annotate mercurial/pvec.py @ 37051:40206e227412

wireproto: define and implement protocol for issuing requests

The existing HTTP and SSH wire protocols suffer from a host of flaws
and shortcomings. I've been wanting to rewrite the protocol for a while
now. Supporting partial clone - which will require new wire protocol
commands and capabilities - and other advanced server functionality
will be much easier if we start from a clean slate and don't have
to be constrained by limitations of the existing wire protocol.

This commit starts to introduce a new data exchange format for
use over the wire protocol.

The new protocol is built on top of "frames," which are atomic
units of metadata + data. Frames will make it easier to implement
proxies and other mechanisms that want to inspect data without
having to maintain state. The existing frame metadata is very
minimal and it will evolve heavily. (We will eventually support
things like concurrent requests, out-of-order responses,
compression, side-channels for status updates, etc. Some of
these will require additions to the frame header.)

Another benefit of frames is that all reads are of a fixed size.
A reader works by consuming a frame header, extracting the payload
length, then reading that many bytes. No lookahead, buffering, or
memory reallocations are needed.

The new protocol attempts to be transport agnostic. I want all that's
required to use the new protocol to be a pair of unidirectional,
half-duplex pipes. (Yes, we will eventually make use of full-duplex
pipes, but that's for another commit.) Notably, when the SSH
transport switches to this new protocol, stderr will be unused.
This is by design: the lack of stderr on HTTP harms protocol
behavior there. By shoehorning everything into a pair of pipes,
we can have more consistent behavior across transports.

We currently only define the client side parts of the new protocol,
specifically the bits for requesting that a command run. This keeps
the new code and feature small and somewhat easy to review.

We add support to `hg debugwireproto` for writing frames into
HTTP request bodies. Our tests that issue commands to the new
HTTP endpoint have been updated to transmit frames. The server
bits haven't been touched to consume the frames yet. This will
occur in the next commit...

Astute readers may notice that the command name is transmitted in
both the HTTP request URL and the command request frame. This is
partially a kludge from me initially implementing the frame-based
protocol for SSH first. But it is also a feature: I intend to
eventually support issuing multiple commands per HTTP request. This
will allow us to replace the abomination that is the "batch" wire
protocol command with a protocol-level mechanism for performing
multi-dispatch. Because I want the frame-based protocol to be
as similar as possible across transports, I'd rather we (redundantly)
include the command name in the frame than differ behavior between
transports that have out-of-band routing information (like HTTP)
readily available.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2851

# pvec.py - probabilistic vector clocks for Mercurial
#
# Copyright 2012 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

'''
A "pvec" is a changeset property based on the theory of vector clocks
that can be compared to discover relatedness without consulting a
graph. This can be useful for tasks like determining how a
disconnected patch relates to a repository.

Currently a pvec consist of 448 bits, of which 24 are 'depth' and the
remainder are a bit vector. It is represented as a 70-character base85
string.

Construction:

- a root changeset has a depth of 0 and a bit vector based on its hash
- a normal commit has a changeset where depth is increased by one and
  one bit vector bit is flipped based on its hash
- a merge changeset pvec is constructed by copying changes from one pvec into
  the other to balance its depth

Properties:

- for linear changes, difference in depth is always <= hamming distance
- otherwise, changes are probably divergent
- when hamming distance is < 200, we can reliably detect when pvecs are near

Issues:

- hamming distance ceases to work over distances of ~ 200
- detecting divergence is less accurate when the common ancestor is very close
  to either revision or total distance is high
- this could probably be improved by modeling the relation between
  delta and hdist

Uses:

- a patch pvec can be used to locate the nearest available common ancestor for
  resolving conflicts
- ordering of patches can be established without a DAG
- two head pvecs can be compared to determine whether push/pull/merge is needed
  and approximately how many changesets are involved
- can be used to find a heuristic divergence measure between changesets on
  different branches
'''

from __future__ import absolute_import

from .node import nullrev
from . import (
    util,
)

