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2021-02-22commit-reach: stale commits may prune generation furtherLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-7/+21
The remove_redundant_with_gen() algorithm performs a depth-first-search to find commits in the 'array' list, starting at the parents of each commit in 'array'. The result is that commits in 'array' are marked STALE when they are reachable from another commit in 'array'. This depth-first-search is fast when commits lie on or near the first-parent history of the higher commits. The search terminates early if all but one commit becomes marked STALE. However, it is possible that there are two independent commits with high generation number. In that case, the depth-first-search might languish by searching in lower generations due to the fixed min_generation used throughout the method. With the expectation that commits with lower generation are expected to become STALE more often, we can optimize further by increasing that min_generation boundary upon discovery of the commit with minimum generation. We must first sort the commits in 'array' by generation. We cannot sort 'array' itself since it must preserve relative order among the returned results (see revision.c:mark_redundant_parents() for an example). This simplifies the initialization of min_generation, but it also allows us to increase the new min_generation when we find the commit with smallest generation remaining. This requires more than two commits in order to test, so I used the Linux kernel repository with a few commits that are slightly off of the first-parent history. I timed the following command: git merge-base --independent 2ecedd756908 d2360a398f0b \ 1253935ad801 160bab43419e 0e2209629fec 1d0e16ac1a9e The first two commits have similar generation and are near the v5.10 tag. Commit 160bab43419e is off of the first-parent history behind v5.5, while the others are scattered somewhere reachable from v5.9. This is designed to demonstrate the optimization, as that commit within v5.5 would normally cause a lot of extra commit walking. Since remove_redundant_with_alg() is called only when at least one of the input commits has a finite generation number, this algorithm is tested with a commit-graph generated starting at a number of different tags, the earliest being v5.5. commit-graph at v5.5: | Method | Time | |-----------------------+-------| | *_no_gen() | 864ms | | *_with_gen() (before) | 858ms | | *_with_gen() (after) | 810ms | commit-graph at v5.7: | Method | Time | |-----------------------+-------| | *_no_gen() | 625ms | | *_with_gen() (before) | 572ms | | *_with_gen() (after) | 517ms | commit-graph at v5.9: | Method | Time | |-----------------------+-------| | *_no_gen() | 268ms | | *_with_gen() (before) | 224ms | | *_with_gen() (after) | 202ms | commit-graph at v5.10: | Method | Time | |-----------------------+-------| | *_no_gen() | 72ms | | *_with_gen() (before) | 37ms | | *_with_gen() (after) | 9ms | Note that these are only modest improvements for the case where the two independent commits are not in the commit-graph (not until v5.10). All algorithms get faster as more commits are indexed, which is not a surprise. However, the cost of walking extra commits is more and more prevalent in relative terms as more commits are indexed. Finally, the last case allows us to jump to the minimum generation between the last two commits (that are actually independent) so we greatly reduce the cost in that case. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-22commit-reach: use heuristic in remove_redundant()Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-16/+56
Reachability algorithms in commit-reach.c frequently benefit from using the first-parent history as a heuristic for satisfying reachability queries. The most obvious example was implemented in 4fbcca4e (commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear, 2018-07-20). Update the walk in remove_redundant() to use this same heuristic. Here, we are walking starting at the parents of the input commits. Sort those parents and walk from the highest generation to lower. Each time, use the heuristic of searching the first parent history before continuing to expand the walk. The order in which we explore the commits matters, so update compare_commits_by_gen to break generation number ties with commit date. This has no effect when the commits are in a commit-graph file with corrected commit dates computed, but it will assist when the commits are in the region "above" the commit-graph with "infinite" generation number. Note that we cannot shift to use compare_commits_by_gen_then_commit_date as the method prototype is different. We use compare_commits_by_gen for QSORT() as opposed to as a priority function. The important piece is to ensure we short-circuit the walk when we find that there is a single non-redundant commit. This happens frequently when looking for merge-bases or comparing several tags with 'git merge-base --independent'. Use a new count 'count_still_independent' and if that hits 1 we can stop walking. To update 'count_still_independent' properly, we add use of the RESULT flag on the input commits. Then we can detect when we reach one of these commits and decrease the count. We need to remove the RESULT flag at that moment because we might re-visit that commit when popping the stack. We use the STALE flag to mark parents that have been added to the new walk_start list, but we need to clear that flag before we start walking so those flags don't halt our depth-first-search walk. On my copy of the Linux kernel repository, the performance of 'git merge-base --independent <all-tags>' goes from 1.1 seconds to 0.11 seconds. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-22commit-reach: move compare_commits_by_genLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-15/+15
