The sftp backend could be used as the source of a multi-thread copy -
each chunk of a download is read on its own connection - but not as the
destination, because it did not implement OpenWriterAt. Uploading a
single large file was therefore limited to one connection while
downloading the same file was not, capping upload throughput well below
the link speed on high latency connections.
This implements OpenWriterAt for the sftp backend using lib/filepool. A
small pool of open write handles, each backed by its own connection,
lets the core write the chunks of a large file concurrently over several
connections. The file is created and truncated once up front so every
chunk offset is valid before the concurrent writes start.
Multi-thread uploads are off by default and turned on with the new
--sftp-multithread-upload flag, since many sftp servers only accept
sequential writes and would fail large uploads otherwise. Even when
enabled they fall back to a single connection when
--sftp-disable-concurrent-writes is set (a server that can't take
out-of-order packets on one handle won't take several handles either) or
when --sftp-connections caps the pool (the per-file fan-out would
otherwise deadlock waiting on it).
The OpenSSH test server (TestSFTPOpenssh) enables
--sftp-multithread-upload so the feature is exercised in CI against a
real server.
Tested against OpenSSH: a single large upload over a high latency link
went from ~12 MB/s to ~90 MB/s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Splainte <r.wycke@hotmail.fr>
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