view tests/test-largefiles-small-disk.t @ 17616:9535a0dc41f2

store: implement fncache basic path encoding in C

(This is not yet enabled; it will be turned on in a followup patch.)

The path encoding performed by fncache is complex and (perhaps
surprisingly) slow enough to negatively affect the overall performance
of Mercurial.

For a short path (< 120 bytes), the Python code can be reduced to a fairly
tractable state machine that either determines that nothing needs to be
done in a single pass, or performs the encoding in a second pass.

For longer paths, we avoid the more complicated hashed encoding scheme
for now, and fall back to Python.

Raw performance: I measured in a repo containing 150,000 files in its tip
manifest, with a median path name length of 57 bytes, and 95th percentile
of 96 bytes.

In this repo, the Python code takes 3.1 seconds to encode all path
names, while the hybrid C-and-Python code (called from Python) takes
0.21 seconds, for a speedup of about 14.

Across several other large repositories, I've measured the speedup from
the C code at between 26x and 40x.

For path names above 120 bytes where we must fall back to Python for
hashed encoding, the speedup is about 1.7x.  Thus absolute performance
will depend strongly on the characteristics of a particular repository.

Test how largefiles abort in case the disk runs full

  $ cat > criple.py <<EOF
  > import os, errno, shutil
  > from mercurial import util
  > #
  > # this makes the original largefiles code abort:
  > def copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst, length=16*1024):
  >     fdst.write(fsrc.read(4))
  >     raise IOError(errno.ENOSPC, os.strerror(errno.ENOSPC))
  > shutil.copyfileobj = copyfileobj
  > #
  > # this makes the rewritten code abort:
  > def filechunkiter(f, size=65536, limit=None):
  >     yield f.read(4)
  >     raise IOError(errno.ENOSPC, os.strerror(errno.ENOSPC))
  > util.filechunkiter = filechunkiter
  > #
  > def oslink(src, dest):
  >     raise OSError("no hardlinks, try copying instead")
  > util.oslink = oslink
  > EOF

  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "largefiles =" >> $HGRCPATH

  $ hg init alice
  $ cd alice
  $ echo "this is a very big file" > big
  $ hg add --large big
  $ hg commit --config extensions.criple=$TESTTMP/criple.py -m big
  abort: No space left on device
  [255]

The largefile is not created in .hg/largefiles:

  $ ls .hg/largefiles
  dirstate

The user cache is not even created:

  >>> import os; os.path.exists("$HOME/.cache/largefiles/")
  False

Make the commit with space on the device:

  $ hg commit -m big

Now make a clone with a full disk, and make sure lfutil.link function
makes copies instead of hardlinks:

  $ cd ..
  $ hg --config extensions.criple=$TESTTMP/criple.py clone --pull alice bob
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  getting changed largefiles
  abort: No space left on device
  [255]

The largefile is not created in .hg/largefiles:

  $ ls bob/.hg/largefiles