"git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability
bitmaps.
* tb/repack-write-midx:
test-read-midx: fix leak of bitmap_index struct
builtin/repack.c: pass `--refs-snapshot` when writing bitmaps
builtin/repack.c: make largest pack preferred
builtin/repack.c: support writing a MIDX while repacking
builtin/repack.c: extract showing progress to a variable
builtin/repack.c: rename variables that deal with non-kept packs
builtin/repack.c: keep track of existing packs unconditionally
midx: preliminary support for `--refs-snapshot`
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: support `--stdin-packs` mode
midx: expose `write_midx_file_only()` publicly
When repacking into a geometric series and writing a multi-pack bitmap,
it is beneficial to have the largest resulting pack be the preferred
object source in the bitmap's MIDX, since selecting the large packs can
lead to fewer broken delta chains and better compression.
Teach 'git repack' to identify this pack and pass it to the MIDX write
machinery in order to mark it as preferred.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an old bitmap exists while writing a new one, we load it and build
a "reposition" table which maps bit positions of objects from the old
bitmap to their respective positions in the new bitmap. This can help
when we encounter a commit which was selected in both the old and new
bitmap, since we only need to permute its bit (not recompute it from
scratch).
We do not, however, repurpose existing namehash values in the case of
the hash-cache extension. There has been thus far no good reason to do
so, since all of the namehash values for objects in the new bitmap would
be populated during the traversal that was just performed by
pack-objects when generating single-pack reachability bitmaps.
But this isn't the case for multi-pack bitmaps, which are written via
`git multi-pack-index write --bitmap` and do not perform any traversal.
In this case all namehash values are set to zero, but we don't even
bother to check the `pack.writeBitmapHashcache` option anyway, so it
fails to matter.
There are two approaches we could take to fill in non-zero hash-cache
values:
- have either the multi-pack-index builtin run its own
traversal to attempt to fill in some values, or let a hypothetical
caller (like `pack-objects` when `repack` eventually drives the
`multi-pack-index` builtin) fill in the values they found during
their traversal
- or copy any existing namehash values that were stored in an
existing bitmap to their corresponding positions in the new bitmap
In a system where a repository is generally repacked with `git repack
--geometric=<d>` and occasionally repacked with `git repack -a`, the
hash-cache coverage will tend towards all objects.
Since populating the hash-cache is additive (i.e., doing so only helps
our delta search), any intermediate lack of full coverage is just fine.
So let's start by just propagating any values from the existing
hash-cache if we see one.
The next patch will respect the `pack.writeBitmapHashcache` option while
writing MIDX bitmaps, and then test this new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-bitmap writer code is about to learn how to propagate values
from an existing hash-cache. To prepare, teach the test-bitmap helper to
dump the values from a bitmap's hash-cache extension in order to test
those changes.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Starting in commit 0f533c7284 (pack-bitmap: read multi-pack bitmaps,
2021-08-31), we no longer look at the "struct bitmap_index" passed to
try_partial_reuse(). This is because we only handle verbatim reuse from
a single pack: either the pack whose bitmap we're looking at, or the
"preferred" pack of a midx bitmap. And thus the primary item we look at
is the "pack" parameter added by that same commit, and not the
bitmap_git->pack parameter (which would be NULL for a midx bitmap). It's
our caller, reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap(), which decides which
pack to use and passes it in to us.
Drop the unused parameter to prevent confusion.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We never look at the repository argument which is passed. This makes
sense, since the multi_pack_index struct already tells us everything we
need to access the files in its associated object directory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This prepares the code in pack-bitmap to interpret the new multi-pack
bitmaps described in Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt, which
mostly involves converting bit positions to accommodate looking them up
in a MIDX.
Note that there are currently no writers who write multi-pack bitmaps,
and that this will be implemented in the subsequent commit. Note also
that get_midx_checksum() and get_midx_filename() are made non-static so
they can be called from pack-bitmap.c.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
try_partial_reuse() is used to mark any bits in the beginning of a
bitmap whose objects can be reused verbatim from the pack they came
from.
Currently this function returns void, and signals nothing to the caller
when bits could not be reused. But multi-pack bitmaps would benefit from
having such a signal, because they may try to pass objects which are in
bounds, but from a pack other than the preferred one.
