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2014-02-27Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-170/+281
Borrow the bitmap index into packfiles from JGit to speed up enumeration of objects involved in a commit range without having to fully traverse the history. * jk/pack-bitmap: (26 commits) ewah: unconditionally ntohll ewah data ewah: support platforms that require aligned reads read-cache: use get_be32 instead of hand-rolled ntoh_l block-sha1: factor out get_be and put_be wrappers do not discard revindex when re-preparing packfiles pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache t/perf: add tests for pack bitmaps t: add basic bitmap functionality tests count-objects: recognize .bitmap in garbage-checking repack: consider bitmaps when performing repacks repack: handle optional files created by pack-objects repack: turn exts array into array-of-struct repack: stop using magic number for ARRAY_SIZE(exts) pack-objects: implement bitmap writing rev-list: add bitmap mode to speed up object lists pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects pack-objects: split add_object_entry pack-bitmap: add support for bitmap indexes documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format ewah: compressed bitmap implementation ...
2013-12-30pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cacheLibravatar Vicent Marti1-1/+9
When we use pack bitmaps rather than walking the object graph, we end up with the list of objects to include in the packfile, but we do not know the path at which any tree or blob objects would be found. In a recently packed repository, this is fine. A fetch would use the paths only as a heuristic in the delta compression phase, and a fully packed repository should not need to do much delta compression. As time passes, though, we may acquire more objects on top of our large bitmapped pack. If clients fetch frequently, then they never even look at the bitmapped history, and all works as usual. However, a client who has not fetched since the last bitmap repack will have "have" tips in the bitmapped history, but "want" newer objects. The bitmaps themselves degrade gracefully in this circumstance. We manually walk the more recent bits of history, and then use bitmaps when we hit them. But we would also like to perform delta compression between the newer objects and the bitmapped objects (both to delta against what we know the user already has, but also between "new" and "old" objects that the user is fetching). The lack of pathnames makes our delta heuristics much less effective. This patch adds an optional cache of the 32-bit name_hash values to the end of the bitmap file. If present, a reader can use it to match bitmapped and non-bitmapped names during delta compression. Here are perf results for p5310: Test origin/master HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5310.2: repack to disk 36.81(37.82+1.43) 47.70(48.74+1.41) +29.6% 47.75(48.70+1.51) +29.7% 5310.3: simulated clone 30.78(29.70+2.14) 1.08(0.97+0.10) -96.5% 1.07(0.94+0.12) -96.5% 5310.4: simulated fetch 3.16(6.10+0.08) 3.54(10.65+0.06) +12.0% 1.70(3.07+0.06) -46.2% 5310.6: partial bitmap 36.76(43.19+1.81) 6.71(11.25+0.76) -81.7% 4.08(6.26+0.46) -88.9% You can see that the time spent on an incremental fetch goes down, as our delta heuristics are able to do their work. And we save time on the partial bitmap clone for the same reason. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30pack-objects: implement bitmap writingLibravatar Vicent Marti1-0/+53
This commit extends more the functionality of `pack-objects` by allowing it to write out a `.bitmap` index next to any written packs, together with the `.idx` index that currently gets written. If bitmap writing is enabled for a given repository (either by calling `pack-objects` with the `--write-bitmap-index` flag or by having `pack.writebitmaps` set to `true` in the config) and pack-objects is writing a packfile that would normally be indexed (i.e. not piping to stdout), we will attempt to write the corresponding bitmap index for the packfile. Bitmap index writing happens after the packfile and its index has been successfully written to disk (`finish_tmp_packfile`). The process is performed in several steps: 1. `bitmap_writer_set_checksum`: this call stores the partial checksum for the packfile being written; the checksum will be written in the resulting bitmap index to verify its integrity 2. `bitmap_writer_build_type_index`: this call uses the array of `struct object_entry` that has just been sorted when writing out the actual packfile index to disk to generate 4 type-index bitmaps (one for each object type). These bitmaps have their nth bit set if the given object is of the bitmap's type. E.g. the nth bit of the Commits bitmap will be 1 if the nth object in the packfile index is a commit. This is a very cheap operation because the bitmap writing code has access to the metadata stored in the `struct object_entry` array, and hence the real type for each object in the packfile. 