This moves _chunkraw into the loop. Doing that improves revlog decompression --
in particular, manifest decompression -- significantly. For a 20 MB manifest
which is the result of a > 40k delta chain, hg perfmanifest improves from 0.55
seconds to 0.49 seconds.
This change will allow revlog subclasses that override 'checkhash' method
to use custom strategy of computing nodeids without overriding 'addrevision'
method. In particular this change is necessary to implement manifest
compression.
Extract method that decides whether nodeid is correct for paricular revision
text and parent nodes. Having this method extracted will allow revlog
subclasses to implement custom way of computing nodes. In particular this
change is necessary to implement manifest compression.
When we deployed the latest crew mercurial to our users, a few of them
had issues where a filelog would have an entry with a -1 linkrev. This
caused operations like rebase and amend to create a bundle containing the
entire repository, which took a long time.
I don't know what the issue is, but adding this check should prevent repos
from getting in this state, and should help us pinpoint the issue next time
it happens.
The performance of both the old and new Python ancestor algorithms
depends on the number of revs they need to traverse. Although the
new algorithm performs far better than the old when revs are
numerically and topologically close, both algorithms become slow
under other circumstances, taking up to 1.8 seconds to give answers
in a Linux kernel repo.
This C implementation of the new algorithm is a fairly straightforward
transliteration. The only corner case of interest is that it raises
an OverflowError if the number of GCA candidates found during the
first pass is greater than 24, to avoid the dual perils of fixnum
overflow and trying to allocate too much memory. (If this exception
is raised, the Python implementation is used instead.)
Performance numbers are good: in a Linux kernel repo, time for "hg
debugancestors" on two distant revs (24bf01de7537 and c2a8808f5943)
is as follows:
Old Python: 0.36 sec
New Python: 0.42 sec
New C: 0.02 sec
For a case where the new algorithm should perform well:
Old Python: 1.84 sec
New Python: 0.07 sec
New C: measures as zero when using --time
(This commit includes a paranoid cross-check to ensure that the
Python and C implementations give identical answers. The above
performance numbers were measured with that check disabled.)
Previously, we chose a rev based on numeric ordering, which could
cause "the same merge" in topologically identical but numerically
different repos to choose different merge bases.
We now choose the lexically least node; this is stable across
different revlog orderings.
Instead of walking all the way to the root of the DAG, we generate
a set of candidate GCA revs, then figure out which ones will win
the race to the root (usually without needing to traverse all the
way to the root).
In the common case of nodes that are close to each other in both
revision number and topology, this is usually a big win: it makes
"hg --time debugancestors" up to 9 times faster than the more general
ancestor function when measured on heads of the linux-2.6 hg repo.
Victory is not assured, however. The older function can still win
by a large margin if one node is much closer to the root than the
other, or by a much smaller amount if one is an ancestor of the
other.
For now, we've also got a small paranoid harness function that calls
both ancestor functions on every input and ensures that they give
equivalent answers.
Even without the checker function, the old ancestor function needs
to stay alive for the time being, as its generality is used by
context.filectx.merge.
This is in preparation for an upcoming refactoring. This also fixes a bug in
incancestors, where if an element of revs was an ancestor of another it would
be generated twice.
We often need to perform rev iteration in reverse order. This
changeset makes it possible to do so, in order to avoid costly reverse
or reversed() calls later.
This also speeds up other commands that use findmissing, like
incoming and merge --preview. With a large linear repository (>400000
commits) and with one incoming changeset, incoming is sped up from
around 4-4.5 seconds to under 3.
When commiting to a repo with lots of history (>400000 changesets)
the filteredrevs check (added with 373606589de5) in changelog.py
takes a bit of time even if the filteredrevs set is empty. Skipping
the check in that case shaves 0.36 seconds off a 2.14 second commit.
A 17% gain.
Make the pure python implementation of headrevs available to derived classes. It
is important because filtering logic applied by `revlog` derived class won't
have effect on `index`. We want to be able to bypass this C call to implement
our own.
This prepares changelog level filtering. We can't assume that any revision can
be heads because filtered revisions need to be excluded.
New algorithm:
- All revisions now start as "non heads",
- every revision we iterate over is made candidate head,
- parents of iterated revisions are definitely not head.
Filtered revisions are never iterated over and never considered as candidate
head.