Move this earlier in the file so it can be used by more methods. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-22commit-reach: use one walk in remove_redundant()Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-8/+96
The current implementation of remove_redundant() uses several calls to paint_down_to_common() to determine that commits are independent of each other. This leads to quadratic behavior when many inputs are passed to commands such as 'git merge-base'. For example, in the Linux kernel repository, I tested the performance by passing all tags: git merge-base --independent $(git for-each-ref refs/tags --format="$(refname)") (Note: I had to delete the tags v2.6.11-tree and v2.6.11 as they do not point to commits.) Here is the performance improvement introduced by this change: Before: 16.4s After: 1.1s This performance improvement requires the commit-graph file to be present. We keep the old algorithm around as remove_redundant_no_gen() and use it when generation_numbers_enabled() is false. This is similar to other algorithms within commit-reach.c. The new algorithm is implemented in remove_redundant_with_gen(). The basic approach is to do one commit walk instead of many. First, scan all commits in the list and mark their _parents_ with the STALE flag. This flag will indicate commits that are reachable from one of the inputs, except not including themselves. Then, walk commits until covering all commits up to the minimum generation number pushing the STALE flag throughout. At the end, we need to clear the STALE bit from all of the commits we walked. We move the non-stale commits in 'array' to the beginning of the list, and this might overwrite stale commits. However, we store an array of commits that started the walk, and use clear_commit_marks() on each of those starting commits. That method will walk the reachable commits with the STALE bit and clear them all. This makes the algorithm safe for re-entry or for other uses of those commits after this walk. This logic is covered by tests in t6600-test-reach.sh, so the behavior does not change. This is tested both in the case with a commit-graph and without. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-01commit-reach: reduce requirements for remove_redundant()Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-6/+4
Remove a comment at the beggining of remove_redundant() that mentions a reordering of the input array to have the initial segment be the independent commits and the final segment be the redundant commits. While this behavior is followed in remove_redundant(), no callers rely on that behavior. Remove the final loop that copies this final segment and update the comment to match the new behavior. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-18commit-reach: use corrected commit dates in paint_down_to_common()Libravatar Abhishek Kumar1-1/+1
091f4cf (commit: don't use generation numbers if not needed, 2018-08-30) changed paint_down_to_common() to use commit dates instead of generation numbers v1 (topological levels) as the performance regressed on certain topologies. With generation number v2 (corrected commit dates) implemented, we no longer have to rely on commit dates and can use generation numbers. For example, the command `git merge-base v4.8 v4.9` on the Linux repository walks 167468 commits, taking 0.135s for committer date and 167496 commits, taking 0.157s for corrected committer date respectively. While using corrected commit dates, Git walks nearly the same number of commits as commit date, the process is slower as for each comparision we have to access a commit-slab (for corrected committer date) instead of accessing struct member (for committer date). This change incidentally broke the fragile t6404-recursive-merge test. t6404-recursive-merge sets up a unique repository where all commits have the same committer date without a well-defined merge-base. While running tests with GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH unset, we use committer date as a heuristic in paint_down_to_common(). 6404.1 'combined merge conflicts' merges commits in the order: - Merge C with B to form an intermediate commit. - Merge the intermediate commit with A. With GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH=1, we write a commit-graph and subsequently use the corrected committer date, which changes the order in which commits are merged: - Merge A with B to form an intermediate commit. - Merge the intermediate commit with C. While resulting repositories are equivalent, 6404.4 'virtual trees were processed' fails with GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH=1 as we are selecting different merge-bases and thus have different object ids for the intermediate commits. As this has already causes problems (as noted in 859fdc0 (commit-graph: define GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH, 2018-08-29)), we disable commit graph within t6404-recursive-merge. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-18commit-graph: return 64-bit generation numberLibravatar Abhishek Kumar1-18/+18
