#! /usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# File : shmarray.py
# Author : Jiayuan Mao
# Email : maojiayuan@gmail.com
# Date : 02/06/2017
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# This file is part of Jacinle.
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"""
Shared memory array implementation for numpy which delegates all the nasty stuff
to multiprocessing.sharedctypes.
Copyright (c) 2010, David Baddeley
All rights reserved.
"""
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from multiprocessing import sharedctypes
import numpy
from numpy import ctypeslib
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class shmarray(numpy.ndarray):
"""subclass of ndarray with overridden pickling functions which record dtype, shape
etc... but defer pickling of the underlying data to the original data source.
Doesn't actually handle allocation of the shared memory - this is done in create,
and zeros, ones, (or create_copy) are the functions which should be used for creating a new
shared memory array.
TODO - add argument checking to ensure that the user is passing reasonable values."""
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def __new__(cls, ctypesArray, shape, dtype=float,
strides=None, offset=0, order=None):
# some magic (copied from numpy.ctypeslib) to make sure the ctypes array
# has the array interface
tp = type(ctypesArray)
try:
tp.__array_interface__
except AttributeError:
if hasattr(ctypeslib, 'prep_array'):
ctypeslib.prep_array(tp)
obj = numpy.ndarray.__new__(cls, shape, dtype, ctypesArray, offset, strides,
order)
# keep track of the underlying storage
# this may not be strictly necessary as the same info should be stored in .base
obj.ctypesArray = ctypesArray
return obj
def __array_finalize__(self, obj):
if obj is None: return
self.ctypesArray = getattr(obj, 'ctypesArray', None)
def __reduce_ex__(self, protocol):
"""delegate pickling of the data to the underlying storage, but keep copies
of shape, dtype & strides.
TODO - find how to get at the offset and order parameters and keep track of them as well."""
return shmarray, (self.ctypesArray, self.shape, self.dtype, self.strides) # , self.offset, self.order)
def __reduce__(self):
return __reduce_ex__(self, 0)
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def create(shape, dtype='d', alignment=32):
"""Create an uninitialised shared array. Avoid object arrays, as these
will almost certainly break as the objects themselves won't be stored in shared
memory, only the pointers"""
shape = numpy.atleast_1d(shape).astype('i')
dtype = numpy.dtype(dtype)
# we're going to use a flat ctypes array
N = int(numpy.prod(shape) + alignment)
# The upper bound of size we want to allocate to be certain
# that we can take an aligned array of the right size from it.
N_bytes_big = int(N * dtype.itemsize)
# The final (= right) size of the array
N_bytes_right = int(numpy.prod(shape) * dtype.itemsize)
dt = 'b'
# We create the big array first
a = sharedctypes.RawArray(dt, N_bytes_big)
sa = shmarray(a, (N_bytes_big,), dt)
# We pick the first index of the new array that is aligned
# If the address of the first element is 1 and we want 8-alignment, the
# first aligned index of the array is going to be 7 == -1 % 8
start_index = -sa.ctypes.data % alignment
# Finally, we take the (aligned) subarray and reshape it.
sa = sa[start_index:start_index + N_bytes_right].view(dtype).reshape(shape)
return sa
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def zeros(shape, dtype='d'):
"""Create an shared array initialised to zeros. Avoid object arrays, as these
will almost certainly break as the objects themselves won't be stored in shared
memory, only the pointers"""
sa = create(shape, dtype=dtype)
# contrary to the documentation, sharedctypes.RawArray does NOT always return
# an array which is initialised to zero - do it ourselves
# http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/issues/detail?id=25
sa[:] = numpy.zeros(1, dtype)
return sa
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def ones(shape, dtype='d'):
"""Create an shared array initialised to ones. Avoid object arrays, as these
will almost certainly break as the objects themselves won't be stored in shared
memory, only the pointers"""
sa = create(shape, dtype=dtype)
sa[:] = numpy.ones(1, dtype)
return sa
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def create_copy(a):
"""create a a shared copy of an array"""
# create an empty array
b = create(a.shape, a.dtype)
# copy contents across
b[:] = a[:]
return b