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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.

from mercurial import ancestor, commands, hg, ui, util
from mercurial.node import nullrev
import binascii, getopt, math, os, random, sys, time

def buildgraph(rng, nodes=100, rootprob=0.05, mergeprob=0.2, prevprob=0.7):
    '''nodes: total number of nodes in the graph
    rootprob: probability that a new node (not 0) will be a root
    mergeprob: probability that, excluding a root a node will be a merge
    prevprob: probability that p1 will be the previous node

    return value is a graph represented as an adjacency list.
    '''
    graph = [None] * nodes
    for i in xrange(nodes):
        if i == 0 or rng.random() < rootprob:
            graph[i] = [nullrev]
        elif i == 1:
            graph[i] = [0]
        elif rng.random() < mergeprob:
            if i == 2 or rng.random() < prevprob:
                # p1 is prev
                p1 = i - 1
            else:
                p1 = rng.randrange(i - 1)
            p2 = rng.choice(range(0, p1) + range(p1 + 1, i))
            graph[i] = [p1, p2]
        elif rng.random() < prevprob:
            graph[i] = [i - 1]
        else:
            graph[i] = [rng.randrange(i - 1)]

    return graph

def buildancestorsets(graph):
    ancs = [None] * len(graph)
    for i in xrange(len(graph)):
        ancs[i] = set([i])
        if graph[i] == [nullrev]:
            continue
        for p in graph[i]:
            ancs[i].update(ancs[p])
    return ancs

class naiveincrementalmissingancestors(object):
    def __init__(self, ancs, bases):
        self.ancs = ancs
        self.bases = set(bases)
    def addbases(self, newbases):
        self.bases.update(newbases)
    def removeancestorsfrom(self, revs):
        for base in self.bases:
            if base != nullrev:
                revs.difference_update(self.ancs[base])
        revs.discard(nullrev)
    def missingancestors(self, revs):
        res = set()
        for rev in revs:
            if rev != nullrev:
                res.update(self.ancs[rev])
        for base in self.bases:
            if base != nullrev:
                res.difference_update(self.ancs[base])
        return sorted(res)

def test_missingancestors(seed, rng):
    # empirically observed to take around 1 second
    graphcount = 100
    testcount = 10
    inccount = 10
    nerrs = [0]
    # the default mu and sigma give us a nice distribution of mostly
    # single-digit counts (including 0) with some higher ones
    def lognormrandom(mu, sigma):
        return int(math.floor(rng.lognormvariate(mu, sigma)))

    def samplerevs(nodes, mu=1.1, sigma=0.8):
        count = min(lognormrandom(mu, sigma), len(nodes))
        return rng.sample(nodes, count)

    def err(seed, graph, bases, seq, output, expected):
        if nerrs[0] == 0:
            print >> sys.stderr, 'seed:', hex(seed)[:-1]
        if gerrs[0] == 0:
            print >> sys.stderr, 'graph:', graph
        print >> sys.stderr, '* bases:', bases
        print >> sys.stderr, '* seq: ', seq
        print >> sys.stderr, '*  output:  ', output
        print >> sys.stderr, '*  expected:', expected
        nerrs[0] += 1
        gerrs[0] += 1

    for g in xrange(graphcount):
        graph = buildgraph(rng)
        ancs = buildancestorsets(graph)
        gerrs = [0]
        for _ in xrange(testcount):
            # start from nullrev to include it as a possibility
            graphnodes = range(nullrev, len(graph))
            bases = samplerevs(graphnodes)

            # fast algorithm
            inc = ancestor.incrementalmissingancestors(graph.__getitem__, bases)
            # reference slow algorithm
            naiveinc = naiveincrementalmissingancestors(ancs, bases)
            seq = []
            revs = []
            for _ in xrange(inccount):
                if rng.random() < 0.2:
                    newbases = samplerevs(graphnodes)
                    seq.append(('addbases', newbases))
                    inc.addbases(newbases)
                    naiveinc.addbases(newbases)
                if rng.random() < 0.4:
                    # larger set so that there are more revs to remove from
                    revs = samplerevs(graphnodes, mu=1.5)
                    seq.append(('removeancestorsfrom', revs))
                    hrevs = set(revs)
                    rrevs = set(revs)
                    inc.removeancestorsfrom(hrevs)
                    naiveinc.removeancestorsfrom(rrevs)
                    if hrevs != rrevs:
                        err(seed, graph, bases, seq, sorted(hrevs),
                            sorted(rrevs))
                else:
                    revs = samplerevs(graphnodes)
                    seq.append(('missingancestors', revs))
                    h = inc.missingancestors(revs)
                    r = naiveinc.missingancestors(revs)
                    if h != r:
                        err(seed, graph, bases, seq, h, r)

