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wireproto: add streams to frame-based protocol Previously, the frame-based protocol was just a series of frames, with each frame associated with a request ID. In order to scale the protocol, we'll want to enable the use of compression. While it is possible to enable compression at the socket/pipe level, this has its disadvantages. The big one is it undermines the point of frames being standalone, atomic units that can be read and written: if you add compression above the framing protocol, you are back to having a stream-based protocol as opposed to something frame-based. So in order to preserve frames, compression needs to occur at the frame payload level. Compressing each frame's payload individually will limit compression ratios because the window size of the compressor will be limited by the max frame size, which is 32-64kb as currently defined. It will also add CPU overhead, as it is more efficient for compressors to operate on fewer, larger blocks of data than more, smaller blocks. So compressing each frame independently is out. This means we need to compress each frame's payload as if it is part of a larger stream. The simplest approach is to have 1 stream per connection. This could certainly work. However, it has disadvantages (documented below). We could also have 1 stream per RPC/command invocation. (This is the model HTTP/2 goes with.) This also has disadvantages. The main disadvantage to one global stream is that it has the very real potential to create CPU bottlenecks doing compression. Networks are only getting faster and the performance of single CPU cores has been relatively flat. Newer compression formats like zstandard offer better CPU cycle efficiency than predecessors like zlib. But it still all too common to saturate your CPU with compression overhead long before you saturate the network pipe. The main disadvantage with streams per request is that you can't reap the benefits of the compression context for multiple requests. For example, if you send 1000 RPC requests (or HTTP/2 requests for that matter), the response to each would have its own compression context. The overall size of the raw responses would be larger because compression contexts wouldn't be able to reference data from another request or response. The approach for streams as implemented in this commit is to support N streams per connection and for streams to potentially span requests and responses. As explained by the added internals docs, this facilitates servers and clients delegating independent streams and compression to independent threads / CPU cores. This helps alleviate the CPU bottleneck of compression. This design also allows compression contexts to be reused across requests/responses. This can result in improved compression ratios and less overhead for compressors and decompressors having to build new contexts. Another feature that was defined was the ability for individual frames within a stream to declare whether that individual frame's payload uses the content encoding (read: compression) defined by the stream. The idea here is that some servers may serve data from a combination of caches and dynamic resolution. Data coming from caches may be pre-compressed. We want to facilitate servers being able to essentially stream bytes from caches to the wire with minimal overhead. Being able to mix and match with frames are compressed within a stream enables these types of advanced server functionality. This commit defines the new streams mechanism. Basic code for supporting streams in frames has been added. But that code is seriously lacking and doesn't fully conform to the defined protocol. For example, we don't close any streams. And support for content encoding within streams is not yet implemented. The change was rather invasive and I didn't think it would be reasonable to implement the entire feature in a single commit. For the record, I would have loved to reuse an existing multiplexing protocol to build the new wire protocol on top of. However, I couldn't find a protocol that offers the performance and scaling characteristics that I desired. Namely, it should support multiple compression contexts to facilitate scaling out to multiple CPU cores and compression contexts should be able to live longer than single RPC requests. HTTP/2 *almost* fits the bill. But the semantics of HTTP message exchange state that streams can only live for a single request-response. We /could/ tunnel on top of HTTP/2 streams and frames with HEADER and DATA frames. But there's no guarantee that HTTP/2 libraries and proxies would allow us to use HTTP/2 streams and frames without the HTTP message exchange semantics defined in RFC 7540 Section 8. Other RPC protocols like gRPC tunnel are built on top of HTTP/2 and thus preserve its semantics of stream per RPC invocation. Even QUIC does this. We could attempt to invent a higher-level stream that spans HTTP/2 streams. But this would be violating HTTP/2 because there is no guarantee that HTTP/2 streams are routed to the same server. The best we can do - which is what this protocol does - is shoehorn all request and response data into a single HTTP message and create streams within. At that point, we've defined a Content-Type in HTTP parlance. It just so happens our media type can also work as a standalone, stream-based protocol, without leaning on HTTP or similar protocol. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2907

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# setdiscovery.py - improved discovery of common nodeset for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2010 Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@gmail.com>
# and Peter Arrenbrecht <peter@arrenbrecht.ch>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
"""
Algorithm works in the following way. You have two repository: local and
remote. They both contains a DAG of changelists.
