view mercurial/bdiff.c @ 33171:6d678ab1b10d

revlog: C implementation of delta chain resolution

I've seen revlog._deltachain() appear in a number of performance
profiles. I suspect there are 2 reasons for this:

1. Delta chain resolution performs many index lookups, thus triggering
   population of index tuples. Creating possibly tens of thousands of
   PyObject will have overhead.
2. Delta chain resolution is a tight loop.

By moving delta chain resolution to C, we can defer instantiation
of full index entry tuples and make the loop faster courtesy of
not running in Python.

We can measure the impact to delta chain resolution via
`hg perflogrevision` using the mozilla-central repo with a recent
manifest having delta chain length of 33726:

$ hg perfrevlogrevision -m 364895
! full
! wall 0.367585 comb 0.370000 user 0.340000 sys 0.030000 (best of 27)
! wall 0.357581 comb 0.360000 user 0.350000 sys 0.010000 (best of 28)
! deltachain
! wall 0.010644 comb 0.010000 user 0.010000 sys 0.000000 (best of 270)
! wall 0.000292 comb 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000 (best of 8729)

$ hg perfrevlogrevision --cache -m 364895
! deltachain
! wall 0.003904 comb 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000 (best of 712)
! wall 0.000284 comb 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000 (best of 9926)

The first test measures savings from both not instantiating index
entries and moving to C. The second test (which doesn't clear the
index caches) essentially isolates the benefits of moving from Python
to C. It still shows a 13.7x speedup (versus 36.4x). And there are
multiple milliseconds of savings within the critical path for resolving
revision data. I think that justifies the existence of C code.

A more striking example of the benefits of this change can be
demonstrated by timing `hg debugdeltachain -m` for the mozilla-central
repo:

$ time hg debugdeltachain -m > /dev/null
before:        1057.4s
after:          503.3s
PyPy2.7 5.8.0:  220.0s

It's worth noting that the C code isn't as optimal as it could be.
We're still instantiating a new PyObject for every revision. A future
optimization would be to reuse the PyObject on the cached index tuple.
We could potentially also get wins by using a memory array of raw
integers. There is also room for a delta chain cache on revlog
instances. Of course, the best optimization is to implement revlog
reading outside of Python so Python doesn't need to be concerned
about the relatively expensive index entries and operations on them.

/*
 bdiff.c - efficient binary diff extension for Mercurial

 Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>

 This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of
 the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

 Based roughly on Python difflib
*/

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <limits.h>

#include "compat.h"
#include "bitmanipulation.h"
#include "bdiff.h"

/* Hash implementation from diffutils */
#define ROL(v, n) ((v) << (n) | (v) >> (sizeof(v) * CHAR_BIT - (n)))
#define HASH(h, c) ((c) + ROL(h ,7))

struct pos {
	int pos, len;
};

int bdiff_splitlines(const char *a, ssize_t len, struct bdiff_line **lr)
{
	unsigned hash;
	int i;
	const char *p, *b = a;
	const char * const plast = a + len - 1;
	struct bdiff_line *l;

	/* count the lines */
	i = 1; /* extra line for sentinel */
	for (p = a; p < plast; p++)
		if (*p == '\n')
			i++;
	if (p == plast)
		i++;

	*lr = l = (struct bdiff_line *)malloc(sizeof(struct bdiff_line) * i);
	if (!l)
		return -1;

	/* build the line array and calculate hashes */
	hash = 0;
	for (p = a; p < plast; p++) {
		hash = HASH(hash, *p);

		if (*p == '\n') {
			l->hash = hash;
			hash = 0;
			l->len = p - b + 1;
			l->l = b;
			l->n = INT_MAX;
			l++;
			b = p + 1;
		}
	}

	if (p == plast) {
		hash = HASH(hash, *p);
		l->hash = hash;
		l->len = p - b + 1;
		l->l = b;
		l->n = INT_MAX;
		l++;
	}

	/* set up a sentinel */
	l->hash = 0;
	l->len = 0;
	l->l = a + len;
	return i - 1;
}

static inline int cmp(struct bdiff_line *a, struct bdiff_line *b)
{
	return a->hash != b->hash || a->len != b->len || memcmp(a->l, b->l, a->len);
}

static int equatelines(struct bdiff_line *a, int an, struct bdiff_line *b,
	int bn)
{
	int i, j, buckets = 1, t, scale;
	struct pos *h = NULL;

	/* build a hash table of the next highest power of 2 */
	while (buckets < bn + 1)
		buckets *= 2;

	/* try to allocate a large hash table to avoid collisions */
	for (scale = 4; scale; scale /= 2) {
		h = (struct pos *)malloc(scale * buckets * sizeof(struct pos));
		if (h)
			break;
	}

	if (!h)
		return 0;

	buckets = buckets * scale - 1;

	/* clear the hash table */
	for (i = 0; i <= buckets; i++) {
		h[i].pos = -1;
		h[i].len = 0;
	}

	/* add lines to the hash table chains */
	for (i = 0; i < bn; i++) {
		/* find the equivalence class */
		for (j = b[i].hash & buckets; h[j].pos != -1;
		     j = (j + 1) & buckets)
			if (!cmp(b + i, b + h[j].pos))
				break;

		/* add to the head of the equivalence class */
		b[i].n = h[j].pos;
		b[i].e = j;
		h[j].pos = i;
		h[j].len++; /* keep track of popularity */
	}