3. `bitmap_writer_reuse_bitmaps`: if there exists an existing bitmap index for one of the packfiles we're trying to repack, this call will efficiently rebuild the existing bitmaps so they can be reused on the new index. All the existing bitmaps will be stored in a `reuse` hash table, and the commit selection phase will prioritize these when selecting, as they can be written directly to the new index without having to perform a revision walk to fill the bitmap. This can greatly speed up the repack of a repository that already has bitmaps. 4. `bitmap_writer_select_commits`: if bitmap writing is enabled for a given `pack-objects` run, the sequence of commits generated during the Counting Objects phase will be stored in an array. We then use that array to build up the list of selected commits. Writing a bitmap in the index for each object in the repository would be cost-prohibitive, so we use a simple heuristic to pick the commits that will be indexed with bitmaps. The current heuristics are a simplified version of JGit's original implementation. We select a higher density of commits depending on their age: the 100 most recent commits are always selected, after that we pick 1 commit of each 100, and the gap increases as the commits grow older. On top of that, we make sure that every single branch that has not been merged (all the tips that would be required from a clone) gets their own bitmap, and when selecting commits between a gap, we tend to prioritize the commit with the most parents. Do note that there is no right/wrong way to perform commit selection; different selection algorithms will result in different commits being selected, but there's no such thing as "missing a commit". The bitmap walker algorithm implemented in `prepare_bitmap_walk` is able to adapt to missing bitmaps by performing manual walks that complete the bitmap: the ideal selection algorithm, however, would select the commits that are more likely to be used as roots for a walk in the future (e.g. the tips of each branch, and so on) to ensure a bitmap for them is always available. 5. `bitmap_writer_build`: this is the computationally expensive part of bitmap generation. Based on the list of commits that were selected in the previous step, we perform several incremental walks to generate the bitmap for each commit. The walks begin from the oldest commit, and are built up incrementally for each branch. E.g. consider this dag where A, B, C, D, E, F are the selected commits, and a, b, c, e are a chunk of simplified history that will not receive bitmaps. A---a---B--b--C--c--D \ E--e--F We start by building the bitmap for A, using A as the root for a revision walk and marking all the objects that are reachable until the walk is over. Once this bitmap is stored, we reuse the bitmap walker to perform the walk for B, assuming that once we reach A again, the walk will be terminated because A has already been SEEN on the previous walk. This process is repeated for C, and D, but when we try to generate the bitmaps for E, we can reuse neither the current walk nor the bitmap we have generated so far. What we do now is resetting both the walk and clearing the bitmap, and performing the walk from scratch using E as the origin. This new walk, however, does not need to be completed. Once we hit B, we can lookup the bitmap we have already stored for that commit and OR it with the existing bitmap we've composed so far, allowing us to limit the walk early. After all the bitmaps have been generated, another iteration through the list of commits is performed to find the best XOR offsets for compression before writing them to disk. Because of the incremental nature of these bitmaps, XORing one of them with its predecesor results in a minimal "bitmap delta" most of the time. We can write this delta to the on-disk bitmap index, and then re-compose the original bitmaps by XORing them again when loaded. This is a phase very similar to pack-object's `find_delta` (using bitmaps instead of objects, of course), except the heuristics have been greatly simplified: we only check the 10 bitmaps before any given one to find best compressing one. This gives good results in practice, because there is locality in the ordering of the objects (and therefore bitmaps) in the packfile. 6. `bitmap_writer_finish`: the last step in the process is serializing to disk all the bitmap data that has been generated in the two previous steps. The bitmap is written to a tmp file and then moved atomically to its final destination, using the same process as `pack-write.c:write_idx_file`. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objectsLibravatar Vicent Marti1-0/+107
In this patch, we use the bitmap API to perform the `Counting Objects` phase in pack-objects, rather than a traditional walk through the object graph. For a reasonably-packed large repo, the time to fetch and clone is often dominated by the full-object revision walk during the Counting Objects phase. Using bitmaps can reduce the CPU time required on the server (and therefore start sending the actual pack data with less delay). For bitmaps to be used, the following must be true: 1. We must be packing to stdout (as a normal `pack-objects` from `upload-pack` would do). 