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revlog: add an experimental option to mitigated delta issues (issue5480)

The general delta heuristic to select a delta do not scale with the number of
branch. The delta base is frequently too far away to be able to reuse a chain
according to the "distance" criteria. This leads to insertion of larger delta (or
even full text) that themselves push the bases for the next delta further away
leading to more large deltas and full texts. This full text and frequent
recomputation throw Mercurial performance in disarray.

For example of a slightly large repository

  280 000 files (2 150 000 versions)
  430 000 changesets (10 000 topological heads)

Number below compares repository with and without the distance criteria:

manifest size:
    with:    21.4 GB
    without:  0.3 GB

store size:
    with:    28.7 GB
    without   7.4 GB

bundle last 15 00 revisions:
    with:    800 seconds
             971 MB
    without:  50 seconds
              73 MB

unbundle time (of the last 15K revisions):
    with:    1150 seconds (~19 minutes)
    without:   35 seconds

Similar issues has been observed in other repositories.


Adding a new option or "feature" on stable is uncommon. However, given that this
issues is making Mercurial practically unusable, I'm exceptionally targeting
this patch for stable.

What is actually needed is a full rework of the delta building and reading
logic. However, that will be a longer process and churn not suitable for stable.

In the meantime, we introduces a quick and dirty mitigation of this in the
'experimental' config space. The new option introduces a way to set the maximum
amount of memory usable to store a diff in memory. This extend the ability for
Mercurial to create chains without removing all safe guard regarding memory
access. The option should be phased out when core has a more proper solution
available.

Setting the limit to '0' remove all limits, setting it to '-1' use the default
limit (textsize x 4).

  $ hg init test
  $ cd test

  $ echo 0 >> afile
  $ hg add afile
  $ hg commit -m "0.0"

  $ echo 1 >> afile
  $ hg commit -m "0.1"

  $ echo 2 >> afile
  $ hg commit -m "0.2"

  $ echo 3 >> afile
  $ hg commit -m "0.3"

  $ hg update -C 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo 1 >> afile
  $ hg commit -m "1.1"
  created new head

  $ echo 2 >> afile
  $ hg commit -m "1.2"

  $ echo a line > fred
  $ echo 3 >> afile
  $ hg add fred
  $ hg commit -m "1.3"
  $ hg mv afile adifferentfile
  $ hg commit -m "1.3m"

  $ hg update -C 3
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg mv afile anotherfile
  $ hg commit -m "0.3m"

  $ hg debugindex -f 1 afile
     rev flag   offset   length     size  .....   link     p1     p2       nodeid (re)
       0 0000        0        3        2  .....      0     -1     -1 362fef284ce2 (re)
       1 0000        3        5        4  .....      1      0     -1 125144f7e028 (re)
       2 0000        8        7        6  .....      2      1     -1 4c982badb186 (re)
       3 0000       15        9        8  .....      3      2     -1 19b1fc555737 (re)

  $ hg debugindex adifferentfile
     rev    offset  length  ..... linkrev nodeid       p1           p2 (re)
       0         0      75  .....       7 2565f3199a74 000000000000 000000000000 (re)

  $ hg debugindex anotherfile
     rev    offset  length  ..... linkrev nodeid       p1           p2 (re)
       0         0      75  .....       8 2565f3199a74 000000000000 000000000000 (re)

  $ hg debugindex fred
     rev    offset  length  ..... linkrev nodeid       p1           p2 (re)
       0         0       8  .....       6 12ab3bcc5ea4 000000000000 000000000000 (re)

  $ hg debugindex --manifest
     rev    offset  length  ..... linkrev nodeid       p1           p2 (re)
       0         0      48  .....       0 43eadb1d2d06 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
       1        48      48  .....       1 8b89697eba2c 43eadb1d2d06 000000000000 (re)
       2        96      48  .....       2 626a32663c2f 8b89697eba2c 000000000000 (re)
       3       144      48  .....       3 f54c32f13478 626a32663c2f 000000000000 (re)
       4       192      ..  .....       6 de68e904d169 626a32663c2f 000000000000 (re)
       5       2..      ..  .....       7 09bb521d218d de68e904d169 000000000000 (re)
       6       3..      54  .....       8 1fde233dfb0f f54c32f13478 000000000000 (re)

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  4 files, 9 changesets, 7 total revisions

  $ cd ..

  $ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
  >   echo
  >   echo ---- hg clone -r "$i" test test-"$i"
  >   hg clone -r "$i" test test-"$i"
  >   cd test-"$i"
  >   hg verify
  >   cd ..
  > done
  
  ---- hg clone -r 0 test test-0
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 1 test test-1
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 2 test test-2
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 3 test test-3
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 4 changesets with 4 changes to 1 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 4 changesets, 4 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 4 test test-4
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 5 test test-5
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 6 test test-6
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 4 changesets with 5 changes to 2 files
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  2 files, 4 changesets, 5 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 7 test test-7
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 5 changesets with 6 changes to 3 files
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  3 files, 5 changesets, 6 total revisions
  
  ---- hg clone -r 8 test test-8
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 5 changesets with 5 changes to 2 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  2 files, 5 changesets, 5 total revisions

  $ cd test-8
  $ hg pull ../test-7
  pulling from ../test-7
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 4 changesets with 2 changes to 3 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  4 files, 9 changesets, 7 total revisions
  $ cd ..

  $ hg clone test test-9
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd test-9
  $ hg branch foobar
  marked working directory as branch foobar
  (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
  $ echo file2 >> file2
  $ hg add file2
  $ hg commit -m "changeset9"
  $ echo file3 >> file3
  $ hg add file3
  $ hg commit -m "changeset10"
  $ cd ..
  $ hg clone -r 9 -u foobar test-9 test-10
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 6 changesets with 6 changes to 3 files
  updating to branch foobar
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved