[PATCH 1 of 2] eol: do not wait on lack when writing cache

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Thu Oct 13 11:28:02 EDT 2016


On 10/13/2016 05:07 PM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>
>
> On 10/13/2016 03:21 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>> On 10/13/2016 01:53 PM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org>
>>> # Date 1476359131 -7200
>>> #      Thu Oct 13 13:45:31 2016 +0200
>>> # Node ID 88cc944830d0c1895e527d6ca13687f1d5e1c785
>>> # Parent  747e546c561fbf34d07cd30013eaf42b0190bb3b
>>> eol: do not wait on lack when writing cache
>>>
>>> The cache writing process is properly catching and handling the case
>>> where the
>>> lock is unavailable. However, it fails to specify the lock can failed
>>> to be
>>> acquired when requesting it. This is now fixed.
>>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> *If* the user has write access to the repo and *could* lock the repo,
>> then it seems reasonable that it waits for the lock and does the right
>> thing. It would be unfortunate to bail out early and happily continue to
>> expose the less optimal state that read only users might have to deal 
>> with.
>
> The change introduced by this changeset make the cache in line with 
> how most of other cache works in Mercurial. 

A part of the problem here might be that it is unclear to me what 
happens with wait=False. I don't remember the details: will it continue 
without locking or will it raise? It would be nice to get that clarified 
in the localrepo docstrings.

Also, this "cache" is not so much a "store values so we don't have to 
compute them again" cache. It is more about recording how .hgeol looked 
like when file content from the repo was "cached" in the working 
directory. Without this, we have to invalidate the dirstate more often.

> The lock don't really have time out so simple read only command could 
> hold themself forever if make this call blocking. 

Why not "really"? There is the 10 minutes timeout?

> Given than eol is probably not going to be user on pulling

Sorry, I don't understand that sentence.

/Mads


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