Any extra calls are noops because of a conditional in
reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap(), but those loop iterations can be
avoided by letting try_partial_reuse() indicate when it can't accept any
more bits for reuse, and then listening to that signal.
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>
In a recent commit, pack-objects learned support for the
'pack.preferBitmapTips' configuration. This patch prepares the
multi-pack bitmap code to respect this configuration, too.
The yet-to-be implemented code will find that it is more efficient to
check whether each reference contains a prefix found in the configured
set of values rather than doing an additional traversal.
Implement a function 'bitmap_is_preferred_refname()' which will perform
that check. Its caller will be added in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent patch to support reading MIDX bitmaps will be less noisy
after extracting a generic function to fetch the nth OID contained in
the bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent patch to support reading MIDX bitmaps will be less noisy
after extracting a generic function to return how many objects are
contained in a bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The special `--test-bitmap` mode of `git rev-list` is used to compare
the result of an object traversal with a bitmap to check its integrity.
This mode does not, however, assert that the types of reachable objects
are stored correctly.
Harden this mode by teaching it to also check that each time an object's
bit is marked, the corresponding bit should be set in exactly one of the
type bitmaps (whose type matches the object's true type).
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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>
A race between repacking and using pack bitmaps has been corrected.
* jk/check-pack-valid-before-opening-bitmap:
pack-bitmap: check pack validity when opening bitmap
When pack-objects adds an entry to its list of objects to pack, it may
mark the packfile and offset that contains the file, which we can later
use to output the object verbatim. If the packfile is deleted while we
are running (e.g., by another process running "git repack"), we may die
in use_pack() if the pack file cannot be opened.
We worked around this in 4c08018204 (pack-objects: protect against
disappearing packs, 2011-10-14) by making sure we can open the pack
before recording it as a source. This detects a pack which has already
disappeared while generating the packing list, and because we keep the
pack's file descriptor (or an mmap window) open, it means we can access
it later (unless you exceed core.packedgitlimit).
The bitmap code that was added later does not do this; it adds entries
to the packlist without checking that the packfile is still valid, and
is vulnerable to this race. It needs the same treatment as 4c08018204.
However, rather than add it in just that one spot, it makes more sense
to simply open and check the packfile when we open the bitmap.
Technically you can use the .bitmap without even looking in the .pack
file (e.g., if you are just printing a list of objects without accessing
them), but it's much simpler to do it early. That covers all later
direct uses of the pack (due to the cached descriptor) without having to
check each one directly. For example, in pack-objects we need to protect
the packlist entries, but we also access the pack directly as part of
the reuse_partial_pack_from_bitmap() feature. This patch covers both
cases.
There's no test here, because the problem is inherently racy. I
reproduced and verified the fix with this script:
rm -rf parent.git push.git fetch.git
push() {
(
cd push.git &&
echo content >>file &&
git add file &&
git commit -qm "change $1" &&
git push -q origin HEAD &&
echo "push $1..."
) &&
(
cd parent.git &&
git repack -ad -q &&
echo "repack $1..."
)
}
fetch() {
rm -rf fetch.git &&
git clone -q file://$PWD/parent.git fetch.git &&
echo "fetch $1..."
}
git init --bare parent.git &&
git --git-dir=parent.git config transfer.unpacklimit 1 &&
git clone parent.git push.git &&
(for i in `seq 1 1000`; do push $i || break; done) &
pusher=$!
(for i in `seq 1 1000`; do fetch $i || break; done) &
fetcher=$!
wait $fetcher
kill $pusher
That simulates a race between a client cloning and a push triggering a
repack on the server. Without this patch, it generally fails within a
couple hundred iterations with:
remote: fatal: packfile ./objects/pack/.tmp-1377349-pack-498afdec371232bdb99d1757872f5569331da61e.pack cannot be accessed
error: git upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
fatal: git upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
With this patch, it reliably runs through all thousand attempts.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code that eventually became filter_bitmap_exclude_type() was
originally introduced in 4f3bd5606a (pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_NONE
filtering, 2020-02-14) to accelerate BLOB_NONE filters with bitmaps.
In 856e12c18a (pack-bitmap.c: make object filtering functions generic,
2020-05-04), it became filter_bitmap_exclude_type(). But not all of the
comments were updated to be agnostic to the provided type.
