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authorLibravatar Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>2019-04-29 09:18:56 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-05-07 13:48:42 +0900
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parentmidx: pass a repository pointer (diff)
downloadtgif-af96fe3392fb078cb5447bcb94f2ed8d79d0a4a8.tar.xz
midx: add packs to packed_git linked list
The multi-pack-index allows searching for objects across multiple packs using one object list. The original design gains many of these performance benefits by keeping the packs in the multi-pack-index out of the packed_git list. Unfortunately, this has one major drawback. If the multi-pack-index covers thousands of packs, and a command loads many of those packs, then we can hit the limit for open file descriptors. The close_one_pack() method is used to limit this resource, but it only looks at the packed_git list, and uses an LRU cache to prevent thrashing. Instead of complicating this close_one_pack() logic to include direct references to the multi-pack-index, simply add the packs opened by the multi-pack-index to the packed_git list. This immediately solves the file-descriptor limit problem, but requires some extra steps to avoid performance issues or other problems: 1. Create a multi_pack_index bit in the packed_git struct that is one if and only if the pack was loaded from a multi-pack-index. 2. Skip packs with the multi_pack_index bit when doing object lookups and abbreviations. These algorithms already check the multi-pack-index before the packed_git struct. This has a very small performance hit, as we need to walk more packed_git structs. This is acceptable, since these operations run binary search on the other packs, so this walk-and-ignore logic is very fast by comparison. 3. When closing a multi-pack-index file, do not close its packs, as those packs will be closed using close_all_packs(). In some cases, such as 'git repack', we run 'close_midx()' without also closing the packs, so we need to un-set the multi_pack_index bit in those packs. This is necessary, and caught by running t6501-freshen-objects.sh with GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=1. To manually test this change, I inserted trace2 logging into close_pack_fd() and set pack_max_fds to 10, then ran 'git rev-list --all --objects' on a copy of the Git repo with 300+ pack-files and a multi-pack-index. The logs verified the packs are closed as we read them beyond the file descriptor limit. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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