view mercurial/scmposix.py @ 27895:2d6a89e79b48

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.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os
import sys

from . import (
    osutil,
)

def _rcfiles(path):
    rcs = [os.path.join(path, 'hgrc')]
    rcdir = os.path.join(path, 'hgrc.d')
    try:
        rcs.extend([os.path.join(rcdir, f)
                    for f, kind in osutil.listdir(rcdir)
                    if f.endswith(".rc")])
    except OSError:
        pass
    return rcs

def systemrcpath():
    path = []
    if sys.platform == 'plan9':
        root = 'lib/mercurial'
    else:
        root = 'etc/mercurial'
    # old mod_python does not set sys.argv
    if len(getattr(sys, 'argv', [])) > 0:
        p = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
        if p != '/':
            path.extend(_rcfiles(os.path.join(p, root)))
    path.extend(_rcfiles('/' + root))
    return path

def userrcpath():
    if sys.platform == 'plan9':
        return [os.environ['home'] + '/lib/hgrc']
    else:
        return [os.path.expanduser('~/.hgrc')]