In a preparatory step for introducing corrected commit dates, let's return timestamp_t values from commit_graph_generation(), use timestamp_t for local variables and define GENERATION_NUMBER_INFINITY as (2 ^ 63 - 1) instead. We rename GENERATION_NUMBER_MAX to GENERATION_NUMBER_V1_MAX to represent the largest topological level we can store in the commit data chunk. With corrected commit dates implemented, we will have two such *_MAX variables to denote the largest offset and largest topological level that can be stored. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-02commit-reach: fix in_merge_bases_many bugLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-4/+4
Way back in f9b8908b (commit.c: use generation numbers for in_merge_bases(), 2018-05-01), a heuristic was used to short-circuit the in_merge_bases() walk. This works just fine as long as the caller is checking only two commits, but when there are multiple, there is a possibility that this heuristic is _very wrong_. Some code moves since then has changed this method to repo_in_merge_bases_many() inside commit-reach.c. The heuristic computes the minimum generation number of the "reference" list, then compares this number to the generation number of the "commit". In a recent topic, a test was added that used in_merge_bases_many() to test if a commit was reachable from a number of commits pulled from a reflog. However, this highlighted the problem: if any of the reference commits have a smaller generation number than the given commit, then the walk is skipped _even if there exist some with higher generation number_. This heuristic is wrong! It must check the MAXIMUM generation number of the reference commits, not the MINIMUM. This highlights a testing gap. t6600-test-reach.sh covers many methods in commit-reach.c, including in_merge_bases() and get_merge_bases_many(), but since these methods either restrict to two input commits or actually look for the full list of merge bases, they don't check this heuristic! Add a possible input to "test-tool reach" that tests in_merge_bases_many() and add tests to t6600-test-reach.sh that cover this heuristic. This includes cases for the reference commits having generation above and below the generation of the input commit, but also having maximum generation below the generation of the input commit. The fix itself is to swap min_generation with a max_generation in repo_in_merge_bases_many(). Reported-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-06Merge branch 'cb/is-descendant-of'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+6
Code clean-up. * cb/is-descendant-of: commit-reach: avoid is_descendant_of() shim
2020-07-06Merge branch 'ak/commit-graph-to-slab'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-26/+43
A few fields in "struct commit" that do not have to always be present have been moved to commit slabs. * ak/commit-graph-to-slab: commit-graph: minimize commit_graph_data_slab access commit: move members graph_pos, generation to a slab commit-graph: introduce commit_graph_data_slab object: drop parsed_object_pool->commit_count
2020-06-29Merge branch 'rs/commit-reach-leakfix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Leakfix. * rs/commit-reach-leakfix: commit-reach: plug minor memory leak after using is_descendant_of()
2020-06-23commit-reach: avoid is_descendant_of() shimLibravatar Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón1-10/+6
d91d6fbf26 (commit-reach: create repo_is_descendant_of(), 2020-06-17) adds a repository aware version of is_descendant_of() and a backward compatibility shim that is barely used. Update all callers to directly use the new repo_is_descendant_of() function instead; making the codebase simpler and pushing more the_repository references higher up the stack. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-19commit-reach: plug minor memory leak after using is_descendant_of()Libravatar René Scharfe1-1/+4
ref_newer() builds a commit_list to pass a single potential ancestor to is_descendant_of(). The latter leaves the list intact. Release the allocated memory after the call. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-17commit-graph: minimize commit_graph_data_slab accessLibravatar Abhishek Kumar1-21/+38
In an earlier patch, multiple struct acccesses to `graph_pos` and `generation` were auto-converted to multiple method calls. Since the values are fixed and commit-slab access costly, we would be better off with storing the values as a local variable and reusing it. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-17commit: move members graph_pos, generation to a slabLibravatar Abhishek Kumar1-25/+25
We remove members `graph_pos` and `generation` from the struct commit. The default assignments in init_commit_node() are no longer valid, which is fine as the slab helpers return appropriate default values and the assignments are removed. We will replace existing use of commit->generation and commit->graph_pos by commit_graph_data_slab helpers using `contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci'. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-17commit-reach: use fast logic in repo_in_merge_baseLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+10