# graph is a dict of child->parent adjacency lists for this graph:
# o  13
# |
# | o  12
# | |
# | | o    11
# | | |\
# | | | | o  10
# | | | | |
# | o---+ |  9
# | | | | |
# o | | | |  8
#  / / / /
# | | o |  7
# | | | |
# o---+ |  6
#  / / /
# | | o  5
# | |/
# | o  4
# | |
# o |  3
# | |
# | o  2
# |/
# o  1
# |
# o  0

graph = {0: [-1], 1: [0], 2: [1], 3: [1], 4: [2], 5: [4], 6: [4],
         7: [4], 8: [-1], 9: [6, 7], 10: [5], 11: [3, 7], 12: [9],
         13: [8]}

def genlazyancestors(revs, stoprev=0, inclusive=False):
    print ("%% lazy ancestor set for %s, stoprev = %s, inclusive = %s" %
           (revs, stoprev, inclusive))
    return ancestor.lazyancestors(graph.get, revs, stoprev=stoprev,
                                  inclusive=inclusive)

def printlazyancestors(s, l):
    print 'membership: %r' % [n for n in l if n in s]
    print 'iteration:  %r' % list(s)

def test_lazyancestors():
    # Empty revs
    s = genlazyancestors([])
    printlazyancestors(s, [3, 0, -1])

    # Standard example
    s = genlazyancestors([11, 13])
    printlazyancestors(s, [11, 13, 7, 9, 8, 3, 6, 4, 1, -1, 0])

    # Standard with ancestry in the initial set (1 is ancestor of 3)
    s = genlazyancestors([1, 3])
    printlazyancestors(s, [1, -1, 0])

    # Including revs
    s = genlazyancestors([11, 13], inclusive=True)
    printlazyancestors(s, [11, 13, 7, 9, 8, 3, 6, 4, 1, -1, 0])

    # Test with stoprev
    s = genlazyancestors([11, 13], stoprev=6)
    printlazyancestors(s, [11, 13, 7, 9, 8, 3, 6, 4, 1, -1, 0])
    s = genlazyancestors([11, 13], stoprev=6, inclusive=True)
    printlazyancestors(s, [11, 13, 7, 9, 8, 3, 6, 4, 1, -1, 0])


# The C gca algorithm requires a real repo. These are textual descriptions of
# DAGs that have been known to be problematic.
dagtests = [
    '+2*2*2/*3/2',
    '+3*3/*2*2/*4*4/*4/2*4/2*2',
]
def test_gca():
    u = ui.ui()
    for i, dag in enumerate(dagtests):
        repo = hg.repository(u, 'gca%d' % i, create=1)
        cl = repo.changelog
        if not util.safehasattr(cl.index, 'ancestors'):
            # C version not available
            return

        commands.debugbuilddag(u, repo, dag)
        # Compare the results of the Python and C versions. This does not
        # include choosing a winner when more than one gca exists -- we make
        # sure both return exactly the same set of gcas.
        for a in cl:
            for b in cl:
                cgcas = sorted(cl.index.ancestors(a, b))
                pygcas = sorted(ancestor.ancestors(cl.parentrevs, a, b))
                if cgcas != pygcas:
                    print "test_gca: for dag %s, gcas for %d, %d:" % (dag, a, b)
                    print "  C returned:      %s" % cgcas
                    print "  Python returned: %s" % pygcas

def main():
    seed = None
    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 's:', ['seed='])
    for o, a in opts:
        if o in ('-s', '--seed'):
            seed = long(a, base=0) # accepts base 10 or 16 strings

    if seed is None:
        try:
            seed = long(binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(16)), 16)
        except AttributeError:
            seed = long(time.time() * 1000)

    rng = random.Random(seed)
    test_missingancestors(seed, rng)
    test_lazyancestors()
    test_gca()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()