Remove the remaining comments which should have been updated in
856e12c18a to reflect the type-agnostic nature of the function.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If an object is already mentioned in a reachability bitmap we are
building, then by definition so are all of the objects it can reach. We
have an optimization to stop traversing commits when we see they are
already in the bitmap, but we don't do the same for trees.
It's generally unavoidable to recurse into trees for commits not yet
covered by bitmaps (since most commits generally do have unique
top-level trees). But they usually have subtrees that are shared with
other commits (i.e., all of the subtrees the commit _didn't_ touch). And
some of those commits (and their trees) may be covered by the bitmap.
Usually this isn't _too_ big a deal, because we'll visit those subtrees
only once in total for the whole walk. But if you have a large number of
unbitmapped commits, and if your tree is big, then you may end up
opening a lot of sub-trees for no good reason.
We can use the same optimization we do for commits here: when we are
about to open a tree, see if it's in the bitmap (either the one we are
building, or the "seen" bitmap which covers the UNINTERESTING side of
the bitmap when doing a set-difference).
This works especially well because we'll visit all commits before
hitting any trees. So even in a history like:
A -- B
if "A" has a bitmap on disk but "B" doesn't, we'll already have OR-ed in
the results from A before looking at B's tree (so we really will only
look at trees touched by B).
For most repositories, the timings produced by p5310 are unspectacular.
Here's linux.git:
Test HEAD^ HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.4: simulated clone 6.00(5.90+0.10) 5.98(5.90+0.08) -0.3%
5310.5: simulated fetch 2.98(5.45+0.18) 2.85(5.31+0.18) -4.4%
5310.7: rev-list (commits) 0.32(0.29+0.03) 0.33(0.30+0.03) +3.1%
5310.8: rev-list (objects) 1.48(1.44+0.03) 1.49(1.44+0.05) +0.7%
Any improvement there is within the noise (the +3.1% on test 7 has to be
noise, since we are not recursing into trees, and thus the new code
isn't even run). The results for git.git are likewise uninteresting.
But here are numbers from some other real-world repositories (that are
not public). This one's tree is comparable in size to linux.git, but has
~16k refs (and so less complete bitmap coverage):
Test HEAD^ HEAD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.4: simulated clone 38.34(39.86+0.74) 33.95(35.53+0.76) -11.5%
5310.5: simulated fetch 2.29(6.31+0.35) 2.20(5.97+0.41) -3.9%
5310.7: rev-list (commits) 0.99(0.86+0.13) 0.96(0.85+0.11) -3.0%
5310.8: rev-list (objects) 11.32(11.04+0.27) 6.59(6.37+0.21) -41.8%
And here's another with a very large tree (~340k entries), and a fairly
large number of refs (~10k):
Test HEAD^ HEAD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.3: simulated clone 53.83(54.71+1.54) 39.77(40.76+1.50) -26.1%
5310.4: simulated fetch 19.91(20.11+0.56) 19.79(19.98+0.67) -0.6%
5310.6: rev-list (commits) 0.54(0.44+0.11) 0.51(0.43+0.07) -5.6%
5310.7: rev-list (objects) 24.32(23.59+0.73) 9.85(9.49+0.36) -59.5%
This patch provides substantial improvements in these larger cases, and
have any drawbacks for smaller ones (the cost of the bitmap check is
quite small compared to an actual tree traversal).
Note that we have to add a version of revision.c's include_check
callback which handles non-commits. We could possibly consolidate this
into a single callback for all objects types, as there's only one user
of the feature which would need converted (pack-bitmap.c:should_include).
That would in theory let us avoid duplicating any logic. But when I
tried it, the code ended up much worse to read, with lots of repeated
"if it's a commit do this, otherwise do that". Having two separate
callbacks splits that naturally, and matches the existing split of
show_commit/show_object callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-list" learns the "--filter=object:type=<type>" option,
which can be used to exclude objects of the given kind from the
packfile generated by pack-objects.
