changeset 33389:7e89bd0cfb86

localrepo: cache types for filtered repos (issue5043) Python introduces a reference cycle on dynamically created types via __mro__, making them very easy to leak. See https://bugs.python.org/issue17950. Previously, repo.filtered() created a type on every invocation. Long-running processes (like `hg convert`) could call this function thousands of times, leading to a steady memory leak. Since we're Unable to stop the leak because this is a bug in Python, the next best thing is to contain it. This patch adds a cache of of the dynamically generated repoview/filter types on the localrepo object. Since we only generate each type once, we cap the amount of memory that can leak to something reasonable. After this change, `hg convert` no longer leaks memory on every revision. The process will likely grow memory usage over time due to e.g. larger manifests. But there are no leaks.
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Sat, 01 Jul 2017 20:51:19 -0700
parents 0823f0983eaa
children 32331f54930c
files mercurial/localrepo.py mercurial/statichttprepo.py
diffstat 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Tue Jul 11 02:10:04 2017 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Sat Jul 01 20:51:19 2017 -0700
@@ -430,6 +430,9 @@
         # post-dirstate-status hooks
         self._postdsstatus = []
 
+        # Cache of types representing filtered repos.
+        self._filteredrepotypes = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
+
         # generic mapping between names and nodes
         self.names = namespaces.namespaces()
 
@@ -539,11 +542,21 @@
 
     def filtered(self, name):
         """Return a filtered version of a repository"""
-        # build a new class with the mixin and the current class
-        # (possibly subclass of the repo)
-        class filteredrepo(repoview.repoview, self.unfiltered().__class__):
-            pass
-        return filteredrepo(self, name)
+        # Python <3.4 easily leaks types via __mro__. See
+        # https://bugs.python.org/issue17950. We cache dynamically
+        # created types so this method doesn't leak on every
+        # invocation.
+
+        key = self.unfiltered().__class__
+        if key not in self._filteredrepotypes:
+            # Build a new type with the repoview mixin and the base
+            # class of this repo. Give it a name containing the
+            # filter name to aid debugging.
+            bases = (repoview.repoview, key)
+            cls = type('%sfilteredrepo' % name, bases, {})
+            self._filteredrepotypes[key] = cls
+
+        return self._filteredrepotypes[key](self, name)
 
     @repofilecache('bookmarks', 'bookmarks.current')
     def _bookmarks(self):
--- a/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Tue Jul 11 02:10:04 2017 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Sat Jul 01 20:51:19 2017 -0700
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@
         self.encodepats = None
         self.decodepats = None
         self._transref = None
+        # Cache of types representing filtered repos.
+        self._filteredrepotypes = {}
 
     def _restrictcapabilities(self, caps):
         caps = super(statichttprepository, self)._restrictcapabilities(caps)