mercurial/bdiff.c

revlog: use an LRU cache for delta chain bases

Profiling using statprof revealed a hotspot during changegroup
application calculating delta chain bases on generaldelta repos.
Essentially, revlog._addrevision() was performing a lot of redundant
work tracing the delta chain as part of determining when the chain
distance was acceptable. This was most pronounced when adding
revisions to manifests, which can have delta chains thousands of
revisions long.

There was a delta chain base cache on revlogs before, but it only
captured a single revision. This was acceptable before generaldelta,
when _addrevision would build deltas from the previous revision and
thus we'd pretty much guarantee a cache hit when resolving the delta
chain base on a subsequent _addrevision call. However, it isn't
suitable for generaldelta because parent revisions aren't necessarily
the last processed revision.

This patch converts the delta chain base cache to an LRU dict cache.
The cache can hold multiple entries, so generaldelta repos have a
higher chance of getting a cache hit.

The impact of this change when processing changegroup additions is
significant. On a generaldelta conversion of the "mozilla-unified"
repo (which contains heads of the main Firefox repositories in
chronological order - this means there are lots of transitions between
heads in revlog order), this change has the following impact when
performing an `hg unbundle` of an uncompressed bundle of the repo:

before: 5:42 CPU time
after:  4:34 CPU time

Most of this time is saved when applying the changelog and manifest
revlogs:

before: 2:30 CPU time
after:  1:17 CPU time

That nearly a 50% reduction in CPU time applying changesets and
manifests!

Applying a gzipped bundle of the same repo (effectively simulating a
`hg clone` over HTTP) showed a similar speedup:

before: 5:53 CPU time
after:  4:46 CPU time

Wall time improvements were basically the same as CPU time.

I didn't measure explicitly, but it feels like most of the time
is saved when processing manifests. This makes sense, as large
manifests tend to have very long delta chains and thus benefit the
most from this cache.

So, this change effectively makes changegroup application (which is
used by `hg unbundle`, `hg clone`, `hg pull`, `hg unshelve`, and
various other commands) significantly faster when delta chains are
long (which can happen on repos with large numbers of files and thus
large manifests).

In theory, this change can result in more memory utilization. However,
we're caching a dict of ints. At most we have 200 ints + Python object
overhead per revlog. And, the cache is really only populated when
performing read-heavy operations, such as adding changegroups or
scanning an individual revlog. For memory bloat to be an issue, we'd
need to scan/read several revisions from several revlogs all while
having active references to several revlogs. I don't think there are
many operations that do this, so I don't think memory bloat from the
cache will be an issue.

/*
 bdiff.c - efficient binary diff extension for Mercurial

 Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>

 This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of
 the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

 Based roughly on Python difflib
*/

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <limits.h>

#include "compat.h"
#include "bitmanipulation.h"
#include "bdiff.h"

struct pos {
	int pos, len;
};

int bdiff_splitlines(const char *a, ssize_t len, struct bdiff_line **lr)
{
	unsigned hash;
	int i;
	const char *p, *b = a;
	const char * const plast = a + len - 1;
	struct bdiff_line *l;

	/* count the lines */
	i = 1; /* extra line for sentinel */
	for (p = a; p < a + len; p++)
		if (*p == '\n' || p == plast)
			i++;

	*lr = l = (struct bdiff_line *)malloc(sizeof(struct bdiff_line) * i);
	if (!l)
		return -1;

	/* build the line array and calculate hashes */
	hash = 0;
	for (p = a; p < a + len; p++) {
		/* Leonid Yuriev's hash */
		hash = (hash * 1664525) + (unsigned char)*p + 1013904223;

		if (*p == '\n' || p == plast) {
			l->hash = hash;
			hash = 0;
			l->len = p - b + 1;
			l->l = b;
			l->n = INT_MAX;
			l++;
			b = p + 1;
		}
	}

	/* set up a sentinel */
	l->hash = 0;
	l->len = 0;
	l->l = a + len;
	return i - 1;
}

static inline int cmp(struct bdiff_line *a, struct bdiff_line *b)
{
	return a->hash != b->hash || a->len != b->len || memcmp(a->l, b->l, a->len);
}

static int equatelines(struct bdiff_line *a, int an, struct bdiff_line *b,
	int bn)
{
	int i, j, buckets = 1, t, scale;
	struct pos *h = NULL;

	/* build a hash table of the next highest power of 2 */
	while (buckets < bn + 1)
		buckets *= 2;

	/* try to allocate a large hash table to avoid collisions */
	for (scale = 4; scale; scale /= 2) {
		h = (struct pos *)malloc(scale * buckets * sizeof(struct pos));
		if (h)
			break;
	}

	if (!h)
		return 0;

	buckets = buckets * scale - 1;

	/* clear the hash table */
	for (i = 0; i <= buckets; i++) {
		h[i].pos = -1;
		h[i].len = 0;
	}

	/* add lines to the hash table chains */
	for (i = 0; i < bn; i++) {
		/* find the equivalence class */
		for (j = b[i].hash & buckets; h[j].pos != -1;
		     j = (j + 1) & buckets)
			if (!cmp(b + i, b + h[j].pos))
				break;

