borg/scripts/hash_sizes.py

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"""
Compute hashtable sizes with nices properties
- prime sizes (for small to medium sizes)
- 2 prime-factor sizes (for big sizes)
- fast growth for small sizes
- slow growth for big sizes
Note:
this is just a tool for developers.
within borgbackup, it is just used to generate hash_sizes definition for _hashindex.c.
"""
from collections import namedtuple
K, M, G = 2**10, 2**20, 2**30
# hash table size (in number of buckets)
start, end_p1, end_p2 = 1 * K, 127 * M, 2 * G - 10 * M # stay well below 2^31 - 1
Policy = namedtuple("Policy", "upto grow")
policies = [
# which growth factor to use when growing a hashtable of size < upto
# grow fast (*2.0) at the start so we do not have to resize too often (expensive).
# grow slow (*1.1) for huge hash tables (do not jump too much in memory usage)
Policy(256*K, 2.0),
Policy(2*M, 1.7),
Policy(16*M, 1.4),
Policy(128*M, 1.2),
Policy(2*G-1, 1.1),
]
# slightly modified version of:
# http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/python/excerpt/pythonckbk_chap1/index1.html?page=2
def eratosthenes():
"""Yields the sequence of prime numbers via the Sieve of Eratosthenes."""
D = {} # map each composite integer to its first-found prime factor
q = 2 # q gets 2, 3, 4, 5, ... ad infinitum
while True:
p = D.pop(q, None)
if p is None:
# q not a key in D, so q is prime, therefore, yield it
yield q
# mark q squared as not-prime (with q as first-found prime factor)
D[q * q] = q
else:
# let x <- smallest (N*p)+q which wasn't yet known to be composite
# we just learned x is composite, with p first-found prime factor,
# since p is the first-found prime factor of q -- find and mark it
x = p + q
while x in D:
x += p
D[x] = p
q += 1
def two_prime_factors(pfix=65537):
"""Yields numbers with 2 prime factors pfix and p."""
for p in eratosthenes():
yield pfix * p
def get_grow_factor(size):
for p in policies:
if size < p.upto:
return p.grow
def find_bigger_prime(gen, i):
while True:
p = next(gen)
if p >= i:
return p
def main():
sizes = []
i = start
gen = eratosthenes()
while i < end_p1:
grow_factor = get_grow_factor(i)
p = find_bigger_prime(gen, i)
sizes.append(p)
i = int(i * grow_factor)
gen = two_prime_factors() # for lower ram consumption
while i < end_p2:
grow_factor = get_grow_factor(i)
p = find_bigger_prime(gen, i)
sizes.append(p)
i = int(i * grow_factor)
print("""\
static int hash_sizes[] = {
%s
};
""" % ', '.join(str(size) for size in sizes))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()