This prepares changelog level filtering. We need the algorithms used in revlog to
work on a subset of revisions. To achieve this, the use of explicit range of
revision is banned. `range` and `xrange` calls are replaced by a `revlog.irevs`
method. Filtered super class can then overwrite the `irevs` method to filter out
revision.
The decision whether or not to store a full snapshot instead of a delta is done
based on the distance value calculated in _addrevision.builddelta(rev).
This calculation traditionally used the fact of deltas only using the previous
revision as base. Generaldelta mechanism is changing this, yet the calculation
still assumes that current-offset minus chainbase-offset equals chain-length.
This appears to be wrong.
This patch corrects the calculation by means of using the chainlength function
if Generaldelta is used.
This allows an extension to optionally use a new compression type based
on the options applied by the repo to the revlog's opener.
(decompress doesn't need the same treatment, as it can be replaced using
extensions.wrapfunction, and can figure out which compression algorithm
is in use based on the first byte of the compressed payload.)
ancestors() returns the ancestors of revs provided. This func is like
that except it also includes the revs themselves in the total set of
revs generated.
This will be used as a step in removing reachable() in a future diff.
Doing it now because bryano is in the process of rewriting ancestors in
C. This depends on bryano's patch to replace *revs with revs in the
declaration of revlog.ancestors.
Accepting a variable number of arguments as the old API did is
deeply ugly, particularly as it means the API can't be extended
with new arguments. Partly as a result, we have at least three
different implementations of the same ancestors algorithm (!?).
Most callers were forced to call ancestors(*somelist), adding to
both inefficiency and ugliness.
There have been quite a few places where we pop elements off the
front of a list. This can turn O(n) algorithms into something more
like O(n**2). Python has provided a deque type that can do this
efficiently since at least 2.4.
As an example of the difference a deque can make, it improves
perfancestors performance on a Linux repo from 0.50 seconds to 0.36.
The C implementation is more than 100 times faster than the Python
version (which is still available as a fallback).
In a repo with 330,000 revs and a stale .hg/cache/tags file, this
patch improves the performance of "hg tip" from 2.2 to 1.6 seconds.
The underlying C code doesn't support indexing by longs, there are no
legitimate reasons to use a long, and longs should generally be
converted to ints at a higher level by context's constructor.
The radix tree already contains all the information we need to
determine whether a short string is an unambiguous node identifier.
We now make use of this information.
In a kernel tree, this improves the performance of
"hg log -q -r24bf01de75" from 0.27 seconds to 0.06.
This regresses performance of 'hg branches', presumably because it's
visiting the revlog in the wrong order. This suggests we either need
to fix the branch code or add some read-behind to mitigate the effect.
This showed up in a statprof profile of "hg svn rebuildmeta", which
is read-intensive on the changelog. This two-line patch improved
the performance of that command by 10%.
This greatly speeds up node->rev lookups, with results that are
often user-perceptible: for instance, "hg --time log" of the node
associated with rev 1000 on a linux-2.6 repo improves from 0.3
seconds to 0.03. I have not found any instances of slowdowns.
The new perfnodelookup command in contrib/perf.py demonstrates the
speedup more dramatically, since it performs no I/O. For a single
lookup, the new code is about 40x faster.
These changes also prepare the ground for the possibility of further
improving the performance of prefix-based node lookups.
This list will contains any node see in the source, not only the added one.
This is intended to allow phase to be move according what was pushed by client
not only what was added.
The usual contract is that close() makes your writes permanent, so
atomictempfile's use of close() to *discard* writes (and rename() to
keep them) is rather unexpected. Thus, change it so close() makes
things permanent and add a new discard() method to throw them away.
discard() is only used internally, in __del__(), to ensure that writes
are discarded when an atomictempfile object goes out of scope.
I audited mercurial.*, hgext.*, and ~80 third-party extensions, and
found no one using the existing semantics of close() to discard
writes, so this should be safe.
This greatly improves the speed of the bundling process, and often reduces the
bundle size considerably. (Although if the repository is already ordered, this
has little effect on both time and bundle size.)
For non-generaldelta clients, the reduced bundle size translates to a reduced
repository size, similar to shrinking the revlogs (which uses the exact same
algorithm). For generaldelta clients the difference is minor.
