The J2SE NIO APIs require that FileChannel close the underlying file
descriptor if a thread is interrupted while it is inside of a read or
write operation on that channel. This is insane, because it means we
cannot share the file descriptor between threads. If a thread is in
the middle of the FileChannel variant of IO.readFully() and it
receives an interrupt, the pack will be automatically closed on us.
This causes the other threads trying to use that same FileChannel to
receive IOExceptions, which leads to the pack getting marked as
invalid. Once the pack is marked invalid, JGit loses access to its
entire contents and starts to report MissingObjectExceptions.
Because PackWriter must ensure that the chosen pack file stays
available until the current object's data is fully copied to the
output, JGit cannot simply reopen the pack when its automatically
closed due to an interrupt being sent at the wrong time. The pack may
have been deleted by a concurrent `git gc` process, and that open file
descriptor might be the last reference to the inode on disk. Once its
closed, the PackWriter loses access to that object representation, and
it cannot complete sending the object the client.
Fortunately, RandomAccessFile's readFully method does not have this
problem. Interrupts during readFully() are ignored. However, it
requires us to first seek to the offset we need to read, then issue
the read call. This requires locking around the file descriptor to
prevent concurrent threads from moving the pointer before the read.
This reduces the concurrency level, as now only one window can be
paged in at a time from each pack. However, the WindowCache should
already be holding most of the pages required to handle the working
set for a process, and its own internal locking was already limiting
us on the number of concurrent loads possible. Provided that most
concurrent accesses are getting hits in the WindowCache, or are for
different repositories on the same server, we shouldn't see a major
performance hit due to the more serialized loading.
I would have preferred to use a pool of RandomAccessFiles for each
pack, with threads borrowing an instance dedicated to that thread
whenever they needed to page in a window. This would permit much
higher levels of concurrency by using multiple file descriptors (and
file pointers) for each pack. However the code became too complex to
develop in any reasonable period of time, so I've chosen to retrofit
the existing code with more serialization instead.
Bug: 308945
Change-Id: I2e6e11c6e5a105e5aef68871b66200fd725134c9
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce
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