Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:56:48 -0700] rev 39869
revlog: add method for obtaining storage info (API)
We currently have a handful of methods on the file and manifest
storage interfaces for obtaining metadata about storage. e.g.
files() is used to obtain the files backing storage. rawsize()
is to quickly compute the size of tracked revisions without resolving
their fulltext.
Code in upgrade and stream clone make heavy use of these methods.
The existing APIs are generic and don't necessarily have the
specialization that we need going forward. For example, files()
doesn't distinguish between exclusive storage and shared storage.
This makes stream clone difficult to implement when e.g. there may
be a single file backing storage for multiple tracked paths. It
also makes reporting difficult, as we don't know how many bytes are
actually used by storage since we can't easily identify shared files.
This commit implements a new method for obtaining storage metadata.
It is designed to accept arguments specifying what metadata to request
and to return a dict with those fields populated. We /could/ make
each of these attributes a separate method. But this is a specialized
API and I'm trying to avoid method bloat on the interfaces. There is
also the possibility that certain callers will want to obtain multiple
fields in different combinations and some backends may have performance
issues obtaining all that data via separate method calls.
Simple storage integration tests have been added. For now, we assume
fields can't be "None" (ignoring the interface documentation). We can
revisit this later.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4747
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:27:41 -0700] rev 39868
lfs: drop unused import
A recent change dropped the last user of this module.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4744
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:08:58 -0700] rev 39867
filelog: drop _generaldelta attribute (API)
With changegroup moving to emitrevisions(), this revlog-specific
attribute is no longer used and can be deleted. Good riddance.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4727
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:59:19 -0700] rev 39866
revlog: drop emitrevisiondeltas() and associated functionality (API)
emitrevisions() is the future!
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4726
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:47:04 -0700] rev 39865
changegroup: port to emitrevisions() (
issue5976)
We now have a unified API for emitting revision data from a storage
backend. It handles sorting nodes and the complicated delta versus
revision decisions for us.
This commit ports changegroup to that API.
There should be no behavior changes for changegroups not using
ellipsis. And lack of test changes seems to confirm that.
There are some changes for ellipsis mode, however.
Before, when sending an ellipsis revision, we would always send a
fulltext revision (as opposed to a delta). There was a TODO tracking
this open item.
One of the things the emitrevisions() API does for us is figure out
whether we can safely emit a delta. So, it is now possible for
ellipsis revisions to be sent as deltas! (It does this by not
assuming parent/ancestor revisions are available and tracking which
revisions have been sent out.)
Because we eliminated the list of revision delta request objects,
performance has improved substantially:
$ hg perfchangegroupchangelog
before: ! wall 24.348077 comb 24.330000 user 24.140000 sys 0.190000 (best of 3)
after: ! wall 18.245911 comb 18.240000 user 18.100000 sys 0.140000 (best of 3)
That's a lot of overhead for creating a few hundred thousand Python
objects!
This is still a little slower than 4.7. Probably due to
23d582ca
introducing a type for the revision/delta results. There is
potentially room to optimize. But at some point we need to abstract
storage in order to support alternate storage backends. Unfortunately
that means using a Python data structure to represent results. And
unfortunately there is overhead with every new Python object created.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4725
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:48:02 -0700] rev 39864
wireprotov2server: port to emitrevisions()
We now have a proper storage API to request data on multiple
revisions. We can drop it into wire protocol version 2 with
minimal effort.
The new API handles pretty much everything we were doing manually to
build up the delta request. So we were able to delete a lot of code.
As a bonus, wireprotov2 code is no longer accessing some low-level
storage APIs. This includes the assumption that a node has an
associated numeric revision number! This should make it drastically
simpler to implement a server that doesn't have the concept of
revision numbers.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4724
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:54:59 -0700] rev 39863
tests: use more complex file storage test
The previous test was attempting to to test delta storage behavior.
It didn't do a very good job at it because there was a good chance
a delta wasn't being used in storage.
Let's switch the test to yield a delta in storage so an upcoming
change to delegate delta logic to storage has the desired effect.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4723
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:28:21 -0700] rev 39862
revlog: new API to emit revision data
I recently refactored changegroup generation code to make it more
storage agnostic. I made significant progress. But there is still
a bit of work to be done. Specifically:
* Changegroup code is looking at low-level storage attributes to
influence sorting. Sorting should be done at the storage layer.
* The linknode lookup and sorting code for ellipsis is very
complicated.
* Linknodes are just generally wonky because e.g. file storage doesn't
know how to translate a linkrev to a changelog node.
* We regressed performance when introducing the request-response
objects.
Having thought about this problem a bit, I think I've come up with
a better interface for emitting revision deltas.
This commit defines and implements that interface. See the docstring
in repository.py for more info.
This API adds 3 notable features over the previous one.
First, it defers node ordering to the storage implementation in
the common case but allows overriding as necessary. We have a
facility for requesting an exact ordering (used in ellipsis
mode). We have another facility for storage order (used for changelog).
Second, we have an argument specifying assumptions about parents
revisions. This can be used to force a fulltext revision when we
don't know the receiver has a parent revision to delta against.
