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clonebundles: support for seeding clones from pre-generated bundles Cloning can be an expensive operation for servers because the server generates a bundle from existing repository data at request time. For a large repository like mozilla-central, this consumes 4+ minutes of CPU time on the server. It also results in significant network utilization. Multiplied by hundreds or even thousands of clients and the ensuing load can result in difficulties scaling the Mercurial server. Despite generation of bundles being deterministic until the next changeset is added, the generation of bundles to service a clone request is not cached. Each clone thus performs redundant work. This is wasteful. This patch introduces the "clonebundles" extension and related client-side functionality to help alleviate this deficiency. The client-side feature is behind an experimental flag and is not enabled by default. It works as follows: 1) Server operator generates a bundle and makes it available on a server (likely HTTP). 2) Server operator defines the URL of a bundle file in a .hg/clonebundles.manifest file. 3) Client `hg clone`ing sees the server is advertising bundle URLs. 4) Client fetches and applies the advertised bundle. 5) Client performs equivalent of `hg pull` to fetch changes made since the bundle was created. Essentially, the server performs the expensive work of generating a bundle once and all subsequent clones fetch a static file from somewhere. Scaling static file serving is a much more manageable problem than scaling a Python application like Mercurial. Assuming your repository grows less than 1% per day, the end result is 99+% of CPU and network load from clones is eliminated, allowing Mercurial servers to scale more easily. Serving static files also means data can be transferred to clients as fast as they can consume it, rather than as fast as servers can generate it. This makes clones faster. Mozilla has implemented similar functionality of this patch on hg.mozilla.org using a custom extension. We are hosting bundle files in Amazon S3 and CloudFront (a CDN) and have successfully offloaded >1 TB/day in data transfer from hg.mozilla.org, freeing up significant bandwidth and CPU resources. The positive impact has been stellar and I believe it has proved its value to be included in Mercurial core. I feel it is important for the client-side support to be enabled in core by default because it means that clients will get faster, more reliable clones and will enable server operators to reduce load without requiring any client-side configuration changes (assuming clients are up to date, of course). The scope of this feature is narrowly and specifically tailored to cloning, despite "serve pulls from pre-generated bundles" being a valid and useful feature. I would eventually like for Mercurial servers to support transferring *all* repository data via statically hosted files. You could imagine a server that siphons all pushed data to bundle files and instructs clients to apply a stream of bundles to reconstruct all repository data. This feature, while useful and powerful, is significantly more work to implement because it requires the server component have awareness of discovery and a mapping of which changesets are in which files. Full, clone bundles, by contrast, are much simpler. The wire protocol command is named "clonebundles" instead of something more generic like "staticbundles" to leave the door open for a new, more powerful and more generic server-side component with minimal backwards compatibility implications. The name "bundleclone" is used by Mozilla's extension and would cause problems since there are subtle differences in Mozilla's extension. Mozilla's experience with this idea has taught us that some form of "content negotiation" is required. Not all clients will support all bundle formats or even URLs (advanced TLS requirements, etc). To ensure the highest uptake possible, a server needs to advertise multiple versions of bundles and clients need to be able to choose the most appropriate from that list one. The "attributes" in each server-advertised entry facilitate this filtering and sorting. Their use will become apparent in subsequent patches. Initial inspiration and credit for the idea of cloning from static files belongs to Augie Fackler and his "lookaside clone" extension proof of concept.
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:22:01 -0700
parents 09e41ac6289d
children b6ed2505d6cf
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/*
 mpatch.c - efficient binary patching for Mercurial

 This implements a patch algorithm that's O(m + nlog n) where m is the
 size of the output and n is the number of patches.

 Given a list of binary patches, it unpacks each into a hunk list,
 then combines the hunk lists with a treewise recursion to form a
 single hunk list. This hunk list is then applied to the original
 text.

 The text (or binary) fragments are copied directly from their source
 Python objects into a preallocated output string to avoid the
 allocation of intermediate Python objects. Working memory is about 2x
 the total number of hunks.

 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, incorporated herein by reference.
*/

#define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
#include <Python.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "util.h"

static char mpatch_doc[] = "Efficient binary patching.";
static PyObject *mpatch_Error;

struct frag {
	int start, end, len;
	const char *data;
};

struct flist {
	struct frag *base, *head, *tail;
};

static struct flist *lalloc(Py_ssize_t size)
{
	struct flist *a = NULL;

	if (size < 1)
		size = 1;

	a = (struct flist *)malloc(sizeof(struct flist));
	if (a) {
		a->base = (struct frag *)malloc(sizeof(struct frag) * size);
		if (a->base) {
			a->head = a->tail = a->base;
			return a;
		}
		free(a);
		a = NULL;
	}
	if (!PyErr_Occurred())
		PyErr_NoMemory();
	return NULL;
}

static void lfree(struct flist *a)
{
	if (a) {
		free(a->base);
		free(a);
	}
}

static Py_ssize_t lsize(struct flist *a)
{
	return a->tail - a->head;
}

/* move hunks in source that are less cut to dest, compensating
   for changes in offset. the last hunk may be split if necessary.
*/
static int gather(struct flist *dest, struct flist *src, int cut, int offset)
{
	struct frag *d = dest->tail, *s = src->head;
	int postend, c, l;

	while (s != src->tail) {
		if (s->start + offset >= cut)
			break; /* we've gone far enough */

		postend = offset + s->start + s->len;
		if (postend <= cut) {
			/* save this hunk */
			offset += s->start + s->len - s->end;
			*d++ = *s++;
		}
		else {
			/* break up this hunk */
			c = cut - offset;
			if (s->end < c)
				c = s->end;
			l = cut - offset - s->start;
			if (s->len < l)
				l = s->len;

			offset += s->start + l - c;

			d->start = s->start;
			d->end = c;
			d->len = l;
			d->data = s->data;
			d++;
			s->start = c;
			s->len = s->len - l;
			s->data = s->data + l;

			break;
		}
	}

	dest->tail = d;
	src->head = s;
	return offset;
}

/* like gather, but with no output list */
static int discard(struct flist *src, int cut, int offset)
{
	struct frag *s = src->head;
	int postend, c, l;

	while (s != src->tail) {
		if (s->start + offset >= cut)
			break;

		postend = offset + s->start + s->len;
		if (postend <= cut) {
			offset += s->start + s->len - s->end;
			s++;
		}
		else {
			c = cut - offset;
			if (s->end < c)
				c = s->end;
			l = cut - offset - s->start;
			if (s->len < l)
				l = s->len;

			offset += s->start + l - c;
			s->start = c;
			s->len = s->len - l;
			s->data = s->data + l;

			break;
		}
	}

	src->head = s;
	return offset;
}

/* combine hunk lists a and b, while adjusting b for offset changes in a/
   this deletes a and b and returns the resultant list. */
static struct flist *combine(struct flist *a, struct flist *b)
{
	struct flist *c = NULL;
	struct frag *bh, *ct;
	int offset = 0, post;

	if (a && b)
		c = lalloc((lsize(a) + lsize(b)) * 2);

	if (c) {

		for (bh = b->head; bh != b->tail; bh++) {
			/* save old hunks */
			offset = gather(c, a, bh->start, offset);

			/* discard replaced hunks */
			post = discard(a, bh->end, offset);

			/* insert new hunk */
			ct = c->tail;
			ct->start = bh->start - offset;
			ct->end = bh->end - post;
			ct->len = bh->len;
			ct->data = bh->data;
			c->tail++;
			offset = post;
		}

		/* hold on to tail from a */
		memcpy(c->tail, a->head, sizeof(struct frag) * lsize(a));
		c->tail += lsize(a);
	}

	lfree(a);
	lfree(b);
	return c;
}

/* decode a binary patch into a hunk list */
static struct flist *decode(const char *bin, Py_ssize_t len)
{
	struct flist *l;
	struct frag *lt;
	int pos = 0;

	/* assume worst case size, we won't have many of these lists */
	l = lalloc(len / 12);
	if (!l)
		return NULL;

	lt = l->tail;

	while (pos >= 0 && pos < len) {
		lt->start = getbe32(bin + pos);
		lt->end = getbe32(bin + pos + 4);
		lt->len = getbe32(bin + pos + 8);
		if (lt->start > lt->end)
			break; /* sanity check */
		lt->data = bin + pos + 12;
		pos += 12 + lt->len;
		lt++;
	}

	if (pos != len) {
		if (!PyErr_Occurred())
			PyErr_SetString(mpatch_Error, "patch cannot be decoded");
		lfree(l);
		return NULL;
	}

	l->tail = lt;
	return l;
}

/* calculate the size of resultant text */
static Py_ssize_t calcsize(Py_ssize_t len, struct flist *l)
{
	Py_ssize_t outlen = 0, last = 0;
	struct frag *f = l->head;

