sapling/mercurial
Gregory Szorc 0ee2ea3be0 changelog: disable delta chains
This patch disables delta chains on changelogs. After this patch, new
entries on changelogs - including existing changelogs - will be stored
as the fulltext of that data (likely compressed). No delta computation
will be performed.

An overview of delta chains and data justifying this change follows.

Revlogs try to store entries as a delta against a previous entry (either
a parent revision in the case of generaldelta or the previous physical
revision when not using generaldelta). Most of the time this is the
correct thing to do: it frequently results in less CPU usage and smaller
storage.

Delta chains are most effective when the base revision being deltad
against is similar to the current data. This tends to occur naturally
for manifests and file data, since only small parts of each tend to
change with each revision. Changelogs, however, are a different story.

Changelog entries represent changesets/commits. And unless commits in a
repository are homogonous (same author, changing same files, similar
commit messages, etc), a delta from one entry to the next tends to be
relatively large compared to the size of the entry. This means that
delta chains tend to be short. How short? Here is the full vs delta
revision breakdown on some real world repos:

Repo             % Full    % Delta   Max Length
hg                45.8       54.2        6
mozilla-central   42.4       57.6        8
mozilla-unified   42.5       57.5       17
pypy              46.1       53.9        6
python-zstandard  46.1       53.9        3

(I threw in python-zstandard as an example of a repo that is homogonous.
It contains a small Python project with changes all from the same
author.)

Contrast this with the manifest revlog for these repos, where 99+% of
revisions are deltas and delta chains run into the thousands.

So delta chains aren't as useful on changelogs. But even a short delta
chain may provide benefits. Let's measure that.

Delta chains may require less CPU to read revisions if the CPU time
spent reading smaller deltas is less than the CPU time used to
decompress larger individual entries. We can measure this via
`hg perfrevlog -c -d 1` to iterate a revlog to resolve each revision's
fulltext. Here are the results of that command on a repo using delta
chains in its changelog and on a repo without delta chains:

hg (forward)
! wall 0.407008 comb 0.410000 user 0.410000 sys 0.000000 (best of 25)
! wall 0.390061 comb 0.390000 user 0.390000 sys 0.000000 (best of 26)

hg (reverse)
! wall 0.515221 comb 0.520000 user 0.520000 sys 0.000000 (best of 19)
! wall 0.400018 comb 0.400000 user 0.390000 sys 0.010000 (best of 25)

mozilla-central (forward)
! wall 4.508296 comb 4.490000 user 4.490000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3)
! wall 4.370222 comb 4.370000 user 4.350000 sys 0.020000 (best of 3)

mozilla-central (reverse)
! wall 5.758995 comb 5.760000 user 5.720000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)
! wall 4.346503 comb 4.340000 user 4.320000 sys 0.020000 (best of 3)

mozilla-unified (forward)
! wall 4.957088 comb 4.950000 user 4.940000 sys 0.010000 (best of 3)
! wall 4.660528 comb 4.650000 user 4.630000 sys 0.020000 (best of 3)

mozilla-unified (reverse)
! wall 6.119827 comb 6.110000 user 6.090000 sys 0.020000 (best of 3)
! wall 4.675136 comb 4.670000 user 4.670000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3)

pypy (forward)
! wall 1.231122 comb 1.240000 user 1.230000 sys 0.010000 (best of 8)
! wall 1.164896 comb 1.160000 user 1.160000 sys 0.000000 (best of 9)

pypy (reverse)
! wall 1.467049 comb 1.460000 user 1.460000 sys 0.000000 (best of 7)
! wall 1.160200 comb 1.170000 user 1.160000 sys 0.010000 (best of 9)

The data clearly shows that it takes less wall and CPU time to resolve
revisions when there are no delta chains in the changelogs, regardless
of the direction of traversal. Furthermore, not using a delta chain
means that fulltext resolution in reverse is as fast as iterating
forward. So not using delta chains on the changelog is a clear CPU win
for reading operations.