Third, we can control whether revision data is emitted. This makes
the API suitable as a generic "index data retrieval" API as well
as for producing revision deltas - possibly in the same operation!
The new API is much simpler: we no longer need a complicated "request"
object to encapsulate the delta generation request. I'm optimistic
this will restore performance loss associated with
emitrevisiondeltas().
Storage unit tests for the new API have been implemented.
Future commits will port existing consumers of emitrevisiondeltas()
to the new API then remove emitrevisiondeltas().
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4722
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:41:42 -0700] rev 39861
changegroup: remove reordering control (BC)
This logic - including the experimental bundle.reorder option -
was originally added in
a8e3931e3fb5 in 2011 and then later ported
to changegroup.py.
The intent of this option and associated logic is to control
the ordering of revisions in deltagroups in changegroups. At the
time it was implemented, only changegroup version 1 existed
and generaldelta revlogs were just coming into the world. Changegroup
version 1 requires that deltas be made against the last revision
sent over the wire. Used with generaldelta, this created an
impedance mismatch of sorts and resulted in changegroup producers
spending a lot of time recomputing deltas.
Revision reordering was introduced so outgoing revisions would be
sent in "generaldelta order" and producers would be able to
reuse internal deltas from storage.
Later on, we introduced changegroup version 2. It supported denoting
which revision a delta was against. So we no longer needed to
sort outgoing revisions to ensure optimal delta generation from the
producer. So, subsequent changegroup versions disabled reordering.
We also later made the changelog not store deltas by default. And
we also made the changelog send out deltas in storage order. Why we
do this for changelog, I'm not sure. Maybe we want to preserve revision
order across clones? It doesn't really matter for this commit.
Fast forward to 2018. We want to abstract storage backends. And having
changegroup code require knowledge about how deltas are stored
internally interferes with that goal.
This commit removes reordering control from changegroup generation.
After this commit, the reordering behavior is:
* The changelog is always sent out in storage order (no behavior
change).
* Non-changelog generaldelta revlogs are reordered to always be in DAG
topological order (previously, generaldelta revlogs would be emitted
in storage order for version 2 and 3 changegroups).
* Non-changelog non-generaldelta revlogs are sent in storage order (no
behavior change).
* There exists no config option to override behavior.
The big difference here is that generaldelta revlogs now *always* have
their revisions sorted in DAG order before going out over the wire. This
behavior was previously only done for changegroup version 1. Version 2
and version 3 changegroups disabled reordering because the interchange
format supported encoding arbitrary delta parents, so reordering wasn't
strictly necessary.
I can think of a few significant implications for this change.
Because changegroup receivers will now see non-changelog revisions
in DAG order instead of storage order, the internal storage order of
manifests and files may differ substantially between producer and
consumer. I don't think this matters that much, since the storage
order of manifests and files is largely hidden from users. Only
the storage order of changelog matters (because `hg log` shows the
changelog in storage order). I don't think there should be any
controversy here.
The reordering of revisions has implications for changegroup producers.
Previously, generaldelta revlogs would be emitted in storage order.
And in the common case, the internally-stored delta could effectively
be copied from disk into the deltagroup delta. This meant that emitting
delta groups for generaldelta revlogs would be mostly linear read I/O.
This is desirable for performance. With us now reordering generaldelta
revlog revisions in DAG order, the read operations may use more random
I/O instead of sequential I/O. This could result in performance
loss. But with the prevalence of SSDs and fast random I/O, I'm not
too worried. (Note: the optimal emission order for revlogs is actually
delta encoding order. But the changegroup code wasn't doing that before
or after this change. We could potentially implement that in a later
commit.)
Changegroups in DAG order will have implications for receivers.
Previously, receiving storage order might mean seeing a number of
interleaved branches. This would mean long delta chains, sparse
I/O, and possibly more fulltext revisions instead of deltas, blowing
up storage storage. (This is the same set of problems that sparse
revlogs aims to address.) With the producer now sending revisions in DAG
order, the receiver also stores revisions in DAG order. That means
revisions for the same DAG branch are all grouped together. And this
should yield better storage outcomes. In other words, sending the
reordered changegroup allows the receiver to have better storage
order and for the producer to not propagate its (possibly sub-optimal)
internal storage order.
On the mozilla-unified repository, this change influences bundle
generation:
$ hg bundle -t none-v2 -a
before: time: real 355.680 secs (user 256.790+0.000 sys 16.820+0.000)
after: time: real 382.950 secs (user 281.700+0.000 sys 17.690+0.000)
before: 7,150,228,967 bytes (uncompressed)
after: 7,041,556,273 bytes (uncompressed)
before: 1,669,063,234 bytes (zstd l=3)
after: 1,628,598,830 bytes (zstd l=3)
$ hg unbundle
before: time: real 511.910 secs (user 466.750+0.000 sys 32.680+0.000)
after: time: real 487.790 secs (user 443.940+0.000 sys 30.840+0.000)
00manifest.d size:
source: 274,924,292 bytes
before: 304,741,626 bytes
after: 245,252,087 bytes
.hg/store total file size:
source: 2,649,133,490
before: 2,680,888,130
after: 2,627,875,673
We see the bundle size drop. That's probably because if a revlog
internally isn't storing a delta, it will choose to delta against
the last emitted revision. And on repos with interleaved branches
(like mozilla-unified), the previous revision could be an unrelated
branch and therefore be a large delta. But with this patch, the
previous revision is likely p1 or p2 and a delta should be small.