	while (f != l->tail) {
		if (f->start < last || f->end > len) {
			if (!PyErr_Occurred())
				PyErr_SetString(mpatch_Error,
				                "invalid patch");
			return -1;
		}
		outlen += f->start - last;
		last = f->end;
		outlen += f->len;
		f++;
	}

	outlen += len - last;
	return outlen;
}

static int apply(char *buf, const char *orig, Py_ssize_t len, struct flist *l)
{
	struct frag *f = l->head;
	int last = 0;
	char *p = buf;

	while (f != l->tail) {
		if (f->start < last || f->end > len) {
			if (!PyErr_Occurred())
				PyErr_SetString(mpatch_Error,
				                "invalid patch");
			return 0;
		}
		memcpy(p, orig + last, f->start - last);
		p += f->start - last;
		memcpy(p, f->data, f->len);
		last = f->end;
		p += f->len;
		f++;
	}
	memcpy(p, orig + last, len - last);
	return 1;
}

/* recursively generate a patch of all bins between start and end */
static struct flist *fold(PyObject *bins, Py_ssize_t start, Py_ssize_t end)
{
	Py_ssize_t len, blen;
	const char *buffer;

	if (start + 1 == end) {
		/* trivial case, output a decoded list */
		PyObject *tmp = PyList_GetItem(bins, start);
		if (!tmp)
			return NULL;
		if (PyObject_AsCharBuffer(tmp, &buffer, &blen))
			return NULL;
		return decode(buffer, blen);
	}

	/* divide and conquer, memory management is elsewhere */
	len = (end - start) / 2;
	return combine(fold(bins, start, start + len),
		       fold(bins, start + len, end));
}

static PyObject *
patches(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
	PyObject *text, *bins, *result;
	struct flist *patch;
	const char *in;
	char *out;
	Py_ssize_t len, outlen, inlen;

	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OO:mpatch", &text, &bins))
		return NULL;

	len = PyList_Size(bins);
	if (!len) {
		/* nothing to do */
		Py_INCREF(text);
		return text;
	}

	if (PyObject_AsCharBuffer(text, &in, &inlen))
		return NULL;

	patch = fold(bins, 0, len);
	if (!patch)
		return NULL;

	outlen = calcsize(inlen, patch);
	if (outlen < 0) {
		result = NULL;
		goto cleanup;
	}
	result = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, outlen);
	if (!result) {
		result = NULL;
		goto cleanup;
	}
	out = PyBytes_AsString(result);
	if (!apply(out, in, inlen, patch)) {
		Py_DECREF(result);
		result = NULL;
	}
cleanup:
	lfree(patch);
	return result;
}

/* calculate size of a patched file directly */
static PyObject *
patchedsize(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
	long orig, start, end, len, outlen = 0, last = 0, pos = 0;
	Py_ssize_t patchlen;
	char *bin;

	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "ls#", &orig, &bin, &patchlen))
		return NULL;

	while (pos >= 0 && pos < patchlen) {
		start = getbe32(bin + pos);
		end = getbe32(bin + pos + 4);
		len = getbe32(bin + pos + 8);
		if (start > end)
			break; /* sanity check */
		pos += 12 + len;
		outlen += start - last;
		last = end;
		outlen += len;
	}

	if (pos != patchlen) {
		if (!PyErr_Occurred())
			PyErr_SetString(mpatch_Error, "patch cannot be decoded");
		return NULL;
	}

	outlen += orig - last;
	return Py_BuildValue("l", outlen);
}

static PyMethodDef methods[] = {
	{"patches", patches, METH_VARARGS, "apply a series of patches\n"},
	{"patchedsize", patchedsize, METH_VARARGS, "calculed patched size\n"},
	{NULL, NULL}
};

#ifdef IS_PY3K
static struct PyModuleDef mpatch_module = {
	PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
	"mpatch",
	mpatch_doc,
	-1,
	methods
};

PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_mpatch(void)
{
	PyObject *m;

	m = PyModule_Create(&mpatch_module);
	if (m == NULL)
		return NULL;

	mpatch_Error = PyErr_NewException("mpatch.mpatchError", NULL, NULL);
	Py_INCREF(mpatch_Error);
	PyModule_AddObject(m, "mpatchError", mpatch_Error);

	return m;
}
#else
PyMODINIT_FUNC
initmpatch(void)
{
	Py_InitModule3("mpatch", methods, mpatch_doc);
	mpatch_Error = PyErr_NewException("mpatch.mpatchError", NULL, NULL);
}
#endif