2. There must be a .bitmap index containing at least one of the "have" objects that the client is asking for. 3. Bitmaps must be enabled (they are enabled by default, but can be disabled by setting `pack.usebitmaps` to false, or by using `--no-use-bitmap-index` on the command-line). If any of these is not true, we fall back to doing a normal walk of the object graph. Here are some sample timings from a full pack of `torvalds/linux` (i.e. something very similar to what would be generated for a clone of the repository) that show the speedup produced by various methods: [existing graph traversal] $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout --no-use-bitmap-index \ </dev/null >/dev/null Counting objects: 3237103, done. Compressing objects: 100% (508752/508752), done. Total 3237103 (delta 2699584), reused 3237103 (delta 2699584) real 0m44.111s user 0m42.396s sys 0m3.544s [bitmaps only, without partial pack reuse; note that pack reuse is automatic, so timing this required a patch to disable it] $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout </dev/null >/dev/null Counting objects: 3237103, done. Compressing objects: 100% (508752/508752), done. Total 3237103 (delta 2699584), reused 3237103 (delta 2699584) real 0m5.413s user 0m5.604s sys 0m1.804s [bitmaps with pack reuse (what you get with this patch)] $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout </dev/null >/dev/null Reusing existing pack: 3237103, done. Total 3237103 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) real 0m1.636s user 0m1.460s sys 0m0.172s Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30pack-objects: split add_object_entryLibravatar Jeff King1-20/+78
This function actually does three things: 1. Check whether we've already added the object to our packing list. 2. Check whether the object meets our criteria for adding. 3. Actually add the object to our packing list. It's a little hard to see these three phases, because they happen linearly in the rather long function. Instead, this patch breaks them up into three separate helper functions. The result is a little easier to follow, though it unfortunately suffers from some optimization interdependencies between the stages (e.g., during step 3 we use the packing list index from step 1 and the packfile information from step 2). More importantly, though, the various parts can be composed differently, as they will be in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-26do not pretend sha1write returns errorsLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+0
The sha1write function returns an int, but it will always be "0". The failure-prone parts of the function happen in the "flush" callback, which cannot pass an error back to us. So we just end up calling die() during the flush. Let's just drop the return value altogether, as it only confuses callers into thinking that it might be useful. Only one call site actually checked the return value. We can drop that check, since it just led to a die() anyway. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+1
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API functions. The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this: $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c | grep -v strbuf\\.c | xargs perl -pi -e ' s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g; s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g; s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g; s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g; ' on the result of preparatory changes in this series. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24pack-objects: factor out name_hashLibravatar Vicent Marti1-22/+2
As the pack-objects system grows beyond the single pack-objects.c file, more parts (like the soon-to-exist bitmap code) will need to compute hashes for matching deltas. Factor out name_hash to make it available to other files. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24pack-objects: refactor the packing listLibravatar Vicent Marti1-135/+40
The hash table that stores the packing list for a given `pack-objects` run was tightly coupled to the pack-objects code. In this commit, we refactor the hash table and the underlying storage array into a `packing_data` struct. The functionality for accessing and adding entries to the packing list is hence accessible from other parts of Git besides the `pack-objects` builtin. This refactoring is a requirement for further patches in this series that will require accessing the commit packing list from outside of `pack-objects`. The hash table implementation has been minimally altered: we now use table sizes which are always a power of two, to ensure a uniform index distribution in the array. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-23Merge branch 'jc/pack-objects'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+12
* jc/pack-objects: pack-objects: shrink struct object_entry
2013-09-20Merge branch 'nd/fetch-into-shallow'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When there is no sufficient overlap between old and new history during a fetch into a shallow repository, we unnecessarily sent objects the sending side knows the receiving end has. * nd/fetch-into-shallow: Add testcase for needless objects during a shallow fetch list-objects: mark more commits as edges in mark_edges_uninteresting list-objects: reduce one argument in mark_edges_uninteresting upload-pack: delegate rev walking in shallow fetch to pack-objects shallow: add setup_temporary_shallow() shallow: only add shallow graft points to new shallow file move setup_alternate_shallow and write_shallow_commits to shallow.c
