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discovery: slowly increase sampling size Some pathological discovery runs can requires many roundtrip. When this happens things can get very slow. To make the algorithm more resilience again such pathological case. We slowly increase the sample size with each roundtrip (+5%). This will have a negligible impact on "normal" discovery with few roundtrips, but a large positive impact of case with many roundtrips. Asking more question per roundtrip helps to reduce the undecided set faster. Instead of reducing the undecided set a linear speed (in the worst case), we reduce it as a guaranteed (small) exponential rate. The data below show this slow ramp up in sample size: round trip | 1 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | 100 | 130 | sample size | 200 | 254 | 321 | 517 | 2 199 | 25 123 | 108 549 | covered nodes | 200 | 1 357 | 2 821 | 7 031 | 42 658 | 524 530 | 2 276 755 | To be a bit more concrete, lets take a very pathological case as an example. We are doing discovery from a copy of Mozilla-try to a more recent version of mozilla-unified. Mozilla-unified heads are unknown to the mozilla-try repo and there are over 1 million "missing" changesets. (the discovery is "local" to avoid network interference) Without this change, the discovery: - last 1858 seconds (31 minutes), - does 1700 round trip, - asking about 340 000 nodes. With this change, the discovery: - last 218 seconds (3 minutes, 38 seconds a -88% improvement), - does 94 round trip (-94%), - asking about 344 211 nodes (+1%). Of course, this is an extreme case (and 3 minutes is still slow). However this give a good example of how this sample size increase act as a safety net catching any bad situations. We could image a steeper increase than 5%. For example 10% would give the following number: round trip | 1 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | 75 | 100 | sample size | 200 | 321 | 514 | 1 326 | 23 060 | 249 812 | 2 706 594 | covered nodes | 200 | 1 541 | 3 690 | 12 671 | 251 871 | 2 746 254 | 29 770 966 | In parallel, it is useful to understand these pathological cases and improve them. However the current change provides a general purpose safety net to smooth the impact of pathological cases. To avoid issue with older http server, the increase in sample size only occurs if the protocol has not limit on command argument size.

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Mercurial Rust Code

This directory contains various Rust code for the Mercurial project.

The top-level Cargo.toml file defines a workspace containing all primary Mercurial crates.

Building

To build the Rust components:

$ cargo build

If you prefer a non-debug / release configuration:

$ cargo build --release

Features

The following Cargo features are available:

localdev (default)

Produce files that work with an in-source-tree build.

In this mode, the build finds and uses a python2.7 binary from PATH. The hg binary assumes it runs from rust/target/<target>hg and it finds Mercurial files at dirname($0)/../../../.

Build Mechanism

The produced hg binary is bound to a CPython installation. The binary links against and loads a CPython library that is discovered at build time (by a build.rs Cargo build script). The Python standard library defined by this CPython installation is also used.

Finding the appropriate CPython installation to use is done by the python27-sys crate's build.rs. Its search order is:

  1. PYTHON_SYS_EXECUTABLE environment variable.
  2. python executable on PATH
  3. python2 executable on PATH
  4. python2.7 executable on PATH

Additional verification of the found Python will be performed by our build.rs to ensure it meets Mercurial's requirements.

Details about the build-time configured Python are built into the produced hg binary. This means that a built hg binary is only suitable for a specific, well-defined role. These roles are controlled by Cargo features (see above).

Running

The hgcli crate produces an hg binary. You can run this binary via cargo run:

$ cargo run --manifest-path hgcli/Cargo.toml

Or directly:

$ target/debug/hg
$ target/release/hg

You can also run the test harness with this binary:

$ ./run-tests.py --with-hg ../rust/target/debug/hg

Note

Integration with the test harness is still preliminary. Remember to cargo build after changes because the test harness doesn't yet automatically build Rust code.