# HG changeset patch # User Gregory Szorc # Date 2015-10-09 18:22:01 # Node ID 5a95fe44121d96805daacb2d9a84b947d8c68a03 # Parent 9e15286609aea8fa569a5499c49563eacac87d4c clonebundles: support for seeding clones from pre-generated bundles Cloning can be an expensive operation for servers because the server generates a bundle from existing repository data at request time. For a large repository like mozilla-central, this consumes 4+ minutes of CPU time on the server. It also results in significant network utilization. Multiplied by hundreds or even thousands of clients and the ensuing load can result in difficulties scaling the Mercurial server. Despite generation of bundles being deterministic until the next changeset is added, the generation of bundles to service a clone request is not cached. Each clone thus performs redundant work. This is wasteful. This patch introduces the "clonebundles" extension and related client-side functionality to help alleviate this deficiency. The client-side feature is behind an experimental flag and is not enabled by default. It works as follows: 1) Server operator generates a bundle and makes it available on a server (likely HTTP). 2) Server operator defines the URL of a bundle file in a .hg/clonebundles.manifest file. 3) Client `hg clone`ing sees the server is advertising bundle URLs. 4) Client fetches and applies the advertised bundle. 5) Client performs equivalent of `hg pull` to fetch changes made since the bundle was created. Essentially, the server performs the expensive work of generating a bundle once and all subsequent clones fetch a static file from somewhere. Scaling static file serving is a much more manageable problem than scaling a Python application like Mercurial. Assuming your repository grows less than 1% per day, the end result is 99+% of CPU and network load from clones is eliminated, allowing Mercurial servers to scale more easily. Serving static files also means data can be transferred to clients as fast as they can consume it, rather than as fast as servers can generate it. This makes clones faster. Mozilla has implemented similar functionality of this patch on hg.mozilla.org using a custom extension. We are hosting bundle files in Amazon S3 and CloudFront (a CDN) and have successfully offloaded >1 TB/day in data transfer from hg.mozilla.org, freeing up significant bandwidth and CPU resources. The positive impact has been stellar and I believe it has proved its value to be included in Mercurial core. I feel it is important for the client-side support to be enabled in core by default because it means that clients will get faster, more reliable clones and will enable server operators to reduce load without requiring any client-side configuration changes (assuming clients are up to date, of course). The scope of this feature is narrowly and specifically tailored to cloning, despite "serve pulls from pre-generated bundles" being a valid and useful feature. I would eventually like for Mercurial servers to support transferring *all* repository data via statically hosted files. You could imagine a server that siphons all pushed data to bundle files and instructs clients to apply a stream of bundles to reconstruct all repository data. This feature, while useful and powerful, is significantly more work to implement because it requires the server component have awareness of discovery and a mapping of which changesets are in which files. Full, clone bundles, by contrast, are much simpler. The wire protocol command is named "clonebundles" instead of something more generic like "staticbundles" to leave the door open for a new, more powerful and more generic server-side component with minimal backwards compatibility implications. The name "bundleclone" is used by Mozilla's extension and would cause problems since there are subtle differences in Mozilla's extension. Mozilla's experience with this idea has taught us that some form of "content negotiation" is required. Not all clients will support all bundle formats or even URLs (advanced TLS requirements, etc). To ensure the highest uptake possible, a server needs to advertise multiple versions of bundles and clients need to be able to choose the most appropriate from that list one. The "attributes" in each server-advertised entry facilitate this filtering and sorting. Their use will become apparent in subsequent patches. Initial inspiration and credit for the idea of cloning from static files belongs to Augie Fackler and his "lookaside clone" extension proof of concept. diff --git a/hgext/clonebundles.py b/hgext/clonebundles.py new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/hgext/clonebundles.py @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the +# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. + +"""server side extension to advertise pre-generated bundles to seed clones. + +The extension essentially serves the content of a .hg/clonebundles.manifest +file to clients that request it. + +The clonebundles.manifest file contains a list of URLs and attributes. URLs +hold pre-generated bundles that a client fetches and applies. After applying +the pre-generated bundle, the client will connect back to the original server +and pull data not in the pre-generated bundle. + +Manifest File Format: + +The manifest file contains a newline (\n) delimited list of entries. + +Each line in this file defines an available bundle. Lines have the format: + + [=> .hg/hgrc << EOF + > [extensions] + > clonebundles = + > EOF + + $ touch foo + $ hg -q commit -A -m 'add foo' + $ touch bar + $ hg -q commit -A -m 'add bar' + + $ hg serve -d -p $HGPORT --pid-file hg.pid --accesslog access.log + $ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS + $ cd .. + +Feature disabled by default +(client should not request manifest) + + $ hg clone -U http://localhost:$HGPORT feature-disabled + requesting all changes + adding changesets + adding manifests + adding file changes + added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files + + $ cat server/access.log + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1" 