merge: perform background file closing in batchget...
merge: perform background file closing in batchget
As
2fdbf22a1b63 demonstrated with stream clones, closing files on
background threads on Windows can yield a significant speedup
because closing files that have been created/appended to is slow
on Windows/NTFS.
Working directory updates can write thousands of files. Therefore it
is susceptible to excessive slowness on Windows due to slow file
closes.
This patch enables background file closing when performing working
directory file writes. The impact when performing an `hg up tip` on
mozilla-central (136,357 files) from an empty working directory is
significant:
Before: 535s (8:55)
After: 133s (2:13)
Delta: -402s (6:42)
That's a 4x speedup!
By comparison, that same machine can perform the same operation
in ~15s on Linux. So Windows went from ~35x to ~9x slower. Not bad
but there's still work to do.
As a reminder, background file closing is only activated on Windows
because it is only beneficial on that platform. So this patch
shouldn't change non-Windows behavior at all.
It's worth noting that non-Windows systems perform working directory
updates with multiple processes. Unfortunately, worker.py doesn't
yet support Windows. So, there is still plenty of room for making
working directory updates faster on Windows. Even if multiple
processes are used on Windows, I believe background file closing
will still provide a benefit, as individual processes will still
be slowed down by the file close bottleneck (assuming the I/O system
isn't saturated).
