view tests/test-rebuildstate.t @ 34824:e2ad93bcc084

revlog: introduce an experimental flag to slice chunks reads when too sparse

Delta chains can become quite sparse if there is a lot of unrelated data between
relevant pieces. Right now, revlog always reads all the necessary data for the
delta chain in one single read. This can lead to a lot of unrelated data to be
read (see issue5482 for more details).
One can use the `experimental.maxdeltachainspan` option with a large value
(or -1) to easily produce a very sparse delta chain.

This change introduces the ability to slice the chunks retrieval into  multiple
reads, skipping large sections of unrelated data. Preliminary testing shows
interesting results. For example the peak memory consumption to read a manifest
on a large repository is reduced from 600MB to 250MB (200MB without
maxdeltachainspan). However, the slicing itself and the multiple reads can have
an negative impact on performance. This is why the new feature is hidden behind
an experimental flag.

Future changesets will add various parameters to control the slicing heuristics.
We hope to experiment a wide variety of repositories during 4.4 and hopefully
turn the feature on by default in 4.5.
As a first try, the algorithm itself is prone to deep changes. However, we wish
to define APIs and have a baseline to work on.

  $ cat > adddrop.py <<EOF
  > from mercurial import registrar
  > cmdtable = {}
  > command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
  > @command(b'debugadddrop',
  >   [('', 'drop', False, 'drop file from dirstate', 'FILE'),
  >    ('', 'normal-lookup', False, 'add file to dirstate', 'FILE')],
  >     'hg debugadddrop')
  > def debugadddrop(ui, repo, *pats, **opts):
  >   '''Add or drop unnamed arguments to or from the dirstate'''
  >   drop = opts.get('drop')
  >   nl = opts.get('normal_lookup')
  >   if nl and drop:
  >       raise error.Abort('drop and normal-lookup are mutually exclusive')
  >   wlock = repo.wlock()
  >   try:
  >     for file in pats:
  >       if opts.get('normal_lookup'):
  >         repo.dirstate.normallookup(file)
  >       else:
  >         repo.dirstate.drop(file)
  > 
  >     repo.dirstate.write(repo.currenttransaction())
  >   finally:
  >     wlock.release()
  > EOF

  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "debugadddrop=`pwd`/adddrop.py" >> $HGRCPATH

basic test for hg debugrebuildstate

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

  $ touch foo bar
  $ hg ci -Am 'add foo bar'
  adding bar
  adding foo

  $ touch baz
  $ hg add baz
  $ hg rm bar

  $ hg debugrebuildstate

state dump after

  $ hg debugstate --nodates | sort
  n   0         -1 unset               bar
  n   0         -1 unset               foo

  $ hg debugadddrop --normal-lookup file1 file2
  $ hg debugadddrop --drop bar
  $ hg debugadddrop --drop
  $ hg debugstate --nodates
  n   0         -1 unset               file1
  n   0         -1 unset               file2
  n   0         -1 unset               foo
  $ hg debugrebuildstate

status

  $ hg st -A
  ! bar
  ? baz
  C foo

Test debugdirstate --minimal where a file is not in parent manifest
but in the dirstate
  $ touch foo bar qux
  $ hg add qux
  $ hg remove bar
  $ hg status -A
  A qux
  R bar
  ? baz
  C foo
  $ hg debugadddrop --normal-lookup baz
  $ hg debugdirstate --nodates
  r   0          0 * bar (glob)
  n   0         -1 * baz (glob)
  n 644          0 * foo (glob)
  a   0         -1 * qux (glob)
  $ hg debugrebuilddirstate --minimal
  $ hg debugdirstate --nodates
  r   0          0 * bar (glob)
  n 644          0 * foo (glob)
  a   0         -1 * qux (glob)
  $ hg status -A
  A qux
  R bar
  ? baz
  C foo

Test debugdirstate --minimal where file is in the parent manifest but not the
dirstate
  $ hg manifest
  bar
  foo
  $ hg status -A
  A qux
  R bar
  ? baz
  C foo
  $ hg debugdirstate --nodates
  r   0          0 * bar (glob)
  n 644          0 * foo (glob)
  a   0         -1 * qux (glob)
  $ hg debugadddrop --drop foo
  $ hg debugdirstate --nodates
  r   0          0 * bar (glob)
  a   0         -1 * qux (glob)
  $ hg debugrebuilddirstate --minimal
  $ hg debugdirstate --nodates
  r   0          0 * bar (glob)
  n   0         -1 * foo (glob)
  a   0         -1 * qux (glob)
  $ hg status -A
  A qux
  R bar
  ? baz
  C foo