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task #4755: BT: support for partial download

Submitted by:  jave <jave>
Submitted on:  Fri 07 Oct 2005 01:11:40 PM UTC  
Votes:  334  
 
Category: Bittorrent-PluginPriority: 1 - Later
Status: NoneAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: OpenShould Start On: Fri 07 Oct 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC
Should be Finished on: Fri 07 Oct 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC

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 Spam posted by dimon1
Sun 16 Dec 2007 11:40:30 AM UTC, comment #14:

so.. noone working on this i suppose?

Anton Romanov <theli>
Mon 18 Jun 2007 07:17:16 AM UTC, comment #13:

this patch is broken after patch #6005

unease <unease>
Thu 14 Jun 2007 08:27:37 AM UTC, comment #12:

hi I tested this patch (waiting for this so long)... but it seems priorities gone after mlnet kill... And also If I have some time I would like to make some cosmetic HTML corrections to this patch... Should I wait for apply ? or can I change now ?

unease <unease>
Sun 27 Aug 2006 02:48:41 PM UTC, comment #11:

Minimally updated for CVS.

With WIP10 commited to CVS, I hope I didn't forget anything :/

pango <mlpango>
Project Member
Wed 28 Jun 2006 10:35:23 PM UTC, comment #10:

Updated for CVS (minimal update, I hope everything's alright)

pango <mlpango>
Project Member
Sun 11 Jun 2006 11:49:42 AM UTC, comment #9:

Updated for current CVS HEAD

pango <mlpango>
Project Member
Wed 07 Jun 2006 08:46:29 AM UTC, comment #8:

Updated for current CVS

pango <mlpango>
Project Member
Sat 27 May 2006 07:52:21 AM UTC, comment #7:

pango has updated the prio patch for wip4a, which is now in CVS.
This means the prio patch now applies over plain cvs.

This version also adds logic to make the priority bitmap be
recalculated on "merge" commands.

Note that prio '0' blocks will never download, but lower prio blocks
MIGHT download before higher prio blocks, if no lower prio blocks were
available at the time of block selection.

Also note that the UI will definitively change, probably in way to be
compatible with main file priorities.

The current patch has only recevied light testing.

jave <jave>
Project Member
Fri 12 May 2006 11:36:17 AM UTC, comment #6:

v8 should apply to wip3e'.
It is also more efficient, because the linear scan is avoided.

jave <jave>
Project Member
Thu 20 Apr 2006 01:57:27 PM UTC, comment #5:

This 6th version of the prio patch supports:
- setting of priority on individual blocks
- setting of priorities on subfiles in a multifile torrent
- better view of subfile download progress

I renamed the commands:
debug_set_download_prio - for blocks
debug_get_download_prio - return block prio and download status
debug_set_subfile_prio - operate on subfile level instead

Please read the help strings for the commands for details.

You must apply pango:s WIP3C patch before! WIP3C contains an important
bugfix in commonswarming, and the prio patch wont work without it.
(this is of course true only until WIP3C is applied to cvs)

the prio patch is furthermore tested with the "multiuser" patch, but
probably works withouth it as well.

there are some currently known problems:
- if you "merge" 2 downloads, the priority system will most probably
crash

- block priorities doesnt survive core restarts

- a file is commited as soon as all non-zero prio blocks are
downloaded. This means that its possible for junk to be commited. You
are expected to know about this and remove junk files yourself. I'm
not sure I'm interested in "fixing" this, since there are no good
solutions in the general case.

Also, the implementation isnt the most efficient, but in practice it
doesnt seem to affect performance much for me at least. (there is a
linear block scan to determine if a block should be downloaded or not)

Furthermore the previous "download first" code, which hardcoded high
priorities for the first and last blocks of a file is removed by this
patch.

you can recreate the behaviour by setting higher prios for those
blocks with the commands.

Finally a warning: its not obvious to me that its good for the
networks and/or your average download speed to mess with block
priorities. Is it, for instance "fair" to download a single file of a
multifile torrent and then jump out?

In practice it appears to work well though.

jave <jave>
Project Member
Wed 12 Apr 2006 07:12:37 PM UTC, comment #4:

better bt subfile view support

jave <jave>
Project Member
Mon 10 Apr 2006 12:01:37 PM UTC, comment #3:

new patch applies to plain cvs as of today

jave <jave>
Project Member
Sun 09 Apr 2006 09:19:16 PM UTC, comment #2:

this 1st version of the patch is already usable in a primitive way.

for instance:

dllink lalala.torrent
(gets id 528)

debug_set_download_priorities 528 666666666666666666655555555555555555555555555555555554444444444444444444444444444444433333333333333333333333333333333333222222222222222222222222222222222221111111111111111111111111111111111

(the long string matches the chunk bitmap you see with "vd 528" in
telnet interface. the numbers are priorities. 6 will go before 5
etc. 0 wont download at all)

i tried a couple of files and it seems to work nicely. good for
listening to mp3:s while they are dowloading.

currently you have to figure out which chunks correspond to a certain
file in a bt multipart if thats what you want to do.

jave <jave>
Project Member
Thu 06 Apr 2006 09:51:59 AM UTC, comment #1:

same as #4851

jave <jave>
Project Member
Fri 07 Oct 2005 01:11:40 PM UTC, original submission:

heres a little implementation plan:

- get all chunks for a file from its "swarmer" see chunk status
printing

- add "want to download" chunk list to swarmer, add it to chunk
download prioritizing logic, never ask for unintersting chunks.

- since we newer download unwanted chunks, we wil not faultily claim we have them to peers either

- when chunks are downloaded they ought to wind up in their correct file as usual. space will be wasted during download, because ill keep
space for all files anyway, and chunks spanning file boundaries will
go into the unwanted files. this is no big deal i think. and its good
if we change our mind of which files to download while downloading.

- make a command that sets the "want to download" chunk list given a
partial file id, something like:

want_partial_file A B C
where A is themain download id number , B is the sub-file number, and
C is the true/false if we want the file or not.

jave <jave>
Project Member

 

Attached Files
file #13094:  prio15.patch added by spiralvoice (16kB - text/x-diff - updated for current CVS)
file #12948:  prio14.patch added by spiralvoice (15kB - text/x-diff - updated for MLDonkey 2.8.7)
file #10604:  prio13.patch added by mlpango (15kB - text/x-patch)
file #10265:  prio12.patch added by mlpango (15kB - text/x-patch)
file #10161:  prio11.patch added by mlpango (15kB - text/x-patch)
file #10137:  prio10.patch added by mlpango (14kB - text/x-patch)
file #10062:  prio9.patch added by jave (13kB - application/octet-stream)
file #9947:  prio8.patch added by jave (11kB - application/octet-stream)
file #9808:  prio_6.patch added by jave (11kB - application/octet-stream)
file #9772:  prio_4.patch added by jave (8kB - application/octet-stream)
file #9768:  prio_3.patch added by jave (8kB - application/octet-stream)
file #9753:  prio_2.patch added by jave (6kB - application/octet-stream)
file #9749:  prio.patch added by jave (5kB - application/octet-stream)

 

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