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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).

#require tla symlink

  $ tla my-id "mercurial <[e-mail]>"
  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "convert=" >> $HGRCPATH

create tla archive

  $ tla make-archive tla@mercurial--convert `pwd`/hg-test-convert-tla

initialize tla repo

  $ mkdir tla-repo
  $ cd tla-repo/
  $ tla init-tree tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0
  $ tla import
  * creating version tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0
  * imported tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0

create initial files

  $ echo 'this is a file' > a
  $ tla add a
  $ mkdir src
  $ tla add src
  $ cd src
  $ dd count=1 if=/dev/zero of=b > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  $ tla add b
  $ tla commit -s "added a file, src and src/b (binary)"
  A/ .arch-ids
  A/ src
  A/ src/.arch-ids
  A  .arch-ids/a.id
  A  a
  A  src/.arch-ids/=id
  A  src/.arch-ids/b.id
  A  src/b
  * update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--base-0 => tla--test--0--patch-1)
  * committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-1

create link file and modify a

  $ ln -s ../a a-link
  $ tla add a-link
  $ echo 'this a modification to a' >> ../a
  $ tla commit -s "added link to a and modify a"
  A  src/.arch-ids/a-link.id
  A  src/a-link
  M  a
  * update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-1 => tla--test--0--patch-2)
  * committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-2

create second link and modify b

  $ ln -s ../a a-link-2
  $ tla add a-link-2
  $ dd count=1 seek=1 if=/dev/zero of=b > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  $ tla commit -s "added second link and modify b"
  A  src/.arch-ids/a-link-2.id
  A  src/a-link-2
  Mb src/b
  * update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-2 => tla--test--0--patch-3)
  * committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-3

b file to link and a-link-2 to regular file

  $ rm -f a-link-2
  $ echo 'this is now a regular file' > a-link-2
  $ ln -sf ../a b
  $ tla commit -s "file to link and link to file test"
  fl src/b
  lf src/a-link-2
  * update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-3 => tla--test--0--patch-4)
  * committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-4

move a-link-2 file and src directory

  $ cd ..
  $ tla mv src/a-link-2 c
  $ tla mv src test
  $ tla commit -s "move and rename a-link-2 file and src directory"
  D/ src/.arch-ids
  A/ test/.arch-ids
  /> src	test
  => src/.arch-ids/a-link-2.id	.arch-ids/c.id
  => src/a-link-2	c
  => src/.arch-ids/=id	test/.arch-ids/=id
  => src/.arch-ids/a-link.id	test/.arch-ids/a-link.id
  => src/.arch-ids/b.id	test/.arch-ids/b.id
  * update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-4 => tla--test--0--patch-5)
  * committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-5
  $ cd ..

converting tla repo to Mercurial

  $ hg convert tla-repo tla-repo-hg
  initializing destination tla-repo-hg repository
  analyzing tree version tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0...
  scanning source...
  sorting...
  converting...
  5 initial import
  4 added a file, src and src/b (binary)
  3 added link to a and modify a
  2 added second link and modify b
  1 file to link and link to file test
  0 move and rename a-link-2 file and src directory
  $ tla register-archive -d tla@mercurial--convert
  $ glog()
  > {
  >     hg log -G --template '{rev} "{desc|firstline}" files: {files}\n' "$@"
  > }

show graph log

  $ glog -R tla-repo-hg
  o  5 "move and rename a-link-2 file and src directory" files: c src/a-link src/a-link-2 src/b test/a-link test/b
  |
  o  4 "file to link and link to file test" files: src/a-link-2 src/b
  |
  o  3 "added second link and modify b" files: src/a-link-2 src/b
  |
  o  2 "added link to a and modify a" files: a src/a-link
  |
  o  1 "added a file, src and src/b (binary)" files: a src/b
  |
  o  0 "initial import" files:
  
  $ hg up -q -R tla-repo-hg
  $ hg -R tla-repo-hg manifest --debug
  c4072c4b72e1cabace081888efa148ee80ca3cbb 644   a
  0201ac32a3a8e86e303dff60366382a54b48a72e 644   c
  c0067ba5ff0b7c9a3eb17270839d04614c435623 644 @ test/a-link
  375f4263d86feacdea7e3c27100abd1560f2a973 644 @ test/b