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Re: svn commit: r1590405 - in /subversion/trunk: build.conf subversion/include/private/svn_subr_private.h subversion/libsvn_repos/log.c subversion/libsvn_subr/bit_array.c

From: Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 12:26:13 +0400

On 5 May 2014 03:13, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrmann_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
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>> On 29 April 2014 17:54, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrmann_at_wandisco.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> eOn 27 April 2014 19:27, <stefan2_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> >> > Author: stefan2
>> >> > Date: Sun Apr 27 15:27:46 2014
>> >> > New Revision: 1590405
>> >> >
>> >> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1590405
>> >> > Log:
>> >> > More 'svn log -g' memory usage reduction. We use a hash to keep
>> >> > track
>> >> > of all revisions reported so far, i.e. easily a million.
>> >> >
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> > * Some system provided APR (1.5+ in particular) uses mmap
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>> > to allocate memory. I.e. for every block, e.g. 8k, there is a
>> > separate mmap call. The Linux default is 65530 (sic!) mmap
>> > regions per process. Slowly allocating pools can trigger OOM
>> > errors after only 512MB actual memory usage (sum across
>> > all threads). I already prepared a patch for that.
>> >
>> Ouch, I didn't know that. I was thinking that MMAP APR pool allocator
>> is experimental and is not enabled by default.
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> It is not enabled by default, I guess but the
> package responsible decided to enable it anyway.
>
Thanks for information.

>> >> > We introduce a simple packed bit array data structure to replace
>> >> > the hash. For repos < 100M revs, the initialization overhead is less
>> >> > than 1ms and will amortize as soon as more than 1% of all revs are
>> >> > reported.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> It may be worth implement the same trick like we done with
>> >> membuffer_cache: use array of bit arrays for every 100k of revisions
>> >> for example and initialize them lazy. I mean:
>> >> [0...99999] - bit array 0
>> >> [100000....199999] -- bit array 1
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> It should be easy to implement.
>> >
>> >
>> > I gave it a try and it turned out not too horribly complex.
>> > See r1590982.
>> Great!
>>
>> But it may be worth to keep original svn_bit_array and add new
>> svn_sparse_bit_array() with array of svn_bit_array() objects So things
>> will be separated in two micro layers.
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> I think the new implementation is flexible enough
> for a wide range of future usages. I'd prefer having
> a single implementation for now as it is simply less
> code that could break.
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Ok. It was just suggestion. Code looks great now.

-- 
Ivan Zhakov
CTO | VisualSVN | http://www.visualsvn.com
Received on 2014-05-05 10:27:09 CEST

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