The goal of the discovery protocol is to find one set of node *common*,
the set of nodes shared by local and remote.
One of the issue with the original protocol was latency, it could
potentially require lots of roundtrips to discover that the local repo was a
subset of remote (which is a very common case, you usually have few changes
compared to upstream, while upstream probably had lots of development).
The new protocol only requires one interface for the remote repo: `known()`,
which given a set of changelists tells you if they are present in the DAG.
The algorithm then works as follow:
- We will be using three sets, `common`, `missing`, `unknown`. Originally
all nodes are in `unknown`.
- Take a sample from `unknown`, call `remote.known(sample)`
- For each node that remote knows, move it and all its ancestors to `common`
- For each node that remote doesn't know, move it and all its descendants
to `missing`
- Iterate until `unknown` is empty
There are a couple optimizations, first is instead of starting with a random
sample of missing, start by sending all heads, in the case where the local
repo is a subset, you computed the answer in one round trip.
Then you can do something similar to the bisecting strategy used when
finding faulty changesets. Instead of random samples, you can try picking
nodes that will maximize the number of nodes that will be
classified with it (since all ancestors or descendants will be marked as well).
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import
import collections
import random
from .i18n import _
from .node import (
nullid,
nullrev,
)
from . import (
dagutil,
error,
util,
)
def _updatesample(dag, nodes, sample, quicksamplesize=0):
"""update an existing sample to match the expected size
The sample is updated with nodes exponentially distant from each head of the
<nodes> set. (H~1, H~2, H~4, H~8, etc).
If a target size is specified, the sampling will stop once this size is
reached. Otherwise sampling will happen until roots of the <nodes> set are
reached.
:dag: a dag object from dagutil
:nodes: set of nodes we want to discover (if None, assume the whole dag)
:sample: a sample to update
:quicksamplesize: optional target size of the sample"""
# if nodes is empty we scan the entire graph
if nodes:
heads = dag.headsetofconnecteds(nodes)
else:
heads = dag.heads()
dist = {}
visit = collections.deque(heads)
seen = set()
factor = 1
while visit:
curr = visit.popleft()
if curr in seen:
continue
d = dist.setdefault(curr, 1)
if d > factor:
factor *= 2
if d == factor:
sample.add(curr)
if quicksamplesize and (len(sample) >= quicksamplesize):
return
seen.add(curr)
for p in dag.parents(curr):
if not nodes or p in nodes:
dist.setdefault(p, d + 1)
visit.append(p)
def _takequicksample(dag, nodes, size):
"""takes a quick sample of size <size>
It is meant for initial sampling and focuses on querying heads and close
ancestors of heads.
:dag: a dag object
:nodes: set of nodes to discover
:size: the maximum size of the sample"""
sample = dag.headsetofconnecteds(nodes)
if len(sample) >= size:
return _limitsample(sample, size)
_updatesample(dag, None, sample, quicksamplesize=size)
return sample
def _takefullsample(dag, nodes, size):
sample = dag.headsetofconnecteds(nodes)
# update from heads
_updatesample(dag, nodes, sample)
# update from roots
_updatesample(dag.inverse(), nodes, sample)
assert sample
sample = _limitsample(sample, size)
if len(sample) < size:
more = size - len(sample)
sample.update(random.sample(list(nodes - sample), more))
return sample
def _limitsample(sample, desiredlen):
"""return a random subset of sample of at most desiredlen item"""
if len(sample) > desiredlen:
sample = set(random.sample(sample, desiredlen))
return sample
def findcommonheads(ui, local, remote,
initialsamplesize=100,
fullsamplesize=200,
abortwhenunrelated=True,
ancestorsof=None):
'''Return a tuple (common, anyincoming, remoteheads) used to identify
missing nodes from or in remote.