The repo_is_descendant_of() method is aware of the existence of the commit-graph file. It checks for generation_numbers_enabled() before deciding on using can_all_from_reach() or repo_in_merge_bases() depending on the situation. The reason here is that can_all_from_reach() uses a depth-first search that is limited by the minimum generation number of the target commits, and that algorithm can be very slow when generation numbers are not present. The alternative uses paint_down_to_common() which will walk the entire merge-base boundary, which is typically slower. This method is used by commands like "git tag --contains" and "git branch --contains" for very fast results when a commit-graph file exists. Unfortunately, it is _not_ used in commands like "git merge-base --is-ancestor" which is doing an even simpler request. This issue was raised recently [1] with respect to a change to how generation numbers are stored, but was also reported much earlier [2] before commit-reach.c existed to simplify these reachability queries. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200607195347.GA8232@szeder.dev/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/87608bawoa.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ The root cause is that builtin/merge-base.c has a method handle_is_ancestor() that calls in_merge_bases(), an older version of repo_in_merge_bases(). It would be better if we have every caller to in_merge_bases() use the logic in can_all_from_reach() when possible. This is where things get a little tricky: repo_is_descendant_of() calls repo_in_merge_bases() in the non-generation numbers enabled case! If we simply update repo_in_merge_bases() to call repo_is_descendant_of() instead of repo_in_merge_bases_many(), then we will get a recursive call loop. Thankfully, this is caught by the test suite in the default mode (i.e. GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH=0). The trick, then, is to make the non-generation number case for repo_is_descendant_of() call repo_in_merge_bases_many() directly, skipping the non-_many version. This allows us to take advantage of this faster code path, when possible. The easiest way to measure the performance impact is to test the following command on the Linux kernel repository: git merge-base --is-ancestor <A> <B> | A | B | Time Before | Time After | |------|------|-------------|------------| | v3.0 | v5.7 | 0.459s | 0.028s | | v4.0 | v5.7 | 0.267s | 0.021s | | v5.0 | v5.7 | 0.074s | 0.013s | Note that each of these samples return success. The old code performed the same operation when <A> and <B> are swapped. However, can_all_from_reach() will return immediately if the generation numbers show that <A> has larger generation number than <B>. Thus, the time for the swapped case is universally 0.004s in each case. Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-17commit-reach: create repo_is_descendant_of()Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+9
The next change will make repo_in_merge_bases() depend on the logic in is_descendant_of(), but we need to make the method independent of the_repository first. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-25commit-graph: fix writing first commit-graph during fetchLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+0
The previous commit includes a failing test for an issue around fetch.writeCommitGraph and fetching in a repo with a submodule. Here, we fix that bug and set the test to "test_expect_success". The problem arises with this set of commands when the remote repo at <url> has a submodule. Note that --recurse-submodules is not needed to demonstrate the bug. $ git clone <url> test $ cd test $ git -c fetch.writeCommitGraph=true fetch origin Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (12/12), done. BUG: commit-graph.c:886: missing parent <hash1> for commit <hash2> Aborted (core dumped) As an initial fix, I converted the code in builtin/fetch.c that calls write_commit_graph_reachable() to instead launch a "git commit-graph write --reachable --split" process. That code worked, but is not how we want the feature to work long-term. That test did demonstrate that the issue must be something to do with internal state of the 'git fetch' process. The write_commit_graph() method in commit-graph.c ensures the commits we plan to write are "closed under reachability" using close_reachable(). This method walks from the input commits, and uses the UNINTERESTING flag to mark which commits have already been visited. This allows the walk to take O(N) time, where N is the number of commits, instead of O(P) time, where P is the number of paths. (The number of paths can be exponential in the number of commits.) However, the UNINTERESTING flag is used in lots of places in the codebase. This flag usually means some barrier to stop a commit walk, such as in revision-walking to compare histories. It is not often cleared after the walk completes because the starting points of those walks do not have the UNINTERESTING flag, and clear_commit_marks() would stop immediately. This is happening during a 'git