[1.7.x] Fixed pyinotify performance regression in 15f82c7011

Refs #9722. Thanks Tim Graham for the review.
Backport of 6d302f639 from master.

django/contrib/staticfiles/handlers.py

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ class StaticFilesHandler(WSGIHandler):
     WSGI middleware that intercepts calls to the static files directory, as
     defined by the STATIC_URL setting, and serves those files.
     """
+    # May be used to differentiate between handler types (e.g. in a
+    # request_finished signal)
+    handles_files = True
+
     def __init__(self, application):
         self.application = application
         self.base_url = urlparse(self.get_base_url())

django/utils/autoreload.py

@@ -77,17 +77,28 @@ _mtimes = {}
 _win = (sys.platform == "win32")
 
 _error_files = []
+_cached_modules = set()
+_cached_filenames = []
 
-
+def gen_filenames(only_new=False):
-def gen_filenames():
     """
-    Yields a generator over filenames referenced in sys.modules and translation
+    Returns a list of filenames referenced in sys.modules and translation
     files.
     """
-    filenames = [filename.__file__ for filename in list(sys.modules.values())
+    global _cached_modules, _cached_filenames
-                if hasattr(filename, '__file__')]
+    module_values = set(sys.modules.values())
+    if _cached_modules == module_values:
+        # No changes in module list, short-circuit the function
+        if only_new:
+            return []
+        else:
+            return _cached_filenames
 
-    if settings.USE_I18N:
+    new_modules = module_values - _cached_modules
+    new_filenames = [filename.__file__ for filename in new_modules
+                     if hasattr(filename, '__file__')]
+
+    if not _cached_filenames and settings.USE_I18N:
         # Add the names of the .mo files that can be generated
         # by compilemessages management command to the list of files watched.
         basedirs = [os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
@@ -102,9 +113,14 @@ def gen_filenames():
             for dirpath, dirnames, locale_filenames in os.walk(basedir):
                 for filename in locale_filenames:
                     if filename.endswith('.mo'):
-                        filenames.append(os.path.join(dirpath, filename))
+                        new_filenames.append(os.path.join(dirpath, filename))
 
-    for filename in filenames + _error_files:
+    if only_new:
+        filelist = new_filenames
+    else:
+        filelist = _cached_filenames + new_filenames + _error_files
+    filenames = []
+    for filename in filelist:
         if not filename:
             continue
         if filename.endswith(".pyc") or filename.endswith(".pyo"):
@@ -112,7 +128,10 @@ def gen_filenames():
         if filename.endswith("$py.class"):
             filename = filename[:-9] + ".py"
         if os.path.exists(filename):
-            yield filename
+            filenames.append(filename)
+    _cached_modules = _cached_modules.union(new_modules)
+    _cached_filenames += new_filenames
+    return filenames
 
 
 def reset_translations():
@@ -142,6 +161,10 @@ def inotify_code_changed():
     notifier = pyinotify.Notifier(wm, EventHandler())
 
     def update_watch(sender=None, **kwargs):
+        if sender and getattr(sender, 'handles_files', False):
+            # No need to update watches when request serves files.
+            # (sender is supposed to be a django.core.handlers.BaseHandler subclass)
+            return
         mask = (
             pyinotify.IN_MODIFY |
             pyinotify.IN_DELETE |
@@ -150,7 +173,7 @@ def inotify_code_changed():
             pyinotify.IN_MOVED_TO |
             pyinotify.IN_CREATE
         )
-        for path in gen_filenames():
+        for path in gen_filenames(only_new=True):
             wm.add_watch(path, mask)
 
     # New modules may get imported when a request is processed.

tests/utils_tests/test_autoreload.py

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ LOCALE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'locale')
 
 
 class TestFilenameGenerator(TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        # Empty cached variables
+        from django.utils import autoreload
+        autoreload._cached_modules = set()
+        autoreload._cached_filenames = []
+
     def test_django_locales(self):
         """
         Test that gen_filenames() also yields the built-in django locale files.
@@ -64,3 +70,14 @@ class TestFilenameGenerator(TestCase):
             os.path.join(os.path.dirname(conf.__file__), 'locale', 'nl',
                          'LC_MESSAGES', 'django.mo'),
             filenames)
+
+    def test_only_new_files(self):
+        """
+        When calling a second time gen_filenames with only_new = True, only
+        files from newly loaded modules should be given.
+        """
+        filenames1 = list(gen_filenames())
+        from fractions import Fraction
+        filenames2 = list(gen_filenames(only_new=True))
+        self.assertEqual(len(filenames2), 1)
+        self.assertTrue(filenames2[0].endswith('fractions.py'))