[Request] [+ ] D8927: posixworker: avoid creating workers that end up getting no work

[martinvonz (Martin von Zweigbergk)]

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REVISION SUMMARY
  If `workers` (the detected or configured number of CPUs) is greater
  than the number of work items, then some of the workers end up getting
  0 work items. Let's not create such workers.

REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

BRANCH
  default

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8927

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/worker.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/mercurial/worker.py b/mercurial/worker.py
--- a/mercurial/worker.py
+++ b/mercurial/worker.py
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
     parentpid = os.getpid()
     pipes = []
     retval = {}
-    for pargs in partition(args, workers):
+    for pargs in partition(args, min(workers, len(args))):
         # Every worker gets its own pipe to send results on, so we don't have to
         # implement atomic writes larger than PIPE_BUF. Each forked process has
         # its own pipe's descriptors in the local variables, and the parent



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