An example of a user-visible operation showing this speed-up is revset
evaluation. Here are results for
`hg perfrevset 'author(gps) or author(mpm)'`:

hg
! wall 1.655506 comb 1.660000 user 1.650000 sys 0.010000 (best of 6)
! wall 1.612723 comb 1.610000 user 1.600000 sys 0.010000 (best of 7)

mozilla-central
! wall 17.629826 comb 17.640000 user 17.600000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)
! wall 17.311033 comb 17.300000 user 17.260000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)

What about 00changelog.i size?

Repo                Delta Chains     No Delta Chains
hg                    7,033,250         6,976,771
mozilla-central      82,978,748        81,574,623
mozilla-unified      88,112,349        86,702,162
pypy                 20,740,699        20,659,741

The data shows that removing delta chains from the changelog makes the
changelog smaller.

Delta chains are also used during changegroup generation. This
operation essentially converts a series of revisions to one large
delta chain. And changegroup generation is smart: if the delta in
the revlog matches what the changegroup is emitting, it will reuse
the delta instead of recalculating it. We can measure the impact
removing changelog delta chains has on changegroup generation via
`hg perfchangegroupchangelog`:

hg
! wall 1.589245 comb 1.590000 user 1.590000 sys 0.000000 (best of 7)
! wall 1.788060 comb 1.790000 user 1.790000 sys 0.000000 (best of 6)

mozilla-central
! wall 17.382585 comb 17.380000 user 17.340000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)
! wall 20.161357 comb 20.160000 user 20.120000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)

mozilla-unified
! wall 18.722839 comb 18.720000 user 18.680000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)
! wall 21.168075 comb 21.170000 user 21.130000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)

pypy
! wall 4.828317 comb 4.830000 user 4.820000 sys 0.010000 (best of 3)
! wall 5.415455 comb 5.420000 user 5.410000 sys 0.010000 (best of 3)

The data shows eliminating delta chains makes the changelog part of
changegroup generation slower. This is expected since we now have to
compute deltas for revisions where we could recycle the delta before.

It is worth putting this regression into context of overall changegroup
times. Here is the rough total CPU time spent in changegroup generation
for various repos while using delta chains on the changelog:

Repo              CPU Time (s)    CPU Time w/ compression
hg                  4.50              7.05
mozilla-central   111.1             222.0
pypy               28.68             75.5

Before compression, removing delta chains from the changegroup adds
~4.4% overhead to hg changegroup generation, 1.3% to mozilla-central,
and 2.0% to pypy. When you factor in zlib compression, these percentages
are roughly divided by 2.

While the increased CPU usage for changegroup generation is unfortunate,
I think it is acceptable because the percentage is small, server
operators (those likely impacted most by this) have other mechanisms
to mitigate CPU consumption (namely reducing zlib compression level and
pre-generated clone bundles), and because there is room to optimize this
in the future. For example, we could use the nullid as the base revision,
effectively encoding the full revision for each entry in the changegroup.
When doing this, `hg perfchangegroupchangelog` nearly halves:

mozilla-unified
! wall 21.168075 comb 21.170000 user 21.130000 sys 0.040000 (best of 3)
! wall 11.196461 comb 11.200000 user 11.190000 sys 0.010000 (best of 3)

This looks very promising as a future optimization opportunity.

