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authorDamien George <damien.p.george@gmail.com>2016-04-21 12:38:22 +0000
committerDamien George <damien.p.george@gmail.com>2016-06-28 11:09:31 +0100
commit3545ef8bb49d9ad02e85bd13f478072f8059c582 (patch)
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parent2d5ea38b4996bec01cabda68b6ef12631a7b7a08 (diff)
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tests/thread: Remove need to sleep to wait for completion in some tests.
Use a lock and a counter instead, and busy wait for all threads to complete. This makes test run faster and they no longer rely on the time module.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/thread/thread_shared1.py')
-rw-r--r--tests/thread/thread_shared1.py23
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tests/thread/thread_shared1.py b/tests/thread/thread_shared1.py
index 6ef4b654f8..13c6651cc4 100644
--- a/tests/thread/thread_shared1.py
+++ b/tests/thread/thread_shared1.py
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
#
# MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd
-try:
- import utime as time
-except ImportError:
- import time
import _thread
def foo(i):
@@ -14,11 +10,22 @@ def foo(i):
def thread_entry(n, tup):
for i in tup:
foo(i)
+ with lock:
+ global n_finished
+ n_finished += 1
+lock = _thread.allocate_lock()
+n_thread = 2
+n_finished = 0
+
+# the shared data structure
tup = (1, 2, 3, 4)
-_thread.start_new_thread(thread_entry, (100, tup))
-_thread.start_new_thread(thread_entry, (100, tup))
-# wait for threads to finish
-time.sleep(0.2)
+# spawn threads
+for i in range(n_thread):
+ _thread.start_new_thread(thread_entry, (100, tup))
+
+# busy wait for threads to finish
+while n_finished < n_thread:
+ pass
print(tup)