store: implement fncache basic path encoding in C
(This is not yet enabled; it will be turned on in a followup patch.)
The path encoding performed by fncache is complex and (perhaps
surprisingly) slow enough to negatively affect the overall performance
of Mercurial.
For a short path (< 120 bytes), the Python code can be reduced to a fairly
tractable state machine that either determines that nothing needs to be
done in a single pass, or performs the encoding in a second pass.
For longer paths, we avoid the more complicated hashed encoding scheme
for now, and fall back to Python.
Raw performance: I measured in a repo containing 150,000 files in its tip
manifest, with a median path name length of 57 bytes, and 95th percentile
of 96 bytes.
In this repo, the Python code takes 3.1 seconds to encode all path
names, while the hybrid C-and-Python code (called from Python) takes
0.21 seconds, for a speedup of about 14.
Across several other large repositories, I've measured the speedup from
the C code at between 26x and 40x.
For path names above 120 bytes where we must fall back to Python for
hashed encoding, the speedup is about 1.7x. Thus absolute performance
will depend strongly on the characteristics of a particular repository.
Corrupt an hg repo with two pulls.
create one repo with a long history
$ hg init source1
$ cd source1
$ touch foo
$ hg add foo
$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
> echo $i >> foo
> hg ci -m $i
> done
$ cd ..
create one repo with a shorter history
$ hg clone -r 0 source1 source2
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
$ cd source2
$ echo a >> foo
$ hg ci -m a
$ cd ..
create a third repo to pull both other repos into it
$ hg init corrupted
$ cd corrupted
use a hook to make the second pull start while the first one is still running
$ echo '[hooks]' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'prechangegroup = sleep 5' >> .hg/hgrc
start a pull...
$ hg pull ../source1 > pull.out 2>&1 &
... and start another pull before the first one has finished
$ sleep 1
$ hg pull ../source2 2>/dev/null
pulling from ../source2
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ cat pull.out
pulling from ../source1
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 10 changesets with 10 changes to 1 files
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
see the result
$ wait
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 11 changesets, 11 total revisions
$ cd ..