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2020-06-19refs: implement reference transaction hookLibravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-0/+32
The low-level reference transactions used to update references are currently completely opaque to the user. While certainly desirable in most usecases, there are some which might want to hook into the transaction to observe all queued reference updates as well as observing the abortion or commit of a prepared transaction. One such usecase would be to have a set of replicas of a given Git repository, where we perform Git operations on all of the repositories at once and expect the outcome to be the same in all of them. While there exist hooks already for a certain subset of Git commands that could be used to implement a voting mechanism for this, many others currently don't have any mechanism for this. The above scenario is the motivation for the new "reference-transaction" hook that reaches directly into Git's reference transaction mechanism. The hook receives as parameter the current state the transaction was moved to ("prepared", "committed" or "aborted") and gets via its standard input all queued reference updates. While the exit code gets ignored in the "committed" and "aborted" states, a non-zero exit code in the "prepared" state will cause the transaction to be aborted prematurely. Given the usecase described above, a voting mechanism can now be implemented via this hook: as soon as it gets called, it will take all of stdin and use it to cast a vote to a central service. When all replicas of the repository agree, the hook will exit with zero, otherwise it will abort the transaction by returning non-zero. The most important upside is that this will catch _all_ commands writing references at once, allowing to implement strong consistency for reference updates via a single mechanism. In order to test the impact on the case where we don't have any "reference-transaction" hook installed in the repository, this commit introduce two new performance tests for git-update-refs(1). Run against an empty repository, it produces the following results: Test origin/master HEAD -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1400.2: update-ref 2.70(2.10+0.71) 2.71(2.10+0.73) +0.4% 1400.3: update-ref --stdin 0.21(0.09+0.11) 0.21(0.07+0.14) +0.0% The performance test p1400.2 creates, updates and deletes a branch a thousand times, thus averaging runtime of git-update-refs over 3000 invocations. p1400.3 instead calls `git-update-refs --stdin` three times and queues a thousand creations, updates and deletes respectively. As expected, p1400.3 consistently shows no noticeable impact, as for each batch of updates there's a single call to access(3P) for the negative hook lookup. On the other hand, for p1400.2, one can see an impact caused by this patchset. But doing five runs of the performance tests where each one was run with GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10, the overhead ranged from -1.5% to +1.1%. These inconsistent performance numbers can be explained by the overhead of spawning 3000 processes. This shows that the overhead of assembling the hook path and executing access(3P) once to check if it's there is mostly outweighed by the operating system's overhead. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-04pack-bitmap: pass object filter to fill-in traversalLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
Sometimes a bitmap traversal still has to walk some commits manually, because those commits aren't included in the bitmap packfile (e.g., due to a push or commit since the last full repack). If we're given an object filter, we don't pass it down to this traversal. It's not necessary for correctness because the bitmap code has its own filters to post-process the bitmap result (which it must, to filter out the objects that _are_ mentioned in the bitmapped packfile). And with blob filters, there was no performance reason to pass along those filters, either. The fill-in traversal could omit them from the result, but it wouldn't save us any time to do so, since we'd still have to walk each tree entry to see if it's a blob or not. But now that we support tree filters, there's opportunity for savings. A tree:depth=0 filter means we can avoid accessing trees entirely, since we know we won't them (or any of the subtrees or blobs they point to). The new test in p5310 shows this off (the "partial bitmap" state is one where HEAD~100 and its ancestors are all in a bitmapped pack, but HEAD~100..HEAD are not). Here are the results (run against linux.git): Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] 5310.16: rev-list with tree filter (partial bitmap) 0.19(0.17+0.02) 0.03(0.02+0.01) -84.2% The absolute number of savings isn't _huge_, but keep in mind that we only omitted 100 first-parent links (in the version of linux.git here, that's 894 actual commits). In a more pathological case, we might have a much larger proportion of non-bitmapped commits. I didn't bother creating such a case in the perf script because the setup is expensive, and this is plenty to show the savings as a percentage. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-04pack-bitmap.c: support 'tree:0' filteringLibravatar Taylor Blau1-0/+5
In the previous patch, we made it easy to define other filters that exclude all objects of a certain type. Use that in order to implement bitmap-level filtering for the '--filter=tree:<n>' filter when 'n' is equal to 0. The general case is not helped by bitmaps, since for values of 'n > 0', the object filtering machinery requires a full-blown tree traversal in order to determine the depth of a given tree. Caching this is non-obvious, too, since the same tree object can have a different depth depending on the context (e.g., a tree was moved up in the directory hierarchy between two commits). But, the 'n = 0' case can be helped, and this patch does so. Running p5310.11 in this tree and on master with the kernel, we can see that this case is helped substantially: Test master this tree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5310.11: rev-list count with tree:0 10.68(10.39+0.27) 0.06(0.04+0.01) -99.4% Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-28Merge branch 'jk/fast-import-use-hashmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+23
The custom hash function used by "git fast-import" has been replaced with the one from hashmap.c, which gave us a nice performance boost. * jk/fast-import-use-hashmap: fast-import: replace custom hash with hashmap.c
2020-04-06fast-import: replace custom hash with hashmap.cLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+23
We use a custom hash in fast-import to store the set of objects we've imported so far. It has a fixed set of 2^16 buckets and chains any collisions with a linked list. As the number of objects grows larger than that, the load factor increases and we degrade to O(n) lookups and O(n^2) insertions. We can scale better by using our hashmap.c implementation, which will resize the bucket count as we grow. This does incur an extra memory cost of 8 bytes per object, as hashmap stores the integer hash value for each entry in its hashmap_entry struct (which we really don't care about here, because we're just reusing the embedded object hash). But I think the numbers below justify this (and our per-object memory cost is already much higher). I also looked at using khash, but it seemed to perform slightly worse than hashmap at all sizes, and worse even than the existing code for small sizes. It's also awkward to use here, because we want to look up a "struct object_entry" from a "struct object_id", and it doesn't handle mismatched keys as well. Making a mapping of object_id to object_entry would be more natural, but that would require pulling the embedded oid out of the object_entry or incurring an extra 32 bytes per object. In a synthetic test creating as many cheap, tiny objects as possible perl -e ' my $bits = shift; my $nr = 2**$bits; for (my $i = 0; $i < $nr; $i++) { print "blob\n"; print "data 4\n"; print pack("N", $i); } ' $bits | git fast-import I got these results: nr_objects master khash hashmap 2^20 0m4.317s 0m5.109s 0m3.890s 2^21 0m10.204s 0m9.702s 0m7.933s 2^22 0m27.159s 0m17.911s 0m16.751s 2^23 1m19.038s 0m35.080s 0m31.963s 2^24 4m18.766s 1m10.233s 1m6.793s which points to hashmap as the winner. We didn't have any perf tests for fast-export or fast-import, so I added one as a more real-world case. It uses an export without blobs since that's significantly cheaper than a full one, but still is an interesting case people might use (e.g., for rewriting history). It will emphasize this change in some ways (as a percentage we spend more time making objects and less shuffling blob bytes around) and less in others (the total object count is lower). Here are the results for linux.git: Test HEAD^ HEAD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9300.1: export (no-blobs) 67.64(66.96+0.67) 67.81(67.06+0.75) +0.3% 9300.2: import (no-blobs) 284.04(283.34+0.69) 198.09(196.01+0.92) -30.3% It only has ~5.2M commits and trees, so this is a larger effect than I expected (the 2^23 case above only improved by 50s or so, but here we gained almost 90s). This is probably due to actually performing more object lookups in a real import with trees and commits, as opposed to just dumping a bunch of blobs into a pack. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-27p5310: stop timing non-bitmap pack-to-diskLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+0
Commit 645c432d61 (pack-objects: use reachability bitmap index when generating non-stdout pack, 2016-09-10) added two timing tests for packing to an on-disk file, both with and without bitmaps. However, the non-bitmap one isn't interesting to have as part of p5310's regression suite. It _could_ be used as a baseline to show off the improvement in the bitmap case, but: - the point of the t/perf suite is to find performance regressions, and it won't help with that. We don't compare the numbers between two tests (which the perf suite has no idea are even related), and any change in its numbers would have nothing to do with bitmaps. - it did show off the improvement in the commit message of 645c432d61, but it wasn't even necessary there. The bitmap case already shows an improvement (because before the patch, it behaved the same as the non-bitmap case), and the perf suite is even able to show the difference between the before and after measurements. On top of that, it's one of the most expensive tests in the suite, clocking in around 60s for linux.git on my machine (as compared to 16s for the bitmapped version). And by default when using "./run", we'd run it three times! So let's just drop it. It's not useful and is adding minutes to perf runs. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-14pack-objects: support filters with bitmapsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
Just as rev-list recently learned to combine filters and bitmaps, let's do the same for pack-objects. The infrastructure is all there; we just need to pass along our filter options, and the pack-bitmap code will decide to use bitmaps or not. This unsurprisingly makes things faster for partial clones of large repositories (here we're cloning linux.git): Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5310.11: simulated partial clone 38.94(37.28+5.87) 11.06(11.27+4.07) -71.6% Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-14pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_LIMIT filteringLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
Just as the previous commit implemented BLOB_NONE, we can support BLOB_LIMIT filters by looking at the sizes of any blobs in the result and unsetting their bits as appropriate. This is slightly more expensive than BLOB_NONE, but still produces a noticeable speedup (these results are on git.git): Test HEAD~2 HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5310.9: rev-list count with blob:none 1.80(1.77+0.02) 0.22(0.20+0.02) -87.8% 5310.10: rev-list count with blob:limit=1k 1.99(1.96+0.03) 0.29(0.25+0.03) -85.4% The implementation is similar to the BLOB_NONE one, with the exception that we have to go object-by-object while walking the blob-type bitmap (since we can't mask out the matches, but must look up the size individually for each blob). The trick with using ctz64() is taken from show_objects_for_type(), which likewise needs to find individual bits (but wants to quickly skip over big chunks without blobs). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-14pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_NONE filteringLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
We can easily support BLOB_NONE filters with bitmaps. Since we know the types of all of the objects, we just need to clear the result bits of any blobs. Note two subtleties in the implementation (which I also called out in comments): - we have to include any blobs that were specifically asked for (and not reached through graph traversal) to match the non-bitmap version - we have to handle in-pack and "ext_index" objects separately. Arguably prepare_bitmap_walk() could be adding these ext_index objects to the type bitmaps. But it doesn't for now, so let's match the rest of the bitmap code here (it probably wouldn't be an efficiency improvement to do so since the cost of extending those bitmaps is about the same as our loop here, but it might make the code a bit simpler). Here are perf results for the new test on git.git: Test HEAD^ HEAD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5310.9: rev-list count with blob:none 1.67(1.62+0.05) 0.22(0.21+0.02) -86.8% Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-14rev-list: allow commit-only bitmap traversalsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+8
Ever since we added reachability bitmap support, we've been able to use it with rev-list to get the full list of objects, like: git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index --all But you can't do so without --objects, since we weren't ready to just show the commits. However, the internals of the bitmap code are mostly ready for this: they avoid opening up trees when walking to fill in the bitmaps. We just need to actually pass in the rev_info to traverse_bitmap_commit_list() so it knows which types to bother triggering our callback for. For completeness, the perf test now covers both the existing --objects case, as well as the new commits-only behavior (the objects one got way faster when we introduced bitmaps, but obviously isn't improved now). Here are numbers for linux.git: Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5310.7: rev-list (commits) 8.29(8.10+0.19) 1.76(1.72+0.04) -78.8% 5310.8: rev-list (objects) 8.06(7.94+0.12) 8.14(7.94+0.13) +1.0% That run was cheating a little, as I didn't have any commit-graph in the repository, and we'd built it by default these days when running git-gc. Here are numbers with a commit-graph: Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5310.7: rev-list (commits) 0.70(0.58+0.12) 0.51(0.46+0.04) -27.1% 5310.8: rev-list (objects) 6.20(6.09+0.10) 6.27(6.16+0.11) +1.1% Still an improvement, but a lot less impressive. We could have the perf script remove any commit-graph to show the out-sized effect, but it probably makes sense to leave it in what would be a more typical setup. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-16Merge branch 'cs/store-packfiles-in-hashmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+18
In a repository with many packfiles, the cost of the procedure that avoids registering the same packfile twice was unnecessarily high by using an inefficient search algorithm, which has been corrected. * cs/store-packfiles-in-hashmap: packfile.c: speed up loading lots of packfiles
2019-12-10Merge branch 'jk/perf-wo-git-dot-pm'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
Test cleanup. * jk/perf-wo-git-dot-pm: t/perf: don't depend on Git.pm
2019-12-06Merge branch 'tg/perf-remove-stale-result'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-11/+5
PerfTest fix to avoid stale result mixed up with the latest round of test results. * tg/perf-remove-stale-result: perf-lib: use a single filename for all measurement types
