workers.
     # Call done() to join the threads.
-    def stop(self):
-        super().stop()
+    def abort(self):
+        super().abort()
 
         with self.mutex:
             # drop all items in the queue at once
@@ -217,9 +217,14 @@ def stop(self):
 
 
 def create(f, pin=False, num_threads=True):
-    # f(task): the function to run on each queue item.
-    # num_threads: True: the configured default
-    #              None/False/0: disable parallelization
+    """
+    f(task): the function to run on each queue item.
+
+    num_threads: True: the configured default
+                 None/False/0: disable parallelization
+
+    pin: whether to pin the threads to (physical) CPU cores.
+    """
     num_threads = config.args.jobs if num_threads is True else num_threads
     pin = pin and not util.is_windows() and not util.is_bsd()
 

bin/run.py

@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ def process_run(run, p):
                 return
 
             bar.count = None
-            p.stop()
+            p.abort()
 
         p = parallel.create(lambda run: process_run(run, p), pin=True)