midx: add packs to packed_git linked list

The multi-pack-index allows searching for objects across multiple
packs using one object list. The original design gains many of
these performance benefits by keeping the packs in the
multi-pack-index out of the packed_git list.

Unfortunately, this has one major drawback. If the multi-pack-index
covers thousands of packs, and a command loads many of those packs,
then we can hit the limit for open file descriptors. The
close_one_pack() method is used to limit this resource, but it
only looks at the packed_git list, and uses an LRU cache to prevent
thrashing.

Instead of complicating this close_one_pack() logic to include
direct references to the multi-pack-index, simply add the packs
opened by the multi-pack-index to the packed_git list. This
immediately solves the file-descriptor limit problem, but requires
some extra steps to avoid performance issues or other problems:

1. Create a multi_pack_index bit in the packed_git struct that is
   one if and only if the pack was loaded from a multi-pack-index.

2. Skip packs with the multi_pack_index bit when doing object
   lookups and abbreviations. These algorithms already check the
   multi-pack-index before the packed_git struct. This has a very
   small performance hit, as we need to walk more packed_git
   structs. This is acceptable, since these operations run binary
   search on the other packs, so this walk-and-ignore logic is
   very fast by comparison.

3. When closing a multi-pack-index file, do not close its packs,
   as those packs will be closed using close_all_packs(). In some
   cases, such as 'git repack', we run 'close_midx()' without also
   closing the packs, so we need to un-set the multi_pack_index bit
   in those packs. This is necessary, and caught by running
   t6501-freshen-objects.sh with GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=1.

To manually test this change, I inserted trace2 logging into
close_pack_fd() and set pack_max_fds to 10, then ran 'git rev-list
--all --objects' on a copy of the Git repo with 300+ pack-files and
a multi-pack-index. The logs verified the packs are closed as
we read them beyond the file descriptor limit.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/object-store.h b/object-store.h
index b086f5e..7acbc7f 100644
--- a/object-store.h
+++ b/object-store.h
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ struct packed_git {
 		 pack_keep_in_core:1,
 		 freshened:1,
 		 do_not_close:1,
-		 pack_promisor:1;
+		 pack_promisor:1,
+		 multi_pack_index:1;
 	unsigned char hash[GIT_MAX_RAWSZ];
 	struct revindex_entry *revindex;
 	/* something like ".git/objects/pack/xxxxx.pack" */
@@ -129,12 +130,6 @@ struct raw_object_store {
 	struct list_head packed_git_mru;
 
 	/*
-	 * A linked list containing all packfiles, starting with those
-	 * contained in the multi_pack_index.
-	 */
-	struct packed_git *all_packs;
-
-	/*
 	 * A fast, rough count of the number of objects in the repository.
 	 * These two fields are not meant for direct access. Use
 	 * approximate_object_count() instead.