# Copyright 2015 The TensorFlow Authors. All Rights Reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # ============================================================================== """Create threads to run multiple enqueue ops.""" from __future__ import absolute_import from __future__ import division from __future__ import print_function import threading import weakref from tensorflow.core.protobuf import queue_runner_pb2 from tensorflow.python.client import session from tensorflow.python.eager import context from tensorflow.python.framework import errors from tensorflow.python.framework import ops from tensorflow.python.platform import tf_logging as logging from tensorflow.python.util import deprecation from tensorflow.python.util.tf_export import tf_export _DEPRECATION_INSTRUCTION = ( "To construct input pipelines, use the `tf.data` module.") @tf_export(v1=["train.queue_runner.QueueRunner", "train.QueueRunner"]) class QueueRunner(object): """Holds a list of enqueue operations for a queue, each to be run in a thread. Queues are a convenient TensorFlow mechanism to compute tensors asynchronously using multiple threads. For example in the canonical 'Input Reader' setup one set of threads generates filenames in a queue; a second set of threads read records from the files, processes them, and enqueues tensors on a second queue; a third set of threads dequeues these input records to construct batches and runs them through training operations. There are several delicate issues when running multiple threads that way: closing the queues in sequence as the input is exhausted, correctly catching and reporting exceptions, etc. The `QueueRunner`, combined with the `Coordinator`, helps handle these issues. @compatibility(eager) QueueRunners are not compatible with eager execution. Instead, please use `tf.data` to get data into your model. @end_compatibility """ @deprecation.deprecated(None, _DEPRECATION_INSTRUCTION) def __init__(self, queue=None, enqueue_ops=None, close_op=None, cancel_op=None, queue_closed_exception_types=None, queue_runner_def=None, import_scope=None): """Create a QueueRunner. On construction the `QueueRunner` adds an op to close the queue. That op will be run if the enqueue ops raise exceptions. When you later call the `create_threads()` method, the `QueueRunner` will create one thread for each op in `enqueue_ops`. Each thread will run its enqueue op in parallel with the other threads. The enqueue ops do not have to all be the same op, but it is expected that they all enqueue tensors in `queue`. Args: queue: A `Queue`. enqueue_ops: List of enqueue ops to run in threads later. close_op: Op to close the queue. Pending enqueue ops are preserved. cancel_op: Op to close the queue and cancel pending enqueue ops. queue_closed_exception_types: Optional tuple of Exception types that indicate that the queue has been closed when raised during an enqueue operation. Defaults to `(tf.errors.OutOfRangeError,)`. Another common case includes `(tf.errors.OutOfRangeError, tf.errors.CancelledError)`, when some of the enqueue ops may dequeue from other Queues. queue_runner_def: Optional `QueueRunnerDef` protocol buffer. If specified, recreates the QueueRunner from its contents. `queue_runner_def` and the other arguments are mutually exclusive. import_scope: Optional `string`. Name scope to add. Only used when initializing from protocol buffer. Raises: ValueError: If both `queue_runner_def` and `queue` are both specified. ValueError: If `queue` or `enqueue_ops` are not provided when not restoring from `queue_runner_def`. RuntimeError: If eager execution is enabled. """ if context.executing_eagerly(): raise RuntimeError( "QueueRunners are not supported when eager execution is enabled. " "Instead, please use tf.data to get data into your model.") if queue_runner_def: if queue or enqueue_ops: raise ValueError("queue_runner_def and queue are mutually exclusive.") self._init_from_proto(queue_runner_def, import_scope=import_scope) else: self._init_from_args( queue=queue, enqueue_ops=enqueue_ops, close_op=close_op, cancel_op=cancel_op, queue_closed_exception_types=queue_closed_exception_types) # Protect