revlog: don't flush data file after every added revision
The current behavior of revlogs is to flush the data file when writing
data to it. Tracing system calls revealed that changegroup processing
incurred numerous write(2) calls for values much smaller than the
default buffer size (Python defaults to 4096, but it can be adjusted
based on detected block size at run time by CPython).
The reason we flush revlogs is so readers have all data available.
For example, the current code in revlog.py will re-open the revlog
file (instead of seeking an existing file handle) to read the text
of a revision. This happens when starting a new delta chain when
adding several revisions from changegroups, for example. Yes, this
is likely sub-optimal (we should probably be sharing file descriptors
between readers and writers to avoid the flushing and associated
overhead of re-opening files).
While flushing revlogs is necessary, it appears all callers are
diligent about flushing files before a read is performed (see
buildtext() in _addrevision()), making the flush in
_writeentry() redundant and unncessary. So, we remove it. In practice,
this means we incur a write(2) a) when the buffer is full (typically
4096 bytes) b) when a new delta chain is created rather than after
every added revision. This applies to every revlog, but by volume
it mostly impacts filelogs.
Removing the redundant flush from _writeentry() significantly
reduces the number of write(2) calls during changegroup processing on
my Linux machine. When applying a changegroup of the hg repo based on
my local repo, the total number of write(2) calls during application
of the mercurial/localrepo.py revlogs dropped from 1,320 to 217 with
this patch applied. Total I/O related system calls dropped from 1,577
to 474.
When unbundling a mozilla-central gzipped bundle (264,403 changesets
with 1,492,215 changes to 222,507 files), total write(2) calls
dropped from 1,252,881 to 827,106 and total system calls dropped from
3,601,259 to 3,178,636 - a reduction of 425,775!
While the system call reduction is significant, it appears
to have no impact on wall time on my Linux and Windows machines. Still,
fewer syscalls is fewer syscalls. Surely this can't hurt. If nothing
else, it makes examining remaining system call usage simpler and opens
the door to experimenting with the performance impact of different
buffer sizes.
setup repo
$ hg init t
$ cd t
$ echo a > a
$ hg commit -Am'add a'
adding a
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions
$ hg parents
changeset: 0:1f0dee641bb7
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: add a
rollback to null revision
$ hg status
$ hg rollback
repository tip rolled back to revision -1 (undo commit)
working directory now based on revision -1
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
0 files, 0 changesets, 0 total revisions
$ hg parents
$ hg status
A a
Two changesets this time so we rollback to a real changeset
$ hg commit -m'add a again'
$ echo a >> a
$ hg commit -m'modify a'
Test issue 902 (current branch is preserved)
$ hg branch test
marked working directory as branch test
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ hg rollback
repository tip rolled back to revision 0 (undo commit)
working directory now based on revision 0
$ hg branch
default
Test issue 1635 (commit message saved)
$ cat .hg/last-message.txt ; echo
modify a
Test rollback of hg before issue 902 was fixed
$ hg commit -m "test3"
$ hg branch test
marked working directory as branch test
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ rm .hg/undo.branch
$ hg rollback
repository tip rolled back to revision 0 (undo commit)
named branch could not be reset: current branch is still 'test'
working directory now based on revision 0
$ hg branch
test
working dir unaffected by rollback: do not restore dirstate et. al.
$ hg log --template '{rev} {branch} {desc|firstline}\n'
0 default add a again
$ hg status
M a
$ hg bookmark foo
$ hg commit -m'modify a again'
$ echo b > b
$ hg bookmark bar -r default #making bar active, before the transaction
$ hg commit -Am'add b'
adding b
$ hg log --template '{rev} {branch} {desc|firstline}\n'
2 test add b
1 test modify a again
0 default add a again
$ hg update bar
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(activating bookmark bar)
$ cat .hg/undo.branch ; echo
test
$ hg rollback -f
repository tip rolled back to revision 1 (undo commit)
$ hg id -n
0
$ hg branch
default
$ cat .hg/bookmarks.current ; echo
bar
$ hg bookmark --delete foo bar
rollback by pretxncommit saves commit message (issue1635)
$ echo a >> a
$ hg --config hooks.pretxncommit=false commit -m"precious commit message"
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: pretxncommit hook exited with status * (glob)
[255]
$ cat .hg/last-message.txt ; echo
precious commit message
same thing, but run $EDITOR
$ cat > editor.sh << '__EOF__'
> echo "another precious commit message" > "$1"
> __EOF__
$ HGEDITOR="\"sh\" \"`pwd`/editor.sh\"" hg --config hooks.pretxncommit=false commit 2>&1
transaction abort!
rollback completed
note: commit message saved in .hg/last-message.txt
abort: pretxncommit hook exited with status * (glob)
[255]
$ cat .hg/last-message.txt
another precious commit message
test rollback on served repository
#if serve
$ hg commit -m "precious commit message"
$ hg serve -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -A access.log -E errors.log
$ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
$ cd ..
$ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT u
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd u
$ hg id default
068774709090
now rollback and observe that 'hg serve' reloads the repository and
presents the correct tip changeset:
$ hg -R ../t rollback
repository tip rolled back to revision 1 (undo commit)
working directory now based on revision 0
$ hg id default
791dd2169706
#endif
update to older changeset and then refuse rollback, because
that would lose data (issue2998)
$ cd ../t
$ hg -q update
$ rm `hg status -un`
$ template='{rev}:{node|short} [{branch}] {desc|firstline}\n'
$ echo 'valuable new file' > b
$ echo 'valuable modification' >> a
$ hg commit -A -m'a valuable change'
adding b
$ hg update 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg rollback
abort: rollback of last commit while not checked out may lose data
(use -f to force)
[255]
$ hg tip -q
2:4d9cd3795eea
$ hg rollback -f
repository tip rolled back to revision 1 (undo commit)
$ hg status
$ hg log --removed b # yep, it's gone
same again, but emulate an old client that doesn't write undo.desc
$ hg -q update
$ echo 'valuable modification redux' >> a
$ hg commit -m'a valuable change redux'
$ rm .hg/undo.desc
$ hg update 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg rollback
rolling back unknown transaction
$ cat a
a
corrupt journal test
$ echo "foo" > .hg/store/journal
$ hg recover
rolling back interrupted transaction
couldn't read journal entry 'foo\n'!
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions