runtests: add a function to test if IPv6 is available Previously, checkportisavailable returns True if the port is free either on IPv4 or IPv6, but the hg server only uses IPv4 by default. That leads to issues when IPv4 port is not free but the IPv6 one is. To address that, run-tests should stick with either IPv4 or IPv6. This patch adds a function similar to checkportisavailable to test if IPv6 is available, and assigns the result to a variable. The new function was tested in a Linux system script with the following steps: 1. Run "ip addr del ::1/128 dev lo" to delete lo's IPv6 address, Confirm checkipv6available() returns False. 2. Run "ip addr add ::1/128 dev lo" to add back lo's IPv6 address. Confirm checkipv6available() returns True. 3. Start a web server taking the 8000 port. Confirm checkipv6available(8000) is still True.

histedit: log the time taken to read in the commands list If we're being fed an external command list from stdin (histedit --commands -), then the time spent reading stdin is outside our control. Log it.

extdiff: log time spent in external diff program We can't fix the time external diff programs take to run. Log that duration for us to remove from any stats we gather

crecord: log blocked time waiting for curses input We want to know when we're blocked waiting for the user - log the time spent waiting in the curses keyboard handlers

ui: give editor() a tag of its own We know that calls to ui.editor() always block on the user's configured editor. Use a blocking tag that ensures that we don't see a huge variety of editor options in our logging.

ui: time calls to ui.system We want to know when we're blocked on ui.system, and why. Allow the user to supply a tag - otherwise we record on an unspecific tag derived from cmd.

ui: log time spent blocked on stdio We use a wrapper around Mercurial at Facebook that logs key statistics (like elpased time) to our standard performance tooling. This is less useful than it could be, because we currently can't tell when a command is slow because we need to fix Mercurial versus when a command is slow because the user isn't interacting quickly. Teach Mercurial to log the time it spends blocked, so that our tooling can pick it up and submit it with the elapsed time - we can then do the math in our tooling to see if Mercurial is slow, or if the user simply failed to interact. Combining this with the command duration log means that we can ensure that we concentrate performance efforts on the things that bite Facebook users. The perfwrite microbenchmark shifts from: Linux: ! wall 3.213560 comb 0.410000 user 0.350000 sys 0.060000 (best of 4) Mac: ! wall 0.342325 comb 0.180000 user 0.110000 sys 0.070000 (best of 20) before this change to: ! wall 3.478070 comb 0.500000 user 0.420000 sys 0.080000 (best of 3) Mac: ! wall 0.218112 comb 0.220000 user 0.150000 sys 0.070000 (best of 15) showing a small hit in comb time, but firmly in the noise on wall time.

contrib: add a write microbenchmark to perf.py I'm adding some performance logging to ui.write - this benchmark lets us confirm that the cost of that logging is acceptably low. At this point, the microbenchmark on Linux over SSH shows: ! wall 3.213560 comb 0.410000 user 0.350000 sys 0.060000 (best of 4) while on the Mac locally, it shows: ! wall 0.342325 comb 0.180000 user 0.110000 sys 0.070000 (best of 20)

ui: provide a mechanism to track and log blocked time We want to log the time Mercurial spends trapped in things outside programmatic control. Provide a mechanism to give us both command runtime and as many different sources of blocking as we deem useful.

mercurial: switch to util.timer for all interval timings util.timer is now the best available interval timer, at the expense of not having a known epoch. Let's use it whenever the epoch is irrelevant.