Previously, SaveAndEncrypt would assemble blobs into packs and either
return immediately if the pack is not yet full or upload the pack file
otherwise. The upload will block the current goroutine until it
finishes.
Now, the upload is done using separate goroutines. This requires changes
to the error handling. As uploads are no longer tied to a SaveAndEncrypt
call, failed uploads are signaled using an errgroup.
To count the uploaded amount of data, the pack header overhead is no
longer returned by `packer.Finalize` but rather by
`packer.HeaderOverhead`. This helper method is necessary to continue
returning the pack header overhead directly to the responsible call to
`repository.SaveBlob`. Without the method this would not be possible,
as packs are finalized asynchronously.
This enables the backends to request the calculation of a
backend-specific hash. For the currently supported backends this will
always be MD5. The hash calculation happens as early as possible, for
pack files this is during assembly of the pack file. That way the hash
would even capture corruptions of the temporary pack file on disk.
The previous benchmark spent much of its time allocating RNGs and
generating too many random numbers. It now spends 90% of its time
hashing and half of the rest writing to files.
name old time/op new time/op delta
PackerManager-8 319ms ± 1% 247ms ± 1% -22.48% (p=0.000 n=20+18)
name old speed new speed delta
PackerManager-8 143MB/s ± 1% 213MB/s ± 1% +48.63% (p=0.000 n=10+18)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
PackerManager-8 635kB ± 0% 92kB ± 0% -85.48% (p=0.000 n=10+19)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
PackerManager-8 1.64k ± 0% 1.43k ± 0% -12.76% (p=0.000 n=10+20)
As mentioned in issue [#1560](https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1560#issuecomment-364689346)
this changes the signature for `backend.Save()`. It now takes a
parameter of interface type `RewindReader`, so that the backend
implementations or our `RetryBackend` middleware can reset the reader to
the beginning and then retry an upload operation.
The `RewindReader` interface also provides a `Length()` method, which is
used in the backend to get the size of the data to be saved. This
removes several ugly hacks we had to do to pull the size back out of the
`io.Reader` passed to `Save()` before. In the `s3` and `rest` backend
this is actively used.
The code now bundles tree blobs and data blobs into different pack
files, so we'll end up with pack files that either only contain data or
trees. This is in preparation to adding a cache (#1040), because
tree-only pack files can easily be cached later on.
