worker: change partition strategy to every Nth element
The only consumer of the worker pool code today is `hg update`.
Previously, the algorithm to partition work to each worker process
preserved input list ordering. We'd take the first N elements, then
the next N elements, etc. Measurements on mozilla-central demonstrate
this isn't an optimal partitioning strategy.
I added debug code to print when workers were exiting. When performing
a working copy update on a previously empty working copy of
mozilla-central, I noticed that process lifetimes were all over the
map. One worker would complete after 7s. Many would complete after
12s. And another worker would often take >16s. This behavior occurred
for many worker process counts and was more pronounced on some than
others.
What I suspect is happening is some workers end up with lots of
small files and others with large files. This is because the update
code passes in actions according to sorted filenames. And, directories
under tend to accumulate similar files. For example, test directories
often consist of many small test files and media directories contain
binary (often larger) media files.
This patch changes the partitioning algorithm to select every Nth
element from the input list. Each worker thus has a similar composition
of files to operate on.
The result of this change is that worker processes now all tend to exit
around the same time. The possibility of a long pole due to being
unlucky and receiving all the large files has been mitigated. Overall
execution time seems to drop, but not by a statistically significant
amount on mozilla-central. However, repositories with directories
containing many large files will likely show a drop.
There shouldn't be any regressions due to partial manifest decoding
because the update code already iterates the manifest to determine
what files to operate on, so the manifest should already be decoded.
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# hgperf - measure performance of Mercurial commands
#
# Copyright 2014 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
'''measure performance of Mercurial commands
Using ``hgperf`` instead of ``hg`` measures performance of the target
Mercurial command. For example, the execution below measures
performance of :hg:`heads --topo`::
$ hgperf heads --topo
All command output via ``ui`` is suppressed, and just measurement
result is displayed: see also "perf" extension in "contrib".
Costs of processing before dispatching to the command function like
below are not measured::
- parsing command line (e.g. option validity check)
- reading configuration files in
But ``pre-`` and ``post-`` hook invocation for the target command is
measured, even though these are invoked before or after dispatching to
the command function, because these may be required to repeat
execution of the target command correctly.
'''
import os
import sys
libdir = '@LIBDIR@'
if libdir != '@' 'LIBDIR' '@':
if not os.path.isabs(libdir):
libdir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),
libdir)
libdir = os.path.abspath(libdir)
sys.path.insert(0, libdir)
# enable importing on demand to reduce startup time
try:
from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
except ImportError:
import sys
sys.stderr.write("abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [%s]\n" %
' '.join(sys.path))
sys.stderr.write("(check your install and PYTHONPATH)\n")
sys.exit(-1)
import mercurial.util
import mercurial.dispatch
import time
def timer(func, title=None):
results = []
begin = time.time()
count = 0
while True:
ostart = os.times()
cstart = time.time()
r = func()
cstop = time.time()
ostop = os.times()
count += 1
a, b = ostart, ostop
results.append((cstop - cstart, b[0] - a[0], b[1]-a[1]))
if cstop - begin > 3 and count >= 100:
break
if cstop - begin > 10 and count >= 3:
break
if title:
sys.stderr.write("! %s\n" % title)
if r:
sys.stderr.write("! result: %s\n" % r)
m = min(results)
sys.stderr.write("! wall %f comb %f user %f sys %f (best of %d)\n"
% (m[0], m[1] + m[2], m[1], m[2], count))
orgruncommand = mercurial.dispatch.runcommand
def runcommand(lui, repo, cmd, fullargs, ui, options, d, cmdpats, cmdoptions):
ui.pushbuffer()
lui.pushbuffer()
timer(lambda : orgruncommand(lui, repo, cmd, fullargs, ui,
options, d, cmdpats, cmdoptions))
ui.popbuffer()
lui.popbuffer()
mercurial.dispatch.runcommand = runcommand
for fp in (sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr):
mercurial.util.setbinary(fp)
mercurial.dispatch.run()