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2020-05-14Merge branch 'ds/bloom-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-18/+38
Code cleanup and typofixes * ds/bloom-cleanup: completion: offer '--(no-)patch' among 'git log' options bloom: use num_changes not nr for limit detection bloom: de-duplicate directory entries Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte words bloom: parse commit before computing filters test-bloom: fix usage typo bloom: fix whitespace around tab length
2020-05-11bloom: use num_changes not nr for limit detectionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+1
As diff_tree_oid() computes a diff, it will terminate early if the total number of changed paths is strictly larger than max_changes. This includes the directories that changed, not just the file paths. However, only the file paths are reflected in the resulting diff queue's "nr" value. Use the "num_changes" from diffopt to check if the diff terminated early. This is incredibly important, as it can result in incorrect filters! For example, the first commit in the Linux kernel repo reports only 471 changes, but since these are nested inside several directories they expand to 513 "real" changes, and in fact the total list of changes is not reported. Thus, the computed filter for this commit is incorrect. Demonstrate the subtle difference by using one fewer file change in the 'get bloom filter for commit with 513 changes' test. Before, this edited 513 files inside "bigDir" which hit this inequality. However, dropping the file count by one demonstrates how the previous inequality was incorrect but the new one is correct. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11bloom: de-duplicate directory entriesLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-9/+26
When computing a changed-path Bloom filter, we need to take the files that changed from the diff computation and extract the parent directories. That way, a directory pathspec such as "Documentation" could match commits that change "Documentation/git.txt". However, the current code does a poor job of this process. The paths are added to a hashmap, but we do not check if an entry already exists with that path. This can create many duplicate entries and cause the filter to have a much larger length than it should. This means that the filter is more sparse than intended, which helps the false positive rate, but wastes a lot of space. Properly use hashmap_get() before hashmap_add(). Also be sure to include a comparison function so these can be matched correctly. This has an effect on a test in t0095-bloom.sh. This makes sense, there are ten changes inside "smallDir" so the total number of paths in the filter should be 11. This would result in 11 * 10 bits required, and with 8 bits per byte, this results in 14 bytes. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11bloom: parse commit before computing filtersLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+3
When computing changed-path Bloom filters for a commit, we need to know if the commit has a parent or not. If the commit is not parsed, then its parent pointer will be NULL. As far as I can tell, the only opportunity to reach this code without parsing the commit is inside "test-tool bloom get_filter_for_commit" but it is best to be safe. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-07bloom: fix `make sparse` warningLibravatar Đoàn Trần Công Danh1-2/+2
* We need a `final_new_line` to make our source code as text file, per POSIX and C specification. * `bloom_filters` should be limited to interal linkage only Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-01bloom: fix whitespace around tab lengthLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-8/+8
Fix alignment issues that were likely introduced due to an editor using tab lengths of 4 instead of 8. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-09bloom: ignore renames when computing changed pathsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+1
The changed-path Bloom filters record an entry in the filter for every path that was changed. This includes every add and delete, regardless of whether a rename was detected. Detecting renames causes significant performance issues, but also will trigger downloading missing blobs in partial clone. The simple fix is to disable rename detection when computing a changed-path Bloom filter. This should already be disabled by default, but it is good to explicitly enforce the intended behavior. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-06revision.c: use Bloom filters to speed up path based revision walksLibravatar Garima Singh1-0/+20
Revision walk will now use Bloom filters for commits to speed up revision walks for a particular path (for computing history for that path), if they are present in the commit-graph file. We load the Bloom filters during the prepare_revision_walk step, currently only when dealing with a single pathspec. Extending it to work with multiple pathspecs can be explored and built on top of this series in the future. While comparing trees in rev_compare_trees(), if the Bloom filter says that the file is not different between the two trees, we don't need to compute the expensive diff. This is where we get our performance gains. The other response of the Bloom filter is '`:maybe', in which case we fall back to the full diff calculation to determine if the path was changed in the commit. We do not try to use Bloom filters when the '--walk-reflogs' option is specified. The '--walk-reflogs' option does not walk the commit ancestry chain like the rest of the options. Incorporating the performance gains when walking reflog entries would add more complexity, and can be explored in a later series. Performance Gains: We tested the performance of `git log -- <path>` on the git repo, the linux and some internal large repos, with a variety of paths of varying depths. On the git and linux repos: - we observed a 2x to 5x speed up. On a large internal repo with files seated 6-10 levels deep in the tree: - we observed 10x to 20x speed ups, with some paths going up to 28 times faster. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-06commit-graph: reuse existing Bloom filters during writeLibravatar Garima Singh1-1/+48
