patch: implement a new worddiff algorithm
The previous worddiff algorithm has many problems. The major problem is it
does a "similarity check" that selects a subset of matched lines to do
inline diffs. It is a bad idea because:
- The "similarity check" is non-obvious to users. For example, a simple
change from "long long x" to "int64_t x" will fail the similarity check
and won't be diff-ed as expected.
- Selecting "lines" to diff won't work as people expect if there are line
wrapping changes.
- It has a sad time complexity if lines do not match, could be O(N^2)-ish.
There are other problems in implementation details.
- Lines can match across distant hunks (if the next hunk does not have
"-" lines).
- "difflib" is slow.
The solution would be removing the "similarity check", and just diff all
words in a same hunk. So no content will be missed and everything will be
diff-ed as expected. This is similar to what code review tool like
Phabricator does.
This diff implements the word diff algorithm as described above. It also
avoids difflib to be faster.
Note about colors: To be consistent, "changed inserted" parts and "purely
insertion blocks" should have a same color, since they do not exist in the
previous version. Instead of highlighting differences, this patch chooses to
dim common parts. This is also more consistent with Phabricator or GitHub
webpage. That said, the labels are defined in a way that people can still
highlight changed parts and leave purely inserted/deleted hunks use the
"non-highlighted" color.
As one example, running:
hg log -pr df50b87d8f736aff8dc281f816bddcd6f306930c mercurial/commands.py \
--config experimental.worddiff=1 --color=debug --config diff.unified=0
The previous algorithm outputs:
[diff.file_a|--- a/mercurial/commands.py Fri Mar 09 15:53:41 2018 +0100]
[diff.file_b|+++ b/mercurial/commands.py Sat Mar 10 12:33:19 2018 +0530]
[diff.hunk|@@ -2039,1 +2039,4 @@]
[diff.deleted|-][diff.deleted.highlight|@command('^forget',][diff.deleted| ][diff.deleted.highlight|walkopts,][diff.deleted| _('[OPTION]... FILE...'), inferrepo=True)]
[diff.inserted|+@command(]
[diff.inserted|+ '^forget',]
[diff.inserted|+ walkopts + dryrunopts,]
[diff.inserted|+ ][diff.inserted.highlight| ][diff.inserted| _('[OPTION]... FILE...'), inferrepo=True)]
[diff.hunk|@@ -2074,1 +2077,3 @@]
[diff.deleted|- rejected = cmdutil.forget(ui, repo, m, prefix="",][diff.deleted.highlight| explicitonly=False)[0]]
[diff.inserted|+ dryrun = opts.get(r'dry_run')]
[diff.inserted|+ rejected = cmdutil.forget(ui, repo, m, prefix="",]
[diff.inserted|+ explicitonly=False, dryrun=dryrun)[0]]
The new algorithm outputs:
[diff.file_a|--- a/mercurial/commands.py Fri Mar 09 15:53:41 2018 +0100]
[diff.file_b|+++ b/mercurial/commands.py Sat Mar 10 12:33:19 2018 +0530]
[diff.hunk|@@ -2039,1 +2039,4 @@]
[diff.deleted|-][diff.deleted.unchanged|@command(][diff.deleted.unchanged|'^forget',][diff.deleted.unchanged| ][diff.deleted.changed|walkopts][diff.deleted.unchanged|,][diff.deleted.changed| ][diff.deleted.unchanged|_('[OPTION]... FILE...'), inferrepo=True)]
[diff.inserted|+][diff.inserted.unchanged|@command(]
[diff.inserted|+][diff.inserted.changed| ][diff.inserted.unchanged|'^forget',]
[diff.inserted|+][diff.inserted.changed| walkopts][diff.inserted.unchanged| ][diff.inserted.changed|+ dryrunopts][diff.inserted.unchanged|,]
[diff.inserted|+][diff.inserted.changed| ][diff.inserted.unchanged|_('[OPTION]... FILE...'), inferrepo=True)]
[diff.hunk|@@ -2074,1 +2077,3 @@]
[diff.deleted|-][diff.deleted.unchanged| rejected = cmdutil.forget(ui, repo, m, prefix="",][diff.deleted.changed| ][diff.deleted.unchanged|explicitonly=False][diff.deleted.unchanged|)[0]]
[diff.inserted|+][diff.inserted.changed| dryrun = opts.get(r'dry_run')]
[diff.inserted|+][diff.inserted.unchanged| rejected = cmdutil.forget(ui, repo, m, prefix="",]
[diff.inserted|+][diff.inserted.changed| ][diff.inserted.unchanged|explicitonly=False][diff.inserted.changed|, dryrun=dryrun][diff.inserted.unchanged|)[0]]
Practically, when diffing a 8k line change, the time spent on worddiff
reduces from 4 seconds to 0.14 seconds.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3212