2019-12-03packfile.c: speed up loading lots of packfilesLibravatar Colin Stolley1-0/+18
When loading packfiles on start-up, we traverse the internal packfile list once per file to avoid reloading packfiles that have already been loaded. This check runs in quadratic time, so for poorly maintained repos with a large number of packfiles, it can be pretty slow. Add a hashmap containing the packfile names as we load them so that the average runtime cost of checking for already-loaded packs becomes constant. Add a perf test to p5303 to show speed-up. The existing p5303 test runtimes are dominated by other factors and do not show an appreciable speed-up. The new test in p5303 clearly exposes a speed-up in bad cases. In this test we create 10,000 packfiles and measure the start-up time of git rev-parse, which does little else besides load in the packs. Here are the numbers for the new p5303 test: Test HEAD^ HEAD --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5303.12: load 10,000 packs 1.03(0.92+0.10) 0.12(0.02+0.09) -88.3% Signed-off-by: Colin Stolley <cstolley@runbox.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> [jc: squashed the change to call hashmap in install_packed_git() by peff] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-01Merge branch 'jk/optim-in-pack-idx-conversion'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Code clean-up. * jk/optim-in-pack-idx-conversion: pack-objects: avoid pointless oe_map_new_pack() calls
2019-11-27t/perf: don't depend on Git.pmLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+7
The perf suite's aggregate.perl depends on Git.pm, which is a mild annoyance if you've built git with NO_PERL. It turns out that the only thing we use it for is a single call of the command_oneline() helper. We can just replace this with backticks or similar. Annoyingly, perl has no backtick equivalent that avoids a shell eval, which means our $arg would require quoting. This probably doesn't matter for our purposes, but it's better to be safe and model good style. So we'll just provide a short helper around open(), which takes its arguments as a list. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-27perf-lib: use a single filename for all measurement typesLibravatar Jeff King2-11/+5
The perf tests write files recording the results of tests. These results are later aggregated by 'aggregate.perl'. If the tests are run multiple times, those results are overwritten by the new results. This works just fine as long as there are only perf tests measuring the times, whose results are stored in "$base".times files. However 22bec79d1a ("t/perf: add infrastructure for measuring sizes", 2018-08-17) introduced a new type of test for measuring the size of something. The results of this are written to "$base".size files. "$base" is essentially made up of the basename of the script plus the test number. So if test numbers shift because a new test was introduced earlier in the script we might end up with both a ".times" and a ".size" file for the same test. In the aggregation script the ".times" file is preferred over the ".size" file, so some size tests might end with performance numbers from a previous run of the test. This is mainly relevant when writing perf tests that check both performance and sizes, and can get quite confusing during developement. We could fix this by doing a more thorough job of cleaning out old ".times" and ".size" files before running each test. However, an even easier solution is to just use the same filename for both types of measurement, meaning we'll always overwrite the previous result. We don't even need to change the file format to distinguish the two; aggregate.perl already decides which is which based on a regex of the content (this may become ambiguous if we add new types in the future, but we could easily add a header field to the file at that point). Based on an initial patch from Thomas Gummerer, who discovered the problem and did all of the analysis (which I stole for the commit message above): https://public-inbox.org/git/20191119185047.8550-1-t.gummerer@gmail.com/ Helped-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-12pack-objects: avoid pointless oe_map_new_pack() callsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
This patch fixes an extreme slowdown in pack-objects when you have more than 1023 packs. See below for numbers. Since 43fa44fa3b (pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry, 2018-04-14), we use a complicated system to save some per-object memory. Each object_entry structs gets a 10-bit field to store the index of the pack it's in. We map those indices into pointers using packing_data->in_pack_by_idx, which we initialize at the start of the program. If we have 2^10 or more packs, then we instead create an array of pack pointers, one per object. This is packing_data->in_pack. So far so good. But there's one other tricky case: if a new pack arrives after we've initialized in_pack_by_idx, it won't have an index yet. We solve that by calling oe_map_new_pack(), which just switches on the fly to the less-optimal in_pack mechanism, allocating the array and back-filling it for already-seen objects. But that logic kicks in even when we've switched to it already (whether because we really did see a new pack, or because we had too many packs in the first place). The result doesn't produce a wrong outcome, but it's very slow. What happens is this: - imagine you have a repo with 500k objects and 2000 packs that you want to repack. - before looking at any objects, we call prepare_in_pack_by_idx(). It starts allocating an index for each pack. On the 1024th pack, it sees there are too many, so it bails, leaving in_pack_by_idx as NULL. - while actually adding objects to the packing list, we call oe_set_in_pack(), which checks whether the pack already has an index. If it's one of the packs after the first 1023, then it doesn't have one, and we'll call oe_map_new_pack(). But there's no useful work for that function to do. We're already using in_pack, so it just uselessly walks over the complete list of objects, trying to backfill in_pack. And we end up doing this for almost 1000 packs (each of which may be triggered by more than one object). And each time it triggers, we may iterate over up to 500k objects. So in the absolute worst case, this is quadratic in the number of objects. The solution is simple: we don't need to bother checking whether the pack has an index if we've already converted to using in_pack, since by definition we're not going to use it. So we can just push the "does the pack have a valid index" check down into that half of the conditional, where we know we're going to use it. The current test in p5303 sadly doesn't notice this problem, since it maxes out at 1000 packs. If we add a new test to it at 2000 packs, it does show the improvement: Test HEAD^ HEAD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5303.12: repack (2000) 26.72(39.68+0.67) 15.70(28.70+0.66) -41.2% However, these many-pack test cases are rather expensive to run, so adding larger and larger numbers isn't appealing. Instead, we can show it off more easily by using GIT_TEST_FULL_IN_PACK_ARRAY, which forces us into the absolute worst case: no pack has an index, so we'll trigger oe_map_new_pack() pointlessly for every single object, making it truly quadratic. Here are the numbers (on git.git) with the included change to p5303: Test HEAD^ HEAD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5303.3: rev-list (1) 2.05(1.98+0.06) 2.06(1.99+0.06) +0.5% 5303.4: repack (1) 33.45(33.46+0.19) 2.75(2.73+0.22) -91.8% 5303.6: rev-list (50) 2.07(2.01+0.06) 2.06(2.01+0.05) -0.5% 5303.7: repack (50) 34.21(35.18+0.16) 3.49(4.50+0.12) -89.8% 5303.9: rev-list (1000) 2.87(2.78+0.08) 2.88(2.80+0.07) +0.3% 5303.10: repack (1000) 41.26(51.30+0.47) 10.75(20.75+0.44) -73.9% Again, those improvements aren't realistic for the 1-pack case (because in the real world, the full-array solution doesn't kick in), but it's more useful to be testing the more-complicated code path. While we're looking at this issue, we'll tweak one more thing: in oe_map_new_pack(), we call REALLOC_ARRAY(pack->in_pack). But we'd never expect to get here unless we're back-filling it for the first time, in which case it would be NULL. So let's switch that to ALLOC_ARRAY() for clarity, and add a BUG() to document the expectation. Unfortunately this code isn't well-covered in the test suite because it's inherently racy (it only kicks in if somebody else adds a new pack while we're in the middle of repacking). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-10Fix spelling errors in messages shown to usersLibravatar Elijah Newren1-1/+1