Add logic to a) parse Bloom filter information from the commit graph file and, b) re-use existing Bloom filters. See Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format for the format in which the Bloom filter information is written to the commit graph file. To read Bloom filter for a given commit with lexicographic position 'i' we need to: 1. Read BIDX[i] which essentially gives us the starting index in BDAT for filter of commit i+1. It is essentially the index past the end of the filter of commit i. It is called end_index in the code. 2. For i>0, read BIDX[i-1] which will give us the starting index in BDAT for filter of commit i. It is called the start_index in the code. For the first commit, where i = 0, Bloom filter data starts at the beginning, just past the header in the BDAT chunk. Hence, start_index will be 0. 3. The length of the filter will be end_index - start_index, because BIDX[i] gives the cumulative 8-byte words including the ith commit's filter. We toggle whether Bloom filters should be recomputed based on the compute_if_not_present flag. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changesLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+3
When computing the changed-paths bloom filters for the commit-graph, we limit the size of the filter by restricting the number of paths in the diff. Instead of computing a large diff and then ignoring the result, it is better to halt the diff computation early. Create a new "max_changes" option in struct diff_options. If non-zero, then halt the diff computation after discovering strictly more changed paths. This includes paths corresponding to trees that change. Use this max_changes option in the bloom filter calculations. This reduces the time taken to compute the filters for the Linux kernel repo from 2m50s to 2m35s. On a large internal repository with ~500 commits that perform tree-wide changes, the time reduced from 6m15s to 3m48s. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30bloom.c: core Bloom filter implementation for changed paths.Libravatar Garima Singh1-0/+97
Add the core implementation for computing Bloom filters for the paths changed between a commit and it's first parent. We fill the Bloom filters as (const char *data, int len) pairs as `struct bloom_filters" within a commit slab. Filters for commits with no changes and more than 512 changes, is represented with a filter of length zero. There is no gain in distinguishing between a computed filter of length zero for a commit with no changes, and an uncomputed filter for new commits or for commits with more than 512 changes. The effect on `git log -- path` is the same in both cases. We will fall back to the normal diffing algorithm when we can't benefit from the existence of Bloom filters. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30bloom.c: introduce core Bloom filter constructsLibravatar Garima Singh1-1/+37
Introduce the constructs for Bloom filters, Bloom filter keys and Bloom filter settings. For details on what Bloom filters are and how they work, refer to Dr. Derrick Stolee's blog post [1]. It provides a concise explanation of the adoption of Bloom filters as described in [2] and [3]. Implementation specifics: 1. We currently use 7 and 10 for the number of hashes and the size of each entry respectively. They served as great starting values, the mathematical details behind this choice are described in [1] and [4]. The implementation, while not completely open to it at the moment, is flexible enough to allow for tweaking these settings in the future. Note: The performance gains we have observed with these values are significant enough that we did not need to tweak these settings. The performance numbers are included in the cover letter of this series and in the commit message of the subsequent commit where we use Bloom filters to speed up `git log -- path`. 2. As described in [1] and [3], we do not need 7 independent hashing functions. We use the Murmur3 hashing scheme, seed it twice and then combine those to procure an arbitrary number of hash values. 3. The filters will be sized according to the number of changes in each commit, in multiples of 8 bit words. [1] Derrick Stolee "Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/super-charging-the-git-commit-graph-iv-Bloom-filters/ [2] Flavio Bonomi, Michael Mitzenmacher, Rina Panigrahy, Sushil Singh, George Varghese "An Improved Construction for Counting Bloom Filters" http://theory.stanford.edu/~rinap/papers/esa2006b.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/11841036_61 [3] Peter C. Dillinger and Panagiotis Manolios "Bloom Filters in Probabilistic Verification" http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pete/pub/Bloom-filters-verification.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30494-4_26 [4] Thomas Mueller Graf, Daniel Lemire "Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters" https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08258 Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30bloom.c: add the murmur3 hash implementationLibravatar Garima Singh1-0/+73
In preparation for computing changed paths Bloom filters, implement the Murmur3 hash algorithm as described in [1]. It hashes the given data using the given seed and produces a uniformly distributed hash value. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash#Algorithm Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Helped-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>