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Re: Performance branch ready for review

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:14:12 +0200

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Stefan Fuhrmann
<stefanfuhrmann_at_alice-dsl.de> wrote:
> Johan Corveleyn wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Fuhrmann
>> <stefanfuhrmann_at_alice-dsl.de> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi @all,
>>>
>>> I just finished my porting work; the performance branch
>>> is now fully synchronized with my prototype code.
>>> From my point of view, review can start now.
>>>
>>> According to my measurements, the code is now faster
>>> than the original prototype. Large caches provided, a
>>> single multi-threaded svnserve instance on a modern
>>> quad-core machine should be able to saturate a 10Gb
>>> server connection.
>>>
>>> Open issues / things still to do
>>>
>>> * there is an issue with "log" triggering an assertion()
>>>  -> I will investigate that next
>>> * test mod_web_dav and add FSFS cache configuration
>>>  parameters to it
>>> * tune membuffer cache eviction strategy such that even
>>>  small caches can have a large impact
>>> * add tests for the new APIs
>>> * provide APR patches.
>>>
>>> There are many things I would like to do but they may
>>> better be deferred to 1.8.
>>>
>>
>> I tried compiling your branch on Windows (XP) with Visual C++ Express
>> 2008 (which I also use successfully to build trunk). I had a couple of
>> issues. FWIW I'm listing them here. I'm not an expert, just
>> pragmatically trying to get the thing to build, so some of these
>> things may be "user error". Eventually, I was able to build svn.exe,
>> but svnadmin.exe and svnserve.exe still fail for me.
>>
>> 1) In build.conf, I added private\svn_temp_serializer.h and
>> private\svn_file_handle_cache.h to the list of msvc-export of
>> libsvn_subr. Otherwise, the linker gave problems:
>>
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(fs_fs.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_file_handle_cache__has_file referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__path_rev_absolute
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(fs_fs.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_stream__from_cached_file_handle referenced in function
>> _get_node_revision_body
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(fs_fs.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_file_handle_cache__open referenced in function
>> _get_node_revision_body
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(fs_fs.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_file_handle_cache__get_apr_handle referenced in function
>> _open_pack_or_rev_file
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(fs_fs.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_file_handle_cache__flush referenced in function
>> _sync_file_handle_cache
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(fs_fs.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_file_handle_cache__close referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__rev_get_root
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(caching.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_file_handle_cache__create_cache referenced in function
>> _get_global_file_handle_cache
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(id.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> _svn_temp_serializer__pop referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__id_serialize
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(temp_serializer.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved
>> external symbol _svn_temp_serializer__pop
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(id.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> _svn_temp_serializer__push referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__id_serialize
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(temp_serializer.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved
>> external symbol _svn_temp_serializer__push
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(id.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> _svn_temp_serializer__add_string referenced in function
>> _serialize_id_private
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(temp_serializer.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved
>> external symbol _svn_temp_serializer__add_string
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(dag.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_temp_serializer__add_string
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(id.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> _svn_temp_deserializer__resolve referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__id_deserialize
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(temp_serializer.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved
>> external symbol _svn_temp_deserializer__resolve
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(dag.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_temp_deserializer__resolve
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(temp_serializer.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved
>> external symbol _svn_temp_serializer__get referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__serialize_txdelta_window
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(dag.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_temp_serializer__get
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(temp_serializer.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved
>> external symbol _svn_temp_serializer__init referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__serialize_txdelta_window
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(dag.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_temp_serializer__init
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(temp_serializer.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved
>> external symbol _svn_temp_deserializer__ptr referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__extract_dir_entry
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(dag.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_temp_serializer__set_null referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__dag_serialize
>> ..\..\..\Debug\subversion\libsvn_fs\libsvn_fs-1.dll : fatal error
>> LNK1120: 15 unresolved externals
>>
>> Here's a patch that solves this for me:
>> [[[
>> Index: build.conf
>> ===================================================================
>> --- build.conf  (revision 986928)
>> +++ build.conf  (working copy)
>> @@ -322,6 +322,7 @@
>>         private\svn_opt_private.h private\svn_skel.h private\svn_sqlite.h
>>         private\svn_utf_private.h private\svn_eol_private.h
>>         private\svn_token.h
>> +        private\svn_temp_serializer.h private\svn_file_handle_cache.h
>>
>>  # Working copy management lib
>>  [libsvn_wc]
>> ]]]
>>
>
> Committed as r987875.
>>
>> 2) The NULL in svn_temp_serializer__set_NULL in svn_temp_serializer_h
>> also gave the linker a hard time:
>>
>> libsvn_fs_fs-1.lib(dag.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
>> symbol _svn_temp_serializer__set_NULL referenced in function
>> _svn_fs_fs__dag_serialize
>> ..\..\..\Debug\subversion\libsvn_fs\libsvn_fs-1.dll : fatal error
>> LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
>>
>> Changing the NULL to null (and updating callers) fixed that.
>>
>
> Committed as r987872.
>>
>> 3) In function store_current_end_pointer in svn_temp_serializer_c,
>> target_ptr needs to be declared before the statements.
>>
>>
>> 4) In temp_serializer.c, some of the sizeof statements gave problems for
>> me:
>>
>> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_fs_fs\temp_serializer.c(274): error C2057:
>> expected constant expression
>> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_fs_fs\temp_serializer.c(274): error C2466:
>> cannot allocate an array of constant size 0
>> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_fs_fs\temp_serializer.c(274): warning
>> C4034: sizeof returns 0
>> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_fs_fs\temp_serializer.c(424): error C2057:
>> expected constant expression
>> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_fs_fs\temp_serializer.c(424): error C2466:
>> cannot allocate an array of constant size 0
>> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_fs_fs\temp_serializer.c(424): warning
>> C4034: sizeof returns 0
>>
>> I changed them as follows (not sure if this is correct, but this compiles
>> ok):
>> [[[
>> Index: subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/temp_serializer.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/temp_serializer.c   (revision 986928)
>> +++ subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/temp_serializer.c   (working copy)
>> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
>>
>>   /* calculate sizes */
>>   apr_size_t count = apr_hash_count(entries);
>> -  apr_size_t entries_len = sizeof(svn_fs_dirent_t*[count]);
>> +  apr_size_t entries_len = sizeof(svn_fs_dirent_t*) * count;
>>
>>   /* copy the hash entries to an auxilliary struct of known layout */
>>   hash_data.count = count;
>> @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@
>>   /* the ops form a simple chunk of memory with no further references */
>>   svn_temp_serializer__push(context,
>>                             (const void * const *)ops,
>> -                            sizeof(svn_txdelta_op_t[count]));
>> +                            sizeof(svn_txdelta_op_t) * count);
>>   svn_temp_serializer__pop(context);
>>  }
>>
>> ]]]
>>
>>
>
> I think your patch would work in almost all real-world applications.
> As I understand it, however, sizeof(T) is not the same as sizeof(T[1])
> if T is not of a naturally aligning size. The size of svn_txdelta_op_t, for
> instance is not necessarily a multiple of 16. If the compiler is instructed
> to align data to 16 byte boundaries, the difference becomes important.
>
> Fixed in r987869.
>>
>> 5) Got the following error from mod_dav_svn/repos.c:
>> ..\..\..\subversion\mod_dav_svn\repos.c(1522): error C4013:
>> 'svn_ctype_isspace' undefined; assuming extern returning int
>>
>> Adding an #include "svn_ctype.h" fixed that, but I'm not too sure if
>> that's ok.
>>
>>
>
> Committed as r987893.
>>
>> After these changes, I can get svn.exe to build. For svnadmin and
>> svnserve, I still get linker errors like:
>>
>> main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> _svn_fs_fs__set_cache_config referenced in function _main
>> main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> _svn_fs_fs__get_cache_config referenced in function _main
>> ..\..\..\Debug\subversion\svnadmin\svnadmin.exe : fatal error LNK1120:
>> 2 unresolved externals
>>
>>
>> I haven't been able to resolve these ...
>>
>
> Fixed in r987886.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> -- Stefan^2.
>

Ok, cool. Now it all builds correctly. I'll give it a spin :-).

Cheers,

-- 
Johan
Received on 2010-08-23 09:14:55 CEST

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