In cases where we expect to ask has_sha1_file() about a lot of objects
that we are not likely to have (e.g., during fetch negotiation), we
already use OBJECT_INFO_QUICK to sacrifice accuracy (due to racing with
a simultaneous write or repack) for speed (we avoid re-scanning the pack
directory).
However, even checking for loose objects can be expensive, as we will
stat() each one. On many systems this cost isn't too noticeable, but
stat() can be particularly slow on some operating systems, or due to
network filesystems.
Since the QUICK flag already tells us that we're OK with a slightly
stale answer, we can use that as a cue to look in our in-memory cache of
each object directory. That basically trades an in-memory binary search
for a stat() call.
Note that it is possible for this to actually be _slower_. We'll do a
full readdir() to fill the cache, so if you have a very large number of
loose objects and a very small number of lookups, that readdir() may end
up more expensive.
This shouldn't be a big deal in practice. If you have a large number of
reachable loose objects, you'll already run into performance problems
(which you should remedy by repacking). You may have unreachable objects
which wouldn't otherwise impact performance. Usually these would go away
with the prune step of "git gc", but they may be held for up to 2 weeks
in the default configuration.
So it comes down to how many such objects you might reasonably expect to
have, how much slower is readdir() on N entries versus M stat() calls
(and here we really care about the syscall backing readdir(), like
getdents() on Linux, but I'll just call this readdir() below).
If N is much smaller than M (a typical packed repo), we know this is a
big win (few readdirs() followed by many uses of the resulting cache).
When N and M are similar in size, it's also a win. We care about the
latency of making a syscall, and readdir() should be giving us many
values in a single call. How many?
On Linux, running "strace -e getdents ls" shows a 32k buffer getting 512
entries per call (which is 64 bytes per entry; the name itself is 38
bytes, plus there are some other fields). So we can imagine that this is
always a win as long as the number of loose objects in the repository is
a factor of 500 less than the number of lookups you make. It's hard to
auto-tune this because we don't generally know up front how many lookups
we're going to do. But it's unlikely for this to perform significantly
worse.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our object_directory struct has a loose objects cache that all users of
the struct can see. But the only one that knows how to load the cache is
find_short_object_filename(). Let's extract that logic in to a reusable
function.
While we're at it, let's also reset the cache when we re-read the object
directories. This shouldn't have an impact on performance, as re-reads
are meant to be rare (and are already expensive, so we avoid them with
things like OBJECT_INFO_QUICK).
Since the cache is already meant to be an approximation, it's tempting
to skip even this bit of safety. But it's necessary to allow more code
to use it. For instance, fetch-pack explicitly re-reads the object
directory after performing its fetch, and would be confused if we didn't
clear the cache.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our handling of alternate object directories is needlessly different
from the main object directory. As a result, many places in the code
basically look like this:
do_something(r->objects->objdir);
for (odb = r->objects->alt_odb_list; odb; odb = odb->next)
do_something(odb->path);
That gets annoying when do_something() is non-trivial, and we've
resorted to gross hacks like creating fake alternates (see
find_short_object_filename()).
Instead, let's give each raw_object_store a unified list of
object_directory structs. The first will be the main store, and
everything after is an alternate. Very few callers even care about the
distinction, and can just loop over the whole list (and those who care
can just treat the first element differently).
A few observations:
- we don't need r->objects->objectdir anymore, and can just
mechanically convert that to r->objects->odb->path
- object_directory's path field needs to become a real pointer rather
than a FLEX_ARRAY, in order to fill it with expand_base_dir()
- we'll call prepare_alt_odb() earlier in many functions (i.e.,
outside of the loop). This may result in us calling it even when our
function would be satisfied looking only at the main odb.
But this doesn't matter in practice. It's not a very expensive
operation in the first place, and in the majority of cases it will
be a noop. We call it already (and cache its results) in
prepare_packed_git(), and we'll generally check packs before loose
objects. So essentially every program is going to call it
immediately once per program.
Arguably we should just prepare_alt_odb() immediately upon setting
up the repository's object directory, which would save us sprinkling
calls throughout the code base (and forgetting to do so has been a
source of subtle bugs in the past). But I've stopped short of that
here, since there are already a lot of other moving parts in this
patch.
- Most call sites just get shorter. The check_and_freshen() functions
are an exception, because they have entry points to handle local and
nonlocal directories separately.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we generate loose file paths for the main object directory, the
caller provides a buffer to loose_object_path (formerly sha1_file_name).
The callers generally keep their own static buffer to avoid excessive
reallocations.
But for alternate directories, each struct carries its own scratch
buffer. This is needlessly different; let's unify them.
We could go either direction here, but this patch moves the alternates
struct over to the main directory style (rather than vice-versa).
Technically the alternates style is more efficient, as it avoids
rewriting the object directory name on each call. But this is unlikely
to matter in practice, as we avoid reallocations either way (and nobody
has ever noticed or complained that the main object directory is copying
a few extra bytes before making a much more expensive system call).
