From: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 12:21:55 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: gh-105699: Add some stress tests for subinterpreter creation (#106966)
X-Git-Tag: v3.13.0a1~1301
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=adda43dc0bcea853cbfa33126e5549c584cef8be;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-105699: Add some stress tests for subinterpreter creation (#106966)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py b/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py
index d1bebe471583..5981d96de8de 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import time
 
 from test import support
 from test.support import import_helper
+from test.support import threading_helper
 _interpreters = import_helper.import_module('_xxsubinterpreters')
 _channels = import_helper.import_module('_xxinterpchannels')
 from test.support import interpreters
@@ -463,6 +464,27 @@ class TestInterpreterRun(TestBase):
     # test_xxsubinterpreters covers the remaining Interpreter.run() behavior.
 
 
+class StressTests(TestBase):
+
+    # In these tests we generally want a lot of interpreters,
+    # but not so many that any test takes too long.
+
+    def test_create_many_sequential(self):
+        alive = []
+        for _ in range(100):
+            interp = interpreters.create()
+            alive.append(interp)
+
+    def test_create_many_threaded(self):
+        alive = []
+        def task():
+            interp = interpreters.create()
+            alive.append(interp)
+        threads = (threading.Thread(target=task) for _ in range(200))
+        with threading_helper.start_threads(threads):
+            pass
+
+
 class TestIsShareable(TestBase):
 
     def test_default_shareables(self):