_size = 448 # 70 chars b85-encoded
_bytes = _size / 8
_depthbits = 24
_depthbytes = _depthbits / 8
_vecbytes = _bytes - _depthbytes
_vecbits = _vecbytes * 8
_radius = (_vecbits - 30) / 2 # high probability vectors are related

def _bin(bs):
    '''convert a bytestring to a long'''
    v = 0
    for b in bs:
        v = v * 256 + ord(b)
    return v

def _str(v, l):
    bs = ""
    for p in xrange(l):
        bs = chr(v & 255) + bs
        v >>= 8
    return bs

def _split(b):
    '''depth and bitvec'''
    return _bin(b[:_depthbytes]), _bin(b[_depthbytes:])

def _join(depth, bitvec):
    return _str(depth, _depthbytes) + _str(bitvec, _vecbytes)

def _hweight(x):
    c = 0
    while x:
        if x & 1:
            c += 1
        x >>= 1
    return c
_htab = [_hweight(x) for x in xrange(256)]

def _hamming(a, b):
    '''find the hamming distance between two longs'''
    d = a ^ b
    c = 0
    while d:
        c += _htab[d & 0xff]
        d >>= 8
    return c

def _mergevec(x, y, c):
    # Ideally, this function would be x ^ y ^ ancestor, but finding
    # ancestors is a nuisance. So instead we find the minimal number
    # of changes to balance the depth and hamming distance

    d1, v1 = x
    d2, v2 = y
    if d1 < d2:
        d1, d2, v1, v2 = d2, d1, v2, v1

    hdist = _hamming(v1, v2)
    ddist = d1 - d2
    v = v1
    m = v1 ^ v2 # mask of different bits
    i = 1

    if hdist > ddist:
        # if delta = 10 and hdist = 100, then we need to go up 55 steps
        # to the ancestor and down 45
        changes = (hdist - ddist + 1) / 2
    else:
        # must make at least one change
        changes = 1
    depth = d1 + changes

    # copy changes from v2
    if m:
        while changes:
            if m & i:
                v ^= i
                changes -= 1
            i <<= 1
    else:
        v = _flipbit(v, c)

    return depth, v

def _flipbit(v, node):
    # converting bit strings to longs is slow
    bit = (hash(node) & 0xffffffff) % _vecbits
    return v ^ (1<<bit)

def ctxpvec(ctx):
    '''construct a pvec for ctx while filling in the cache'''
    r = ctx.repo()
    if not util.safehasattr(r, "_pveccache"):
        r._pveccache = {}
    pvc = r._pveccache
    if ctx.rev() not in pvc:
        cl = r.changelog
        for n in xrange(ctx.rev() + 1):
            if n not in pvc:
                node = cl.node(n)
                p1, p2 = cl.parentrevs(n)
                if p1 == nullrev:
                    # start with a 'random' vector at root
                    pvc[n] = (0, _bin((node * 3)[:_vecbytes]))
                elif p2 == nullrev:
                    d, v = pvc[p1]
                    pvc[n] = (d + 1, _flipbit(v, node))
                else:
                    pvc[n] = _mergevec(pvc[p1], pvc[p2], node)
    bs = _join(*pvc[ctx.rev()])
    return pvec(util.b85encode(bs))

class pvec(object):
    def __init__(self, hashorctx):
        if isinstance(hashorctx, str):
            self._bs = hashorctx
            self._depth, self._vec = _split(util.b85decode(hashorctx))
        else:
            self._vec = ctxpvec(hashorctx)

    def __str__(self):
        return self._bs

    def __eq__(self, b):
        return self._vec == b._vec and self._depth == b._depth

    def __lt__(self, b):
        delta = b._depth - self._depth
        if delta < 0:
            return False # always correct
        if _hamming(self._vec, b._vec) > delta:
            return False
        return True

    def __gt__(self, b):
        return b < self

    def __or__(self, b):
        delta = abs(b._depth - self._depth)
        if _hamming(self._vec, b._vec) <= delta:
            return False
        return True

    def __sub__(self, b):
        if self | b:
            raise ValueError("concurrent pvecs")
        return self._depth - b._depth

    def distance(self, b):
        d = abs(b._depth - self._depth)
        h = _hamming(self._vec, b._vec)
        return max(d, h)

    def near(self, b):
        dist = abs(b.depth - self._depth)
        if dist > _radius or _hamming(self._vec, b._vec) > _radius:
            return False