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2023-03-13 r/5990 refactor(tvix/eval): reduce fetch{forced|captured}_with visibilityAdam Joseph1-22/+22
This commit moves fetch_forced_with and fetch_captured_with into the scope of their only caller (resolve_with). Change-Id: I9a8bc27228888729d591e8cb021c431b2b6468f5 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8289 Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com> Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 r/5988 chore(tvix/eval): prune some dependencies & featuresVincent Ambo1-9/+0
* We no longer need backtrace-on-stack-overflow, as we no longer overflow the stack with the recent eval refactorings. This was weird voodoo anyways, introduced earlier to debug some cases where stack overflows occured. * default features of genawaiter crate are not needed, as we don't use their proc macros Change-Id: I346fc5a18d7f117ee805909a8be8f535b96be76c Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8263 Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
2023-03-13 r/5987 refactor(tvix/eval): reorder bytecode operations match by frequencyVincent Ambo1-265/+264
This reorders the operations in the VM's main `match` statement while evaluating bytecode according to the frequency with which these operations appear in some nixpkgs evaluations. I used raw data that looks like this: https://gist.github.com/tazjin/63d0788a78eb8575b04defaad4ef610d This has a small but noticeable impact on evaluation performance. No operations have changed in any way, this is purely moving code around. Change-Id: Iaa4ef4f0577e98144e8905fec88149c41e8c315c Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8262 Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz> Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 r/5984 refactor(tvix/eval): rename VM::tail_call_value -> VM::call_valueVincent Ambo1-3/+3
The name of this was not accurate anymore after all the recent shuffling, as noted by amjoseph. Conceptual tail calls here only occur for Nix bytecode calling Nix bytecode, but things like a builtin call actually push a new native frame. Change-Id: I1dea8c9663daf86482b8c7b5a23133254b5ca321 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8256 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
2023-03-13 r/5982 fix(tvix/eval): more closely line up path resolution with cppnixVincent Ambo1-1/+4
... except now the tests fail, but at least it works Change-Id: I05e86c173f40533ae65548585c1ddaa200ac5235 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8214 Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 r/5980 refactor(tvix/eval): VM struct no longer needs to be publicVincent Ambo1-1/+1
Change-Id: I93b485ddd280cc15fcbaecf4aed5fcd22e28a8a8 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8212 Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 r/5978 feat(tvix/eval): give generators human-readable namesVincent Ambo1-15/+29
This adds static strings to generator frames that describe the generator in a human-readable fashion, which are then logged in observers. This makes runtime traces very precise, explaining exactly what is being requested from where. Change-Id: I695659a6bd0b7b0bdee75bc8049651f62b150e0c Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8206 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
2023-03-13 r/5969 refactor(tvix/eval): box PathBufVincent Ambo1-2/+2
This shaves another 8 bytes off Value. How did that type get so big?! Change-Id: I65e9b59a1636bd57e3cc4aec5fea16887070b832 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8153 Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 r/5964 refactor(tvix/eval): flatten call stack of VM using generatorsVincent Ambo1-0/+1120
Warning: This is probably the biggest refactor in tvix-eval history, so far. This replaces all instances of trampolines and recursion during evaluation of the VM loop with generators. A generator is an asynchronous function that can be suspended to yield a message (in our case, vm::generators::GeneratorRequest) and receive a response (vm::generators::GeneratorResponsee). The `genawaiter` crate provides an interpreter for generators that can drive their execution and lets us move control flow between the VM and suspended generators. To do this, massive changes have occured basically everywhere in the code. On a high-level: 1. The VM is now organised around a frame stack. A frame is either a call frame (execution of Tvix bytecode) or a generator frame (a running or suspended generator). The VM has an outer loop that pops a frame off the frame stack, and then enters an inner loop either driving the execution of the bytecode or the execution of a generator. Both types of frames have several branches that can result in the frame re-enqueuing itself, and enqueuing some other work (in the form of a different frame) on top of itself. The VM will eventually resume the frame when everything "above" it has been suspended. In this way, the VM's new frame stack takes over much of the work that was previously achieved by recursion. 2. All methods previously taking a VM have been refactored into async functions that instead emit/receive generator messages for communication with the VM. Notably, this includes *all* builtins. This has had some other effects: - Some test have been removed or commented out, either because they tested code that was mostly already dead (nix_eq) or because they now require generator scaffolding which we do not have in place for tests (yet). - Because generator functions are technically async (though no async IO is involved), we lose the ability to use much of the Rust standard library e.g. in builtins. This has led to many algorithms being unrolled into iterative versions instead of iterator combinations, and things like sorting had to be implemented from scratch. - Many call sites that previously saw a `Result<..., ErrorKind>` bubble up now only see the result value, as the error handling is encapsulated within the generator loop. This reduces number of places inside of builtin implementations where error context can be attached to calls that can fail. Currently what we gain in this tradeoff is significantly more detailed span information (which we still need to bubble up, this commit does not change the error display). We'll need to do some analysis later of how useful the errors turn out to be and potentially introduce some methods for attaching context to a generator frame again. This change is very difficult to do in stages, as it is very much an "all or nothing" change that affects huge parts of the codebase. I've tried to isolate changes that can be isolated into the parent CLs of this one, but this change is still quite difficult to wrap one's mind and I'm available to discuss it and explain things to any reviewer. Fixes: b/238, b/237, b/251 and potentially others. Change-Id: I39244163ff5bbecd169fe7b274df19262b515699 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8104 Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz> Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI