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authorMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2017-05-22 14:17:49 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-05-23 05:29:55 (GMT)
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get_packed_ref_cache(): assume "packed-refs" won't change while locked
If we've got the "packed-refs" file locked, then it can't change; there's no need to keep calling `stat_validity_check()` on it. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'refs')
-rw-r--r--refs/files-backend.c16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index 2951439..c4bc955 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -342,13 +342,18 @@ static void files_ref_path(struct files_ref_store *refs,
/*
* Get the packed_ref_cache for the specified files_ref_store,
- * creating it if necessary.
+ * creating and populating it if it hasn't been read before or if the
+ * file has been changed (according to its `validity` field) since it
+ * was last read. On the other hand, if we hold the lock, then assume
+ * that the file hasn't been changed out from under us, so skip the
+ * extra `stat()` call in `stat_validity_check()`.
*/
static struct packed_ref_cache *get_packed_ref_cache(struct files_ref_store *refs)
{
const char *packed_refs_file = files_packed_refs_path(refs);
if (refs->packed &&
+ !is_lock_file_locked(&refs->packed_refs_lock) &&
!stat_validity_check(&refs->packed->validity, packed_refs_file))
clear_packed_ref_cache(refs);
@@ -1288,10 +1293,11 @@ static int lock_packed_refs(struct files_ref_store *refs, int flags)
flags, timeout_value) < 0)
return -1;
/*
- * Get the current packed-refs while holding the lock. If the
- * packed-refs file has been modified since we last read it,
- * this will automatically invalidate the cache and re-read
- * the packed-refs file.
+ * Get the current packed-refs while holding the lock. It is
+ * important that we call `get_packed_ref_cache()` before
+ * setting `packed_ref_cache->lock`, because otherwise the
+ * former will see that the file is locked and assume that the
+ * cache can't be stale.
*/
packed_ref_cache = get_packed_ref_cache(refs);
/* Increment the reference count to prevent it from being freed: */