2013-08-28list-objects: reduce one argument in mark_edges_uninterestingLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
mark_edges_uninteresting() is always called with this form mark_edges_uninteresting(revs->commits, revs, ...); Remove the first argument and let mark_edges_uninteresting figure that out by itself. It helps answer the question "are this commit list and revs related in any way?" when looking at mark_edges_uninteresting implementation. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-02Don't close pack fd when free'ing pack windowsLibravatar Brandon Casey1-1/+1
Now that close_one_pack() has been introduced to handle file descriptor pressure, it is not strictly necessary to close the pack file descriptor in unuse_one_window() when we're under memory pressure. Jeff King provided a justification for leaving the pack file open: If you close packfile descriptors, you can run into racy situations where somebody else is repacking and deleting packs, and they go away while you are trying to access them. If you keep a descriptor open, you're fine; they last to the end of the process. If you don't, then they disappear from under you. For normal object access, this isn't that big a deal; we just rescan the packs and retry. But if you are packing yourself (e.g., because you are a pack-objects started by upload-pack for a clone or fetch), it's much harder to recover (and we print some warnings). Let's do so (or uh, not do so). Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-04pack-objects: shrink struct object_entryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+12
Turn some boolean fields into bitfields and use uint32_t for name hash. This shrinks the size of the structure from 128 bytes to 120 bytes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-25Merge branch 'jk/peel-ref'Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+0
Speeds up "git upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side of the connection) by reducing the cost to advertise the branches and tags that are available in the repository. * jk/peel-ref: upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements peel_ref: check object type before loading peel_ref: do not return a null sha1 peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify
2012-10-04peel_ref: do not return a null sha1Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+0
The idea of the peel_ref function is to dereference tag objects recursively until we hit a non-tag, and return the sha1. Conceptually, it should return 0 if it is successful (and fill in the sha1), or -1 if there was nothing to peel. However, the current behavior is much more confusing. For a regular loose ref, the behavior is as described above. But there is an optimization to reuse the peeled-ref value for a ref that came from a packed-refs file. If we have such a ref, we return its peeled value, even if that peeled value is null (indicating that we know the ref definitely does _not_ peel). It might seem like such information is useful to the caller, who would then know not to bother loading and trying to peel the object. Except that they should not bother loading and trying to peel the object _anyway_, because that fallback is already handled by peel_ref. In other words, the whole point of calling this function is that it handles those details internally, and you either get a sha1, or you know that it is not peel-able. This patch catches the null sha1 case internally and converts it into a -1 return value (i.e., there is nothing to peel). This simplifies callers, which do not need to bother checking themselves. Two callers are worth noting: - in pack-objects, a comment indicates that there is a difference between non-peelable tags and unannotated tags. But that is not the case (before or after this patch). Whether you get a null sha1 has to do with internal details of how peel_ref operated. - in show-ref, if peel_ref returns a failure, the caller tries to decide whether to try peeling manually based on whether the REF_ISPACKED flag is set. But this doesn't make any sense. If the flag is set, that does not necessarily mean the ref came from a packed-refs file with the "peeled" extension. But it doesn't matter, because even if it didn't, there's no point in trying to peel it ourselves, as peel_ref would already have done so. In other words, the fallback peeling is guaranteed to fail. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20i18n: pack-objects: mark parseopt strings for translationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-32/+32
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22Merge branch 'jc/sha1-name-more'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish, and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits) t1512: match the "other" object names t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix> rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish reset: the command takes committish commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish() sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context() sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags get_sha1(): fix error status regression sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res" ...
