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.