	/* compute popularity threshold */
	t = (bn >= 31000) ? bn / 1000 : 1000000 / (bn + 1);

	/* match items in a to their equivalence class in b */
	for (i = 0; i < an; i++) {
		/* find the equivalence class */
		for (j = a[i].hash & buckets; h[j].pos != -1;
		     j = (j + 1) & buckets)
			if (!cmp(a + i, b + h[j].pos))
				break;

		a[i].e = j; /* use equivalence class for quick compare */
		if (h[j].len <= t)
			a[i].n = h[j].pos; /* point to head of match list */
		else
			a[i].n = -1; /* too popular */
	}

	/* discard hash tables */
	free(h);
	return 1;
}

static int longest_match(struct bdiff_line *a, struct bdiff_line *b,
			struct pos *pos,
			 int a1, int a2, int b1, int b2, int *omi, int *omj)
{
	int mi = a1, mj = b1, mk = 0, i, j, k, half, bhalf;

	/* window our search on large regions to better bound
	   worst-case performance. by choosing a window at the end, we
	   reduce skipping overhead on the b chains. */
	if (a2 - a1 > 30000)
		a1 = a2 - 30000;

	half = (a1 + a2 - 1) / 2;
	bhalf = (b1 + b2 - 1) / 2;

	for (i = a1; i < a2; i++) {
		/* skip all lines in b after the current block */
		for (j = a[i].n; j >= b2; j = b[j].n)
			;

		/* loop through all lines match a[i] in b */
		for (; j >= b1; j = b[j].n) {
			/* does this extend an earlier match? */
			for (k = 1; j - k >= b1 && i - k >= a1; k++) {
				/* reached an earlier match? */
				if (pos[j - k].pos == i - k) {
					k += pos[j - k].len;
					break;
				}
				/* previous line mismatch? */
				if (a[i - k].e != b[j - k].e)
					break;
			}

			pos[j].pos = i;
			pos[j].len = k;

			/* best match so far? we prefer matches closer
			   to the middle to balance recursion */
			if (k > mk) {
				/* a longer match */
				mi = i;
				mj = j;
				mk = k;
			} else if (k == mk) {
				if (i > mi && i <= half && j > b1) {
					/* same match but closer to half */
					mi = i;
					mj = j;
				} else if (i == mi && (mj > bhalf || i == a1)) {
					/* same i but best earlier j */
					mj = j;
				}
			}
		}
	}

	if (mk) {
		mi = mi - mk + 1;
		mj = mj - mk + 1;
	}

	/* expand match to include subsequent popular lines */
	while (mi + mk < a2 && mj + mk < b2 &&
	       a[mi + mk].e == b[mj + mk].e)
		mk++;

	*omi = mi;
	*omj = mj;

	return mk;
}

static struct bdiff_hunk *recurse(struct bdiff_line *a, struct bdiff_line *b,
				struct pos *pos,
			    int a1, int a2, int b1, int b2, struct bdiff_hunk *l)
{
	int i, j, k;

	while (1) {
		/* find the longest match in this chunk */
		k = longest_match(a, b, pos, a1, a2, b1, b2, &i, &j);
		if (!k)
			return l;

		/* and recurse on the remaining chunks on either side */
		l = recurse(a, b, pos, a1, i, b1, j, l);
		if (!l)
			return NULL;

		l->next = (struct bdiff_hunk *)malloc(sizeof(struct bdiff_hunk));
		if (!l->next)
			return NULL;

		l = l->next;
		l->a1 = i;
		l->a2 = i + k;
		l->b1 = j;
		l->b2 = j + k;
		l->next = NULL;

		/* tail-recursion didn't happen, so do equivalent iteration */
		a1 = i + k;
		b1 = j + k;
	}
}

int bdiff_diff(struct bdiff_line *a, int an, struct bdiff_line *b,
		int bn, struct bdiff_hunk *base)
{
	struct bdiff_hunk *curr;
	struct pos *pos;
	int t, count = 0;

	/* allocate and fill arrays */
	t = equatelines(a, an, b, bn);
	pos = (struct pos *)calloc(bn ? bn : 1, sizeof(struct pos));

	if (pos && t) {
		/* generate the matching block list */

		curr = recurse(a, b, pos, 0, an, 0, bn, base);
		if (!curr)
			return -1;

		/* sentinel end hunk */
		curr->next = (struct bdiff_hunk *)malloc(sizeof(struct bdiff_hunk));
		if (!curr->next)
			return -1;
		curr = curr->next;
		curr->a1 = curr->a2 = an;
		curr->b1 = curr->b2 = bn;
		curr->next = NULL;
	}

	free(pos);

	/* normalize the hunk list, try to push each hunk towards the end */
	for (curr = base->next; curr; curr = curr->next) {
		struct bdiff_hunk *next = curr->next;

		if (!next)
			break;

		if (curr->a2 == next->a1 || curr->b2 == next->b1)
			while (curr->a2 < an && curr->b2 < bn
			       && next->a1 < next->a2
			       && next->b1 < next->b2
			       && !cmp(a + curr->a2, b + curr->b2)) {
				curr->a2++;
				next->a1++;
				curr->b2++;
				next->b1++;
			}
	}

	for (curr = base->next; curr; curr = curr->next)
		count++;
	return count;
}

void bdiff_freehunks(struct bdiff_hunk *l)
{
	struct bdiff_hunk *n;
	for (; l; l = n) {
		n = l->next;
		free(l);
	}
}