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Fix races in publish_subscribe_test.rb and update truffleruby #1239

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@eregon eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

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byroot commented Nov 17, 2023

You angered rubocop, but otherwise LGTM.

@eregon eregon force-pushed the fix-race-update-truffleruby branch from 7d15cb5 to 2a65de5 Compare November 17, 2023 13:10
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eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

Fixed, and the CI passed except for that rubocop complaint: https://github.com/redis/redis-rb/actions/runs/6904372003/job/18784907013?pr=1239

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eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

https://github.com/redis/redis-rb/actions/runs/6904417499/job/18785060895?pr=1239

  1) Failure:
TestPublishSubscribe#test_subscribe_from_another_thread [/home/runner/work/redis-rb/redis-rb/test/redis/publish_subscribe_test.rb:332]:
Expected nil to not be nil.

This is unrelated to this PR, it's doing refute_nil thread.join(2).

Thread#join with a duration is basically an anti-pattern, even more so in tests.
I'll push a commit removing the duration, time can vary a lot in CI, so a duration is just asking for more transients.

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byroot commented Nov 17, 2023

Thread#join with a duration is basically an anti-pattern, even more so in tests.

The reason is to avoid locking forever, if the thread is stuck trying to read on a socket or some other blocking operation, your CI runner hang for long enough that it's just killed and you have 0 debug information.

I'm not against bumping it, but I wouldn't remove it.

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eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

If running locally, one would Ctrl+C and then get a stacktrace, so there better without a duration as well.

Yeah, GitHub Actions doesn't send SIGINT on timeout I guess, unfortunate.
IMO it should be the job of the test harness to print thread stracktraces if e.g. a test takes longer than a large timeout (e.g. some minutes).
Note the failure above gives very little information.

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byroot commented Nov 17, 2023

IMO it should be the job of the test harness to print thread stracktraces

Sure, but in the meantime minitest doesn't offer that, so until it does, a generous .join(5) is prefereable to .join.

Note the failure above gives very little information.

They at least give you which test failed, which is a decent start.

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eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

BTW there are many other cases of thread.join in the same file, so I'd suggest to try it like this, and if a test is hanging transiently and cannot be reproduced easily locally then either modify that one to e.g. show thread.backtrace if not joined in N seconds, or improve the test harness (or in test helpers maybe) to do that automatically.

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eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

As you wish, should I remove the last commit from this PR or keep it?

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byroot commented Nov 17, 2023

Please remove it yes.

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eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

OK.

They at least give you which test failed, which is a decent start.

That's also shown if the test hangs, because the test name is printed before it starts running.

@eregon eregon force-pushed the fix-race-update-truffleruby branch from dbcf6f3 to 2a65de5 Compare November 17, 2023 13:50
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eregon commented Nov 17, 2023

Removed, and ready to merge.

@byroot byroot merged commit 58e43cf into redis:master Nov 17, 2023
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