It's worth that the changes in test-acl.t to the changegroup part size.
This is because revision 6 in the changegroup had a delta chain of
length 2 before and after this patch the base revision is nullrev.
When the base revision is nullrev, cg2packer.deltaparent() hardcodes
the *previous* revision from the changegroup as the delta parent.
This caused the delta in the changegroup to switch base revisions,
the delta to change, and the size to change accordingly. While the
size increased in this case, I think sizes will remain the same
on average, as the delta base for changelog revisions doesn't matter
too much (as this patch shows). So, I don't consider this a regression.
2016-10-13 12:50:27 +02:00
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help templater: provide arithmetic operations on integers 2016-10-09 05:51:04 -07:00
hgweb hgweb: fix the MRO in Python 3 2016-10-08 19:11:19 +02:00
httpclient httpclient: update to 54868ef054d2 of httpplus 2016-06-27 11:53:50 -04:00
pure lazymanifest: write a more efficient, pypy friendly version of lazymanifest 2016-09-12 13:37:14 +02:00
templates hgweb: avoid line wrap between revision and annotate-info (issue5398) 2016-10-08 19:32:54 +09:00
__init__.py py3: a second argument to open can't be bytes 2016-10-09 14:10:01 +02:00
ancestor.py py3: convert to next() function 2016-05-16 21:30:53 +00:00
archival.py py3: remove use of *L syntax 2016-09-01 02:29:46 +05:30
base85.c base85: fix comparison of an int and a long 2015-08-21 14:29:42 -04:00
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bitmanipulation.h internals: move the bitmanipulation routines into its own file 2016-06-06 13:08:13 +02:00
bookmarks.py bookmarks: abort 'push -B .' when no active bookmark 2016-06-13 23:50:26 +02:00
branchmap.py rbc: fix superfluous rebuilding from scratch - don't abuse self._rbcnamescount 2016-07-18 22:25:09 +02:00
bundle2.py pycompat: provide 'ispy3' constant 2016-09-28 20:01:23 +09:00
bundlerepo.py i18n: translate abort messages 2016-06-14 11:53:55 +02:00
byterange.py pycompat: switch to util.urlreq/util.urlerr for py3 compat 2016-04-06 23:22:12 +00:00
changegroup.py changegroup: document deltaparent's choice of previous revision 2016-10-13 12:49:47 +02:00
changelog.py changelog: disable delta chains 2016-10-13 12:50:27 +02:00
cmdutil.py largefiles: use context for file closing 2016-10-08 00:59:41 +02:00
commands.py debuginstall: use %d instead of %s for formatting an int 2016-10-09 09:42:46 -04:00
commandserver.py commandserver: update comment about setpgid 2016-07-18 15:59:08 +01:00
compat.h compat: define ssize_t as int on 32bit Windows, silences C4142 warning 2016-07-15 23:54:56 +09:00
config.py config: add hasconfig method and supporting plumbing 2016-01-07 19:45:03 -08:00
context.py annotate: calculate line count correctly 2016-10-01 14:18:58 +01:00
copies.py checkcopies: extract the '_related' closure 2016-10-11 01:29:08 +02:00
crecord.py crecord: properly handle files with No newline at eof (issue5268) 2016-09-02 20:15:37 +00:00
dagparser.py error: get Abort from 'error' instead of 'util' 2015-10-08 12:55:45 -07:00
dagutil.py dagutil: use absolute_import 2015-08-08 19:04:09 -07:00
demandimport.py demandimport: add 'nt' to ignore list (issue5373) 2016-09-27 21:56:00 +09:00
destutil.py update: use single quotes in use warning 2016-09-02 21:49:33 +00:00
diffhelpers.c diffhelpers: fix botched return statement from e48d70075d8a 2015-01-28 13:34:20 -05:00
dirs.c dirs: add comment about _PyBytes_Resize 2016-10-13 10:59:29 +02:00
dirstate.py dirstate: rebuild should update dirstate properly 2016-08-30 15:16:28 -07:00
discovery.py discovery: use single quotes in use warning 2016-09-20 23:47:30 +00:00
dispatch.py dispatch: make hg --profile wrap reposetup 2016-09-22 12:36:30 -07:00
dummycert.pem ssl: on OS X, use a dummy cert to trick Python/OpenSSL to use system CA certs 2014-09-26 02:19:48 +02:00
