Source code for pytorch_lightning.plugins.io.async_plugin

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from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from typing import Any, Optional

from pytorch_lightning.plugins.io.checkpoint_plugin import CheckpointIO
from pytorch_lightning.plugins.io.wrapper import _WrappingCheckpointIO


class AsyncCheckpointIO(_WrappingCheckpointIO):
    """``AsyncCheckpointIO`` enables saving the checkpoints asynchronously in a thread.

    .. warning::

        This is currently an experimental plugin/feature and API changes are to be expected.

    Args:
        checkpoint_io: A checkpoint IO plugin that is used as the basis for async checkpointing.
    """

    def __init__(self, checkpoint_io: Optional["CheckpointIO"] = None) -> None:
        super().__init__(checkpoint_io)

        self._executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1)
        self._error: Optional[BaseException] = None

    def save_checkpoint(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
        """Uses the ``ThreadPoolExecutor`` to save the checkpoints using the base ``checkpoint_io``."""

        def _save_checkpoint(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
            try:
                assert self.checkpoint_io is not None
                self.checkpoint_io.save_checkpoint(*args, **kwargs)
            except BaseException as e:
                self._error = e

        self._executor.submit(_save_checkpoint, *args, **kwargs)

        # if an error was raised between the previous time `save_checkpoint`` was called and now,
        # because `executor.submit` is not blocking
        if self._error:
            raise self._error

    def teardown(self) -> None:
        """This method is called to close the threads."""
        self._executor.shutdown(wait=True)

        # if an error was raised anytime in any of the `executor.submit` calls
        if self._error:
            raise self._error