# worker.py - master-slave parallelism support
#
# Copyright 2013 Facebook, Inc.
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
from __future__ import absolute_import
import errno
import os
import signal
import sys
import threading
import time
from .i18n import _
from . import (
encoding,
error,
pycompat,
scmutil,
util,
)
def countcpus():
'''try to count the number of CPUs on the system'''
# posix
try:
n = int(os.sysconf(r'SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN'))
if n > 0:
return n
except (AttributeError, ValueError):
pass
# windows
try:
n = int(encoding.environ['NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS'])
if n > 0:
return n
except (KeyError, ValueError):
pass
return 1
def _numworkers(ui):
s = ui.config('worker', 'numcpus')
if s:
try:
n = int(s)
if n >= 1:
return n
except ValueError:
raise error.Abort(_('number of cpus must be an integer'))
return min(max(countcpus(), 4), 32)
if pycompat.isposix or pycompat.iswindows:
_startupcost = 0.01
else:
_startupcost = 1e30
def worthwhile(ui, costperop, nops):
'''try to determine whether the benefit of multiple processes can
outweigh the cost of starting them'''
linear = costperop * nops
workers = _numworkers(ui)
benefit = linear - (_startupcost * workers + linear / workers)
return benefit >= 0.15
def worker(ui, costperarg, func, staticargs, args):
'''run a function, possibly in parallel in multiple worker
processes.
returns a progress iterator
costperarg - cost of a single task
func - function to run
staticargs - arguments to pass to every invocation of the function
args - arguments to split into chunks, to pass to individual
workers
'''
enabled = ui.configbool('worker', 'enabled')
if enabled and worthwhile(ui, costperarg, len(args)):
return _platformworker(ui, func, staticargs, args)
return func(*staticargs + (args,))
def _posixworker(ui, func, staticargs, args):
rfd, wfd = os.pipe()
workers = _numworkers(ui)
oldhandler = signal.getsignal(signal.SIGINT)
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)
pids, problem = set(), [0]
def killworkers():
# unregister SIGCHLD handler as all children will be killed. This
# function shouldn't be interrupted by another SIGCHLD; otherwise pids
# could be updated while iterating, which would cause inconsistency.
signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, oldchldhandler)
# if one worker bails, there's no good reason to wait for the rest
for p in pids:
try:
os.kill(p, signal.SIGTERM)
except OSError as err:
if err.errno != errno.ESRCH:
raise
def waitforworkers(blocking=True):
for pid in pids.copy():
p = st = 0
while True:
try:
p, st = os.waitpid(pid, (0 if blocking else os.WNOHANG))
break
except OSError as e:
if e.errno == errno.EINTR:
continue
elif e.errno == errno.ECHILD:
# child would already be reaped, but pids yet been
# updated (maybe interrupted just after waitpid)
pids.discard(pid)
break
else:
raise
if not p:
# skip subsequent steps, because child process should
# be still running in this case
continue
pids.discard(p)
st = _exitstatus(st)
if st and not problem[0]:
problem[0] = st
def sigchldhandler(signum, frame):
waitforworkers(blocking=False)
if problem[0]:
killworkers()
oldchldhandler = signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, sigchldhandler)
ui.flush()
parentpid = os.getpid()
for pargs in partition(args, workers):