And this has the advantage that the reusable buffers are tied to
particular calls, which makes the invalidation rules simpler (for
example, the return value from stat_sha1_file() used to be invalidated
by basically any other object call, but now it is affected only by other
calls to stat_sha1_file()).
We do steal the trick from alt_sha1_path() of returning a pointer to the
filled buffer, which makes a few conversions more convenient.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sha1_file_name() function is used to generate the path to a loose
object in the object directory. It doesn't make much sense for it to
append, since the the path we write may be absolute (i.e., you cannot
reliably build up a path with it). Because many callers use it with a
static buffer, they have to strbuf_reset() manually before each call
(and the other callers always use an empty buffer, so they don't care
either way). Let's handle this automatically.
Since we're changing the semantics, let's take the opportunity to give
it a more hash-neutral name (which will also catch any callers from
topics in flight).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for unifying the handling of alt odb's and the normal
repo object directory, let's use a more neutral name. This patch is
purely mechanical, swapping the type name, and converting any variables
named "alt" to "odb". There should be no functional change, but it will
reduce the noise in subsequent diffs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a repo contains a multi-pack-index, then the packed_git list
does not contain the packfiles that are covered by the multi-pack-index.
This is important for doing object lookups, abbreviations, and
approximating object count. However, there are many operations that
really want to iterate over all packfiles.
Create a new 'all_packs' linked list that contains this list, starting
with the packfiles in the multi-pack-index and then continuing along
the packed_git linked list.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ds/multi-pack-index: (23 commits)
midx: clear midx on repack
packfile: skip loading index if in multi-pack-index
midx: prevent duplicate packfile loads
midx: use midx in approximate_object_count
midx: use existing midx when writing new one
midx: use midx in abbreviation calculations
midx: read objects from multi-pack-index
config: create core.multiPackIndex setting
midx: write object offsets
midx: write object id fanout chunk
midx: write object ids in a chunk
midx: sort and deduplicate objects from packfiles
midx: read pack names into array
multi-pack-index: write pack names in chunk
multi-pack-index: read packfile list
packfile: generalize pack directory list
t5319: expand test data
multi-pack-index: load into memory
midx: write header information to lockfile
multi-pack-index: add 'write' verb
...
Code hygiene improvement for the header files.
* en/incl-forward-decl:
Remove forward declaration of an enum
compat/precompose_utf8.h: use more common include guard style
urlmatch.h: fix include guard
Move definition of enum branch_track from cache.h to branch.h
alloc: make allocate_alloc_state and clear_alloc_state more consistent
Add missing includes and forward declarations
I looped over the toplevel header files, creating a temporary two-line C
program for each consisting of
#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include $HEADER
This patch is the result of manually fixing errors in compiling those
tiny programs.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The for_each_loose_object() and for_each_packed_object()
functions are meant to be part of a unified interface: they
use the same set of for_each_object_flags, and it's not
inconceivable that we might one day add a single
for_each_object() wrapper around them.
Let's put them together in a single file, so we can avoid
awkwardness like saying "the flags for this function are
over in cache.h". Moving the loose functions to packfile.h
is silly. Moving the packed functions to cache.h works, but
makes the "cache.h is a kitchen sink" problem worse. The
best place is the recently-created object-store.h, since
these are quite obviously related to object storage.
The for_each_*_in_objdir() functions do not use the same
flags, but they are logically part of the same interface as
for_each_loose_object(), and share callback signatures. So
we'll move those, as well, as they also make sense in
object-store.h.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The core.multiPackIndex config setting controls the multi-pack-
index (MIDX) feature. If false, the setting will disable all reads
from the multi-pack-index file.
Read this config setting in the new prepare_multi_pack_index_one()
which is called during prepare_packed_git(). This check is run once
per repository.
Add comparison commands in t5319-multi-pack-index.sh to check
typical Git behavior remains the same as the config setting is turned
on and off. This currently includes 'git rev-list' and 'git log'
commands to trigger several object database reads. Currently, these
would only catch an error in the prepare_multi_pack_index_one(), but
with later commits will catch errors in object lookups, abbreviations,
and approximate object counts.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a new multi_pack_index struct for loading multi-pack-indexes into
memory. Create a test-tool builtin for reading basic information about
that multi-pack-index to verify the correct data is written.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of storing commit graphs in static variables, store them in
struct object_store. There are no changes to the signatures of existing
functions - they all still only support the_repository, and support for
other instances of struct repository will be added in a subsequent
commit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry"
while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance
quite a bit.
* nd/pack-objects-pack-struct:
ci: exercise the whole test suite with uncommon code in pack-objects
pack-objects: reorder members to shrink struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: clarify the use of object_entry::size
pack-objects: don't check size when the object is bad
pack-objects: shrink z_delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: refer to delta objects by index instead of pointer
pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: move in_pack_pos out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::depth
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::dfs_state
pack-objects: turn type and in_pack_type to bitfields
pack-objects: a bit of document about struct object_entry
read-cache.c: make $GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX boolean
"git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers
to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has
been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is
marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in
other packs and loose ones are repacked.
