perf: add threading capability to perfbdiff
Since we are releasing the GIL during diffing, it is interesting to see how a
thread pool would perform on diffing. We add a new `--threads` argument to
commands. Synchronizing the thread pool is a bit complex because we want to be
able to reuse it from one run to another.
On my computer (i7 with 4 cores + hyperthreading), I get the following data for
about 12000 revisions:
threads wall comb wall gain comb overhead
none 31.596715 31.59 0.00% 0.00%
1 31.621228 31.62 -0.08% 0.09%
2 16.406202 32.8 48.08% 3.83%
3 11.598334 34.76 63.29% 10.03%
4 9.205421 36.77 70.87% 16.40%
5 8.517604 42.51 73.04% 34.57%
6 7.94645 47.58 74.85% 50.62%
7 7.434972 51.92 76.47% 64.36%
8 7.070638 55.34 77.62% 75.18%
Compared to the feature disabled (threads=0), the overhead is negligible with
the threading code (threads=1), and the gain is already 48% with two threads.
#require serve
$ hg init server
$ cd server
$ cat >> .hg/hgrc << EOF
> [extensions]
> strip=
> EOF
$ echo 1 > foo
$ hg commit -A -m 'first'
adding foo
$ echo 2 > bar
$ hg commit -A -m 'second'
adding bar
Produce a bundle to use
$ hg strip -r 1
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
saved backup bundle to $TESTTMP/server/.hg/strip-backup/ed602e697e0f-cc9fff6a-backup.hg
Serve from a bundle file
$ hg serve -R .hg/strip-backup/ed602e697e0f-cc9fff6a-backup.hg -d -p $HGPORT --pid-file=hg.pid
$ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
Ensure we're serving from the bundle
$ (get-with-headers.py localhost:$HGPORT 'file/tip/?style=raw')
200 Script output follows
-rw-r--r-- 2 bar
-rw-r--r-- 2 foo