| Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author |
|---|
|
Downloading and storing are two different operations were different
compression types can be preferred. For downloading we provide the
choice via Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order as there is a choice to
be made between download size and speed – and limited by whats available
in the repository.
Storage on the other hand has all compressions currently supported by
apt available and to reduce runtime of tools accessing these files the
compression type should be a low-cost format in terms of decompression.
apt traditionally stores its indexes uncompressed on disk, but has
options to keep them compressed. Now that apt downloads additional files
we also deal with files which simply can't be stored uncompressed as
they are just too big (like Contents for apt-file). Traditionally they
are downloaded in a low-cost format (gz) as repositories do not provide
other formats, but there might be even lower-cost formats and for
download we could introduce higher-cost in the repositories.
Downloading an entire index potentially requires recompression to
another format, so an update takes potentially longer – but big files
are usually updated via pdiffs which has to de- and re-compress anyhow
and does it on the fly anyhow, so there is no extra time needed and in
general it seems to be benefitial to invest the time in update to save
time later on file access.
|
|
There is no reason to enforce that the file we start the bootstrap with
is compressed with a compressor which is available online. This allows
us to change the on-disk format as well as deals with repositories
adding/removing support for a specific compressor.
|
|
If we store files compressed in lists/ and the file switched compression
formats we happened to retain the "old" format, but by default the
cleanup process catched this oversight and removed the file.
[The initial situation described doesn't arise as we store no files by
default compressed and even with apt-file configuring Contents files, we
don't really have that problem as there is just .gz files for those.]
We solve this by just removing any uncompressed as well as compressed
(we support) file just before we move the 'new' version of the file in.
|
|
Adding a new compressor method meant adding a new method as well – even
if that boilt down to just linking to our generalized decompressor with
a new name. That is unneeded busywork if we can instead just call the
generalized decompressor and let it figure out which compressor to use
based on the filenames rather than by program name.
For compatibility we ship still 'gzip', 'bzip2' and co, but they are
just links to our "new" 'store' method.
|
|
Do not create strings within the loop, that creates one string
per language and does more work than needed. Instead, reserve
enough space at the beginning and assign the prefix, and then
resize and append inside the loop.
Also call exists with the string itself instead of the c_str(),
this means that the lookup uses the size information in the
string now and does not have to call strlen() on it.
|
|
It makes no sense to check if the value is empty, as it cannot
be. It will always be a hexstring of exactly 32 bytes.
|
|
Use the same path for both comparisons, as the operator== path
is faster than just calling compare() - it avoids any comparison
if the size differs.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Instead of storing a string -> map_stringitem_t mapping, create
our own data type that can point to either a normal string or
a string inside the cache.
This avoids the creation of any string and improves performance
slightly (about 4%).
|
|
This improves performance, as we now can ignore unequal strings
based on their length already.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
This removes some minor overhead.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Moving the string is likely faster than copying it. We could probably
avoid strings alltogether in the future using some more crazy code,
but I have not looked at that yet.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Thanks: Niels Thykier for reporting on IRC
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
This improves performance of the cache generation on my
ARM platform (4x Cortex A15) by about 10% to 20% from
2.35-2.50 to 2.1 seconds.
|
|
The class APT::StringView implements a drop-in replacement
for a subset of C++17 std::string_view() features. It will
be dropped at a later point and may not be used in public
interfaces.
|
|
The maximum parallelization soft limit is the number of CPU
cores * 2 on systems defining _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN. The hard
limit in all cases is Acquire::QueueHost::Limit.
|
|
This is a multiple of the page size and thus results in less
page faults, speeding up copying.
Also, while we're at at, unify all uses of that size in a
constant variable APT_BUFFER_SIZE.
|
|
Implement native support for LZ4 compression, using the official
lz4 library.
|
|
This drop the hash table utilization from a high 98%
to acceptable 74% on unstable, and the average bucket length
from 4.6 to 1.8.
This improves performance by about 5%, while increasing
the size of the cache by 0.2 out of 38MB, that is 0.5%.
48481 is a nice number
|
|
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
This will give us the freedom to insert more compressors at
positions in between.
Also change the cost of uncompressed to 0, as that really has
no overhead, and the values do not really mean much.
|
|
This makes code easier to read, and somewhat more correct.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
apt_preferences and deb822-style sources used the specialized class
pkgUserTagSection to deal with comments before/after a given stanza, but
it couldn't deal with comments in the stanza at all.
codesearch suggests that nobody else does and a vastely superior way of
working with potentially commented files is implemented now, so we can
officially discourage the use of the old incomplete hack class.
|
|
Now (55153bf94ff28a23318e79aa48242244c4d82b3c) that pkgTagFile can be
told to deal with all sorts of comments we can use this mode to parse
dsc (as by catch) and debian/control files properly even in the wake of
multiline fields spliced with comments like Build-Depends.