* ps/rev-list-object-type-filter:
rev-list: allow filtering of provided items
pack-bitmap: implement combined filter
pack-bitmap: implement object type filter
list-objects: implement object type filter
list-objects: support filtering by tag and commit
list-objects: move tag processing into its own function
revision: mark commit parents as NOT_USER_GIVEN
uploadpack.txt: document implication of `uploadpackfilter.allow`
When the reachability bitmap is in effect, the "do not lose
recently created objects and those that are reachable from them"
safety to protect us from races were disabled by mistake, which has
been corrected.
* jk/prune-with-bitmap-fix:
prune: save reachable-from-recent objects with bitmaps
pack-bitmap: clean up include_check after use
When a bitmap walk has to traverse (to fill in non-bitmapped objects),
we use rev_info's include_check mechanism to let us stop the traversal
early. But after setting the function and its data parameter, we never
clean it up. This means that if the rev_info is used for a subsequent
traversal without bitmaps, it will unexpectedly call into our
include_check function (worse, it will do so pointing to a now-defunct
stack variable in include_check_data, likely resulting in a segfault).
There's no code which does this now, but it's an accident waiting to
happen. Let's clean up after ourselves in the bitmap code.
Reported-by: David Emett <dave@sp4m.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When providing an object filter, it is currently impossible to also
filter provided items. E.g. when executing `git rev-list HEAD` , the
commit this reference points to will be treated as user-provided and is
thus excluded from the filtering mechanism. This makes it harder than
necessary to properly use the new `--filter=object:type` filter given
that even if the user wants to only see blobs, he'll still see commits
of provided references.
Improve this by introducing a new `--filter-provided-objects` option
to the git-rev-parse(1) command. If given, then all user-provided
references will be subject to filtering.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user has multiple objects filters specified, then this is
internally represented by having a "combined" filter. These combined
filters aren't yet supported by bitmap indices and can thus not be
accelerated.
Fix this by implementing support for these combined filters. The
implementation is quite trivial: when there's a combined filter, we
simply recurse into `filter_bitmap()` for all of the sub-filters.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The preceding commit has added a new object filter for git-rev-list(1)
which allows to filter objects by type. Implement the equivalent filter
for packfile bitmaps so that we can answer these queries fast.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A configuration variable has been added to force tips of certain
refs to be given a reachability bitmap.
* tb/pack-preferred-tips-to-give-bitmap:
builtin/pack-objects.c: respect 'pack.preferBitmapTips'
t/helper/test-bitmap.c: initial commit
pack-bitmap: add 'test_bitmap_commits()' helper
Optimize "rev-list --use-bitmap-index --objects" corner case that
uses negative tags as the stopping points.
* ps/pack-bitmap-optim:
pack-bitmap: avoid traversal of objects referenced by uninteresting tag
When writing a new pack with a bitmap, it is sometimes convenient to
indicate some reference prefixes which should receive priority when
selecting which commits to receive bitmaps.
A truly motivated caller could accomplish this by setting
'pack.islandCore', (since all commits in the core island are similarly
marked as preferred) but this requires callers to opt into using delta
islands, which they may or may not want to do.
Introduce a new multi-valued configuration, 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to
allow callers to specify a list of reference prefixes. All references
which have a prefix contained in 'pack.preferBitmapTips' will mark their
tips as "preferred" in the same way as commits are marked as preferred
for selection by 'pack.islandCore'.
The choice of the verb "prefer" is intentional: marking the NEEDS_BITMAP
flag on an object does *not* guarantee that that object will receive a
bitmap. It merely guarantees that that commit will receive a bitmap over
any *other* commit in the same window by bitmap_writer_select_commits().
The test this patch adds reflects this quirk, too. It only tests that
a commit (which didn't receive bitmaps by default) is selected for
bitmaps after changing the value of 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to include
it. Other commits may lose their bitmaps as a byproduct of how the
selection process works (bitmap_writer_select_commits() ignores the
remainder of a window after seeing a commit with the NEEDS_BITMAP flag).
This configuration will aide in selecting important references for
multi-pack bitmaps, since they do not respect the same pack.islandCore
configuration. (They could, but doing so may be confusing, since it is
packs--not bitmaps--which are influenced by the delta-islands
configuration).
