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1#!/usr/bin/env python
2# Copyright 2010 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
3#
4# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6# You may obtain a copy of the License at
7#
8#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9#
10# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14# limitations under the License.
15
16import threading
17
18
19class DaemonServer(object):
20  """Base class which manages creation and cleanup of daemon style servers."""
21
22  def __enter__(self):
23    # TODO: Because of python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), the threads
24    # will run on the same CPU. Consider using processes instead because
25    # the components do not need to communicate with each other. On Linux,
26    # "taskset" could be used to assign each process to specific CPU/core.
27    # Of course, only bother with this if the processing speed is an issue.
28    # Some related discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990102/python-
29    # global-interpreter-lock-gil-workaround-on-multi-core-systems-using-tasks
30    thread = threading.Thread(target=self.serve_forever)
31    thread.daemon = True  # Python exits when no non-daemon threads are left.
32    thread.start()
33    return self
34
35  def __exit__(self, unused_exc_type, unused_exc_val, unused_exc_tb):
36    self.cleanup()
37