'''
start = util.timer()
roundtrips = 0
cl = local.changelog
localsubset = None
if ancestorsof is not None:
rev = local.changelog.rev
localsubset = [rev(n) for n in ancestorsof]
dag = dagutil.revlogdag(cl, localsubset=localsubset)
# early exit if we know all the specified remote heads already
ui.debug("query 1; heads\n")
roundtrips += 1
ownheads = dag.heads()
sample = _limitsample(ownheads, initialsamplesize)
# indices between sample and externalized version must match
sample = list(sample)
batch = remote.iterbatch()
batch.heads()
batch.known(dag.externalizeall(sample))
batch.submit()
srvheadhashes, yesno = batch.results()
if cl.tip() == nullid:
if srvheadhashes != [nullid]:
return [nullid], True, srvheadhashes
return [nullid], False, []
# start actual discovery (we note this before the next "if" for
# compatibility reasons)
ui.status(_("searching for changes\n"))
srvheads = dag.internalizeall(srvheadhashes, filterunknown=True)
if len(srvheads) == len(srvheadhashes):
ui.debug("all remote heads known locally\n")
return (srvheadhashes, False, srvheadhashes,)
if len(sample) == len(ownheads) and all(yesno):
ui.note(_("all local heads known remotely\n"))
ownheadhashes = dag.externalizeall(ownheads)
return (ownheadhashes, True, srvheadhashes,)
# full blown discovery
# own nodes I know we both know
# treat remote heads (and maybe own heads) as a first implicit sample
# response
common = cl.incrementalmissingrevs(srvheads)
commoninsample = set(n for i, n in enumerate(sample) if yesno[i])
common.addbases(commoninsample)
# own nodes where I don't know if remote knows them
undecided = set(common.missingancestors(ownheads))
# own nodes I know remote lacks
missing = set()
full = False
while undecided:
if sample:
missinginsample = [n for i, n in enumerate(sample) if not yesno[i]]
missing.update(dag.descendantset(missinginsample, missing))
undecided.difference_update(missing)
if not undecided:
break
if full or common.hasbases():
if full:
ui.note(_("sampling from both directions\n"))
else:
ui.debug("taking initial sample\n")
samplefunc = _takefullsample
targetsize = fullsamplesize
else:
# use even cheaper initial sample
ui.debug("taking quick initial sample\n")
samplefunc = _takequicksample
targetsize = initialsamplesize
if len(undecided) < targetsize:
sample = list(undecided)
else:
sample = samplefunc(dag, undecided, targetsize)
roundtrips += 1
ui.progress(_('searching'), roundtrips, unit=_('queries'))
ui.debug("query %i; still undecided: %i, sample size is: %i\n"
% (roundtrips, len(undecided), len(sample)))
# indices between sample and externalized version must match
sample = list(sample)
yesno = remote.known(dag.externalizeall(sample))
full = True
if sample:
commoninsample = set(n for i, n in enumerate(sample) if yesno[i])
common.addbases(commoninsample)
common.removeancestorsfrom(undecided)
# heads(common) == heads(common.bases) since common represents common.bases
# and all its ancestors
result = dag.headsetofconnecteds(common.bases)
# common.bases can include nullrev, but our contract requires us to not
# return any heads in that case, so discard that
result.discard(nullrev)
elapsed = util.timer() - start
ui.progress(_('searching'), None)
ui.debug("%d total queries in %.4fs\n" % (roundtrips, elapsed))
msg = ('found %d common and %d unknown server heads,'
' %d roundtrips in %.4fs\n')
missing = set(result) - set(srvheads)
ui.log('discovery', msg, len(result), len(missing), roundtrips,
elapsed)
if not result and srvheadhashes != [nullid]:
if abortwhenunrelated:
raise error.Abort(_("repository is unrelated"))
else:
ui.warn(_("warning: repository is unrelated\n"))
return ({nullid}, True, srvheadhashes,)
anyincoming = (srvheadhashes != [nullid])
return dag.externalizeall(result), anyincoming, srvheadhashes