200 - (glob) + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=batch HTTP/1.1" 200 - x-hgarg-1:cmds=heads+%3Bknown+nodes%3D (glob) + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=getbundle HTTP/1.1" 200 - x-hgarg-1:bundlecaps=HG20%2Cbundle2%3DHG20%250Achangegroup%253D01%252C02%250Adigests%253Dmd5%252Csha1%252Csha512%250Aerror%253Dabort%252Cunsupportedcontent%252Cpushraced%252Cpushkey%250Ahgtagsfnodes%250Alistkeys%250Apushkey%250Aremote-changegroup%253Dhttp%252Chttps&cg=1&common=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000&heads=aaff8d2ffbbf07a46dd1f05d8ae7877e3f56e2a2&listkeys=phase%2Cbookmarks (glob) + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=listkeys HTTP/1.1" 200 - x-hgarg-1:namespace=phases (glob) + + $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF + > [experimental] + > clonebundles = true + > EOF + +Missing manifest should not result in server lookup + + $ hg --verbose clone -U http://localhost:$HGPORT no-manifest + requesting all changes + adding changesets + adding manifests + adding file changes + added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files + + $ tail -4 server/access.log + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1" 200 - (glob) + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=batch HTTP/1.1" 200 - x-hgarg-1:cmds=heads+%3Bknown+nodes%3D (glob) + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=getbundle HTTP/1.1" 200 - x-hgarg-1:bundlecaps=HG20%2Cbundle2%3DHG20%250Achangegroup%253D01%252C02%250Adigests%253Dmd5%252Csha1%252Csha512%250Aerror%253Dabort%252Cunsupportedcontent%252Cpushraced%252Cpushkey%250Ahgtagsfnodes%250Alistkeys%250Apushkey%250Aremote-changegroup%253Dhttp%252Chttps&cg=1&common=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000&heads=aaff8d2ffbbf07a46dd1f05d8ae7877e3f56e2a2&listkeys=phase%2Cbookmarks (glob) + * - - [*] "GET /?cmd=listkeys HTTP/1.1" 200 - x-hgarg-1:namespace=phases (glob) + +Empty manifest file results in retrieval +(the extension only checks if the manifest file exists) + + $ touch server/.hg/clonebundles.manifest + $ hg --verbose clone -U http://localhost:$HGPORT empty-manifest + no clone bundles available on remote; falling back to regular clone + requesting all changes + adding changesets + adding manifests + adding file changes + added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files + +Manifest file with invalid URL aborts + + $ echo 'http://does.not.exist/bundle.hg' > server/.hg/clonebundles.manifest + $ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT 404-url + applying clone bundle from http://does.not.exist/bundle.hg + error fetching bundle: [Errno -2] Name or service not known + abort: error applying bundle + (consider contacting the server operator if this error persists) + [255] + +Server is not running aborts + + $ echo "http://localhost:$HGPORT1/bundle.hg" > server/.hg/clonebundles.manifest + $ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT server-not-runner + applying clone bundle from http://localhost:$HGPORT1/bundle.hg + error fetching bundle: [Errno 111] Connection refused + abort: error applying bundle + (consider contacting the server operator if this error persists) + [255] + +Server returns 404 + + $ python $TESTDIR/dumbhttp.py -p $HGPORT1 --pid http.pid + $ cat http.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS + $ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT running-404 + applying clone bundle from http://localhost:$HGPORT1/bundle.hg + HTTP error fetching bundle: HTTP Error 404: File not found + abort: error applying bundle + (consider contacting the server operator if this error persists) + [255] + +We can override failure to fall back to regular clone + + $ hg --config ui.clonebundlefallback=true clone -U http://localhost:$HGPORT 404-fallback + applying clone bundle from http://localhost:$HGPORT1/bundle.hg + HTTP error fetching bundle: HTTP Error 404: File not found + falling back to normal clone + requesting all changes + adding changesets + adding manifests + adding file changes + added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files + +Bundle with partial content works + + $ hg -R server bundle --type gzip --base null -r 53245c60e682 partial.hg + 1 changesets found + + $ echo "http://localhost:$HGPORT1/partial.hg" > server/.hg/clonebundles.manifest + $ hg clone -U http://localhost:$HGPORT partial-bundle + applying clone bundle from http://localhost:$HGPORT1/partial.hg + adding changesets + adding manifests + adding file changes + added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files + finished applying clone bundle + searching for changes + adding changesets + adding manifests + adding file changes + added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files + +Bundle with full content works + + $ hg -R server bundle --type gzip --base null -r tip full.hg + 2 changesets found + + $ echo "http://localhost:$HGPORT1/full.hg" > server/.hg/clonebundles.manifest + $ hg clone -U http://localhost:$HGPORT full-bundle + applying clone bundle from http://localhost:$HGPORT1/full.hg + adding changesets + adding manifests + adding file changes + added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files + finished applying clone bundle + searching for changes + no changes found diff --git a/tests/test-help.t b/tests/test-help.t --- a/tests/test-help.t +++ b/tests/test-help.t @@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ Test extension help: bugzilla hooks for integrating with the Bugzilla bug tracker censor erase file content at a given revision churn command to display statistics about repository history + clonebundles server side extension to advertise pre-generated bundles to + seed clones. color colorize output from some commands convert import revisions from foreign VCS repositories into Mercurial @@ -1069,6 +1071,8 @@ Test keyword search help Extensions: + clonebundles server side extension to advertise pre-generated bundles to seed + clones. prefixedname matched against word "clone" relink recreates hardlinks between repository clones