In a fork network repository (one which lists all forks of a given
repository as remotes), for example, it is useful to set
pack.preferBitmapTips to 'refs/remotes/<root>/heads' and
'refs/remotes/<root>/tags', where '<root>' is an opaque identifier
referring to the repository which is at the base of the fork chain.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The next patch will add a 'bitmap' test-tool which prints the list of
commits that have bitmaps computed.
The test helper could implement this itself, but it would need access to
the 'bitmaps' field of the 'pack_bitmap' struct. To avoid exposing this
private detail, implement the entirety of the helper behind a
test_bitmap_commits() function in pack-bitmap.c.
There is some precedence for this with test_bitmap_walk() which is used
to implement the '--test-bitmap' flag in 'git rev-list' (and is also
implemented in pack-bitmap.c).
A caller will be added in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When preparing the bitmap walk, we first establish the set of of have
and want objects by iterating over the set of pending objects: if an
object is marked as uninteresting, it's declared as an object we already
have, otherwise as an object we want. These two sets are then used to
compute which transitively referenced objects we need to obtain.
One special case here are tag objects: when a tag is requested, we
resolve it to its first not-tag object and add both resolved objects as
well as the tag itself into either the have or want set. Given that the
uninteresting-property always propagates to referenced objects, it is
clear that if the tag is uninteresting, so are its children and vice
versa. But we fail to propagate the flag, which effectively means that
referenced objects will always be interesting except for the case where
they have already been marked as uninteresting explicitly.
This mislabeling does not impact correctness: we now have it in our
"wants" set, and given that we later do an `AND NOT` of the bitmaps of
"wants" and "haves" sets it is clear that the result must be the same.
But we now start to needlessly traverse the tag's referenced objects in
case it is uninteresting, even though we know that each referenced
object will be uninteresting anyway. In the worst case, this can lead to
a complete graph walk just to establish that we do not care for any
object.
Fix the issue by propagating the `UNINTERESTING` flag to pointees of tag
objects and add a benchmark with negative revisions to p5310. This shows
some nice performance benefits, tested with linux.git:
Test HEAD~ HEAD
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.3: repack to disk 193.18(181.46+16.42) 194.61(183.41+15.83) +0.7%
5310.4: simulated clone 25.93(24.88+1.05) 25.81(24.73+1.08) -0.5%
5310.5: simulated fetch 2.64(5.30+0.69) 2.59(5.16+0.65) -1.9%
5310.6: pack to file (bitmap) 58.75(57.56+6.30) 58.29(57.61+5.73) -0.8%
5310.7: rev-list (commits) 1.45(1.18+0.26) 1.46(1.22+0.24) +0.7%
5310.8: rev-list (objects) 15.35(14.22+1.13) 15.30(14.23+1.07) -0.3%
5310.9: rev-list with tag negated via --not --all (objects) 22.49(20.93+1.56) 0.11(0.09+0.01) -99.5%
5310.10: rev-list with negative tag (objects) 0.61(0.44+0.16) 0.51(0.35+0.16) -16.4%
5310.11: rev-list count with blob:none 12.15(11.19+0.96) 12.18(11.19+0.99) +0.2%
5310.12: rev-list count with blob:limit=1k 17.77(15.71+2.06) 17.75(15.63+2.12) -0.1%
5310.13: rev-list count with tree:0 1.69(1.31+0.38) 1.68(1.28+0.39) -0.6%
5310.14: simulated partial clone 20.14(19.15+0.98) 19.98(18.93+1.05) -0.8%
5310.16: clone (partial bitmap) 12.78(13.89+1.07) 12.72(13.99+1.01) -0.5%
5310.17: pack to file (partial bitmap) 42.07(45.44+2.72) 41.44(44.66+2.80) -1.5%
5310.18: rev-list with tree filter (partial bitmap) 0.44(0.29+0.15) 0.46(0.32+0.14) +4.5%
While most benchmarks are probably in the range of noise, the newly
added 5310.9 and 5310.10 benchmarks consistenly perform better.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add and apply a semantic patch for converting code that open-codes
CALLOC_ARRAY to use it instead. It shortens the code and infers the
element size automatically.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can sometimes be useful to see which refs are contributing to the
overall repository size (e.g., does some branch have a bunch of objects
not found elsewhere in history, which indicates that deleting it would
shrink the size of a clone).