We also see the manifest size drop by ~50 MB. It's worth noting that
the manifest actually *increased* in size by ~25 MB in the old
strategy and decreased ~25 MB from its source in the new strategy.
Again, my explanation for this is that the DAG ordering in the
changegroup is resulting in better grouping of revisions in the
receiver, which results in more compact delta chains and higher
storage efficiency.
Unbundle time also dropped. I suspect this is due to the revlog having
to work less to compute deltas since the incoming deltas are more
optimal. i.e. the receiver spends less time resolving fulltext
revisions as incoming deltas bounce around between DAG branches and
delta chains.
We also see bundle generation time increase. This is not desirable.
However, the regression is only significant on the original repository:
if we generate a bundle from the repository created from the new,
always reordered bundles, we're close to baseline (if not at it with
expected noise):
$ hg bundle -t none-v2 -a
before (original): time: real 355.680 secs (user 256.790+0.000 sys 16.820+0.000)
after (original): time: real 382.950 secs (user 281.700+0.000 sys 17.690+0.000)
after (new repo): time: real 362.280 secs (user 260.300+0.000 sys 17.700+0.000)
This regression is a bit worrying because it will impact serving
canonical repositories (that don't have optimal internal storage
unless they are reordered - possibly as part of running
`hg debugupgraderepo`). However, this regression will only be
noticed by very large changegroups. And I'm guessing/hoping that
any repository that large is using clonebundles to mitigate server
load.
Again, sending DAG order isn't the optimal send order for servers:
sending in storage-delta order is. But in order to enable
storage-optimal send order, we'll need a storage API that handles
sorting. Future commits will introduce such an API.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4721
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:31:07 -0700] rev 39860
filelog: drop index attribute (API)
The previous commit removed the last consumer of the "index" attribute
on the file storage interface. The index is an extremely low-level
data structure that is revlog specific and isn't appropriate to
expose as part of a generic storage API. There may be a market for
an efficient data structure to obtain metadata on every revision for
a file. But if there is, it should be designed using e.g. named
attributes for lookup instead of a list-like of 8-tuples.
Let's drop the attribute from filelog and remove the attribute from
the file storage interface.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4720
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:38:27 -0700] rev 39859
upgrade: use rawsize() instead of revlog index
The revlog index is a very low-level data structure and it shouldn't
be exposed to the storage interface - at least not in its current
form.
upgrade.py is the only consumer of the index attribute on file storage
in the repository.
This commit rewrites that final consumer to use rawsize() instead of
going through the index. This is actually the more proper API to use,
as rawsize() will accurately report the size of revisions which have
a negative size in the index.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4719
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:20:01 -0700] rev 39858
manifest: add rawsize() proxy (API)
I'm not keen about doing this. But it unblocks efforts to remove
"index" from the file storage interface. We will probably remove this
once we have a better upgrade API in place.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4718
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:37:19 -0700] rev 39857
upgrade: report size of backing files, not internal storage size
upgrade.py is the only consumer of filelog.index, which I'd like
to eliminate from the file storage interface.
This commit changes the upgrade code to report the storage size
of files by looking at the size of the files backing its storage
instead of looking at the index.
I'm not convinced the approach in this patch will live very long
because it is relying on low-level attributes like "opener" and
"files," which may behave very differently on non-revlog storage.
But the data is only used for reporting purposes and it does get
us one step closer to eliminating "index."
A side-effect of this change is we now report the size of the revlog
index data - not just the revision data. I think this is more
accurate.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4717
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:07:42 -0700] rev 39856
filelog: store filename directly on revlog instance
This attribute is only used by LFS. It is used by one of the revlog
flag processor functions, which gets an instance of the revlog - not
the file storage type. So, it makes sense to store this attribute on
the revlog instead of the filelog.
With this change, I'm pretty confident that LFS is no longer directly
accessing file storage interface members that are revlog centric. i.e.
it gets us one step closer to eliminating revlog-centric APIs from the
file storage interface!
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4715
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:47:34 -0700] rev 39855
lfs: access revlog directly
LFS is monkeypatching filelog.filelog and is then accessing
various filelog attributes in the monkeypatched function. This is all
fine.
But some of the attributes being accessed by LFS are revlog centric
and shouldn't be exposed on the file storage interface.
This commit changes the monkeypatched functions to access proxied
attributes on self._revlog instead of self.
This should be safe to do because non-revlog repositories should not
be using filelog instances: instead they should have a separate class
to represent file storage. So it is reasonable for LFS to assume the
_revlog attribute exists and points to a revlog.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4714