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mgmt/lang/funcs/structs/for.go
James Shubin 790b7199ca lang: New function engine
This mega patch primarily introduces a new function engine. The main
reasons for this new engine are:

1) Massively improved performance with lock-contended graphs.

Certain large function graphs could have very high lock-contention which
turned out to be much slower than I would have liked. This new algorithm
happens to be basically lock-free, so that's another helpful
improvement.

2) Glitch-free function graphs.

The function graphs could "glitch" (an FRP term) which could be
undesirable in theory. In practice this was never really an issue, and
I've not explicitly guaranteed that the new graphs are provably
glitch-free, but in practice things are a lot more consistent.

3) Simpler graph shape.

The new graphs don't require the private channels. This makes
understanding the graphs a lot easier.

4) Branched graphs only run half.

Previously we would run two pure side of an if statement, and while this
was mostly meant as an early experiment, it stayed in for far too long
and now was the right time to remove this. This also means our graphs
are much smaller and more efficient too.

Note that this changed the function API slightly. Everything has been
ported. It's possible that we introduce a new API in the future, but it
is unexpected to cause removal of the two current APIs.

In addition, we finally split out the "schedule" aspect from
world.schedule(). The "pick me" aspects now happen in a separate
resource, rather than as a yucky side-effect in the function. This also
lets us more precisely choose when we're scheduled, and we can observe
without being chosen too.

As usual many thanks to Sam for helping through some of the algorithmic
graph shape issues!
2025-09-11 23:19:45 -04:00

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// Mgmt
// Copyright (C) James Shubin and the project contributors
// Written by James Shubin <james@shubin.ca> and the project contributors
//
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// additional permission if he deems it necessary to achieve the goals of this
// additional permission.
package structs
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/lang/interfaces"
"github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/lang/types"
"github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/util/errwrap"
)
const (
// ForFuncName is the unique name identifier for this function.
ForFuncName = "for"
// ForFuncArgNameList is the name for the edge which connects the input
// list to CallFunc.
ForFuncArgNameList = "list"
)
// ForFunc receives a list from upstream. We iterate over the received list to
// build a subgraph that processes each element, and in doing so we get a larger
// function graph. This is rebuilt as necessary if the input list changes.
type ForFunc struct {
interfaces.Textarea
IndexType *types.Type
ValueType *types.Type
EdgeName string // name of the edge used
AppendToIterBody func(innerTxn interfaces.Txn, index int, value interfaces.Func) error
ClearIterBody func(length int)
ArgVertices []interfaces.Func // only one expected
init *interfaces.Init
lastInputListLength int // remember the last input list length
}
// String returns a simple name for this function. This is needed so this struct
// can satisfy the pgraph.Vertex interface.
func (obj *ForFunc) String() string {
return ForFuncName
}
// Validate makes sure we've built our struct properly.
func (obj *ForFunc) Validate() error {
if obj.IndexType == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("must specify a type")
}
if obj.ValueType == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("must specify a type")
}
// TODO: maybe we can remove this if we use this for core functions...
if obj.EdgeName == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("must specify an edge name")
}
if len(obj.ArgVertices) != 1 {
return fmt.Errorf("function did not receive shape information")
}
return nil
}
// Info returns some static info about itself.
func (obj *ForFunc) Info() *interfaces.Info {
var typ *types.Type
if obj.IndexType != nil && obj.ValueType != nil { // don't panic if called speculatively
// XXX: Improve function engine so it can return no value?
//typ = types.NewType(fmt.Sprintf("func(%s []%s)", obj.EdgeName, obj.ValueType)) // returns nothing
// dummy type to prove we're dropping the output since we don't use it.
typ = types.NewType(fmt.Sprintf("func(%s []%s) nil", obj.EdgeName, obj.ValueType))
}
return &interfaces.Info{
Pure: true,
Memo: false, // TODO: ???
Sig: typ,
Err: obj.Validate(),
}
}
// Init runs some startup code for this composite function.
func (obj *ForFunc) Init(init *interfaces.Init) error {
obj.init = init
obj.lastInputListLength = -1
return nil
}
func (obj *ForFunc) replaceSubGraph(subgraphInput interfaces.Func) error {
// delete the old subgraph
if err := obj.init.Txn.Reverse(); err != nil {
return errwrap.Wrapf(err, "could not Reverse")
}
obj.ClearIterBody(obj.lastInputListLength) // XXX: pass in size?
for i := 0; i < obj.lastInputListLength; i++ {
i := i
argName := "forInputList"
inputElemFunc := SimpleFnToDirectFunc(
fmt.Sprintf("forInputElem[%d]", i),
&types.FuncValue{
V: func(_ context.Context, args []types.Value) (types.Value, error) {
if len(args) != 1 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("inputElemFunc: expected a single argument")
}
arg := args[0]
list, ok := arg.(*types.ListValue)
if !ok {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("inputElemFunc: expected a ListValue argument")
}
return list.List()[i], nil
},
T: types.NewType(fmt.Sprintf("func(%s %s) %s", argName, obj.listType(), obj.ValueType)),
},
)
obj.init.Txn.AddVertex(inputElemFunc)
obj.init.Txn.AddEdge(subgraphInput, inputElemFunc, &interfaces.FuncEdge{
Args: []string{argName},
})
if err := obj.AppendToIterBody(obj.init.Txn, i, inputElemFunc); err != nil {
return errwrap.Wrapf(err, "could not call AppendToIterBody()")
}
}
return obj.init.Txn.Commit()
}
func (obj *ForFunc) listType() *types.Type {
return types.NewType(fmt.Sprintf("[]%s", obj.ValueType))
}
// Call this function with the input args and return the value if it is possible
// to do so at this time.
func (obj *ForFunc) Call(ctx context.Context, args []types.Value) (types.Value, error) {
if len(args) < 1 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("not enough args")
}
forList := args[0]
n := len(forList.List())
// If the length of the input list has changed, then we need to replace
// the subgraph with a new one that has that many "tentacles". Basically
// the shape of the graph depends on the length of the list. If we get a
// brand new list where each value is different, but the length is the
// same, then we can just flow new values into the list and we don't
// need to change the graph shape! Changing the graph shape is more
// expensive, so we don't do it when not necessary.
if n != obj.lastInputListLength {
subgraphInput := obj.ArgVertices[0]
//obj.lastForList = forList
obj.lastInputListLength = n
// replaceSubGraph uses the above two values
if err := obj.replaceSubGraph(subgraphInput); err != nil {
return nil, errwrap.Wrapf(err, "could not replace subgraph")
}
return nil, interfaces.ErrInterrupt
}
// send dummy value to the output
return types.NewNil(), nil // dummy value
}
// Cleanup runs after that function was removed from the graph.
func (obj *ForFunc) Cleanup(ctx context.Context) error {
return obj.init.Txn.Reverse()
}