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scmutil: support background file closing
Closing files that have been appended to is relatively slow on
Windows/NTFS. This makes several Mercurial operations slower on
Windows.
The workaround to this issue is conceptually simple: use multiple
threads for I/O. Unfortunately, Python doesn't scale well to multiple
threads because of the GIL. And, refactoring our code to use threads
everywhere would be a huge undertaking. So, we decide to tackle this
problem by starting small: establishing a thread pool for closing
files.
This patch establishes a mechanism for closing file handles on separate
threads. The coordinator object is basically a queue of file handles to
operate on and a thread pool consuming from the queue.
When files are opened through the VFS layer, the caller can specify
that delay closing is allowed.
A proxy class for file handles has been added. We must use a proxy
because it isn't possible to modify __class__ on built-in types. This
adds some overhead. But as future patches will show, this overhead
is cancelled out by the benefit of closing file handles on background
threads.
author | Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> |
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date | Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:34:59 -0800 |
parents | 18f50b8cbf1e |
children | a3f3fdac8433 |
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# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial # # Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> # # 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 import binascii # This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing hex = binascii.hexlify bin = binascii.unhexlify nullrev = -1 nullid = "\0" * 20 nullhex = hex(nullid) # pseudo identifiers for working directory # (they are experimental, so don't add too many dependencies on them) wdirrev = 0x7fffffff wdirid = "\xff" * 20 def short(node): return hex(node[:6])