view tests/test-clone-cgi.t @ 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

#require no-msys # MSYS will translate web paths as if they were file paths

This is a test of the wire protocol over CGI-based hgweb.
initialize repository

  $ hg init test
  $ cd test
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Ama
  adding a
  $ cd ..
  $ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
  > #
  > # An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
  > import cgitb
  > cgitb.enable()
  > from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
  > from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb
  > from mercurial.hgweb import wsgicgi
  > application = hgweb(b"test", b"Empty test repository")
  > wsgicgi.launch(application)
  > HGWEB
  $ chmod 755 hgweb.cgi

try hgweb request

  $ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
  $ QUERY_STRING="cmd=changegroup&roots=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"; export QUERY_STRING
  $ $PYTHON hgweb.cgi >page1 2>&1
  $ $PYTHON "$TESTDIR/md5sum.py" page1
  1f424bb22ec05c3c6bc866b6e67efe43  page1

make sure headers are sent even when there is no body

  $ QUERY_STRING="cmd=listkeys&namespace=nosuchnamespace" $PYTHON hgweb.cgi
  Status: 200 Script output follows\r (esc)
  Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r (esc)
  Content-Length: 0\r (esc)
  \r (esc)