lix/src/libstore/misc.cc
Eelco Dolstra 11800e6198 download-from-binary-cache: parallelise fetching of NAR info files
Getting substitute information using the binary cache substituter has
non-trivial latency overhead.  A package or NixOS system configuration
can have hundreds of dependencies, and in the worst case (when the
local info cache is empty) we have to do a separate HTTP request for
each of these.  If the ping time to the server is t, getting N info
files will take tN seconds; e.g., with a ping time of 0.1s to
nixos.org, sequentially downloading 1000 info files (a typical NixOS
config) will take at least 100 seconds.

To fix this problem, the binary cache substituter can now perform
requests in parallel.  This required changing the substituter
interface to support a function querySubstitutablePathInfos() that
queries multiple paths at the same time, and rewriting queryMissing()
to take advantage of parallelism.  (Due to local caching,
parallelising queryMissing() is sufficient for most use cases, since
it's almost always called before building a derivation and thus fills
the local info cache.)

For example, parallelism speeds up querying all 1056 paths in a
particular NixOS system configuration from 116s to 2.6s.  It works so
well because the eccentricity of the top-level derivation in the
dependency graph is only 9.  So we only need 10 round-trips (when
using an unlimited number of parallel connections) to get everything.

Currently we do a maximum of 150 parallel connections to the server.
Thus it's important that the binary cache server (e.g. nixos.org) has
a high connection limit.  Alternatively we could use HTTP pipelining,
but WWW::Curl doesn't support it and libcurl has a hard-coded limit of
5 requests per pipeline.
2012-07-06 19:08:20 -04:00

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#include "misc.hh"
#include "store-api.hh"
#include "local-store.hh"
#include "globals.hh"
namespace nix {
Derivation derivationFromPath(StoreAPI & store, const Path & drvPath)
{
assertStorePath(drvPath);
store.ensurePath(drvPath);
return parseDerivation(readFile(drvPath));
}
void computeFSClosure(StoreAPI & store, const Path & storePath,
PathSet & paths, bool flipDirection, bool includeOutputs)
{
if (paths.find(storePath) != paths.end()) return;
paths.insert(storePath);
PathSet references;
if (flipDirection)
store.queryReferrers(storePath, references);
else
store.queryReferences(storePath, references);
if (includeOutputs && isDerivation(storePath)) {
PathSet outputs = store.queryDerivationOutputs(storePath);
foreach (PathSet::iterator, i, outputs)
if (store.isValidPath(*i))
computeFSClosure(store, *i, paths, flipDirection, true);
}
foreach (PathSet::iterator, i, references)
computeFSClosure(store, *i, paths, flipDirection, includeOutputs);
}
Path findOutput(const Derivation & drv, string id)
{
foreach (DerivationOutputs::const_iterator, i, drv.outputs)
if (i->first == id) return i->second.path;
throw Error(format("derivation has no output `%1%'") % id);
}
void queryMissing(StoreAPI & store, const PathSet & targets,
PathSet & willBuild, PathSet & willSubstitute, PathSet & unknown,
unsigned long long & downloadSize, unsigned long long & narSize)
{
downloadSize = narSize = 0;
PathSet todo(targets.begin(), targets.end()), done;
bool useSubstitutes = queryBoolSetting("build-use-substitutes", true);
/* Getting substitute info has high latency when using the binary
cache substituter. Thus it's essential to do substitute
queries in parallel as much as possible. To accomplish this
we do the following:
- For all paths still to be processed (todo), we add all
paths for which we need info to the set query. For an
unbuilt derivation this is the output paths; otherwise, it's
the path itself.
- We get info about all paths in query in parallel.
- We process the results and add new items to todo if
necessary. E.g. if a path is substitutable, then we need to
get info on its references.
- Repeat until todo is empty.
*/
while (!todo.empty()) {
PathSet query, todoDrv, todoNonDrv;
foreach (PathSet::iterator, i, todo) {
if (done.find(*i) != done.end()) continue;
done.insert(*i);
if (isDerivation(*i)) {
if (!store.isValidPath(*i)) {
// FIXME: we could try to substitute p.
unknown.insert(*i);
continue;
}
Derivation drv = derivationFromPath(store, *i);
PathSet invalid;
foreach (DerivationOutputs::iterator, j, drv.outputs)
if (!store.isValidPath(j->second.path)) invalid.insert(j->second.path);
if (invalid.empty()) continue;
todoDrv.insert(*i);
if (useSubstitutes) query.insert(invalid.begin(), invalid.end());
}
else {
if (store.isValidPath(*i)) continue;
query.insert(*i);
todoNonDrv.insert(*i);
}
}
todo.clear();
SubstitutablePathInfos infos;
store.querySubstitutablePathInfos(query, infos);
foreach (PathSet::iterator, i, todoDrv) {
// FIXME: cache this
Derivation drv = derivationFromPath(store, *i);
bool mustBuild = false;
if (useSubstitutes) {
foreach (DerivationOutputs::iterator, j, drv.outputs)
if (!store.isValidPath(j->second.path) &&
infos.find(j->second.path) == infos.end())
mustBuild = true;
} else
mustBuild = true;
if (mustBuild) {
willBuild.insert(*i);
todo.insert(drv.inputSrcs.begin(), drv.inputSrcs.end());
foreach (DerivationInputs::iterator, i, drv.inputDrvs)
todo.insert(i->first);
} else
foreach (DerivationOutputs::iterator, i, drv.outputs)
todoNonDrv.insert(i->second.path);
}
foreach (PathSet::iterator, i, todoNonDrv) {
done.insert(*i);
SubstitutablePathInfos::iterator info = infos.find(*i);
if (info != infos.end()) {
willSubstitute.insert(*i);
downloadSize += info->second.downloadSize;
narSize += info->second.narSize;
todo.insert(info->second.references.begin(), info->second.references.end());
} else
unknown.insert(*i);
}
}
}
static void dfsVisit(StoreAPI & store, const PathSet & paths,
const Path & path, PathSet & visited, Paths & sorted,
PathSet & parents)
{
if (parents.find(path) != parents.end())
throw BuildError(format("cycle detected in the references of `%1%'") % path);
if (visited.find(path) != visited.end()) return;
visited.insert(path);
parents.insert(path);
PathSet references;
if (store.isValidPath(path))
store.queryReferences(path, references);
foreach (PathSet::iterator, i, references)
/* Don't traverse into paths that don't exist. That can
happen due to substitutes for non-existent paths. */
if (*i != path && paths.find(*i) != paths.end())
dfsVisit(store, paths, *i, visited, sorted, parents);
sorted.push_front(path);
parents.erase(path);
}
Paths topoSortPaths(StoreAPI & store, const PathSet & paths)
{
Paths sorted;
PathSet visited, parents;
foreach (PathSet::const_iterator, i, paths)
dfsVisit(store, paths, *i, visited, sorted, parents);
return sorted;
}
}