The last of my patches is queued up to land, so I figured I’d post an update about the performance improvements I’ve been working on. I’m also just excited about how well it has all come together.
There were essentially 3 changes that mattered for performance on large trees.
- Fixing iter_entries_by_dir() to preload the data in Repository- optimal ordering rather than by-request ordering. In large trees this was causing us to thrash and become pathologically slow. In the 70,000-file test tree, thrashing took about 3 minutes, the preloading version takes about 15s. This affected a lot of our commands, though I guess the next two fixes would actually reduce the number of commands affected by this.
- Fixing several code paths to use optimized iter_changes() rather than the generic iter_changes(). The generic path walks both inventories iter_entries_by_dir() and compares them. Our 2a format Repository can do iter_changes without loading the whole tree. (It internally uses a hash_trie to store the inventory, and so nodes with matching sub-trees can be skipped for comparison.) This generally shows up as something that was taking 15s (to load the whole inventory) dropping to <2s for the improved comparison. (bzr revert and bzr pull were both directly impacted here)
- Changing WT.set_parent_trees([one_tree]) to update itself using current_basis.iter_changes(one_tree), rather than setting the state from scratch. This basically adds another case where we can avoid reading the whole inventory state again, which is another 15s to <2s sort of change. This only showed up after fixing (2), because once the tree is loaded, the other actions are generally pretty quick. (bzr up, bzr pull)
This is the chart I put together for “whats-new-in-2.4.txt”. bzr-2.3.2 will have fix (1), but not (2) or (3), to give a feel for how much of an impact different fixes have had.
bzr-2.3.1 bzr-2.3.2 bzr-2.4 action 3m39s 1m08s 1m03s bzr co --lightweight 38s 8s 2s bzr revert (in a clean tree) 4m47s 3m56s 15s bzr merge 4m45s 20s 3s bzr pull 4m58s 3m00s 2s bzr up 9m33s 21s 19s bzr uncommit (including a merge) 4m44s 17s 2s bzr uncommit (simple commit)
So yes, some operations that were taking almost 5 minutes have now dropped down to taking <3s.
You won’t see that dramatic of an improvement for smaller trees, though most cases will have a pleasant improvement. Here is a short list for the ‘Launchpad‘ tree (with ~8k items).
bzr-2.3.1 bzr-2.4 action 5.3s 5.2s bzr co --lightweight 0.9s 0.3s bzr revert 1.4s 0.4s bzr pull 3.9s 3.7s bzr uncommit (with merge) 0.9s 0.3s bzr uncommit (without merge)
Anyway, I’m quite happy about how much better bzr-2.4 will be in large trees.
update:Add graphs…