When the new bundle format comes, reordering will not be necessary since we
can then store the deltaparent relationsships directly. The eventual default
behavior for clients and servers is presented in the table below, where "new"
implies support for GD as well as the new bundle format:
old client new client
old server old bundle, no reorder old bundle, no reorder
new server, non-GD old bundle, no reorder[1] old bundle, no reorder[2]
new server, GD old bundle, reorder[3] new bundle, no reorder[4]
[1] reordering is expensive on the server in this case, skip it
[2] client can choose to do its own redelta here
[3] reordering is needed because otherwise the pull does a lot of extra
work on the server
[4] reordering isn't needed because client can get deltabase in bundle
format
Currently, the default is to reorder on GD-servers, and not otherwise. A new
setting, bundle.reorder, has been added to override the default reordering
behavior. It can be set to either 'auto' (the default), or any true or false
value as a standard boolean setting, to either force the reordering on or off
regardless of generaldelta.
Some timing data from a relatively branch test repository follows. All
bundling is done with --all --type none options.
Non-generaldelta, non-shrunk repo:
-----------------------------------
Size: 276M
Without reorder (default):
Bundle time: 14.4 seconds
Bundle size: 939M
With reorder:
Bundle time: 1 minute, 29.3 seconds
Bundle size: 381M
Generaldelta, non-shrunk repo:
-----------------------------------
Size: 87M
Without reorder:
Bundle time: 2 minutes, 1.4 seconds
Bundle size: 939M
With reorder (default):
Bundle time: 25.5 seconds
Bundle size: 381M
defversion was a property (later option) on the store opener, used to propagate
the changelog revlog format to the other revlogs, so they would be created with
the same format.
This required that the changelog instance was created before any other revlog;
an invariant that wasn't directly enforced (or documented) anywhere.
We now use the revlogv1 requirement instead, which is transfered to the store
opener options. If this option is missing, v0 revlogs are created.
Without this change, pulls (and clones) into a generaldelta repository could
generate very inefficient revlogs, the size of which could be at least twice
the original size.
This was caused by the generated delta chains covering too large distances,
causing new chains to be built far too often. This change addresses the
problem by forcing a delta against second parent or against the previous
revision, when the first parent delta is in danger of creating a long chain.
The bug didn't cause corruption, and thus wasn't caught in hg verify or in
tests. It could lead to delta chains longer than normally allowed, by
affecting the code that decides when to add a full revision. This could,
in turn, lead to performance regression.
With generaldelta switched on, deltas are always computed against the first
parent when adding revisions. This is done regardless of what revision the
incoming bundle, if any, is deltaed against.
The exact delta building strategy is subject to change, but this will not
affect compatibility.
Generaldelta is switched off by default.
Generaldelta is a new revlog global flag. When it's turned on, the base field
of each revision entry holds the deltaparent instead of the base revision of
the current delta chain.
This allows for great potential flexibility when generating deltas, as any
revision can serve as deltaparent. Previously, the deltaparent for revision r
was hardcoded to be r - 1.
The base revision of the delta chain can still be accessed as before, since it
is now computed in an iterative fashion, following the deltaparents backwards.
This is in preparation for generaldelta, where the revlog entry base field is
reinterpreted as the deltaparent. For that reason we also rename the base
function to chainbase.
Without generaldelta, performance is unaffected, but generaldelta will suffer
from this in _addrevision, since delta chains will be walked repeatedly.
A cache has been added to eliminate this problem completely.
Adds a new discovery method based on repeatedly sampling the still
undecided subset of the local node graph to determine the set of nodes
common to both the client and the server.
For small differences between client and server, it uses about the same
or slightly fewer roundtrips than the old tree-based discovery. For
larger differences, it typically reduces the number of roundtrips
drastically (from 150 to 4, for instance).
The old discovery code now lives in treediscovery.py, the new code is
in setdiscovery.py.
Still missing is a hook for extensions to contribute nodes to the
initial sample. For instance, Augie's remotebranches could contribute
the last known state of the server's heads.
Credits for the actual sampler and computing common heads instead of
bases go to Benoit Boissinot.
getbundle(common, heads) -> bundle
Returns the changegroup for all ancestors of heads which are not ancestors of common. For both
sets, the heads are included in the set.
Intended to eventually supercede changegroupsubset and changegroup. Uses heads of common region
to exclude unwanted changesets instead of bases of desired region, which is more useful and
easier to implement.
Designed to be extensible with new optional arguments (which will have to be guarded by
corresponding capabilities).
Add missing calls to close() to many places where files are
opened. Relying on reference counting to catch them soon-ish is not
portable and fails in environments with a proper GC, such as PyPy.