# make sure we use os._exit in all worker code paths. otherwise the
# worker may do some clean-ups which could cause surprises like
# deadlock. see sshpeer.cleanup for example.
# override error handling *before* fork. this is necessary because
# exception (signal) may arrive after fork, before "pid =" assignment
# completes, and other exception handler (dispatch.py) can lead to
# unexpected code path without os._exit.
ret = -1
try:
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0:
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, oldhandler)
signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, oldchldhandler)
def workerfunc():
os.close(rfd)
for i, item in func(*(staticargs + (pargs,))):
os.write(wfd, '%d %s\n' % (i, item))
return 0
ret = scmutil.callcatch(ui, workerfunc)
except: # parent re-raises, child never returns
if os.getpid() == parentpid:
raise
exctype = sys.exc_info()[0]
force = not issubclass(exctype, KeyboardInterrupt)
ui.traceback(force=force)
finally:
if os.getpid() != parentpid:
try:
ui.flush()
except: # never returns, no re-raises
pass
finally:
os._exit(ret & 255)
pids.add(pid)
os.close(wfd)
fp = os.fdopen(rfd, r'rb', 0)
def cleanup():
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, oldhandler)
waitforworkers()
signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, oldchldhandler)
status = problem[0]
if status:
if status < 0:
os.kill(os.getpid(), -status)
sys.exit(status)
try:
for line in util.iterfile(fp):
l = line.split(' ', 1)
yield int(l[0]), l[1][:-1]
except: # re-raises
killworkers()
cleanup()
raise
cleanup()
def _posixexitstatus(code):
'''convert a posix exit status into the same form returned by
os.spawnv
returns None if the process was stopped instead of exiting'''
if os.WIFEXITED(code):
return os.WEXITSTATUS(code)
elif os.WIFSIGNALED(code):
return -os.WTERMSIG(code)
def _windowsworker(ui, func, staticargs, args):
class Worker(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self, taskqueue, resultqueue, func, staticargs,
group=None, target=None, name=None, verbose=None):
threading.Thread.__init__(self, group=group, target=target,
name=name, verbose=verbose)
self._taskqueue = taskqueue
self._resultqueue = resultqueue
self._func = func
self._staticargs = staticargs
self._interrupted = False
self.daemon = True
self.exception = None
def interrupt(self):
self._interrupted = True
def run(self):
try:
while not self._taskqueue.empty():
try:
args = self._taskqueue.get_nowait()
for res in self._func(*self._staticargs + (args,)):
self._resultqueue.put(res)
# threading doesn't provide a native way to
# interrupt execution. handle it manually at every
# iteration.
if self._interrupted:
return
except util.empty:
break
except Exception as e:
# store the exception such that the main thread can resurface
# it as if the func was running without workers.
self.exception = e
raise
threads = []
def trykillworkers():
# Allow up to 1 second to clean worker threads nicely
cleanupend = time.time() + 1
for t in threads:
t.interrupt()
for t in threads:
remainingtime = cleanupend - time.time()
t.join(remainingtime)
if t.is_alive():
# pass over the workers joining failure. it is more
# important to surface the inital exception than the
# fact that one of workers may be processing a large
# task and does not get to handle the interruption.
ui.warn(_("failed to kill worker threads while "
"handling an exception\n"))
return
workers = _numworkers(ui)
resultqueue = util.queue()
taskqueue = util.queue()
# partition work to more pieces than workers to minimize the chance
# of uneven distribution of large tasks between the workers
for pargs in partition(args, workers * 20):
taskqueue.put(pargs)
for _i in range(workers):
t = Worker(taskqueue, resultqueue, func, staticargs)
threads.append(t)
t.start()
try:
while len(threads) > 0:
while not resultqueue.empty():
yield resultqueue.get()
threads[0].join(0.05)
finishedthreads = [_t for _t in threads if not _t.is_alive()]
for t in finishedthreads:
if t.exception is not None:
raise t.exception
threads.remove(t)
except (Exception, KeyboardInterrupt): # re-raises
trykillworkers()
raise
while not resultqueue.empty():
yield resultqueue.get()
if pycompat.iswindows:
_platformworker = _windowsworker
else:
_platformworker = _posixworker
_exitstatus = _posixexitstatus
def partition(lst, nslices):
'''partition a list into N slices of roughly equal size
The current strategy takes every Nth element from the input. If
we ever write workers that need to preserve grouping in input
we should consider allowing callers to specify a partition strategy.
mpm is not a fan of this partitioning strategy when files are involved.
In his words:
Single-threaded Mercurial makes a point of creating and visiting
files in a fixed order (alphabetical). When creating files in order,
a typical filesystem is likely to allocate them on nearby regions on
disk. Thus, when revisiting in the same order, locality is maximized
and various forms of OS and disk-level caching and read-ahead get a
chance to work.
This effect can be quite significant on spinning disks. I discovered it
circa Mercurial v0.4 when revlogs were named by hashes of filenames.
Tarring a repo and copying it to another disk effectively randomized
the revlog ordering on disk by sorting the revlogs by hash and suddenly
performance of my kernel checkout benchmark dropped by ~10x because the
"working set" of sectors visited no longer fit in the drive's cache and
the workload switched from streaming to random I/O.
What we should really be doing is have workers read filenames from a
ordered queue. This preserves locality and also keeps any worker from
getting more than one file out of balance.
'''
for i in range(nslices):
yield lst[i::nslices]