fetch' call with a remote. The fetch negotiation is comparing the remote refs with the local refs and marking some commits as UNINTERESTING. I tested running clear_commit_marks_many() to clear the UNINTERESTING flag inside close_reachable(), but the tips did not have the flag, so that did nothing. It turns out that the calculate_changed_submodule_paths() method is at fault. Thanks, Peff, for pointing out this detail! More specifically, for each submodule, the collect_changed_submodules() runs a revision walk to essentially do file-history on the list of submodules. That revision walk marks commits UNININTERESTING if they are simplified away by not changing the submodule. Instead, I finally arrived on the conclusion that I should use a flag that is not used in any other part of the code. In commit-reach.c, a number of flags were defined for commit walk algorithms. The REACHABLE flag seemed like it made the most sense, and it seems it was not actually used in the file. The REACHABLE flag was used in early versions of commit-reach.c, but was removed by 4fbcca4 (commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear, 2018-07-20). Add the REACHABLE flag to commit-graph.c and use it instead of UNINTERESTING in close_reachable(). This fixes the bug in manual testing. Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-05Merge branch 'sb/more-repo-in-api'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-30/+43
The in-core repository instances are passed through more codepaths. * sb/more-repo-in-api: (23 commits) t/helper/test-repository: celebrate independence from the_repository path.h: make REPO_GIT_PATH_FUNC repository agnostic commit: prepare free_commit_buffer and release_commit_memory for any repo commit-graph: convert remaining functions to handle any repo submodule: don't add submodule as odb for push submodule: use submodule repos for object lookup pretty: prepare format_commit_message to handle arbitrary repositories commit: prepare logmsg_reencode to handle arbitrary repositories commit: prepare repo_unuse_commit_buffer to handle any repo commit: prepare get_commit_buffer to handle any repo commit-reach: prepare in_merge_bases[_many] to handle any repo commit-reach: prepare get_merge_bases to handle any repo commit-reach.c: allow get_merge_bases_many_0 to handle any repo commit-reach.c: allow remove_redundant to handle any repo commit-reach.c: allow merge_bases_many to handle any repo commit-reach.c: allow paint_down_to_common to handle any repo commit: allow parse_commit* to handle any repo object: parse_object to honor its repository argument object-store: prepare has_{sha1, object}_file to handle any repo object-store: prepare read_object_file to deal with any repo ...
2018-11-14commit-reach: prepare in_merge_bases[_many] to handle any repoLibravatar Stefan Beller1-6/+9
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-14commit-reach: prepare get_merge_bases to handle any repoLibravatar Stefan Beller1-10/+14
Similarly to previous patches, the get_merge_base functions are used often in the code base, which makes migrating them hard. Implement the new functions, prefixed with 'repo_' and hide the old functions behind a wrapper macro. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-14commit-reach.c: allow get_merge_bases_many_0 to handle any repoLibravatar Stefan Beller1-6/+7
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-14commit-reach.c: allow remove_redundant to handle any repoLibravatar Stefan Beller1-5/+5
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-14commit-reach.c: allow merge_bases_many to handle any repoLibravatar Stefan Beller1-5/+7
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-14commit-reach.c: allow paint_down_to_common to handle any repoLibravatar Stefan Beller1-6/+9
As the function is file local and not widely used, migrate it all at once. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-03commit-reach: implement get_reachable_subsetLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+69
The existing reachability algorithms in commit-reach.c focus on finding merge-bases or determining if all commits in a set X can reach at least one commit in a set Y. However, for two commits sets X and Y, we may also care about which commits in Y are reachable from at least one commit in X. Implement get_reachable_subset() which answers this question. Given two arrays of commits, 'from' and 'to', return a commit_list with every commit from the 'to' array that is reachable from at least one commit in the 'from' array. The algorithm is a simple walk starting at the 'from' commits, using the PARENT2 flag to indicate "this commit has already been added to the walk queue". By marking the 'to' commits with the PARENT1 flag, we can determine when we see a commit from the 'to' array. We remove the PARENT1 flag as we add that commit to the result list to avoid duplicates. The order of the resulting list is a reverse of the order that the commits are discovered in the walk. There are a couple shortcuts to avoid walking more than we need: 1. We determine the minimum generation number of commits in the 'to' array. We do not walk commits with generation number below this minimum. 2. We count how many distinct commits are in the 'to' array, and decrement this count when we discover a 'to' commit during the walk. If this number reaches zero, then we can terminate the walk. Tests will be added using the 'test-tool reach' helper in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-30Merge branch 'ds/reachable'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Trivial bugfix. * ds/reachable: commit-reach: fix cast in compare_commits_by_gen()