the count of runs to wait for. self._lock = threading.Lock() # A map from a session object to the number of outstanding queue runner # threads for that session. self._runs_per_session = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary() # List of exceptions raised by the running threads. self._exceptions_raised = [] def _init_from_args(self, queue=None, enqueue_ops=None, close_op=None, cancel_op=None, queue_closed_exception_types=None): """Create a QueueRunner from arguments. Args: queue: A `Queue`. enqueue_ops: List of enqueue ops to run in threads later. close_op: Op to close the queue. Pending enqueue ops are preserved. cancel_op: Op to close the queue and cancel pending enqueue ops. queue_closed_exception_types: Tuple of exception types, which indicate the queue has been safely closed. Raises: ValueError: If `queue` or `enqueue_ops` are not provided when not restoring from `queue_runner_def`. TypeError: If `queue_closed_exception_types` is provided, but is not a non-empty tuple of error types (subclasses of `tf.errors.OpError`). """ if not queue or not enqueue_ops: raise ValueError("Must provide queue and enqueue_ops.") self._queue = queue self._enqueue_ops = enqueue_ops self._close_op = close_op self._cancel_op = cancel_op if queue_closed_exception_types is not None: if (not isinstance(queue_closed_exception_types, tuple) or not queue_closed_exception_types or not all(issubclass(t, errors.OpError) for t in queue_closed_exception_types)): raise TypeError( "queue_closed_exception_types, when provided, " "must be a tuple of tf.error types, but saw: %s" % queue_closed_exception_types) self._queue_closed_exception_types = queue_closed_exception_types # Close when no more will be produced, but pending enqueues should be # preserved. if self._close_op is None: self._close_op = self._queue.close() # Close and cancel pending enqueues since there was an error and we want # to unblock everything so we can cleanly exit. if self._cancel_op is None: self._cancel_op = self._queue.close(cancel_pending_enqueues=True) if not self._queue_closed_exception_types: self._queue_closed_exception_types = (errors.OutOfRangeError,) else: self._queue_closed_exception_types = tuple( self._queue_closed_exception_types) def _init_from_proto(self, queue_runner_def, import_scope=None): """Create a QueueRunner from `QueueRunnerDef`. Args: queue_runner_def: Optional `QueueRunnerDef` protocol buffer. import_scope: Optional `string`. Name scope to add. """ assert isinstance(queue_runner_def, queue_runner_pb2.QueueRunnerDef) g = ops.get_default_graph() self._queue = g.as_graph_element( ops.prepend_name_scope(queue_runner_def.queue_name, import_scope)) self._enqueue_ops = [g.as_graph_element( ops.prepend_name_scope(op, import_scope)) for op in queue_runner_def.enqueue_op_name] self._close_op = g.as_graph_element(ops.prepend_name_scope( queue_runner_def.close_op_name, import_scope)) self._cancel_op = g.as_graph_element(ops.prepend_name_scope( queue_runner_def.cancel_op_name, import_scope)) self._queue_closed_exception_types = tuple( errors.exception_type_from_error_code(code) for code in queue_runner_def.queue_closed_exception_types) # Legacy support for old QueueRunnerDefs created before this field # was added. if not self._queue_closed_exception_types: self._queue_closed_exception_types = (errors.OutOfRangeError,) @property def queue(self): return self._queue @property def enqueue_ops(self): return self._enqueue_ops @property def close_op(self): return self._close_op @property def cancel_op(self): return self._cancel_op @property def queue_closed_exception_types(self): return self._queue_closed_exception_types @property def exceptions_raised(self): """Exceptions raised but not handled by the `QueueRunner` threads. Exceptions raised in queue runner threads are handled in one of two ways depending on whether or not a `Coordinator` was passed to `create_threads()`: * With a `Coordinator`, exceptions are reported to the coordinator and forgotten by the `QueueRunner`. * Without a `Coordinator`, exceptions are captured by the `QueueRunner` and made available in this `exceptions_raised` property. Returns: A list of Python `Exception` objects. The list is empty if no exception was captured. (No exceptions are captured when using a Coordinator.) """ return self._exceptions_raised @property def name(self): """The string name of the underlying Queue.""" return self._queue.name # pylint: disable=broad-except def _run(self, sess, enqueue_op, coord=None): """Execute the enqueue op in a loop, close the queue in case of error. Args: sess: A Session. enqueue_op: The Operation to run. coord: Optional Coordinator object for reporting errors and checking for stop conditions. """ decremented = False try: # Make a cached callable from the `enqueue_op` to decrease the # Python overhead in the queue-runner loop. enqueue_callable = sess.make_callable(enqueue_op) while True: if coord and coord.should_stop(): break try: enqueue_callable() except self._queue_closed_exception_types: # pylint: disable=catching-non-exception # This exception indicates that a queue was closed. with self._lock: self._runs_per_session[sess] -= 1 decremented = True if self._runs_per_session[sess] == 0: try: sess.run(self._close_op) except Exception as e: # Intentionally ignore errors from close_op. logging.vlog(1, "Ignored exception: %s", str(e)) return except Exception as e: # This catches all other exceptions. if coord: coord.request_stop(e) else: logging.error("Exception in QueueRunner: %s", str(e)) with self._lock: self._exceptions_raised.append(e) raise finally: # Make sure we account for all terminations: normal or errors. if not decremented: with self._lock: self._runs_per_session[sess] -= 1 def _close_on_stop(self, sess, cancel_op, coord): """Close the queue when the Coordinator requests stop. Args: sess: A Session. cancel_op: The Operation to run. coord: Coordinator. """ coord.wait_for_stop() try: sess.run(cancel_op) except Exception as e: # Intentionally ignore errors from cancel_op. logging.vlog(1, "Ignored exception: %s", str(e)) # pylint: enable=broad-except def create_threads(self, sess, coord=None, daemon=False, start=False): """Create threads to run the enqueue ops for the given session. This method requires a session in which the graph was launched. It creates a list of threads, optionally starting them. There is one thread for each op passed in `enqueue_ops`. The `coord` argument is an optional coordinator that the threads will use to terminate together and report exceptions. If a coordinator is given, this method starts an additional thread to close the queue when the coordinator requests a stop. If previously created threads for the given session are still running, no new threads will be created. Args: sess: A `Session`. coord: Optional `Coordinator` object for reporting errors and checking stop conditions. daemon: Boolean. If `True` make the threads daemon threads. start: Boolean. If `True` starts the threads. If `False` the caller must call the `start()` method of the returned threads. Returns: A list of threads. """ with self._lock: try: if self._runs_per_session[sess] > 0: # Already started: no new threads to return. return [] except KeyError: # We haven't seen this session yet. pass self._runs_per_session[sess] = len(self._enqueue_ops) self._exceptions_raised = [] ret_threads = [] for op in self._enqueue_ops: name = "QueueRunnerThread-{}-{}".format(self.name, op.name) ret_threads.append(threading.Thread(target=self._run, args=(sess, op, coord), name=name)) if coord: name = "QueueRunnerThread-{}-close_on_stop".format(self.name) ret_threads.append(threading.Thread(target=self._close_on_stop, args=(sess, self._cancel_op, coord), name=name)) for t in ret_threads: if coord: coord.register_thread(t) if daemon: t.daemon = True if start: t.start() return ret_threads def to_proto(self, export_scope=None): """Converts this `QueueRunner` to a `QueueRunnerDef` protocol buffer. Args: export_scope: Optional `string`. Name scope to remove. Returns: A `QueueRunnerDef` protocol buffer, or `None` if the `Variable` is not in the specified name scope. """ if (export_scope is None or self.queue.name.startswith(export_scope)): queue_runner_def = queue_runner_pb2.QueueRunnerDef() queue_runner_def.queue_name = ops.strip_name_scope( self.queue.name, export_scope) for enqueue_op in self.enqueue_ops: queue_runner_def.enqueue_op_name.append( ops.strip_name_scope(enqueue_op.name, export_scope)) queue_runner_def.close_op_name = ops.strip_name_scope( self.close_op.name, export_scope) queue_runner_def.cancel_op_name = ops.strip_name_scope( self.cancel_op.name, export_scope) queue_runner_def.queue_closed_exception_types.extend([ errors.error_code_from_exception_type(cls) for cls in self._queue_closed_exception_types]) return queue_runner_def else: return None @staticmethod def from_proto(queue_runner_def, import_scope=None): """Returns a `QueueRunner` object created from `queue_runner_def`.""" return QueueRunner(queue_runner_def=queue_runner_def, import_scope=import_scope) @tf_export(v1=["train.queue_runner.add_queue_runner", "train.add_queue_runner"]) @deprecation.deprecated(None, _DEPRECATION_INSTRUCTION) def add_queue_runner(qr, collection=ops.GraphKeys.QUEUE_RUNNERS): """Adds a `QueueRunner` to a collection in the graph. When building a complex model that uses many queues it is often difficult to gather all the queue runners that need to be run. This convenience function allows you to add a queue runner to a well known collection in the graph. The companion method `start_queue_runners()` can be used to start threads for all the collected queue runners. Args: qr: A `QueueRunner`. collection: A `GraphKey` specifying the graph collection to add the queue runner to. Defaults to `GraphKeys.QUEUE_RUNNERS`. """ ops.add_to_collection(collection, qr) @tf_export(v1=["train.queue_runner.start_queue_runners", "train.start_queue_runners"]) @deprecation.deprecated(None, _DEPRECATION_INSTRUCTION) def start_queue_runners(sess=None, coord=None, daemon=True, start=True, collection=ops.GraphKeys.QUEUE_RUNNERS): """Starts all queue runners collected in the graph. This is a companion method to `add_queue_runner()`. It just starts threads for all queue runners collected in the graph. It returns the list of all threads. Args: sess: `Session` used to run the queue ops. Defaults to the default session. coord: Optional `Coordinator` for coordinating the started threads. daemon: Whether the threads should be marked as `daemons`, meaning they don't block program exit. start: Set to `False` to only create the threads, not start them. collection: A `GraphKey` specifying the graph collection to get the queue runners from. Defaults to `GraphKeys.QUEUE_RUNNERS`. Raises: ValueError: if `sess` is None and there isn't any default session. TypeError: if `sess` is not a `tf.Session` object. Returns: A list of threads. Raises: RuntimeError: If called with eager execution enabled. ValueError: If called without a default `tf.Session` registered. @compatibility(eager) Not compatible with eager execution. To ingest data under eager execution, use the `tf.data` API instead. @end_compatibility """ if context.executing_eagerly(): raise RuntimeError("Queues are not compatible with eager execution.") if sess is None: sess = ops.get_default_session() if not sess: raise ValueError("Cannot start queue runners: No default session is " "registered. Use `with sess.as_default()` or pass an " "explicit session to tf.start_queue_runners(sess=sess)") if not isinstance(sess, session.SessionInterface): # Following check is due to backward compatibility. (b/62061352) if sess.__class__.__name__ in [ "MonitoredSession", "SingularMonitoredSession"]: return [] raise TypeError("sess must be a `tf.Session` object. " "Given class: {}".format(sess.__class__)) queue_runners = ops.get_collection(collection) if not queue_runners: logging.warning( "`tf.train.start_queue_runners()` was called when no queue runners " "were defined. You can safely remove the call to this deprecated " "function.") with sess.graph.as_default(): threads = [] for qr in ops.get_collection(collection): threads.extend(qr.create_threads(sess, coord=coord, daemon=daemon, start=start)) return threads ops.register_proto_function(ops.GraphKeys.QUEUE_RUNNERS, proto_type=queue_runner_pb2.QueueRunnerDef, to_proto=QueueRunner.to_proto, from_proto=QueueRunner.from_proto)