view tests/test-mq-qgoto.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

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

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Ama
  adding a

  $ hg qnew a.patch
  $ echo a >> a
  $ hg qrefresh

  $ hg qnew b.patch
  $ echo b > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg qrefresh

  $ hg qnew c.patch
  $ echo c > c
  $ hg add c
  $ hg qrefresh

  $ hg qgoto a.patch
  popping c.patch
  popping b.patch
  now at: a.patch

  $ hg qgoto c.patch
  applying b.patch
  applying c.patch
  now at: c.patch

  $ hg qgoto b.patch
  popping c.patch
  now at: b.patch

Using index:

  $ hg qgoto 0
  popping b.patch
  now at: a.patch

  $ hg qgoto 2
  applying b.patch
  applying c.patch
  now at: c.patch

No warnings when using index ... and update from non-qtip and with pending
changes in unrelated files:

  $ hg qnew bug314159
  $ echo d >> c
  $ hg qrefresh
  $ hg qnew bug141421
  $ echo e >> b
  $ hg qrefresh

  $ hg up -r bug314159
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo f >> a
  $ echo f >> b
  $ echo f >> c

  $ hg qgoto 1
  abort: local changes found, qrefresh first
  [255]
  $ hg qgoto 1 -f
  popping bug141421
  popping bug314159
  popping c.patch
  now at: b.patch
  $ hg st
  M a
  M b
  ? c.orig
  $ hg up -qCr.

  $ hg qgoto 3
  applying c.patch
  applying bug314159
  now at: bug314159

Detect ambiguous non-index:

  $ hg qgoto 14
  patch name "14" is ambiguous:
    bug314159
    bug141421
  abort: patch 14 not in series
  [255]

  $ cd ..