2018-10-23commit-reach: fix cast in compare_commits_by_gen()Libravatar René Scharfe1-2/+2
The elements of the array to be sorted are commit pointers, so the comparison function gets handed references to these pointers, not pointers to commit objects. Cast to the right type and dereference once to correctly get the commit reference. Found using Clang's ASan and t5500. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-19commit-reach: fix first-parent heuristicLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+3
The algorithm in can_all_from_reach_with_flags() performs a depth- first-search, terminated by generation number, intending to use a hueristic that "important" commits are found in the first-parent history. This heuristic is valuable in scenarios like fetch negotiation. However, there is a problem! After the search finds a target commit, it should pop all commits off the stack and mark them as "can reach". This logic is incorrect, so the algorithm instead walks all reachable commits above the generation-number cutoff. The existing algorithm is still an improvement over the previous algorithm, as the worst-case complexity went from quadratic to linear. The performance measurement at the time was good, but not dramatic. By fixing this heuristic, we reduce the number of walked commits. We can also re-run the performance tests from commit 4fbcca4e "commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear". Performance was measured on the Linux repository using 'test-tool reach can_all_from_reach'. The input included rows seeded by tag values. The "small" case included X-rows as v4.[0-9]* and Y-rows as v3.[0-9]*. This mimics a (very large) fetch that says "I have all major v3 releases and want all major v4 releases." The "large" case included X-rows as "v4.*" and Y-rows as "v3.*". This adds all release-candidate tags to the set, which does not greatly increase the number of objects that are considered, but does increase the number of 'from' commits, demonstrating the quadratic nature of the previous code. Small Case: 4fbcca4e~1: 0.85 s 4fbcca4e: 0.26 s (num_walked: 1,011,035) HEAD: 0.14 s (num_walked: 8,601) Large Case: 4fbcca4e~1: 24.0 s 4fbcca4e: 0.12 s (num_walked: 503,925) HEAD: 0.06 s (num_walked: 217,243) Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-16Merge branch 'jk/oideq-hasheq-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code clean-up. * jk/oideq-hasheq-cleanup: more oideq/hasheq conversions
2018-10-16Merge branch 'ds/reachable-final-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+3
Code already in 'master' is further cleaned-up by this patch. * ds/reachable-final-cleanup: commit-reach: cleanups in can_all_from_reach...
2018-10-04more oideq/hasheq conversionsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
We added faster equality-comparison functions for hashes in 14438c4497 (introduce hasheq() and oideq(), 2018-08-28). A few topics were in-flight at the time, and can now be converted. This covers all spots found by "make coccicheck" in master (the coccicheck results were tweaked by hand for style). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-25commit-reach: cleanups in can_all_from_reach...Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-5/+3
Due to a regression introduced by 4fbcca4e "commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear" the series including b67f6b26 "commit-reach: properly peel tags" was merged to master quickly. There were a few more cleanups left to apply in the series, which are included by this change: 1. Clean up a comment that is in the incorrect style. 2. Replace multiple calls to clear_commit_marks() with one call to clear_commit_marks_many(). Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-24Merge branch 'ds/reachable'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+34
Recent update broke the reachability algorithm when refs (e.g. tags) that point at objects that are not commit were involved, which has been fixed. * ds/reachable: commit-reach: fix memory and flag leaks commit-reach: properly peel tags
2018-09-21commit-reach: fix memory and flag leaksLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+5
The can_all_from_reach_with_flag() method uses 'assign_flag' as a value we can use to mark objects temporarily during our commit walk. The intent is that these flags are removed from all objects before returning. However, this is not the case. The 'from' array could also contain objects that are not commits, and we mark those objects with 'assign_flag'. Add a loop to the 'cleanup' section that removes these markers. Also, we forgot to free() the memory for 'list', so add that to the 'cleanup' section. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-21commit-reach: properly peel tagsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-7/+29