2012-07-09revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flagsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The existing "cant_be_filename" that tells the function that the caller knows the arg is not a path (hence it does not have to be checked for absense of the file whose name matches it) is made into a bit in the flag word. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-29pack-objects: use streaming interface for reading large loose blobsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-6/+67
git usually streams large blobs directly to packs. But there are cases where git can create large loose blobs (unpack-objects or hash-object over pipe). Or they can come from other git implementations. core.bigfilethreshold can also be lowered down and introduce a new wave of large loose blobs. Use streaming interface to read/compress/write these blobs in one go. Fall back to normal way if somehow streaming interface cannot be used. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-18pack-objects: refactor write_object() into helper functionsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-150/+172
The function first decides if we want to copy data taken from existing pack verbatim or we want to encode the data ourselves for the packfile we are creating and then carries out the decision. Separate the latter phase into two helper functions, one for the case the data is reused, the other for the case the data is produced anew. A little twist is that it can later turn out that we cannot reuse the data after we initially decide to do so; in such a case, the "reuse" helper makes a call to "generate" helper. It is easier to follow than the current fallback code that uses "goto" inside a single large function. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-18pack-objects, streaming: turn "xx >= big_file_threshold" to ".. > .."Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
This is because all other places do "xx > big_file_threshold" Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-11gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately prunedLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+23
When we pack everything into one big pack with "git repack -Ad", any unreferenced objects in to-be-deleted packs are exploded into loose objects, with the intent that they will be examined and possibly cleaned up by the next run of "git prune". Since the exploded objects will receive the mtime of the pack from which they come, if the source pack is old, those loose objects will end up pruned immediately. In that case, it is much more efficient to skip the exploding step entirely for these objects. This patch teaches pack-objects to receive the expiration information and avoid writing these objects out. It also teaches "git gc" to pass the value of gc.pruneexpire to repack (which in turn learns to pass it along to pack-objects) so that this optimization happens automatically during "git gc" and "git gc --auto". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26pack-objects: Fix compilation with NO_PTHREDSLibravatar Michał Kiedrowicz1-1/+1
It looks like commit 99fb6e04 (pack-objects: convert to use parse_options(), 2012-02-01) moved the #ifdef NO_PTHREDS around but hasn't noticed that the 'arg' variable no longer is available. Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01pack-objects: convert to use parse_options()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-176/+139
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01pack-objects: remove bogus commentLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-14/+1
The comment was introduced in b5d97e6 (pack-objects: run rev-list equivalent internally. - 2006-09-04), stating that git pack-objects [options] base-name <refs...> is acceptable and refs should be passed into rev-list. But that's not true. All arguments after base-name are ignored. Remove the comment and reject this syntax (i.e. no more arguments after base name) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01pack-objects: do not accept "--index-version=version,"Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-12Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
* maint: Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4 Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6 Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6 thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base
2012-01-12Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
* maint-1.7.7: Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6 Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6 thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base
2012-01-12Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
* maint-1.7.6: Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6 thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base
2012-01-12thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as baseLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+7
When creating a pack using objects that reside in existing packs, we try to avoid recomputing futile delta between an object (trg) and a candidate for its base object (src) if they are stored in the same packfile, and trg is not recorded as a delta already. This heuristics makes sense because it is likely that we tried to express trg as a delta based on src but it did not produce a good delta when we created the existing pack. As the pack heuristics prefer producing delta to remove data, and Linus's law dictates that the size of a file grows over time, we tend to record the newest version of the file as inflated, and older ones as delta against it. When creating a thin-pack to transfer recent history, it is likely that we will try to send an object that is recorded in full, as it is newer. But the heuristics to avoid recomputing futile delta effectively forbids us from attempting to express such an object as a delta based on another object. Sending an object in full is often more expensive than sending a suboptimal delta based on other objects, and it is even more so if we could use