Replace std::filesystem::path with custom fs::relpath

std::filesystem::path is wrong for mergerfs's hot path:
- `branch->path / fusepath_` heap-allocates per FUSE op (3 allocs each
  on libstdc++; the SSO buffer is 15 bytes and any joined path exceeds it).
- The implicit `operator string_type()` adds another std::string when
  passing to `fs::*` wrappers that take `const std::string&`.
- Per-branch loops rebuild fullpath from scratch every iteration.

The new fs::relpath is a fixed 8192-byte (2 * PATH_MAX) inline buffer,
NUL-terminated, never heap-allocates. The rel data is anchored at offset
REL_OFFSET = 4096; the 4096 bytes before the anchor form the "prefix
area" so a long base/prefix can be written there in place via
set_prefix() without disturbing the rel. The remaining ~4096 bytes
after the rel are available for trailing append (filenames in
readdir-style loops, etc.).

set_prefix's cost is O(prefix size) -- only the actually-used bytes
are touched -- so the buffer size is a stack-footprint question, not a
hot-path cost. FUSE worker threads use the pthread default stack
(~8 MB on Linux); a 4-relpath frame in fuse_link/fuse_rename is 32 KB,
~0.4% of the stack budget.

The per-branch hot loop:

  fs::relpath fullpath = fusepath_;       // one copy of the rel
  for (auto branch : branches) {
    fullpath.set_prefix(branch->path);   // writes only [start, 4096)
    fs::syscall(fullpath);
  }

set_prefix only rewrites the prefix area; the rel stays anchored. A
cached _rel_size means no recomputation across iterations.

Microbenchmark (8 branches, 30-char fusepath, -O3, 4 M path builds):

  variant                                 ns/build   allocs/build
  --------------------------------------  --------   ------------
  origin/master (std::filesystem::path)   158        3.00
  fs::relpath assign_concat (single-shot) 9.1        0
  fs::relpath set_prefix (loop-optimized) 4.5        0

35x faster, zero allocations in the hot path.

Contract: paths flow through fs::relpath in canonical form -- prefix
without trailing '/', rel without leading '/'. No sanitization;
violations yield double slashes. Mergerfs satisfies this by
construction:
- libfuse's try_get_path() walks leaf-to-root via prepend(), then
  calls consolidate_to_rel(strip=true) which drops the leading '/'
  that prepend produces.
- branch paths are realpath-canonicalized at config load so they
  never have a trailing slash.

Mergerfs has exactly one path-manipulation type: a relative fusepath.
Branch paths and other absolute paths are stored as std::string -- they
are spliced into the prefix area of an fs::relpath at syscall time but
are never themselves mutated as path objects.

Major changes:
- vendored/libfuse/{include/fs_path.hpp,lib/fs_path.cpp}: new
  fs::relpath class (8 KB inline, REL anchor at 4096, set_prefix /
  clear_prefix / consolidate_to_rel, _rel_size cache, self-aliasing-
  safe assign_concat, sticky ENAMETOOLONG via errnum()).
- 30+ FUSE-op call sites converted from `fullpath = branch / fusepath`
  to the `set_prefix` loop pattern (fuse_unlink, fuse_chmod,
  fuse_chown, fuse_listxattr, fuse_truncate, fuse_utimens,
  fuse_setxattr, fuse_rmdir, fuse_removexattr, fuse_link's
  preserve-path and create-path loops, fuse_rename's create-path
  and preserve-path loops, fuse_statfs FULL mode, fs::findallfiles,
  fs::findonfs).
- fs::* syscall wrappers that previously only took
  `const std::string&` got `const char*` overloads so fs::relpath's
  implicit `operator const char*()` lands cleanly (fs::link,
  fs::lutimens, fs::umount_lazy, fs::open_dir_ro, fs::readlink,
  fs::lremovexattr, fs::lstatvfs, fs::info, fs::statvfs_cache).
- fs::exists gained a (fs::relpath&, basepath, ...) overload that
  calls set_prefix internally so per-branch policy fan-out loops
  share a single fullpath, rewriting only the prefix area on each
  iteration.
- All policies (epall, epff, eplfs, eplus, epmfs, eppfrd, ff, lup,
  msplfs, msplus, mspmfs, msppfrd, newest) refactored to hoist the
  fs::relpath fullpath construction out of the per-branch loop and
  use the set_prefix-based fs::exists overload.
- fs::inode::ReaddirCalc::_fusepath migrated from std::string to
  fs::relpath with the same resize/append API.
- std::filesystem removed entirely from the project: branches.cpp
  and option_parser.cpp's exists/is_directory/equivalent calls now
  use direct ::stat(); mergerfs_fsck.cpp's recursive_directory_iterator
  was replaced with an opendir-based walk.

