diff --git a/contrib/perf.py b/contrib/perf.py
--- a/contrib/perf.py
+++ b/contrib/perf.py
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ def perfbranchmap(ui, repo, full=False):
     allfilters = []
     while possiblefilters:
         for name in possiblefilters:
-            subset = repoview.subsettable.get(name)
+            subset = branchmap.subsettable.get(name)
             if subset not in possiblefilters:
                 break
         else:
diff --git a/mercurial/branchmap.py b/mercurial/branchmap.py
--- a/mercurial/branchmap.py
+++ b/mercurial/branchmap.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 from node import bin, hex, nullid, nullrev
 import encoding
-import util, repoview
+import util
 
 def _filename(repo):
     """name of a branchcache file for a given repo or repoview"""
@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ def read(repo):
 
 
 
+### Nearest subset relation
+# Nearest subset of filter X is a filter Y so that:
+# * Y is included in X,
+# * X - Y is as small as possible.
+# This create and ordering used for branchmap purpose.
+# the ordering may be partial
+subsettable = {None: 'visible',
+               'visible': 'served',
+               'served': 'immutable',
+               'immutable': 'base'}
+
 def updatecache(repo):
     cl = repo.changelog
     filtername = repo.filtername
@@ -67,7 +78,7 @@ def updatecache(repo):
     if partial is None or not partial.validfor(repo):
         partial = read(repo)
         if partial is None:
-            subsetname = repoview.subsettable.get(filtername)
+            subsetname = subsettable.get(filtername)
             if subsetname is None:
                 partial = branchcache()
             else:
diff --git a/mercurial/repoview.py b/mercurial/repoview.py
--- a/mercurial/repoview.py
+++ b/mercurial/repoview.py
@@ -98,16 +98,6 @@ filtertable = {'visible': computehidden,
                'served': computeunserved,
                'immutable':  computemutable,
                'base':  computeimpactable}
-### Nearest subset relation
-# Nearest subset of filter X is a filter Y so that:
-# * Y is included in X,
-# * X - Y is as small as possible.
-# This create and ordering used for branchmap purpose.
-# the ordering may be partial
-subsettable = {None: 'visible',
-               'visible': 'served',
-               'served': 'immutable',
-               'immutable': 'base'}
 
 def filterrevs(repo, filtername):
     """returns set of filtered revision for this filter name"""
@@ -215,4 +205,3 @@ class repoview(object):
     @property
     def requirements(self):
         return self._unfilteredrepo.requirements
-