trace: improve trace performance

The trace API currently rechecks the environment variable and reopens the
trace file on every API call. This has the ugly side effect that errors
(e.g. file cannot be opened, or the user specified a relative path) are
also reported on every call. Performance can be improved by about factor
three by remembering the environment state and keeping the file open.

Replace the 'const char *key' parameter in the API with a pointer to a
'struct trace_key' that bundles the environment variable name with
additional, trace-internal state. Change the call sites of these APIs to
use a static 'struct trace_key' instead of a string constant.

In trace.c::get_trace_fd(), save and reuse the file descriptor in 'struct
trace_key'.

Add a 'trace_disable()' API, so that packet_trace() can cleanly disable
tracing when it encounters packed data (instead of using unsetenv()).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pkt-line.c b/pkt-line.c
index bc63b3b..8bc89b1 100644
--- a/pkt-line.c
+++ b/pkt-line.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 char packet_buffer[LARGE_PACKET_MAX];
 static const char *packet_trace_prefix = "git";
-static const char trace_key[] = "GIT_TRACE_PACKET";
+static struct trace_key trace_packet = TRACE_KEY_INIT(PACKET);
 
 void packet_trace_identity(const char *prog)
 {
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ static void packet_trace(const char *buf, unsigned int len, int write)
 	int i;
 	struct strbuf out;
 
-	if (!trace_want(trace_key))
+	if (!trace_want(&trace_packet))
 		return;
 
 	/* +32 is just a guess for header + quoting */
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static void packet_trace(const char *buf, unsigned int len, int write)
 	if ((len >= 4 && starts_with(buf, "PACK")) ||
 	    (len >= 5 && starts_with(buf+1, "PACK"))) {
 		strbuf_addstr(&out, "PACK ...");
-		unsetenv(trace_key);
+		trace_disable(&trace_packet);
 	}
 	else {
 		/* XXX we should really handle printable utf8 */
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static void packet_trace(const char *buf, unsigned int len, int write)
 	}
 
 	strbuf_addch(&out, '\n');
-	trace_strbuf(trace_key, &out);
+	trace_strbuf(&trace_packet, &out);
 	strbuf_release(&out);
 }