Now that the nodemap is lazily created, we use linear scanning back
from tip for typical node to rev mapping. Given that nodemap creation
is O(n log n) and revisions searched for are usually very close to
tip, this is often a significant performance win for a small number of
searches.
When we do end up building a nodemap for bulk lookups, the scanning
function is replaced with a hash lookup.
We were not returning the correct result if nullrev was in revs, as we
are checking parent(currentrev) != nullrev before yielding currentrev
test-convert-hg-startrev was wrong: if we start converting from rev -1 and
onwards, all the descendants of -1 (full repo) should be converted.
When parentdelta is enabled, we choose the delta that has the minimum
distance to its base. Otherwise, base may be sufficiently far away to
require a full version, resulting in greatly reduced compression.
While reading changegroup if a node with missing parents is encountered,
we add a punched entry in the index with null parents for the missing
parent node.
Rename some variables, making the name more obvious (in particular "cache" was
actually two different variable.
Move code around, moving the index preloading before the deltachain computation,
without that index preloading was useless (everything was read in deltachain).
Refactor revlog._addrevision() and put the correct base rev in the
parent-delta case: base(rev) should always be equal to the first full snapshot
that is needed by the delta chain, in both parent-delta and tip-delta case.
Before this fix, the base rev was in most case wrong (and in the case where
p1 == nullid, this triggered the bug from issue2337). This means that
repositories converted to parent-delta earlier are corrupted and needs to be
reconverted.
index flag to identify a revision as punched, i.e. it contains no data.
REVIDX_PUNCHED_FLAG = 2, is used to mark a revision as punched.
REVIDX_KNOWN_FLAGS is the accumulation of all index flags.
This is similar to the __builtin__.cmp behaviour, but still not
straightforward, as the dailylife meaning of a comparison usually is
"find out if they are different".
Previously, it only returned revisions that were in the revlog when it
was originally opened; revisions added since then were invisible.
This broke revlog._partialmatch() and therefore repo.lookup().
(Credit to Benoit Boissinot for simplifying my original test script
and for the actual fix.)
This lets us change the threshold at which a *.d file will be split
out, which should make it much easier to construct test cases that
probe revlogs with a separate data file.
(issue2137)
This lets us change the threshold at which a *.d file will be split
out, which should make it much easier to construct test cases that
probe revlogs with a separate data file.
(issue2137)
If a buffer of an mutable object is passed to revlog.addrevision(), the revlog
will happily store it in its cache. Later when the revlog reuses the cached
entry, if the manifest modified the object in-between, all kind of bugs
appears.
We fix it by:
- passing immutable objects to addrevision() if they are already available
- only storing the text in the cache if it's of str type
Then we can remove the conversion of the cache entry to str() during
retrieval. That was probably just there hiding the bug for the common cases
but not really fixing it.
- chunk to _chunk
- _prime to _chunkraw
- _chunkclear for cache clearing
- _chunk calls _chunkraw
- clean up _prime a bit
- simplify users in revision and checkinlinesize
- drop file descriptor passing (we're better off opening fds lazily
The built-in None object is a singleton and it is therefore safe to
compare memory addresses with is. It is also faster, how much depends
on the object being compared. For a simple type like str I get:
| s = "foo" | s = None
----------+-----------+----------
s == None | 0.25 usec | 0.21 usec
s is None | 0.17 usec | 0.17 usec
Uses a transaction instance from the local repository to journal the
truncation of revlog files, such that if a strip only partially completes,
hg recover will be able to finish the truncate of all the files.
The potential unbundling of changes that have been backed up to be restored
later will, in case of an error, have to be unbundled manually. The
difference is that it will be possible to recover the repository state so
the unbundle can actually succeed.
Because we often compute sha1(nullid), it's interesting to copy a precomputed
hash of nullid instead of computing everytime the same hash. Similarly, when
one of the parents is null, we can avoid a < comparison (sort).
Overall, this change adds a string equality comparison on each hash() call,
but when p2 is null, we drop one string < comparison, and copy a hash instead
of computing it. Since it is common to have revisions with only one parent,
this change makes hash() 25% faster when cloning a big repository.
They are unnecessary. I did leave them in localrepo.py where there is
something like:
_junk = foo()
_junk = None
to free memory early. I don't know if just `foo()` will free the return
value as early.
- create error.py for exception classes to reduce demandloading
- move revlog exceptions to it
- change users to import error and drop revlog import if possible