Tests (tests/tests.cpp): 27 new fs::relpath test cases covering
construction, set_prefix in/out of REL anchor, prefix()/rel()
accessors, clear_prefix, concat canonical form, self-aliasing
(`p /= "x"`), operator/=, resize zero-fill, swap, copy/move,
equality, implicit conversions, lexically_relative, remove_filename,
_rel_size invariant across every mutator, capacity bounds.

Full suite: 213/213 pass.
This commit is contained in:
Antonio S. Musumeci 2026-05-17 13:40:53 -04:00
parent 7ec6f8e2f2
commit 947024914a
187 changed files with 3596 additions and 1510 deletions

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@ -289,11 +289,11 @@ fs::inode::get_algo(void)
return {};
}
fs::inode::ReaddirCalc::ReaddirCalc(const fs::path &branch_path_,
const fs::path &dirpath_)
fs::inode::ReaddirCalc::ReaddirCalc(const std::string &branch_path_,
const fs::relpath &dirpath_)
: _algo(::_algo_from_func(g_func.load())),
_branch_seed(::_branch_seed(branch_path_.native())),
_fusepath((dirpath_ / "__mergerfs__").native()),
_branch_seed(::_branch_seed(branch_path_)),
_fusepath(fs::relpath::concat(dirpath_,"__mergerfs__")),
_filename_offset(_fusepath.size() - std::string_view("__mergerfs__").size())
{
}
@ -337,23 +337,11 @@ fs::inode::ReaddirCalc::calc(const char *name_,
u64
fs::inode::calc(const std::string &branch_path_,
const std::string &fusepath_,
const mode_t mode_,
const ino_t ino_)
{
return g_func.load()(branch_path_,
fusepath_,
mode_,
ino_);
}
u64
fs::inode::calc(const fs::path &branch_path_,
const fs::path &fusepath_,
const fs::relpath &fusepath_,
const mode_t mode_,
const ino_t ino_)
{
return g_func.load()(branch_path_.native(),
return g_func.load()(branch_path_,
fusepath_.native(),
mode_,
ino_);
@ -361,18 +349,7 @@ fs::inode::calc(const fs::path &branch_path_,
void
fs::inode::calc(const std::string &branch_path_,
const std::string &fusepath_,
struct stat *st_)
{
st_->st_ino = calc(branch_path_,
fusepath_,
st_->st_mode,
st_->st_ino);
}
void
fs::inode::calc(const fs::path &branch_path_,
const fs::path &fusepath_,
const fs::relpath &fusepath_,
struct stat *st_)
{
st_->st_ino = calc(branch_path_,
@ -382,19 +359,8 @@ fs::inode::calc(const fs::path &branch_path_,
}
void
fs::inode::calc(const std::string &branch_path_,
const std::string &fusepath_,
struct fuse_statx *st_)
{
st_->ino = calc(branch_path_,
fusepath_,
st_->mode,
st_->ino);
}
void
fs::inode::calc(const fs::path &branch_path_,
const fs::path &fusepath_,
fs::inode::calc(const std::string &branch_path_,
const fs::relpath &fusepath_,
struct fuse_statx *st_)
{
st_->ino = calc(branch_path_,