encoding.py py3: provide encoding.environ which is a dict of bytes 2016-09-28 20:05:34 +09:00
error.py shelve: make unshelve be able to abort in any case 2016-07-13 16:16:18 +01:00
exchange.py pull: grab wlock during pull 2016-08-23 23:47:59 +02:00
exewrapper.c exewrapper: add .dll to LoadLibrary() argument 2016-04-27 09:23:39 -07:00
extensions.py extensions: move the "import" logic out from "load" 2016-10-03 03:37:10 +01:00
fancyopts.py flags: allow specifying --no-boolean-flag on the command line (BC) 2016-09-13 22:57:57 -04:00
filelog.py filelog: use absolute_import 2015-08-08 19:11:42 -07:00
filemerge.py py3: make format strings unicodes and not bytes 2016-10-08 16:10:58 +02:00
fileset.py help: clarify quotes are needed for filesets.size expressions 2016-09-21 16:33:37 +00:00
formatter.py py3: conditionalize cPickle import by adding in util 2016-06-04 14:38:00 +05:30
graphmod.py revset: add new topographical sort 2016-06-13 18:20:00 +01:00
hbisect.py bisect: move check_state into the bisect module 2016-08-24 04:25:20 +02:00
help.py help: backout 6f89f03ad369 (mark boolean flags with [no-] in help) for now 2016-10-09 03:11:18 +02:00
hg.py merge: add conflict labels to merge command 2016-10-07 08:51:50 -07:00
hook.py hook: split config reading further 2016-04-14 17:03:49 -07:00
httpconnection.py largefiles: use context for file closing 2016-10-08 00:59:41 +02:00
httppeer.py py3: conditionalize httplib import 2016-06-28 16:01:53 +05:30
i18n.py i18n: make the locale directory name the same string type as the datapath 2016-10-08 05:26:18 -04:00
keepalive.py keepalive: switch from thread to threading module 2016-07-01 19:17:16 +05:30
localrepo.py localrepo: use single quotes in use warning 2016-09-20 23:48:08 +00:00
lock.py lock: clear postrelease hooks list after usage 2016-04-16 09:00:15 -07:00
lsprof.py lsprof: use print function 2016-01-02 11:40:53 -08:00
lsprofcalltree.py lsprofcalltree: use print function 2016-01-02 11:45:29 -08:00
mail.py mail: handle renamed email.Header 2016-10-07 17:30:11 +02:00
manifest.c manifest: convert PyString* to PyBytes* 2016-10-08 21:57:55 +02:00
manifest.py lazymanifest: write a more efficient, pypy friendly version of lazymanifest 2016-09-12 13:37:14 +02:00
match.py i18n: translate abort messages 2016-06-14 11:53:55 +02:00
mdiff.py mdiff: remove unused parameter 'refine' from allblocks() 2016-09-27 14:46:34 +02:00
merge.py merge: update doc of manifestmerge() per ce7e15f82b44 2016-10-02 17:31:32 +09:00
minirst.py help: search section of help topic by translated section name correctly 2016-05-13 07:19:59 +09:00
mpatch_module.c mpatch: raise MemoryError instead of mpatchError if lalloc() failed 2016-08-07 10:06:56 +09:00
mpatch.c internals: move the bitmanipulation routines into its own file 2016-06-06 13:08:13 +02:00
mpatch.h mpatch: raise MemoryError instead of mpatchError if lalloc() failed 2016-08-07 10:06:56 +09:00
namespaces.py namespaces: fix name/node confusion 2016-03-16 23:12:43 +00:00
node.py node: use byte literals to construct nullid and wdirid 2016-03-12 14:04:57 -08:00
obsolete.py obsolete: use single quotes in use warning 2016-09-20 23:48:19 +00:00
osutil.c osutil: use PyLongObject on Python 3 for listdir_slot 2016-10-09 13:47:46 +02:00
parser.py parser: shorten prefix of alias parsing errors 2016-04-17 12:31:06 +09:00
parsers.c parsers: move PyInt aliasing out of util.h 2016-10-09 13:50:53 +02:00
patch.py import: abort instead of crashing when copy source does not exist (issue5375) 2016-10-08 05:26:58 -07:00
pathencode.c pathencode: use Py_SIZE directly 2016-10-08 22:21:22 +02:00
pathutil.py util: rename checkcase() to fscasesensitive() (API) 2016-08-30 09:22:53 -07:00
peer.py py3: convert to next() function 2016-05-16 21:30:53 +00:00
phases.py phases: make writing phaseroots file out avoid ambiguity of file stat 2016-06-03 00:44:20 +09:00
policy.py policy: add cffi policy for PyPy 2016-06-07 15:35:58 +02:00
posix.py chgserver: extract utility to bind unix domain socket to long path 2016-05-21 16:52:04 +09:00
profiling.py profiling: don't error with statprof when profiling has already started 2016-08-14 18:28:43 -07:00
progress.py progress: stop excessive clearing (issue4801) 2016-05-06 17:53:06 -05:00
pushkey.py pushkey: use absolute_import 2015-08-08 19:57:27 -07:00
pvec.py pvec: use absolute_import 2015-12-21 21:32:58 -08:00
py3kcompat.py py3compat: use absolute_import 2015-12-21 21:31:57 -08:00
pycompat.py pycompat: only accept a bytestring filepath in Python 2 2016-10-10 23:11:15 +01:00
registrar.py registrar: make format strings unicodes and not bytes 2016-10-07 08:32:18 -04:00
repair.py repair: open a file with checkambig=True to avoid file stat ambiguity 2016-09-22 21:52:00 +09:00
repoview.py cleanup: replace uses of util.(md5|sha1|sha256|sha512) with hashlib.\1 2016-06-10 00:12:33 -04:00
revlog.py revlog: add instance variable controlling delta chain use 2016-09-24 12:25:37 -07:00
revset.py revset: build _syminitletters from a saner source: the string module 2016-10-07 08:32:40 -04:00
scmposix.py scmposix: use absolute_import 2015-12-21 21:24:49 -08:00
scmutil.py py3: use encoding.environ instead of os.environ 2016-10-09 12:37:10 +02:00
scmwindows.py py3: conditionalize _winreg import 2016-08-10 04:35:44 +05:30
setdiscovery.py setdiscovery: use iterbatch interface instead of batch 2016-03-01 17:44:41 -05:00
similar.py cleanup: replace uses of util.(md5|sha1|sha256|sha512) with hashlib.\1 2016-06-10 00:12:33 -04:00
simplemerge.py simplemerge: move conflict warning message to filemerge 2015-10-09 13:54:52 -07:00
sshpeer.py i18n: translate abort messages 2016-06-14 11:53:55 +02:00
sshserver.py wireproto: rename argument to groupchunks() 2016-09-25 12:20:31 -07:00
sslutil.py sslutil: work around SSLContext.get_ca_certs bug on Windows (issue5313) 2016-07-25 12:00:55 -07:00
statichttprepo.py statichttprepo: do not try to write caches 2016-08-05 15:48:09 +02:00
store.py store: py26 compat, don't use a dict comprehension 2016-10-09 12:58:22 +02:00
streamclone.py streamclone: clear caches after writing changes into files for visibility 2016-09-12 03:06:29 +09:00
strutil.py strutil: use absolute_import 2015-08-08 20:01:40 -07:00
subrepo.py merge: use labels in subrepo merge 2016-10-08 01:25:28 -07:00
tagmerge.py tagmerge: use absolute_import 2015-08-08 20:10:46 -07:00
tags.py tags: silence hgtagsfnodes reading failures 2016-04-28 15:40:43 -05:00
templatefilters.py pycompat: switch to util.urlreq/util.urlerr for py3 compat 2016-04-06 23:22:12 +00:00
templatekw.py template: provide a termwidth keyword (issue5395) 2016-10-08 02:26:48 -07:00
templater.py templater: handle division by zero in arithmetic 2016-10-09 08:09:20 -07:00
transaction.py transaction: open a file with checkambig=True to avoid file stat ambiguity 2016-09-22 21:52:00 +09:00
treediscovery.py error: get Abort from 'error' instead of 'util' 2015-10-08 12:55:45 -07:00
ui.py samplehgrcs: use single quotes in use warning 2016-09-20 23:49:00 +00:00
unionrepo.py unionrepo: properly handle hidden linkrev in revlog (issue5070) 2016-02-22 23:36:04 +01:00
url.py url: avoid re-issuing incorrect password (issue3210) 2016-07-29 12:46:07 +01:00
util.h parsers: move PyInt aliasing out of util.h 2016-10-09 13:50:53 +02:00
util.py util: ensure forwarded attrs are set in globals() as sysstr 2016-10-08 08:36:39 -04:00
verify.py verify: specify unit for ui.progress when checking files 2016-03-11 20:18:41 +08:00
win32.py win32: use absolute_import 2015-08-08 18:52:59 -07:00
windows.py chgserver: extract utility to bind unix domain socket to long path 2016-05-21 16:52:04 +09:00
wireproto.py wireproto: rename argument to groupchunks() 2016-09-25 12:20:31 -07:00
worker.py error: get Abort from 'error' instead of 'util' 2015-10-08 12:55:45 -07:00