The can_all_from_reach_with_flag() algorithm was refactored in 4fbcca4e "commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear" but incorrectly assumed that all objects provided were commits. During a fetch negotiation, ok_to_give_up() in upload-pack.c may provide unpeeled tags to the 'from' array. The current code creates a segfault. Add a direct call to can_all_from_reach_with_flag() in 'test-tool reach' and add a test in t6600-test-reach.sh that demonstrates this segfault. Correct the issue by peeling tags when investigating the initial list of objects in the 'from' array. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-17Merge branch 'ds/reachable'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+665
The code for computing history reachability has been shuffled, obtained a bunch of new tests to cover them, and then being improved. * ds/reachable: commit-reach: correct accidental #include of C file commit-reach: use can_all_from_reach commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear commit-reach: replace ref_newer logic test-reach: test commit_contains test-reach: test can_all_from_reach_with_flags test-reach: test reduce_heads test-reach: test get_merge_bases_many test-reach: test is_descendant_of test-reach: test in_merge_bases test-reach: create new test tool for ref_newer commit-reach: move can_all_from_reach_with_flags upload-pack: generalize commit date cutoff upload-pack: refactor ok_to_give_up() upload-pack: make reachable() more generic commit-reach: move commit_contains from ref-filter commit-reach: move ref_newer from remote.c commit.h: remove method declarations commit-reach: move walk methods from commit.c
2018-08-28commit-reach: correct accidental #include of C fileLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Without this change, the build breaks with clang: libgit/ref-filter.pic.o: multiple definition of 'filter_refs' libgit/commit-reach.pic.o: previous definition here Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20commit-reach: use can_all_from_reachLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-7/+17
The is_descendant_of method previously used in_merge_bases() to check if the commit can reach any of the commits in the provided list. This had two performance problems: 1. The performance is quadratic in worst-case. 2. A single in_merge_bases() call requires walking beyond the target commit in order to find the full set of boundary commits that may be merge-bases. The can_all_from_reach method avoids this quadratic behavior and can limit the search beyond the target commits using generation numbers. It requires a small prototype adjustment to stop using commit-date as a cutoff, as that optimization is no longer appropriate here. Since in_merge_bases() uses paint_down_to_common(), is_descendant_of() naturally found cutoffs to avoid walking the entire commit graph. Since we want to always return the correct result, we cannot use the min_commit_date cutoff in can_all_from_reach. We then rely on generation numbers to provide the cutoff. Since not all repos will have a commit-graph file, nor will we always have generation numbers computed for a commit-graph file, create a new method, generation_numbers_enabled(), that checks for a commit-graph file and sees if the first commit in the file has a non-zero generation number. In the case that we do not have generation numbers, use the old logic for is_descendant_of(). Performance was meausured on a copy of the Linux repository using the 'test-tool reach is_descendant_of' command using this input: A:v4.9 X:v4.10 X:v4.11 X:v4.12 X:v4.13 X:v4.14 X:v4.15 X:v4.16 X:v4.17 X.v3.0 Note that this input is tailored to demonstrate the quadratic nature of the previous method, as it will compute merge-bases for v4.9 versus all of the later versions before checking against v4.1. Before: 0.26 s After: 0.21 s Since we previously used the is_descendant_of method in the ref_newer method, we also measured performance there using 'test-tool reach ref_newer' with this input: A:v4.9 B:v3.19 Before: 0.10 s After: 0.08 s By adding a new commit with parent v3.19, we test the non-reachable case of ref_newer: Before: 0.09 s After: 0.08 s Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linearLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-47/+75
The can_all_from_reach_with_flags() algorithm is currently quadratic in the worst case, because it calls the reachable() method for every 'from' without tracking which commits have already been walked or which can already reach a commit in 'to'. Rewrite the algorithm to walk each commit a constant number of times. We also add some optimizations that should work for the main consumer of this method: fetch negotitation (haves/wants). The first step includes using a depth-first-search (DFS) from each 'from' commit, sorted by ascending generation number. We do not walk beyond the minimum generation number or the minimum commit date. This DFS is likely to be faster than the existing reachable() method because we expect previous ref values to be along the first-parent history. If we find a target commit, then we mark everything in the DFS stack as a RESULT. This expands the set of targets for the other 'from' commits. We also mark the visited commits using 'assign_flag' to prevent re- walking the same commits. We still need to clear our flags at the end, which is why we will have a total of three visits to each commit. Performance was measured on the Linux repository using 'test-tool reach can_all_from_reach'. The input included rows seeded by tag values. The "small" case included X-rows as v4.