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| author | Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> | 2025-12-29 18:47:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> | 2026-01-31 17:30:20 +0100 |
| commit | 1fbb857b6b2cbddcea9e8b03aa0c766c72e91f34 (patch) | |
| tree | 120116a10a15504e3776591c264aef5c1c31c356 /apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.h | |
| parent | 267fd0117a057afd88bc15bfb4f4d688804a9ab4 (diff) | |
solver3: Use classical watchers for propagation
Instead of tracking dependencies and reverse dependencies,
install classical watchers. This vastly streamlines the
propagation code and allows us to easily switch to literals
in the next step.
This implementation watches _all_ solutions rather than using
the modern 2-watched literals scheme or the intermediate
head/tail watchers.
Ultimately a more effective watcher scheme would be interesting
but not a significant priority seeing as most of the solver runtime
is spent not in propagation but in problem translation.
decision trees
--------------
The new watchers produce slightly different decision trees, sometimes
subtly changing solutions. Notably in various observed examples in
Ubuntu 25.04, courier was installed as an MTA instead of postfix:
The old decision tree was:
apcupsd:amd64 -> mailutils:amd64=1:3.18-1 -> mailutils:amd64 -> postfix:amd64=3.9.1-10ubuntu1
The new decision tree is:
lsb:amd64 -> lsb-core:amd64 -> courier-mta:amd64=1.3.13-1
The difference here being that lsb-core declares a mail-transport-agent
dependency whereas mailutils depends on `default-mta | mail-transport-agency`;
but both are effectively subject to selection at similar time.
Further work is needed to optimize selection. A notable choice may also
be to deal with broken packages like lsb-core that declare dependencies
solely on a virtual package by reconstructing the default provider for
that package utilizing default-* dependencies or similar notions.
Likewise in the test suite, explanations are different in some
uninstallable cases.
backtracking
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following major changes were observed in the 25.04 test suite:
-tmp/regression-remove/07f0a068-36c2-11f0-b7c1-fa163e171f02:18
+tmp/regression-remove/07f0a068-36c2-11f0-b7c1-fa163e171f02:3
-tmp/regression-remove/32078f70-3734-11f0-a75a-fa163ec8ca8c:64
+tmp/regression-remove/32078f70-3734-11f0-a75a-fa163ec8ca8c:19
Other test cases showed little deviation, +/- 1, generally
the same amount of backtracking.
performance
~~~~~~~~~~~
Running Ubuntu's regression test suite resulted in no significant
performance difference being observable.
Before: 290s user time; 16.66% solver
After: 299s user time; 17.36% solver
Tests where run with make -j 8 and solver performance extracted
perf report --symbol-filter=ResolveExternal --stdio
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