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-12t/perf: rename duplicate-numbered test scriptLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+0
There are two perf scripts numbered p5600, but with otherwise different names ("clone-reference" versus "partial-clone"). We store timing results in files named after the whole script, so internally we don't get confused between the two. But "aggregate.perl" just prints the test number for each result, giving multiple entries for "5600.3". It also makes it impossible to skip one test but not the other with GIT_SKIP_TESTS. Let's renumber the one that appeared later (by date -- the source of the problem is that the two were developed on independent branches). For the non-perf test suite, our test-lint rule would have complained about this when the two were merged, but t/perf never learned that trick. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-01check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips are validLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+27
When we receive a remote ref update to sha1 "X", we want to check that we have all of the objects needed by "X". We can assume that our repository is not currently corrupted, and therefore if we have a ref pointing at "Y", we have all of its objects. So we can stop our traversal from "X" as soon as we hit "Y". If we make the same non-corruption assumption about any repositories we use to store alternates, then we can also use their ref tips to shorten the traversal. This is especially useful when cloning with "--reference", as we otherwise do not have any local refs to check against, and have to traverse the whole history, even though the other side may have sent us few or no objects. Here are results for the included perf test (which shows off more or less the maximal savings, getting one new commit and sharing the whole history): Test HEAD^ HEAD -------------------------------------------------------------------- [on git.git] 5600.3: clone --reference 2.94(2.86+0.08) 0.09(0.08+0.01) -96.9% [on linux.git] 5600.3: clone --reference 45.74(45.34+0.41) 0.36(0.30+0.08) -99.2% Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19Merge branch 'ab/perf-installed-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-27/+53
Performance test framework has been broken and measured the version of Git that happens to be on $PATH, not the specified one to measure, for a while, which has been corrected. * ab/perf-installed-fix: perf-lib.sh: forbid the use of GIT_TEST_INSTALLED perf tests: add "bindir" prefix to git tree test results perf-lib.sh: remove GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from perf-lib.sh perf-lib.sh: make "./run <revisions>" use the correct gits perf aggregate: remove GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from --codespeed perf README: correct docs for 3c8f12c96c regression
2019-05-13Merge branch 'jk/perf-aggregate-wo-libjson'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The script to aggregate perf result unconditionally depended on libjson-perl even though it did not have to, which has been corrected. * jk/perf-aggregate-wo-libjson: t/perf: depend on perl JSON only when using --codespeed
2019-05-13Merge branch 'jk/p5302-avoid-collision-check-cost'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+18
Fix index-pack perf test so that the repeated invocations always run in an empty repository, which emulates the initial clone situation better. * jk/p5302-avoid-collision-check-cost: p5302: create the repo in each index-pack test
2019-05-13Merge branch 'ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+1
The connectivity bitmaps are created by default in bare repositories now; also the pathname hash-cache is created by default to avoid making crappy deltas when repacking. * ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default: pack-objects: default to writing bitmap hash-cache t5310: correctly remove bitmaps for jgit test repack: enable bitmaps by default on bare repos
2019-05-13Merge branch 'js/partial-clone-connectivity-check'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+26
During an initial "git clone --depth=..." partial clone, it is pointless to spend cycles for a large portion of the connectivity check that enumerates and skips promisor objects (which by definition is all objects fetched from the other side). This has been optimized out. * js/partial-clone-connectivity-check: t/perf: add perf script for partial clones clone: do faster object check for partial clones
2019-05-08perf-lib.sh: forbid the use of GIT_TEST_INSTALLEDLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason2-0/+13
As noted in preceding commits setting GIT_TEST_INSTALLED has never been supported or documented, and as noted in an earlier t/perf/README change to the extent that it's been documented nobody's notices that the example hasn't worked since 3c8f12c96c ("test-lib: reorder and include GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS a lot earlier", 2012-06-24). We could directly support GIT_TEST_INSTALLED for invocations without the "run" script, such as: GIT_TEST_INSTALLED=../../ ./p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh GIT_TEST_INSTALLED=/home/avar/g/git ./p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh But while not having this "error" will "work", it won't write the the resulting "test-results/*" files to the right place, and thus a subsequent call to aggregate.perl won't work as expected. Let's just tell the user that they need to use the "run" script, which'll correctly deal with this and set the right PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX. If someone's in desperate need of bypassing "run" for whatever reason they can trivially do so by setting "PERF_SET_GIT_TEST_INSTALLED", but not we won't have people who expect GIT_TEST_INSTALLED to just work wondering why their aggregation doesn't work, even though they're running the right "git". Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
2019-05-08perf tests: add "bindir" prefix to git tree test resultsLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason2-2/+4
Change the output file names in test-results/ to be "test-results/bindir_<munged dir>" rather than just "test-results/<munged dir>". This is for consistency with the "build_" directories we have for built revisions, i.e. "test-results/build_<SHA-1>". There's no user-visible functional changes here, it just makes it easier to see at a glance what "test-results" files are of what "type" as they're all explicitly grouped together now, and to grep this code to find both the run_dirs_helper() implementation and its corresponding aggregate.perl code. Note that we already guarantee that the rest of the PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX is an absolute path, and since it'll start with e.g. "/" which we munge to "_" we'll up with a readable string like "bindir_home_avar[...]". Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
2019-05-08perf-lib.sh: remove GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from perf-lib.shLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason3-32/+38
Follow-up my preceding change which fixed the immediate "./run <revisions>" regression in 0baf78e7bc ("perf-lib.sh: rely on test-lib.sh for --tee handling", 2019-03-15) and entirely get rid of GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from perf-lib.sh (and aggregate.perl). As noted in that change the dance we're doing with GIT_TEST_INSTALLED perf-lib.sh isn't necessary, but there I was doing the most minimal set of changes to quickly fix a regression. But it's much simpler to never deal with the "GIT_TEST_INSTALLED" we were setting in perf-lib.sh at all. Instead the run_dirs_helper() sets the previously inferred $PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX directly. Setting this at the callsite that's already best positioned to exhaustively know about all the different cases we need to handle where PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX isn't what we want already (the empty string) makes the most sense. In one-off cases like: ./run ./p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh ./p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh We'll just do the right thing because PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX will be empty, and test-lib.sh takes care of finding where our git is. Any refactoring of this code needs to change both the shell code and the Perl code in aggregate.perl, because when running e.g.: ./run ../../ -- <test> The "../../" path to a relative bindir needs to be munged to a filename containing the results, and critically aggregate.perl does not get passed the path to those aggregations, just "../..". Let's fix cases where aggregate.perl would print e.g. ".." in its report output for this, and "git" for "/home/avar/g/git", i.e. it would always pick the last element. Now'll always print the full path instead. This also makes the code sturdier, e.g. you can feed "../.." to "./run" and then an absolute path to the aggregate.perl script, as long as the absolute path and "../.." resolved to the same directory printing the aggregation will work. Also simplify the "[_*]" on the RHS of "tr -c", we're trimming everything to "_", so we don't need that. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
2019-05-08perf-lib.sh: make "./run <revisions>" use the correct gitsLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason2-2/+10
Fix a really bad regression in 0baf78e7bc ("perf-lib.sh: rely on test-lib.sh for --tee handling", 2019-03-15). Since that change all runs of different <revisions> of git have used the git found in the user's $PATH, e.g. /usr/bin/git instead of the <revision> we just built and wanted to performance test. The problem starts with GIT_TEST_INSTALLED not working like our non-perf tests with the "run" script. I.e. you can't run performance tests against a given installed git. Instead we expect to use it ourselves to point GIT_TEST_INSTALLED to the <revision> we just built. However, we had been relying on '$(cd "$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED" && pwd)' to resolve that relative $GIT_TEST_INSTALLED to an absolute path *before* test-lib.sh was loaded, in cases where it was e.g. "build/<rev>/bin-wrappers" and we wanted "<abs_path>build/...". This change post-dates another proposed solution by a few days[1], I didn't notice that version when I initially wrote this. I'm doing the most minimal thing to solve the regression here, a follow-up change will move this result prefix selection logic entirely into the "run" script. This makes e.g. these cases all work: ./run . $PWD/../../ origin/master origin/next HEAD -- <tests> As well as just a plain one-off: ./run <tests> And, since we're passing down the new GIT_PERF_DIR_MYDIR_REL we make sure the bug relating to aggregate.perl not finding our files as described in 0baf78e7bc doesn't happen again. What *doesn't* work is setting GIT_TEST_INSTALLED to a relative path, this will subtly fail in test-lib.sh. This has always been the case even before 0baf78e7bc, and as documented in t/README the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED variable should be set to an absolute path (needs to be set "to the bindir", which is always absolute), and the "perf" framework expects to munge it itself. Perhaps that should be dealt with in the future to allow manually setting GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, but as a preceding commit showed the user can just use the "run" script, which'll also pick the right output directory for the test results as expected by aggregate.perl. 1. https://public-inbox.org/git/20190502222409.GA15631@sigill.intra.peff.net/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
2019-05-08perf aggregate: remove GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from --codespeedLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-3/+0
Remove the setting of the "environment" from the --codespeed output. I don't think this is useful, and it helps with a later refactoring where we GIT_TEST_INSTALLED stop munging/reading GIT_TEST_INSTALLED in the perf tests in so many places. This was added in 05eb1c37ed ("perf/aggregate: implement codespeed JSON output", 2018-01-05), but since the "run" scripts uses "GIT_TEST_INSTALLED" internally this was only ever useful for one-off runs of a single revision as all the "environment" values would be ones for whatever directory the "run" script ran last. Let's instead fall back on the "uname -r" case, which is the sort of thing the environment should be set to, not something that duplicates other parts of the codpseed output. For setting the "environment" to something custom the perf.repoName variable can be used. See 19cf57a92e ("perf/run: read GIT_PERF_REPO_NAME from perf.repoName", 2018-01-05). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
2019-05-08perf README: correct docs for 3c8f12c96c regressionLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
Since 3c8f12c96c ("test-lib: reorder and include GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS a lot earlier", 2012-06-24) the suggested advice of overriding GIT_BUILD_DIR has not worked. We've printed a hard error like this given e.g. GIT_BUILD_DIR=/home/avar/g/git: /bin-wrappers/git is not executable; using GIT_EXEC_PATH error: You haven't built things yet, have you? Let's just suggest that the user run other gits via the "run" script. That'll do the right thing for setting the path to the other git, and running the "aggregate.perl" scripts afterwards will work. As an aside, if setting GIT_BUILD_DIR had still worked, then the MODERN_GIT feature/fix added in 1a0962dee5 ("t/perf: fix regression in testing older versions of git", 2016-06-22) would have broke. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
2019-05-05t/perf: add perf script for partial clonesLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+26
We don't cover the partial clone feature at all in t/perf. Let's at least run a few basic tests so that we'll notice any regressions. We'll do a no-blob clone, and split it into two parts: the actual object transfer, and the subsequent checkout (which will of course require another transfer to get the blobs). That will help us more clearly assess the performance of each. There are obviously a lot more possibilities besides just a no-blob partial clone, but this should serve as a canary that alerts us to any generic slow-downs (and we can add more tests later for cases that aren't exercised here). There are a few non-ideal things here that make this not an entirely accurate test, but are probably OK for our purposes: 1. We have to do some extra prep/cleanup work inside the timing tests, since they impact the on-disk state and the perf harness may run each one multiple times. In practice this is probably OK, since these bits should be much less expensive than the operations we are measuring. 2. The clone time is likely to be dominated by the server's object enumeration. In the real world, a repo large enough to drive people to partial clones is likely to have reachability bitmaps enabled. And in the opposite direction, our object transfer is happening at the speed of a local pipe, whereas in the real world it would bottle-neck on the network. So any percentage speedups should be taken with a grain of salt. But hopefully any regressions will produce enough of an effect to be noticeable. This script also demonstrates the recent improvement from dfa33a298d (clone: do faster object check for partial clones, 2019-04-19): Test dfa33a298d^ dfa33a298d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5600.2: clone without blobs 18.41(22.72+1.09) 6.83(11.65+0.50) -62.9% 5600.3: checkout of result 1.82(3.24+0.26) 1.84(3.24+0.26) +1.1% Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-25Merge branch 'jk/revision-rewritten-parents-in-prio-queue'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+18
