* Use a lock to ensure that only one build-remote instance can copy a

closure to a given machine at the same time.  This prevents the case
  where multiple instances try to copy the same missing store path to
  the target machine, which is very wasteful.
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Eelco Dolstra 2011-12-21 18:59:25 +00:00
parent 3877619888
commit 69d6f0936a

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@ -225,8 +225,17 @@ sub removeRoots {
}
# Copy the derivation and its dependencies to the build machine.
# Copy the derivation and its dependencies to the build machine. This
# is guarded by an exclusive lock per machine to prevent multiple
# build-remote instances from copying to a machine simultaneously.
# That's undesirable because we may end up with N instances uploading
# the same missing path simultaneously, causing the effective network
# bandwidth and target disk speed to be divided by N.
my $uploadLock = "$currentLoad/$hostName.upload-lock";
open MAINLOCK, ">>$uploadLock" or die;
flock(MAINLOCK, LOCK_EX) or die;
Nix::CopyClosure::copyTo($hostName, [ @sshOpts ], [ $drvPath, @inputs ], "", "", 0, 0, $maybeSign ne "");
close MAINLOCK;
# Perform the build.