view mercurial/policy.py @ 38732:be4984261611

merge: mark file gets as not thread safe (issue5933)

In default installs, this has the effect of disabling the thread-based
worker on Windows when manifesting files in the working directory. My
measurements have shown that with revlog-based repositories, Mercurial
spends a lot of CPU time in revlog code resolving file data. This ends
up incurring a lot of context switching across threads and slows down
`hg update` operations when going from an empty working directory to
the tip of the repo.

On mozilla-unified (246,351 files) on an i7-6700K (4+4 CPUs):

before: 487s wall
after:  360s wall (equivalent to worker.enabled=false)
cpus=2: 379s wall

Even with only 2 threads, the thread pool is still slower.

The introduction of the thread-based worker (02b36e860e0b) states that
it resulted in a "~50%" speedup for `hg sparse --enable-profile` and
`hg sparse --disable-profile`. This disagrees with my measurement
above. I theorize a few reasons for this:

1) Removal of files from the working directory is I/O - not CPU - bound
   and should benefit from a thread pool (unless I/O is insanely fast
   and the GIL release is near instantaneous). So tests like `hg sparse
   --enable-profile` may exercise deletion throughput and aren't good
   benchmarks for worker tasks that are CPU heavy.
2) The patch was authored by someone at Facebook. The results were
   likely measured against a repository using remotefilelog. And I
   believe that revision retrieval during working directory updates with
   remotefilelog will often use a remote store, thus being I/O and not
   CPU bound. This probably resulted in an overstated performance gain.

Since there appears to be a need to enable the thread-based worker with
some stores, I've made the flagging of file gets as thread safe
configurable. I've made it experimental because I don't want to formalize
a boolean flag for this option and because this attribute is best
captured against the store implementation. But we don't have a proper
store API for this yet. I'd rather cross this bridge later.

It is possible there are revlog-based repositories that do benefit from
a thread-based worker. I didn't do very comprehensive testing. If there
are, we may want to devise a more proper algorithm for whether to use
the thread-based worker, including possibly config options to limit the
number of threads to use. But until I see evidence that justifies
complexity, simplicity wins.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3963

# policy.py - module policy logic for Mercurial.
#
# Copyright 2015 Gregory Szorc <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os
import sys

# Rules for how modules can be loaded. Values are:
#
#    c - require C extensions
#    allow - allow pure Python implementation when C loading fails
#    cffi - required cffi versions (implemented within pure module)
#    cffi-allow - allow pure Python implementation if cffi version is missing
#    py - only load pure Python modules
#
# By default, fall back to the pure modules so the in-place build can
# run without recompiling the C extensions. This will be overridden by
# __modulepolicy__ generated by setup.py.
policy = b'allow'
_packageprefs = {
    # policy: (versioned package, pure package)
    b'c': (r'cext', None),
    b'allow': (r'cext', r'pure'),
    b'cffi': (r'cffi', None),
    b'cffi-allow': (r'cffi', r'pure'),
    b'py': (None, r'pure'),
}

try:
    from . import __modulepolicy__
    policy = __modulepolicy__.modulepolicy
except ImportError:
    pass

# PyPy doesn't load C extensions.
#
# The canonical way to do this is to test platform.python_implementation().
# But we don't import platform and don't bloat for it here.
if r'__pypy__' in sys.builtin_module_names:
    policy = b'cffi'

# Environment variable can always force settings.
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    if r'HGMODULEPOLICY' in os.environ:
        policy = os.environ[r'HGMODULEPOLICY'].encode(r'utf-8')
else:
    policy = os.environ.get(r'HGMODULEPOLICY', policy)

def _importfrom(pkgname, modname):
    # from .<pkgname> import <modname> (where . is looked through this module)
    fakelocals = {}
    pkg = __import__(pkgname, globals(), fakelocals, [modname], level=1)
    try:
        fakelocals[modname] = mod = getattr(pkg, modname)
    except AttributeError:
        raise ImportError(r'cannot import name %s' % modname)
    # force import; fakelocals[modname] may be replaced with the real module
    getattr(mod, r'__doc__', None)
    return fakelocals[modname]

# keep in sync with "version" in C modules
_cextversions = {
    (r'cext', r'base85'): 1,
    (r'cext', r'bdiff'): 3,
    (r'cext', r'mpatch'): 1,
    (r'cext', r'osutil'): 4,
    (r'cext', r'parsers'): 5,
}

# map import request to other package or module
_modredirects = {
    (r'cext', r'charencode'): (r'cext', r'parsers'),
    (r'cffi', r'base85'): (r'pure', r'base85'),
    (r'cffi', r'charencode'): (r'pure', r'charencode'),
    (r'cffi', r'parsers'): (r'pure', r'parsers'),
}

def _checkmod(pkgname, modname, mod):
    expected = _cextversions.get((pkgname, modname))
    actual = getattr(mod, r'version', None)
    if actual != expected:
        raise ImportError(r'cannot import module %s.%s '
                          r'(expected version: %d, actual: %r)'
                          % (pkgname, modname, expected, actual))

def importmod(modname):
    """Import module according to policy and check API version"""
    try:
        verpkg, purepkg = _packageprefs[policy]
    except KeyError:
        raise ImportError(r'invalid HGMODULEPOLICY %r' % policy)
    assert verpkg or purepkg
    if verpkg:
        pn, mn = _modredirects.get((verpkg, modname), (verpkg, modname))
        try:
            mod = _importfrom(pn, mn)
            if pn == verpkg:
                _checkmod(pn, mn, mod)
            return mod
        except ImportError:
            if not purepkg:
                raise
    pn, mn = _modredirects.get((purepkg, modname), (purepkg, modname))
    return _importfrom(pn, mn)