Performance fix for "rev-list --parents -- pathspec". * jk/revision-rewritten-parents-in-prio-queue: revision: use a prio_queue to hold rewritten parents
2019-04-24t/perf: depend on perl JSON only when using --codespeedLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
Commit 05eb1c37ed (perf/aggregate: implement codespeed JSON output, 2018-01-05) added a dependency on the perl JSON module to show output from aggregate.perl, but we only need it when the user asks for --codespeed output. While the module is pretty common, it's not part of the base system, and this dependency can get in the way of producing the default human-readable output. Let's bump the "use" down to a "require" in the code path that needs it, which will be interpreted at run-time instead of compile-time. People not using "--codespeed" won't even load the module, and anybody using it should see the same results (including the same perl error if they don't have it). Note that this skips the importing step, so we'll have to fully qualify our function call. We could accomplish the same thing in other ways. E.g., calling JSON->import() ourselves, or wrapping "use JSON" in an eval. Since there's only one such call, this seems like the least-magical way of doing it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-23p5302: create the repo in each index-pack testLibravatar Jeff King1-13/+18
The p5302 script runs "index-pack --stdin" in each timing test. It does two things to try to get good timings: 1. we do the repo creation in a separate (non-timed) setup test, so that our timing is purely the index-pack run 2. we use a separate repo for each test; this is important because the presence of existing objects in the repo influences the result (because we'll end up doing collision checks against them) But this forgets one thing: we generally run each timed test multiple times to reduce the impact of noise. Which means that repeats of each test after the first will be subject to the collision slowdown from point 2, and we'll generally just end up taking the first time anyway. Instead, let's create the repo in the test (effectively undoing point 1). That does add a constant amount of extra work to each iteration, but it's quite small compared to the actual effects we're interested in measuring. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-04revision: use a prio_queue to hold rewritten parentsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+18
This patch fixes a quadratic list insertion in rewrite_one() when pathspec limiting is combined with --parents. What happens is something like this: 1. We see that some commit X touches the path, so we try to rewrite its parents. 2. rewrite_one() loops forever, rewriting parents, until it finds a relevant parent (or hits the root and decides there are none). The heavy lifting is done by process_parent(), which uses try_to_simplify_commit() to drop parents. 3. process_parent() puts any intermediate parents into the &revs->commits list, inserting by commit date as usual. So if commit X is recent, and then there's a large chunk of history that doesn't touch the path, we may add a lot of commits to &revs->commits. And insertion by commit date is O(n) in the worst case, making the whole thing quadratic. We tried to deal with this long ago in fce87ae538 (Fix quadratic performance in rewrite_one., 2008-07-12). In that scheme, we cache the oldest commit in the list; if the new commit to be added is older, we can start our linear traversal there. This often works well in practice because parents are older than their descendants, and thus we tend to add older and older commits as we traverse. But this isn't guaranteed, and in fact there's a simple case where it is not: merges. Imagine we look at the first parent of a merge and see a very old commit (let's say 3 years old). And on the second parent, as we go back 3 years in history, we might have many commits. That one first-parent commit has polluted our oldest-commit cache; it will remain the oldest while we traverse a huge chunk of history, during which we have to fall back to the slow, linear method of adding to the list. Naively, one might imagine that instead of caching the oldest commit, we'd start at the last-added one. But that just makes some cases faster while making others slower (and indeed, while it made a real-world test case much faster, it does quite poorly in the perf test include here). Fundamentally, these are just heuristics; our worst case is still quadratic, and some cases will approach that. Instead, let's use a data structure with better worst-case performance. Swapping out revs->commits for something else would have repercussions all over the code base, but we can take advantage of one fact: for the rewrite_one() case, nobody actually needs to see those commits in revs->commits until we've finished generating the whole list. That leaves us with two obvious options: 1. We can generate the list _unordered_, which should be O(n), and then sort it afterwards, which would be O(n log n) total. This is "sort-after" below. 2. We can insert the commits into a separate data structure, like a priority queue. This is "prio-queue" below. I expected that sort-after would be the fastest (since it saves us the extra step of copying the items into the linked list), but surprisingly the prio-queue seems to be a bit faster. Here are timings for the new p0001.6 for all three techniques across a few repositories, as compared to master: master cache-last sort-after prio-queue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GIT_PERF_REPO=git.git 0.52(0.50+0.02) 0.53(0.51+0.02) +1.9% 0.37(0.33+0.03) -28.8% 0.37(0.32+0.04) -28.8% GIT_PERF_REPO=linux.git 20.81(20.74+0.07) 20.31(20.24+0.07) -2.4% 0.94(0.86+0.07) -95.5% 0.91(0.82+0.09) -95.6% GIT_PERF_REPO=llvm-project.git 83.67(83.57+0.09) 4.23(4.15+0.08) -94.9% 3.21(3.15+0.06) -96.2% 2.98(2.91+0.07) -96.4% A few items to note: - the cache-list tweak does improve the bad case for llvm-project.git that started my digging into this problem. But it performs terribly on linux.git, barely helping at all. - the sort-after and prio-queue techniques work well. They approach the timing for running without --parents at all, which is what you'd expect (see below for more data). - prio-queue just barely outperforms sort-after. As I said, I'm not really sure why this is the case, but it is. You can see it even more prominently in this real-world case on llvm-project.git: git rev-list --parents 07ef786652e7 -- llvm/test/CodeGen/Generic/bswap.ll where prio-queue routinely outperforms sort-after by about 7%. One guess is that the prio-queue may just be more efficient because it uses a compact array. There are three new perf tests: - "rev-list --parents" gives us a baseline for running with --parents. This isn't sped up meaningfully here, because the bad case is triggered only with simplification. But it's good to make sure we don't screw it up (now, or in the future). - "rev-list -- dummy" gives us a baseline for just traversing with pathspec limiting. This gives a lower bound for the next test (and it's also a good thing for us to be checking in general for regressions, since we don't seem to have any existing tests). - "rev-list --parents -- dummy" shows off the problem (and our fix) Here are the timings for those three on llvm-project.git, before and after the fix: Test master prio-queue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0001.3: rev-list --parents 2.24(2.12+0.12) 2.22(2.11+0.11) -0.9% 0001.5: rev-list -- dummy 2.89(2.82+0.07) 2.92(2.89+0.03) +1.0% 0001.6: rev-list --parents -- dummy 83.67(83.57+0.09) 2.98(2.91+0.07) -96.4% Changes in the first two are basically noise, and you can see we approach our lower bound in the final one. Note that we can't fully get rid of the list argument from process_parents(). Other callers do have lists, and it would be hard to convert them. They also don't seem to have this problem (probably because they actually remove items from the list as they loop, meaning it doesn't grow so large in the first place). So this basically just drops the "cache_ptr" parameter (which was used only by the one caller we're fixing here) and replaces it with a prio_queue. Callers are free to use either data structure, depending on what they're prepared to handle. Reported-by: Björn Pettersson A <bjorn.a.pettersson@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18perf-lib.sh: rely on test-lib.sh for --tee handlingLibravatar Jeff King1-23/+11