an object we know the receiving end already has (i.e. preferred base object) as the delta base. Tweak the recomputation avoidance logic, so that we do not punt on computing delta against a preferred base object. The effect of this change can be seen on two simulated upload-pack workloads. The first is based on 44 reflog entries from my git.git origin/master reflog, and represents the packs that kernel.org sent me git updates for the past month or two. The second workload represents much larger fetches, going from git's v1.0.0 tag to v1.1.0, then v1.1.0 to v1.2.0, and so on. The table below shows the average generated pack size and the average CPU time consumed for each dataset, both before and after the patch: dataset | reflog | tags --------------------------------- before | 53358 | 2750977 size after | 32398 | 2668479 change | -39% | -3% --------------------------------- before | 0.18 | 1.12 CPU after | 0.18 | 1.15 change | +0% | +3% This patch makes a much bigger difference for packs with a shorter slice of history (since its effect is seen at the boundaries of the pack) though it has some benefit even for larger packs. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-16Merge branch 'jc/stream-to-pack'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-44/+18
* jc/stream-to-pack: bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementation csum-file: introduce sha1file_checkpoint finish_tmp_packfile(): a helper function create_tmp_packfile(): a helper function write_pack_header(): a helper function Conflicts: pack.h
2011-12-13Merge branch 'jc/maint-pack-object-cycle' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+43
* jc/maint-pack-object-cycle: pack-object: tolerate broken packs that have duplicated objects Conflicts: builtin/pack-objects.c
2011-12-13Merge branch 'nd/misc-cleanups' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* nd/misc-cleanups: unpack_object_header_buffer(): clear the size field upon error tree_entry_interesting: make use of local pointer "item" tree_entry_interesting(): give meaningful names to return values read_directory_recursive: reduce one indentation level get_tree_entry(): do not call find_tree_entry() on an empty tree tree-walk.c: do not leak internal structure in tree_entry_len()
2011-12-05Merge branch 'jc/maint-pack-object-cycle'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+43
* jc/maint-pack-object-cycle: pack-object: tolerate broken packs that have duplicated objects Conflicts: builtin/pack-objects.c
2011-12-05Merge branch 'nd/misc-cleanups'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* nd/misc-cleanups: unpack_object_header_buffer(): clear the size field upon error tree_entry_interesting: make use of local pointer "item" tree_entry_interesting(): give meaningful names to return values read_directory_recursive: reduce one indentation level get_tree_entry(): do not call find_tree_entry() on an empty tree tree-walk.c: do not leak internal structure in tree_entry_len()
2011-12-01bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+1
This extends the earlier approach to stream a large file directly from the filesystem to its own packfile, and allows "git add" to send large files directly into a single pack. Older code used to spawn fast-import, but the new bulk-checkin API replaces it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-16pack-object: tolerate broken packs that have duplicated objectsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+43
When --reuse-delta is in effect (which is the default), and an existing pack in the repository has the same object registered twice (e.g. one copy in a non-delta format and the other copy in a delta against some other object), an attempt to repack the repository can result in a cyclic delta dependency, causing write_one() function to infinitely recurse into itself. Detect such a case and break the loopy dependency by writing out an object that is involved in such a loop in the non-delta format. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-01Merge branch 'dm/pack-objects-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-19/+55
* dm/pack-objects-update: pack-objects: don't traverse objects unnecessarily pack-objects: rewrite add_descendants_to_write_order() iteratively pack-objects: use unsigned int for counter and offset values pack-objects: mark add_to_write_order() as inline
2011-10-28finish_tmp_packfile(): a helper functionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+10
Factor out a small logic out of the private write_pack_file() function in builtin/pack-objects.c. This changes the order of finishing multi-pack generation slightly. The code used to - adjust shared perm of temporary packfile - rename temporary packfile to the final name - update mtime of the packfile under the final name - adjust shared perm of temporary idxfile - rename temporary idxfile to the final name but because the helper does not want to do the mtime thing, the updated code does that step first and then all the rest. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-28create_tmp_packfile(): a helper functionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+3
Factor out a small logic out of the private write_pack_file() function in builtin/pack-objects.c Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-28write_pack_header(): a helper functionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+3
Factor out a small logic out of the private write_pack_file() function in builtin/pack-objects.c Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-27tree-walk.c: do not leak internal structure in tree_entry_len()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
tree_entry_len() does not simply take two random arguments and return a tree length. The two pointers must point to a tree item structure, or struct name_entry. Passing random pointers will return incorrect value. Force callers to pass struct name_entry instead of two pointers (with hope that they don't manually construct struct name_entry themselves) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-21Merge branch 'jk/maint-pack-objects-compete-with-delete'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* jk/maint-pack-objects-compete-with-delete: downgrade "packfile cannot be accessed" errors to warnings pack-objects: protect against disappearing packs
2011-10-20pack-objects: don't traverse objects unnecessarilyLibravatar Dan McGee1-6/+12
This brings back some of the performance lost in optimizing recency order inside pack objects. We were doing extreme amounts of object re-traversal: for the 2.14 million objects in the Linux kernel repository, we were calling add_to_write_order() over 1.03 billion times (a 0.2% hit rate, making 99.8% of of these calls extraneous). Two optimizations take place here- we can start our objects array iteration from a known point where we left off before we started trying to find our tags, and we don't need to do the deep dives required by add_family_to_write_order() if the object has already been marked as filled. These two optimizations bring some pretty spectacular results via `perf stat`: task-clock: 83373 ms --> 43800 ms (50% faster) cycles: 221,633,461,676 --> 116,307,209,986 (47% fewer) instructions: 149,299,179,939 --> 122,998,800,184 (18% fewer) Helped-by: Ramsay Jones (format string fix in "die" message) Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-18pack-objects: rewrite add_descendants_to_write_order() iterativelyLibravatar Dan McGee1-7/+37
This removes the need to call this function recursively, shinking the code size slightly and netting a small performance increase. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-18pack-objects: use unsigned int for counter and offset valuesLibravatar Dan McGee1-6/+6
This is done in some of the new pack layout code introduced in commit 1b4bb16b9ec331c. This more closely matches the nr_objects global that is unsigned that these variables are based off of and bounded by. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-18pack-objects: mark add_to_write_order() as inlineLibravatar Dan McGee1-1/+1
This function is a whole 26 bytes when compiled on x86_64, but is currently invoked over 1.037 billion times when running pack-objects on the Linux kernel git repository. This is hitting the point where micro-optimizations do make a difference, and inlining it only increases the object file size by 38 bytes. As reported by perf, this dropped task-clock from 84183 to 83373 ms, and total cycles from 223.5 billion to 221.6 billion. Not astronomical, but worth getting for adding one word. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-14downgrade "packfile cannot be accessed" errors to warningsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
These can happen if another process simultaneously prunes a pack. But that is not usually an error condition, because a properly-running prune should have repacked the object into a new pack. So we will notice that the pack has disappeared unexpectedly, print a message, try other packs (possibly after re-scanning the list of packs), and find it in the new pack. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-14pack-objects: protect against disappearing packsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
It's possible that while pack-objects is running, a simultaneously running prune process might delete a pack that we are interested in. Because we load the pack indices early on, we know that the pack contains our item, but by the time we try to open and map it, it is gone. Since c715f78, we already protect against this in the normal object access code path, but pack-objects accesses the packs at a lower level. In the normal access path, we call find_pack_entry, which will call find_pack_entry_one on each pack index, which does the actual lookup. If it gets a hit, we will actually open and verify the validity of the matching packfile (using c715f78's is_pack_valid). If we can't open it, we'll issue a warning and pretend that we didn't find it, causing us to go on to the next pack (or on to loose objects). Furthermore, we will cache the descriptor to the opened packfile. Which means that later, when we actually try to access the object, we are likely to still have that packfile opened, and won't care if it has been unlinked from the filesystem. Notice the "likely" above. If there is another pack access in the interim, and we run out of descriptors, we could close the pack. And then a later attempt to access the closed pack could fail (we'll try to re-open it, of course, but it may have been deleted). In practice, this doesn't happen because we tend to look up items and then access them immediately. Pack-objects does not follow this code path. Instead, it accesses the packs at a much lower level, using find_pack_entry_one directly. This means we skip the is_pack_valid check, and may end up with the name of a packfile, but no open descriptor. We can add the same is_pack_valid check here. Unfortunately, the access patterns of pack-objects are not quite as nice for keeping lookup and object access together. We look up each object as we find out about it, and the only later when writing the packfile do we necessarily access it. Which means that the opened packfile may be closed in the interim. In practice, however, adding this check still has value, for three reasons. 1. If you have a reasonable number of packs and/or a reasonable file descriptor limit, you can keep all of your packs open simultaneously. If this is the case, then the race is impossible to trigger. 2. Even if you can't keep all packs open at once, you may end up keeping the deleted one open (i.e., you may get lucky). 3. The race window is shortened. You may notice early that the pack is gone, and not try to access it. Triggering the problem without this check means deleting the pack any time after we read the list of index files, but before we access the looked-up objects. Triggering it with this check means deleting the pack means deleting the pack after we do a lookup (and successfully access the packfile), but before we access the object. Which is a smaller window. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>