Closes: 806775
|
|
APT usually deals with perfectly formatted files generated automatically
be other programs – and as it has to parse multiple MBs of such files it
tries to be fast rather than forgiving.
This was always a problem if we reused this parser for files with a
deb822 syntax which are mostly written by hand however, like
apt_preferences or the deb822-style sources as these can include stray
newlines and more importantly comments all over the place.
As a stopgap we had pkgUserTagSection which deals at least with comments
before and after a given stanza, but comments in between weren't really
supported and now that we support parsing debian/control for e.g.
build-dep we face the full comment problem e.g. with comments inbetween
multi-line fields (like Build-Depends).
We can't easily deal with this on the pkgTagSection level as the interface
gives access to 'raw' char-pointers for performance reasons so we would
need to optionally add a buffer here on which we could remove comments
to hand out pointers into this buffer instead. The interface is quite
large already and supports writing stanzas as well, which does not
support comments at all either. So while in future it might make sense
to have a parser setup which deals with and keeps comments in this
commit we opt for the simpler solution for now: We officially declare
that pkgTagSection does not support comments and instead expect the
caller to deal with them, which in our case is pkgTagFile:
pkgTagFile is extended with an additional mode which can deal with
comments by dropping them from the buffer which will later form the
input of pkgTagSection. The actual implementation is slightly more
complex than this sentence suggests at first on one hand to have good
performance and on the other to allow jumping directly to stanzas with
offsets collected in a previous run (like our cache generation does it
for example).
|
|
Integrity is taken care of by the checksum now.
|
|
|
|
If we already have opened a cache, there is no point in having
to open it again.
|
|
We ignored the boundary of the buffer we were reading in
while scanning for spaces.
|
|
This shuts up gcc
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
To preserve compatibility, the new inline functions have _inline
as a suffix, and a macro defines the old names to refer to the
inline variants.
The old functions are still preserved for binary compatibility.
Also simplify the implementation of both functions.
|
|
On my testing system, consisting of unstable and experimental,
this reduces the average chain from 6.5 to 4.5, and the longest
chain from 17 to 15.
|
|
Previously, if flush errored inside the loop, data could have
already been written to the wrapped descriptor without having
been removed from the buffer.
Also try to work around EINTR here. A better solution might be
to have the individual privates detect an interrupt and return
0 in such a case, instead of relying on errno being untouched
in between the syscall and the return from InternalWrite.
|
|
Since commit 7a68effcb904b4424b54a30e448b6f2560cd1078, the xz
and lzma compressors read the level of compression they shall
use.
A default of -9 is too much for them, this will use 674 MB,
according to the xz manual page. Level -6 on the other hand
only needs 94 MB memory for compression.
This causes autopkgtest failures in the test-compressed-indexes
test, as not enough memory exists to proceed.
Change the other compression levels to 6 as well: The gzip
and bzip2 FileFd backends do not read them, and use their
code's default level which is 6, so do the same for external
methods.
|
|
This avoids some issues with InternalWrite returning 0 because
it just cannot write stuff at the moment.
|
|
Regression introduced in 8710a36a01c0cb1648926792c2ad05185535558e,
but such fields are unlikely in practice as it is just as simple to not
have a field at all with the same result of not having a value.
Closes: 808102
|
|
Debian has a Packages file for arch:all already, but the arch:any files
contain arch:all packages as well, so downloading it would be a total
waste of resources. Getting this solved is on the list of things to do,
but it is also the hardest part – for index targets like Contents the
situation is much easier and less server/client implementations are
involved so we might not want to stall them.
A repository can now declare via:
No-Support-for-Architecture-all: Packages
that even if an arch:all Packages exists, it shouldn't be downloaded, so
that support for Contents files can be added now.
See also 1dd20368486820efb6ef4476ad739e967174bec4 for the implementation
of downloading arch:all index targets, which this is limiting.
The field uses the name of the target from the apt configuration for
simplicity and is negative by design as this field is intended to be
supported/needed only for a "short" time (one or two Debian releases).
While this commit theoretically supports any target, its expected to
only see "Packages" as a value in reality.
|
|
This is for public users only, which cannot use the class at all,
except for the static methods.
|
|
This is somewhat experimental right now, and might not work
for everyone, so it is on an opt-in basis.
|
|
The flush function can be used for buffered writers.
|
|
We will soon implement a buffered writing decorator and we will
need to forward attribute changes to those.
|
|
These can be used to implement write buffering
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Suggested by David.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
Gbp-Dch: ignore
|
|
We do not see those branches at all during normal mode of
operation (that is, during cache generation), so tell the
compiler about it.
|
|
The Set() method returns false if the input is no hex number,
so simply use that.
|
|
We directly check if we are a hex digit in HexDigit, so use that
information.
[jak@debian.org: Commit message wording]
|
