mercurial/dirstateguard.py

sparse-read: move from a recursive-based approach to a heap-based one

The previous recursive approach was trying to optimise each read slice to have
a good density. It had the tendency to over-optimize smaller slices while
leaving larger hole in others.

The new approach focuses on improving the combined density of all the reads,
instead of the individual slices. It slices at the largest gaps first, as they
reduce the total amount of read data the most efficiently.

Another benefit of this approach is that we iterate over the delta chain only
once, reducing the overhead of slicing long delta chains.

On the repository we use for tests, the new approach shows similar or faster
performance than the current default linear full read.

The repository contains about 450,000 revisions with many concurrent
topological branches. Tests have been run on two versions of the repository:
one built with the current delta constraint, and the other with an unlimited
delta span (using 'experimental.maxdeltachainspan=0')

Below are timings for building 1% of all the revision in the manifest log using
'hg perfrevlogrevisions -m'. Times are given in seconds. They include the new
couple of follow-up changeset in this series.

delta-span  standard    unlimited
linear-read     922s         632s
sparse-read     814s         566s

# dirstateguard.py - class to allow restoring dirstate after failure
#
# Copyright 2005-2007 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.

from __future__ import absolute_import

from .i18n import _

from . import (
    error,
    util,
)

class dirstateguard(util.transactional):
    '''Restore dirstate at unexpected failure.

    At the construction, this class does:

    - write current ``repo.dirstate`` out, and
    - save ``.hg/dirstate`` into the backup file

    This restores ``.hg/dirstate`` from backup file, if ``release()``
    is invoked before ``close()``.

    This just removes the backup file at ``close()`` before ``release()``.
    '''

    def __init__(self, repo, name):
        self._repo = repo
        self._active = False
        self._closed = False
        self._backupname = 'dirstate.backup.%s.%d' % (name, id(self))
        repo.dirstate.savebackup(repo.currenttransaction(), self._backupname)
        self._active = True

    def __del__(self):
        if self._active: # still active
            # this may occur, even if this class is used correctly:
            # for example, releasing other resources like transaction
            # may raise exception before ``dirstateguard.release`` in
            # ``release(tr, ....)``.
            self._abort()

    def close(self):
        if not self._active: # already inactivated
            msg = (_("can't close already inactivated backup: %s")
                   % self._backupname)
            raise error.Abort(msg)

        self._repo.dirstate.clearbackup(self._repo.currenttransaction(),
                                         self._backupname)
        self._active = False
        self._closed = True

    def _abort(self):
        self._repo.dirstate.restorebackup(self._repo.currenttransaction(),
                                           self._backupname)
        self._active = False

    def release(self):
        if not self._closed:
            if not self._active: # already inactivated
                msg = (_("can't release already inactivated backup: %s")
                       % self._backupname)
                raise error.Abort(msg)
            self._abort()