You can find that out by generating a list of objects, getting their
sizes from cat-file, and then summing them, like:
git rev-list --objects --no-object-names main..branch
git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' |
perl -lne '$total += $_; END { print $total }'
Though note that the caveats from git-cat-file(1) apply here. We "blame"
base objects more than their deltas, even though the relationship could
easily be flipped. Still, it can be a useful rough measure.
But one problem is that it's slow to run. Teaching rev-list to sum up
the sizes can be much faster for two reasons:
1. It skips all of the piping of object names and sizes.
2. If bitmaps are in use, for objects that are in the
bitmapped packfile we can skip the oid_object_info()
lookup entirely, and just ask the revindex for the
on-disk size.
This patch implements a --disk-usage option which produces the same
answer in a fraction of the time. Here are some timings using a clone of
torvalds/linux:
[rev-list piped to cat-file, no bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --all |
git cat-file --buffer --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' |
perl -lne '$total += $_; END { print $total }'
1459938510
real 0m29.635s
user 0m38.003s
sys 0m1.093s
[internal, no bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all
1459938510
real 0m31.262s
user 0m30.885s
sys 0m0.376s
Even though the wall-clock time is slightly worse due to parallelism,
notice the CPU savings between the two. We saved 21% of the CPU just by
avoiding the pipes.
But the real win is with bitmaps. If we use them without the new option:
[rev-list piped to cat-file, bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --all --use-bitmap-index |
git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' |
perl -lne '$total += $_; END { print $total }'
1459938510
real 0m6.244s
user 0m8.452s
sys 0m0.311s
then we're faster to generate the list of objects, but we still spend a
lot of time piping and looking things up. But if we do both together:
[internal, bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all --use-bitmap-index
1459938510
real 0m0.219s
user 0m0.169s
sys 0m0.049s
then we get the same answer much faster.
For "--all", that answer will correspond closely to "du objects/pack",
of course. But we're actually checking reachability here, so we're still
fast when we ask for more interesting things:
$ time git rev-list --disk-usage --use-bitmap-index v5.0..v5.10
374798628
real 0m0.429s
user 0m0.356s
sys 0m0.072s
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove another instance of looking at the revindex directly by instead
calling 'pack_pos_to_index()'. Unlike other patches, this caller only
cares about the index position of each object in the loop.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove another instance of direct revindex manipulation by calling
'pack_pos_to_offset()' instead (the caller here does not care about the
index position of the object at position 'pos').
Note that we cannot just use the existing "offset" variable to store the
value we get from pack_pos_to_offset(). It is incremented by
unpack_object_header(), but we later need the original value. Since
we'll no longer have revindex->offset to read it from, we'll store that
in a separate variable ("header" since it points to the entry's header
bytes).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove another caller that holds onto a 'struct revindex_entry' by
replacing the direct indexing with calls to 'pack_pos_to_offset()' and
'pack_pos_to_index()'.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid storing the revindex entry directly, since this structure will
soon be removed from the public interface. Instead, store the offset and
index position by calling 'pack_pos_to_offset()' and
'pack_pos_to_index()', respectively.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace find_revindex_position() with its counterpart in the new API,
offset_to_pack_pos().
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'find_objects()' currently needs to interact with the bitmaps khash
pretty closely. To make 'find_objects()' read a little more
straightforwardly, remove some of the khash-level details into a new
function that describes what it does: 'add_commit_to_bitmap()'.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of callers within pack-bitmap.c duplicate logic to lookup a
given object id in the bitamps khash. Factor this out into a new
function, 'bitmap_for_commit()' to reduce some code duplication.
Make this new function non-static, since it will be used in later
commits from outside of pack-bitmap.c.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The on-disk bitmap format has a flag to mark a bitmap to be "reused".
This is a rather curious feature, and works like this:
- a run of pack-objects would decide to mark the last 80% of the
bitmaps it generates with the reuse flag
- the next time we generate bitmaps, we'd see those reuse flags from
the last run, and mark those commits as special:
- we'd be more likely to select those commits to get bitmaps in
the new output
- when generating the bitmap for a selected commit, we'd reuse the
old bitmap as-is (rearranging the bits to match the new pack, of
course)
However, neither of these behaviors particularly makes sense.