Since its inception, the perf-lib.sh script has manually handled the "--tee" option (and other options which imply it, like "--valgrind") with a cut-and-pasted block from test-lib.sh. That block has grown stale over the years, and has at least three problems: 1. It uses $SHELL to re-exec the script, whereas the version in test-lib.sh learned to use $TEST_SHELL_PATH. 2. It does an ad-hoc search of the "$*" string, whereas test-lib.sh learned to carefully parse the arguments left to right. 3. It never learned about --verbose-log (which also implies --tee), so it would not trigger for that option. This last one was especially annoying, because t/perf/run uses the GIT_TEST_OPTS from your config.mak to run the perf scripts. So if you've set, say, "-x --verbose-log" there, it will be passed as part of most perf runs. And while this script doesn't recognize the option, the test-lib.sh that we source _does_, and the behavior ends up being much more annoying: - as the comment at the top of the block says, we have to run this tee code early, before we start munging variables (it says GIT_BUILD_DIR, but the problematic variable is actually GIT_TEST_INSTALLED). - since we don't recognize --verbose-log, we don't trigger the block. We go on to munge GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, converting it from a relative to an absolute path. - then we source test-lib.sh, which _does_ recognize --verbose-log. It re-execs the script, which runs again. But this time with an absolute version of GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. - As a result, we copy the absolute version of GIT_TEST_INSTALLED into perf_results_prefix. Instead of writing our results to the expected "test-results/build_1234abcd.p1234-whatever.times", we instead write them to "test-results/_full_path_to_repo_t_perf_build_1234...". The aggregate.perl script doesn't expect this, and so it prints "<missing>" for each result (even though it spent considerable time running the tests!). We can solve all of these in one blow by just deleting our custom handling, and relying on the inclusion of test-lib.sh to handle --tee, --verbose-log, etc. There's one catch, though. We want to handle GIT_TEST_INSTALLED after we've included test-lib.sh, since we want it un-munged in the re-exec'd version of the script. But if we want to convert it from a relative to an absolute path, we must do so before we load test-lib.sh, since it will change our working directory. So we compute the absolute directory first, store it away, then include test-lib.sh, and finally assign to GIT_TEST_INSTALLED as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18pack-objects: default to writing bitmap hash-cacheLibravatar Jeff King2-3/+1
Enabling pack.writebitmaphashcache should always be a performance win. It costs only 4 bytes per object on disk, and the timings in ae4f07fbcc (pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache, 2013-12-21) show it improving fetch and partial-bitmap clone times by 40-50%. The only reason we didn't enable it by default at the time is that early versions of JGit's bitmap reader complained about the presence of optional header bits it didn't understand. But that was changed in JGit's d2fa3987a (Use bitcheck to check for presence of OPT_FULL option, 2013-10-30), which made it into JGit v3.5.0 in late 2014. So let's turn this option on by default. It's backwards-compatible with all versions of Git, and if you are also using JGit on the same repository, you'd only run into problems using a version that's almost 5 years old. We'll drop the manual setting from all of our test scripts, including perf tests. This isn't strictly necessary, but it has two advantages: 1. If the hash-cache ever stops being enabled by default, our perf regression tests will notice. 2. We can use the modified perf tests to show off the behavior of an otherwise unconfigured repo, as shown below. These are the results of a few of a perf tests against linux.git that showed interesting results. You can see the expected speedup in 5310.4, which was noted in ae4f07fbcc. Curiously, 5310.8 did not improve (and actually got slower), despite seeing the opposite in ae4f07fbcc. I don't have an explanation for that. The tests from p5311 did not exist back then, but do show improvements (a smaller pack due to better deltas, which we found in less time). Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5310.4: simulated fetch 7.39(22.70+0.25) 5.64(11.43+0.22) -23.7% 5310.8: clone (partial bitmap) 18.45(24.83+1.19) 19.94(28.40+1.36) +8.1% 5311.31: server (128 days) 0.41(1.13+0.05) 0.34(0.72+0.02) -17.1% 5311.32: size (128 days) 7.4M 7.0M -4.8% 5311.33: client (128 days) 1.33(1.49+0.06) 1.29(1.37+0.12) -3.0% Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-14prune: use bitmaps for reachability traversalLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+11
Pruning generally has to traverse the whole commit graph in order to see which objects are reachable. This is the exact problem that reachability bitmaps were meant to solve, so let's use them (if they're available, of course). Here are timings on git.git: Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5304.6: prune with bitmaps 3.65(3.56+0.09) 1.01(0.92+0.08) -72.3% And on linux.git: Test HEAD^ HEAD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5304.6: prune with bitmaps 35.05(34.79+0.23) 3.00(2.78+0.21) -91.4% The tests show a pretty optimal case, as we'll have just repacked and should have pretty good coverage of all refs with our bitmaps. But that's actually pretty realistic: normally prune is run via "gc" right after repacking. A few notes on the implementation: - the change is actually in reachable.c, so it would improve reachability traversals by "reflog expire --stale-fix", as well. Those aren't performed regularly, though (a normal "git gc" doesn't use --stale-fix), so they're not really worth measuring. There's a low chance of regressing that caller, since the use of bitmaps is totally transparent from the caller's perspective. - The bitmap case could actually get away without creating a "struct object", and instead the caller could just look up each object id in the bitmap result. However, this would be a marginal improvement in runtime, and it would make the callers much more complicated. They'd have to handle both the bitmap and non-bitmap cases separately, and in the case of git-prune, we'd also have to tweak prune_shallow(), which relies on our SEEN flags. - Because we do create real object structs, we go through a few contortions to create ones of the right type. This isn't strictly necessary (lookup_unknown_object() would suffice), but it's more memory efficient to use the correct types, since we already know them. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-14prune: lazily perform reachability traversalLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+24