* nd/repack-keep-pack:
pack-objects: show some progress when counting kept objects
gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"
gc: handle a corner case in gc.bigPackThreshold
gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config
gc: add --keep-largest-pack option
repack: add --keep-pack option
t7700: have closing quote of a test at the beginning of line
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We allow to keep existing packs by having companion .keep files. This
is helpful when a pack is permanently kept. In the next patch, git-gc
just wants to keep a pack temporarily, for one pack-objects
run. git-gc can use --keep-pack for this use case.
A note about why the pack_keep field cannot be reused and
pack_keep_in_core has to be added. This is about the case when
--keep-pack is specified together with either --keep-unreachable or
--unpack-unreachable, but --honor-pack-keep is NOT specified.
In this case, we want to exclude objects from the packs specified on
command line, not from ones with .keep files. If only one bit flag is
used, we have to clear pack_keep on pack files with the .keep file.
But we can't make any assumption about unreachable objects in .keep
packs. If "pack_keep" field is false for .keep packs, we could
potentially pull lots of unreachable objects into the new pack, or
unpack them loose. The safer approach is ignore all packs with either
.keep file or --keep-pack.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of using 8 bytes (on 64 bit arch) to store a pointer to a
pack. Use an index instead since the number of packs should be
relatively small.
This limits the number of packs we can handle to 1k. Since we can't be
sure people can never run into the situation where they have more than
1k pack files. Provide a fall back route for it.
If we find out they have too many packs, the new in_pack_by_idx[]
array (which has at most 1k elements) will not be used. Instead we
allocate in_pack[] array that holds nr_objects elements. This is
similar to how the optional in_pack_pos field is handled.
The new simple test is just to make sure the too-many-packs code path
is at least executed. The true test is running
make test GIT_TEST_FULL_IN_PACK_ARRAY=1
to take advantage of other special case tests.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the oidmap a pointer.
That way we eliminate the need for the global boolean
variable 'replace_object_prepared' as we can put this information
into the pointer being NULL or not.
Another advantage of this is that we would more quickly catch
code that tries to access replace-map without initializing it.
This also allows the '#include "oidmap.h"' introduced in a previous
patch to be replaced by the forward declaration of 'struct oidmap;'.
Keeping the type opaque discourages circumventing accessor functions;
not dragging in other headers avoids some compile time overhead.
One disadvantage of this is change is performance as we need to
pay the overhead for a malloc. The alternative of moving the
global variable into the object store is less modular code.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The relationship between an object X and another object Y that
replaces the object X is defined only within the scope of a
single repository.
The exception in reachability rule around these replacement objects
is also local to a repository (i.e. if traversal from refs reaches
X, then both X and Y are reachable and need to be kept from gc).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow map_sha1_file callers to be more
specific about which repository to handle. This is a small mechanical
change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle repositories
other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
While at it, move the declaration to object-store.h, where it should
be easier to find.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow sha1_file_name callers to be more
specific about which repository to handle. This is a small mechanical
change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle repositories
other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
While at it, move the declaration to object-store.h, where it should
be easier to find.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Actually this also allows read_info_alternates and link_alt_odb_entry to
handle arbitrary repositories, but link_alt_odb_entries is the most
interesting function in this set of functions, hence the commit subject.
These functions span a strongly connected component in the function
graph, i.e. the recursive call chain might look like
-> link_alt_odb_entries
-> link_alt_odb_entry
-> read_info_alternates
-> link_alt_odb_entries
That is why we need to convert all these functions at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
See previous patch for explanation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The approximate_object_count() function maintains a rough count of
objects in a repository to estimate how long object name abbreviates
should be. Object names are scoped to a repository and the
appropriate length may differ by repository, so the object count
should not be global.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each repository's object store can be initialized independently, so
they must not share a run_once variable.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a process with multiple repositories open, packfile accessors
should be associated to a single repository and not shared globally.
Move packed_git and packed_git_mru into the_repository and adjust
callers to reflect this.
[nd: while at there, wrap access to these two fields in get_packed_git()
and get_packed_git_mru(). This allows us to lazily initialize these
fields without caller doing that explicitly]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a process with multiple repositories open, alternates should be
associated to a single repository and not shared globally. Move
alt_odb_list and alt_odb_tail into the_repository and adjust callers
to reflect this.
Now that the alternative object data base is per repository, we're
leaking its memory upon freeing a repository. The next patch plugs
this hole.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Migrate the struct alternate_object_database and all its related
functions to the object store as these functions are easier found in
that header. The migration is just a verbatim copy, no need to
include the object store header at any C file, because cache.h includes
repository.h which in turn includes the object-store.h
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The raw object store field will contain any objects needed for access
to objects in a given repository.
This patch introduces the raw object store and populates it with the
`objectdir`, which used to be part of the repository struct.
As the struct gains members, we'll also populate the function to clear
the memory for these members.
In a later step, we'll introduce a struct object_parser, that will
complement the object parsing in a repository struct: The raw object
parser is the layer that will provide access to raw object content,
while the higher level object parser code will parse raw objects and
keeps track of parenthood and other object relationships using 'struct
object'. For now only add the lower level to the repository struct.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