Just because a commit happened to be bitmapped last time does not make
it a good candidate for having a bitmap this time. In particular, we may
choose bitmaps based on how recent they are in history, or whether a ref
tip points to them, and those things will change. We're better off
re-considering fresh which commits are good candidates.
Reusing the existing bitmap _is_ a reasonable thing to do to save
computation. But only reusing exact bitmaps is a weak form of this. If
we have an old bitmap for A and now want a new bitmap for its child, we
should be able to compute that only by looking at trees and that are new
to the child. But this code would consider only exact reuse (which is
perhaps why it was eager to select those commits in the first place).
Furthermore, the recent switch to the reverse-edge algorithm for
generating bitmaps dropped this optimization entirely (and yet still
performs better).
So let's do a few cleanups:
- drop the whole "reusing bitmaps" phase of generating bitmaps. It's
not helping anything, and is mostly unused code (or worse, code that
is using CPU but not doing anything useful)
- drop the use of the on-disk reuse flag to select commits to bitmap
- stop setting the on-disk reuse flag in bitmaps we generate (since
nothing respects it anymore)
We will keep a few innards of the reuse code, which will help us
implement a more capable version of the "reuse" optimization:
- simplify rebuild_existing_bitmaps() into a function that only builds
the mapping of bits between the old and new orders, but doesn't
actually convert any bitmaps
- make rebuild_bitmap() public; we'll call it lazily to convert bitmaps
as we traverse (using the mapping created above)
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>
Before 'load_bitmap_entries_v1()' reads an actual EWAH bitmap, it should
check that it can safely do so by ensuring that there are at least 6
bytes available to be read (four for the commit's index position, and
then two more for the xor offset and flags, respectively).
Likewise, it should check that the commit index it read refers to a
legitimate object in the pack.
The first fix catches a truncation bug that was exposed when testing,
and the second is purely precautionary.
There are some possible future improvements, not pursued here. They are:
- Computing the correct boundary of the bitmap itself in the caller
and ensuring that we don't read past it. This may or may not be
worth it, since in a truncation situation, all bets are off: (is the
trailer still there and the bitmap entries malformed, or is the
trailer truncated?). The best we can do is try to read what's there
as if it's correct data (and protect ourselves when it's obviously
bogus).
- Avoid the magic "6" by teaching read_be32() and read_u8() (both of
which are custom helpers for this function) to check sizes before
advancing the pointers.
- Adding more tests in this area. Testing these truncation situations
are remarkably fragile to even subtle changes in the bitmap
generation. So, the resulting tests are likely to be quite brittle.
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>
You can use "git rev-list --test-bitmap HEAD" to check that bitmaps
produce the same answer we'd get from a regular traversal. But if we
detect an error, we only print "mismatch", and still exit with a
successful error code.
That makes the uses of --test-bitmap in the test suite (e.g., in t5310)
mostly pointless: even if we saw an error, the tests wouldn't notice.
Let's instead call die(), which will let these tests work as designed,
and alert us if the bitmaps are bogus.
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>
A .bitmap file may have a "name hash cache" extension, which puts a
sequence of uint32_t values (one per object) at the end of the file.
When we see a flag indicating this extension, we blindly subtract the
appropriate number of bytes from our available length. However, if the
.bitmap file is too short, we'll underflow our length variable and wrap
around, thinking we have a very large length. This can lead to reading
out-of-bounds bytes while loading individual ewah bitmaps.
We can fix this by checking the number of available bytes when we parse
the header. The existing "truncated bitmap" test is now split into two
tests: one where we don't have this extension at all (and hence actually
do try to read a truncated ewah bitmap) and one where we realize
up-front that we can't even fit in the cache structure. We'll check
stderr in each case to make sure we hit the error we're expecting.
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>
When we parse a .bitmap header, we first check that we have enough bytes
to make a valid header. We do that based on sizeof(struct
bitmap_disk_header). However, as of 0f4d6cada8 (pack-bitmap: make bitmap
header handling hash agnostic, 2019-02-19), that struct oversizes its
checksum member to GIT_MAX_RAWSZ. That means we need to adjust for the
difference between that constant and the size of the actual hash we're
using. That commit adjusted the code which moves our pointer forward,
but forgot to update the size check.