		/* add to the head of the equivalence class */
		b[i].n = h[j].pos;
		b[i].e = j;
		h[j].pos = i;
		h[j].len++; /* keep track of popularity */
	}

	/* compute popularity threshold */
	t = (bn >= 31000) ? bn / 1000 : 1000000 / (bn + 1);

	/* match items in a to their equivalence class in b */
	for (i = 0; i < an; i++) {
		/* find the equivalence class */
		for (j = a[i].hash & buckets; h[j].pos != -1;
		     j = (j + 1) & buckets)
			if (!cmp(a + i, b + h[j].pos))
				break;

		a[i].e = j; /* use equivalence class for quick compare */
		if (h[j].len <= t)
			a[i].n = h[j].pos; /* point to head of match list */
		else
			a[i].n = -1; /* too popular */
	}

	/* discard hash tables */
	free(h);
	return 1;
}

static int longest_match(struct bdiff_line *a, struct bdiff_line *b,
			struct pos *pos,
			 int a1, int a2, int b1, int b2, int *omi, int *omj)
{
	int mi = a1, mj = b1, mk = 0, i, j, k, half;

	/* window our search on large regions to better bound
	   worst-case performance. by choosing a window at the end, we
	   reduce skipping overhead on the b chains. */
	if (a2 - a1 > 30000)
		a1 = a2 - 30000;

	half = (a1 + a2) / 2;

	for (i = a1; i < a2; i++) {
		/* skip all lines in b after the current block */
		for (j = a[i].n; j >= b2; j = b[j].n)
			;

		/* loop through all lines match a[i] in b */
		for (; j >= b1; j = b[j].n) {
			/* does this extend an earlier match? */
			for (k = 1; j - k >= b1 && i - k >= a1; k++) {
				/* reached an earlier match? */
				if (pos[j - k].pos == i - k) {
					k += pos[j - k].len;
					break;
				}
				/* previous line mismatch? */
				if (a[i - k].e != b[j - k].e)
					break;
			}

			pos[j].pos = i;
			pos[j].len = k;

			/* best match so far? we prefer matches closer
			   to the middle to balance recursion */
			if (k > mk || (k == mk && (i <= mi || i < half))) {
				mi = i;
				mj = j;
				mk = k;
			}
		}
	}

	if (mk) {
		mi = mi - mk + 1;
		mj = mj - mk + 1;
	}

	/* expand match to include subsequent popular lines */
	while (mi + mk < a2 && mj + mk < b2 &&
	       a[mi + mk].e == b[mj + mk].e)
		mk++;

	*omi = mi;
	*omj = mj;

	return mk;
}

static struct bdiff_hunk *recurse(struct bdiff_line *a, struct bdiff_line *b,
				struct pos *pos,
			    int a1, int a2, int b1, int b2, struct bdiff_hunk *l)
{
	int i, j, k;

	while (1) {
		/* find the longest match in this chunk */
		k = longest_match(a, b, pos, a1, a2, b1, b2, &i, &j);
		if (!k)
			return l;

		/* and recurse on the remaining chunks on either side */
		l = recurse(a, b, pos, a1, i, b1, j, l);
		if (!l)
			return NULL;

		l->next = (struct bdiff_hunk *)malloc(sizeof(struct bdiff_hunk));
		if (!l->next)
			return NULL;

		l = l->next;
		l->a1 = i;
		l->a2 = i + k;
		l->b1 = j;
		l->b2 = j + k;
		l->next = NULL;

		/* tail-recursion didn't happen, so do equivalent iteration */
		a1 = i + k;
		b1 = j + k;
	}
}

int bdiff_diff(struct bdiff_line *a, int an, struct bdiff_line *b,
		int bn, struct bdiff_hunk *base)
{
	struct bdiff_hunk *curr;
	struct pos *pos;
	int t, count = 0;

	/* allocate and fill arrays */
	t = equatelines(a, an, b, bn);
	pos = (struct pos *)calloc(bn ? bn : 1, sizeof(struct pos));

	if (pos && t) {
		/* generate the matching block list */

		curr = recurse(a, b, pos, 0, an, 0, bn, base);
		if (!curr)
			return -1;

		/* sentinel end hunk */
		curr->next = (struct bdiff_hunk *)malloc(sizeof(struct bdiff_hunk));
		if (!curr->next)
			return -1;
		curr = curr->next;
		curr->a1 = curr->a2 = an;
		curr->b1 = curr->b2 = bn;
		curr->next = NULL;
	}

	free(pos);

	/* normalize the hunk list, try to push each hunk towards the end */
	for (curr = base->next; curr; curr = curr->next) {
		struct bdiff_hunk *next = curr->next;

		if (!next)
			break;

		if (curr->a2 == next->a1 || curr->b2 == next->b1)
			while (curr->a2 < an && curr->b2 < bn
			       && next->a1 < next->a2
			       && next->b1 < next->b2
			       && !cmp(a + curr->a2, b + curr->b2)) {
				curr->a2++;
				next->a1++;
				curr->b2++;
				next->b1++;
			}
	}

	for (curr = base->next; curr; curr = curr->next)
		count++;
	return count;
}

void bdiff_freehunks(struct bdiff_hunk *l)
{
	struct bdiff_hunk *n;
	for (; l; l = n) {
		n = l->next;
		free(l);
	}
}