rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb
Jorge Manrubia ecc5afed30 Parallelize tests only when overhead is justified
Parallelizing tests has a cost in terms of database setup and fixture
loading. This change makes Rails disable parallelization when the number
of tests is below a configurable threshold.

When running tests in parallel each process gets its own database
instance. On each execution, each process will update each database
schema (if needed) and load all the fixtures. This can be very expensive
for non trivial datasets.

As an example, for HEY, when running a single file with 18 tests,
running tests in parallel in my box adds an overhead of 13 seconds
versus not parallelizing them. Of course parallelizing is totally worthy
when there are many tests to run, but not when running just a few tests.

The threshold is configurable via
config.active_support.test_parallelization_minimum_number_of_tests,
which is 30 50 by default.

This also adds some tracing to know how tests are being executed:

When in parallel:

```
Running 2829 tests in parallel in 8 processes
```

When not in parallel:

```
Running 15 tests in a single process (parallelization threshold is 30)
```
2021-07-14 13:36:28 +02:00

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# frozen_string_literal: true
require "drb"
require "drb/unix" unless Gem.win_platform?
require "active_support/core_ext/module/attribute_accessors"
require "active_support/testing/parallelization/server"
require "active_support/testing/parallelization/worker"
module ActiveSupport
module Testing
class Parallelization # :nodoc:
@@after_fork_hooks = []
def self.after_fork_hook(&blk)
@@after_fork_hooks << blk
end
cattr_reader :after_fork_hooks
@@run_cleanup_hooks = []
def self.run_cleanup_hook(&blk)
@@run_cleanup_hooks << blk
end
cattr_reader :run_cleanup_hooks
def initialize(worker_count)
@worker_count = worker_count
@queue_server = Server.new
@worker_pool = []
@url = DRb.start_service("drbunix:", @queue_server).uri
end
def start
@worker_pool = @worker_count.times.map do |worker|
Worker.new(worker, @url).start
end
end
def <<(work)
@queue_server << work
end
def size
@worker_count
end
def shutdown
@queue_server.shutdown
@worker_pool.each { |pid| Process.waitpid pid }
end
end
end
end