This meant we were overly strict about the header size (requiring room
for a 32-byte worst-case hash, when sha1 is only 20 bytes). But in
practice it didn't matter because bitmap files tend to have at least 12
bytes of actual data anyway, so it was unlikely for a valid file to be
caught by this.
Let's fix it by pulling the header size into a separate variable and
using it in both spots. That fixes the bug and simplifies the code to make
it harder to have a mismatch like this in the future. It will also come
in handy in the next patch for more bounds checking.
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>
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>
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>
In 4f3bd5606a (pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_NONE filtering, 2020-02-14),
filtering support for bitmaps was added for the 'LOFC_BLOB_NONE' filter.
In the future, we would like to add support for filters that behave as
if they exclude a certain type of object, for e.g., the tree depth
filter with depth 0.
To prepare for this, make some of the functions used for filtering more
generic, such as 'find_tip_blobs' and 'filter_bitmap_blob_none' so that
they can work over arbitrary object types.
To that end, create 'find_tip_objects' and
'filter_bitmap_exclude_type', and redefine the aforementioned functions
in terms of those.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup to use "struct object_id" more by replacing use of
"char *sha1"
* jk/nth-packed-object-id:
packfile: drop nth_packed_object_sha1()
packed_object_info(): use object_id internally for delta base
packed_object_info(): use object_id for returning delta base
pack-check: push oid lookup into loop
pack-check: convert "internal error" die to a BUG()
pack-bitmap: use object_id when loading on-disk bitmaps
pack-objects: use object_id struct in pack-reuse code
pack-objects: convert oe_set_delta_ext() to use object_id
pack-objects: read delta base oid into object_id struct
nth_packed_object_oid(): use customary integer return
The object reachability bitmap machinery and the partial cloning
machinery were not prepared to work well together, because some
object-filtering criteria that partial clones use inherently rely
on object traversal, but the bitmap machinery is an optimization
to bypass that object traversal. There however are some cases
where they can work together, and they were taught about them.
* jk/object-filter-with-bitmap:
rev-list --count: comment on the use of count_right++
pack-objects: support filters with bitmaps
pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_LIMIT filtering
pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_NONE filtering
bitmap: add bitmap_unset() function
rev-list: use bitmap filters for traversal
pack-bitmap: basic noop bitmap filter infrastructure
rev-list: allow commit-only bitmap traversals
t5310: factor out bitmap traversal comparison
rev-list: allow bitmaps when counting objects
rev-list: make --count work with --objects
rev-list: factor out bitmap-optimized routines
pack-bitmap: refuse to do a bitmap traversal with pathspecs
rev-list: fallback to non-bitmap traversal when filtering
pack-bitmap: fix leak of haves/wants object lists
pack-bitmap: factor out type iterator initialization
A pack bitmap file contains the index position of the commit for each
bitmap, which we then translate into an object id via
nth_packed_object_sha1(). In preparation for that function going away,
we can switch to the more type-safe nth_packed_object_id().
Note that even though the result ends up in an object_id this does incur
an extra copy of the hash (into our temporary object_id, and then into
the final malloc'd stored_bitmap struct). This shouldn't make any
measurable difference. If it did, we could avoid this copy _and_ the
copy of the rest of the items by allocating the stored_bitmap struct
beforehand and reading directly into it from the bitmap file. Or better
still, if this is a bottleneck, we could introduce an on-disk index to
the bitmap file so we don't have to read every single entry to use just
one of them. So it's not worth worrying about micro-optimizing out this
one hash copy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our nth_packed_object_sha1() function returns NULL for error. So when we
wrapped it with nth_packed_object_oid(), we kept the same semantics. But
it's a bit funny, because the caller actually passes in an out
parameter, and the pointer we return is just that same struct they
passed to us (or NULL).
It's not too terrible, but it does make the interface a little
non-idiomatic. Let's switch to our usual "0 for success, negative for
error" return value. Most callers either don't check it, or are
trivially converted. The one that requires the biggest change is
actually improved, as we can ditch an extra aliased pointer variable.
Since we are changing the interface in a subtle way that the compiler
wouldn't catch, let's also change the name to catch any topics in
flight. We can drop the 'o' and make it nth_packed_object_id(). That's
slightly shorter, but also less redundant since the 'o' stands for
"object" already.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