The general strategy of "git prune" is to do a full reachability walk, then for each loose object see if we found it in our walk. But if we don't have any loose objects, we don't need to do the expensive walk in the first place. This patch postpones that walk until the first time we need to see its results. Note that this is really a specific case of a more general optimization, which is that we could traverse only far enough to find the object under consideration (i.e., stop the traversal when we find it, then pick up again when asked about the next object, etc). That could save us in some instances from having to do a full walk. But it's actually a bit tricky to do with our traversal code, and you'd need to do a full walk anyway if you have even a single unreachable object (which you generally do, if any objects are actually left after running git-repack). So in practice this lazy-load of the full walk catches one easy but common case (i.e., you've just repacked via git-gc, and there's nothing unreachable). The perf script is fairly contrived, but it does show off the improvement: Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5304.4: prune with no objects 3.66(3.60+0.05) 0.00(0.00+0.00) -100.0% and would let us know if we accidentally regress this optimization. Note also that we need to take special care with prune_shallow(), which relies on us having performed the traversal. So this optimization can only kick in for a non-shallow repository. Since this is easy to get wrong and is not covered by existing tests, let's add an extra test to t5304 that covers this case explicitly. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-20tests: send "bug in the test script" errors to the script's stderrLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-2/+2
Some of the functions in our test library check that they were invoked properly with conditions like this: test "$#" = 2 || error "bug in the test script: not 2 parameters to test-expect-success" If this particular condition is triggered, then 'error' will abort the whole test script with a bold red error message [1] right away. However, under certain circumstances the test script will be aborted completely silently, namely if: - a similar condition in a test helper function like 'test_line_count' is triggered, - which is invoked from the test script's "main" shell [2], - and the test script is run manually (i.e. './t1234-foo.sh' as opposed to 'make t1234-foo.sh' or 'make test') [3] - and without the '--verbose' option, because the error message is printed from within 'test_eval_', where standard output is redirected either to /dev/null or to a log file. The only indication that something is wrong is that not all tests in the script are executed and at the end of the test script's output there is no "# passed all N tests" message, which are subtle and can easily go unnoticed, as I had to experience myself. Send these "bug in the test script" error messages directly to the test scripts standard error and thus to the terminal, so those bugs will be much harder to overlook. Instead of updating all ~20 such 'error' calls with a redirection, let's add a BUG() function to 'test-lib.sh', wrapping an 'error' call with the proper redirection and also including the common prefix of those error messages, and convert all those call sites [4] to use this new BUG() function instead. [1] That particular error message from 'test_expect_success' is printed in color only when running with or without '--verbose'; with '--tee' or '--verbose-log' the error is printed without color, but it is printed to the terminal nonetheless. [2] If such a condition is triggered in a subshell of a test, then 'error' won't be able to abort the whole test script, but only the subshell, which in turn causes the test to fail in the usual way, indicating loudly and clearly that something is wrong. [3] Well, 'error' aborts the test script the same way when run manually or by 'make' or 'prove', but both 'make' and 'prove' pay attention to the test script's exit status, and even a silently aborted test script would then trigger those tools' usual noticable error messages. [4] Strictly speaking, not all those 'error' calls need that redirection to send their output to the terminal, see e.g. 'test_expect_success' in the opening example, but I think it's better to be consistent. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-12p3400: replace calls to `git checkout -b' by `git checkout -B'Libravatar Alban Gruin1-5/+5
p3400 makes a copy of the current repository to test git-rebase performance, and creates new branches in the copy with `git checkout -b'. If the original repository has branches with the same name as the script is trying to create, this operation will fail. This replaces these calls by `git checkout -B' to force the creation and update of these branches. Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-10Merge branch 'ab/fsck-skiplist'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+53
Update fsck.skipList implementation and documentation. * ab/fsck-skiplist: fsck: support comments & empty lines in skipList fsck: use oidset instead of oid_array for skipList fsck: use strbuf_getline() to read skiplist file fsck: add a performance test for skipList fsck: add a performance test fsck: document that skipList input must be unabbreviated fsck: document and test commented & empty line skipList input fsck: document and test sorted skipList input fsck tests: add a test for no skipList input fsck tests: setup of bogus commit object
2018-09-12fsck: add a performance test for skipListLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+40
Create a performance test to see how the skipList implementation performs. First we setup N bad commits, then we see how progressively working our way up to 0..N in increments of 10x does. I.e. the needle(s) in the haystack get progressively more numerous. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-12fsck: add a performance testLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+13
Add a plain performance test for "fsck". This test will not be used to / referred to in any upcoming commit of mine in this series, but having a simple test for fsck performance is valuable, so let's add it while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-20t/perf: add perf tests for fetches from a bitmapped serverLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+45
A server with bitmapped packs can serve a clone very quickly. However, fetches are not necessarily made any faster, because we spend a lot less time in object traversal (which is what bitmaps help with) and more time finding deltas (because we may have to throw out on-disk deltas if the client does not have the base). As a first step to making this faster, this patch introduces a new perf script to measure fetches into a repo of various ages from a fully-bitmapped server. We separately measure the work done by the server (in pack-objects) and that done by the client (in index-pack). Furthermore, we measure the size of the resulting pack. Breaking it down like this (instead of just doing a regular "git fetch") lets us see how much each side benefits from any changes. And since we know the pack size, if we estimate the network speed, then one could calculate a complete wall-clock time for the operation (though the script does not do this automatically). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-20t/perf: add infrastructure for measuring sizesLibravatar Jeff King3-5/+81
The main objective of scripts in the perf framework is to run "test_perf", which measures the time it takes to run some operation. However, it can also be interesting to see the change in the output size of certain operations. This patch introduces test_size, which records a single numeric output from the test and shows it in the aggregated output (with pretty printing and relative size comparison). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-20t/perf: factor out percent calculationsLibravatar Jeff King1-9/+12
This will let us reuse the code when we add new values to aggregate besides times. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-20t/perf: factor boilerplate out of test_perfLibravatar Jeff King1-26/+35
About half of test_perf() is boilerplate preparing to run _any_ test, and the other half is specifically running a timing test. Let's split it into two functions, so that we can reuse the boilerplate in future commits. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>