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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 3849b89459b0
children a327a24acfea
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# Helper script used for generating history and working copy files and content.
# The file's name corresponds to its history. The number of changesets can
# be specified on the command line. With 2 changesets, files with names like
# content1_content2_content1-untracked are generated. The first two filename
# segments describe the contents in the two changesets. The third segment
# ("content1-untracked") describes the state in the working copy, i.e.
# the file has content "content1" and is untracked (since it was previously
# tracked, it has been forgotten).
#
# This script generates the filenames and their content, but it's up to the
# caller to tell hg about the state.
#
# There are two subcommands:
#   filelist <numchangesets>
#   state <numchangesets> (<changeset>|wc)
#
# Typical usage:
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 1
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg commit -m 'first'
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 1
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg commit -m 'second'
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 wc
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg forget *_*_*-untracked
# $ rm *_*_missing-*

import sys
import os

# Generates pairs of (filename, contents), where 'contents' is a list
# describing the file's content at each revision (or in the working copy).
# At each revision, it is either None or the file's actual content. When not
# None, it may be either new content or the same content as an earlier
# revisions, so all of (modified,clean,added,removed) can be tested.
def generatestates(maxchangesets, parentcontents):
    depth = len(parentcontents)
    if depth == maxchangesets + 1:
        for tracked in ('untracked', 'tracked'):
            filename = "_".join([(content is None and 'missing' or content) for
                                 content in parentcontents]) + "-" + tracked
            yield (filename, parentcontents)
    else:
        for content in (set([None, 'content' + str(depth + 1)]) |
                      set(parentcontents)):
            for combination in generatestates(maxchangesets,
                                              parentcontents + [content]):
                yield combination

# retrieve the command line arguments
target = sys.argv[1]
maxchangesets = int(sys.argv[2])
if target == 'state':
    depth = sys.argv[3]

# sort to make sure we have stable output
combinations = sorted(generatestates(maxchangesets, []))

# compute file content
content = []
for filename, states in combinations:
    if target == 'filelist':
        print filename
    elif target == 'state':
        if depth == 'wc':
            # Make sure there is content so the file gets written and can be
            # tracked. It will be deleted outside of this script.
            content.append((filename, states[maxchangesets] or 'TOBEDELETED'))
        else:
            content.append((filename, states[int(depth) - 1]))
    else:
        print >> sys.stderr, "unknown target:", target
        sys.exit(1)

# write actual content
for filename, data in content:
    if data is not None:
        f = open(filename, 'wb')
        f.write(data + '\n')
        f.close()
    elif os.path.exists(filename):
        os.remove(filename)