[0-9]* and Y-rows as v3.[0-9]*. This mimics a (very large) fetch that says "I have all major v3 releases and want all major v4 releases." The "large" case included X-rows as "v4.*" and Y-rows as "v3.*". This adds all release-candidate tags to the set, which does not greatly increase the number of objects that are considered, but does increase the number of 'from' commits, demonstrating the quadratic nature of the previous code. Small Case: Before: 1.52 s After: 0.26 s Large Case: Before: 3.50 s After: 0.27 s Note how the time increases between the two cases in the two versions. The new code increases relative to the number of commits that need to be walked, but not directly relative to the number of 'from' commits. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20commit-reach: replace ref_newer logicLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-23/+3
The ref_newer method is used by 'git push' to check if a force-push is required. This method does not use any kind of cutoff when walking, so in the case of a force-push will walk all reachable commits. The is_descendant_of method already uses paint_down_to_common along with cutoffs. By translating the ref_newer arguments into the commit and commit_list required by is_descendant_of, we can have one fewer commit walk and also improve our performance! For a copy of the Linux repository, 'test-tool reach ref_newer' presents the following improvements with the specified input. In the case that ref_newer returns 1, there is no improvement. The improvement is in the second case where ref_newer returns 0. Input: A:v4.9 B:v3.19 Before: 0.09 s After: 0.09 s To test the negative case, add a new commit with parent v3.19, regenerate the commit-graph, and then run with B pointing at that commit. Before: 0.43 s After: 0.09 s Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20test-reach: test can_all_from_reach_with_flagsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+47
The can_all_from_reach_with_flags method is used by ok_to_give_up in upload-pack.c to see if we have done enough negotiation during a fetch. This method is intentionally created to preserve state between calls to assist with stateful negotiation, such as over SSH. To make this method testable, add a new can_all_from_reach method that does the initial setup and final tear-down. We will later use this method in production code. Call the method from 'test-tool reach' for now. Since this is a many-to-many reachability query, add a new type of input to the 'test-tool reach' input format. Lines "Y:<committish>" create a list of commits to be the reachability targets from the commits in the 'X' list. In the context of fetch negotiation, the 'X' commits are the 'want' commits and the 'Y' commits are the 'have' commits. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20commit-reach: move can_all_from_reach_with_flagsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+63
There are several commit walks in the codebase. Group them together into a new commit-reach.c file and corresponding header. After we group these walks into one place, we can reduce duplicate logic by calling equivalent methods. The can_all_from_reach_with_flags method is used in a stateful way by upload-pack.c. The parameters are very flexible, so we will be able to use its commit walking logic for many other callers. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20commit-reach: move commit_contains from ref-filterLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+121
There are several commit walks in the codebase. Group them together into a new commit-reach.c file and corresponding header. After we group these walks into one place, we can reduce duplicate logic by calling equivalent methods. All methods are direct moves, except we also make the commit_contains() method public so its consumers in ref-filter.c can still call it. We can also test this method in a test-tool in a later commit. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20commit-reach: move ref_newer from remote.cLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+54
There are several commit walks in the codebase. Group them together into a new commit-reach.c file and corresponding header. After we group these walks into one place, we can reduce duplicate logic by calling equivalent methods. The ref_newer() method is used by 'git push -f' to check if a force-push is necessary. By making the method public, we make it possible to test the method directly without setting up an envieronment where a 'git push' call makes sense. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20commit-reach: move walk methods from commit.cLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+360
There are several commit walks in the codebase. Group them together into a new commit-reach.c file and corresponding header. After we group these walks into one place, we can reduce duplicate logic by calling equivalent methods. The method declarations in commit.h are not touched by this commit and will be moved in a following commit. Many consumers need to point to commit-reach.h and that would bloat this commit. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>