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author | Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com> | 2018-07-02 19:49:31 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-07-03 10:58:27 -0700 |
commit | a849735bfbf159b98ead9ef4c843dc8acfd372f0 (patch) | |
tree | 87f3feb6196924ee4522e076eedaff9037efafd2 /diffcore-break.c | |
parent | read-cache: teach make_cache_entry to take object_id (diff) | |
download | tgif-a849735bfbf159b98ead9ef4c843dc8acfd372f0.tar.xz |
block alloc: add lifecycle APIs for cache_entry structs
It has been observed that the time spent loading an index with a large
number of entries is partly dominated by malloc() calls. This change
is in preparation for using memory pools to reduce the number of
malloc() calls made to allocate cahce entries when loading an index.
Add an API to allocate and discard cache entries, abstracting the
details of managing the memory backing the cache entries. This commit
does actually change how memory is managed - this will be done in a
later commit in the series.
This change makes the distinction between cache entries that are
associated with an index and cache entries that are not associated with
an index. A main use of cache entries is with an index, and we can
optimize the memory management around this. We still have other cases
where a cache entry is not persisted with an index, and so we need to
handle the "transient" use case as well.
To keep the congnitive overhead of managing the cache entries, there
will only be a single discard function. This means there must be enough
information kept with the cache entry so that we know how to discard
them.
A summary of the main functions in the API is:
make_cache_entry: create cache entry for use in an index. Uses specified
parameters to populate cache_entry fields.
make_empty_cache_entry: Create an empty cache entry for use in an index.
Returns cache entry with empty fields.
make_transient_cache_entry: create cache entry that is not used in an
index. Uses specified parameters to populate
cache_entry fields.
make_empty_transient_cache_entry: create cache entry that is not used in
an index. Returns cache entry with
empty fields.
discard_cache_entry: A single function that knows how to discard a cache
entry regardless of how it was allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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