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2014-05-27pack-revindex.c: rearrange xcalloc argumentsBrian Gesiak
xcalloc() takes two arguments: the number of elements and their size. init_pack_revindex() passes the arguments in reverse order, passing the size of a pack_revindex, followed by the number to allocate. Rearrange them so they are in the correct order. Signed-off-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-16do not discard revindex when re-preparing packfilesJeff King
When an object lookup fails, we re-read the objects/pack directory to pick up any new packfiles that may have been created since our last read. We also discard any pack revindex structs we've allocated. The discarding is a problem for the pack-bitmap code, which keeps a pointer to the revindex for the bitmapped pack. After the discard, the pointer is invalid, and we may read free()d memory. Other revindex users do not keep a bare pointer to the revindex; instead, they always access it through revindex_for_pack(), which lazily builds the revindex. So one solution is to teach the pack-bitmap code a similar trick. It would be slightly less efficient, but probably not all that noticeable. However, it turns out this discarding is not actually necessary. When we call reprepare_packed_git, we do not throw away our old pack list. We keep the existing entries, and only add in new ones. So there is no safety problem; we will still have the pack struct that matches each revindex. The packfile itself may go away, of course, but we are already prepared to handle that, and it may happen outside of reprepare_packed_git anyway. Throwing away the revindex may save some RAM if the pack never gets reused (about 12 bytes per object). But it also wastes some CPU time (to regenerate the index) if the pack does get reused. It's hard to say which is more valuable, but in either case, it happens very rarely (only when we race with a simultaneous repack). Just leaving the revindex in place is simple and safe both for current and future code. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24revindex: export new APIsVicent Marti
Allow users to efficiently lookup consecutive entries that are expected to be found on the same revindex by exporting `find_revindex_position`: this function takes a pointer to revindex itself, instead of looking up the proper revindex for a given packfile on each call. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindexJeff King
The pack revindex stores the offsets of the objects in the pack in sorted order, allowing us to easily find the on-disk size of each object. To compute it, we populate an array with the offsets from the sha1-sorted idx file, and then use qsort to order it by offsets. That does O(n log n) offset comparisons, and profiling shows that we spend most of our time in cmp_offset. However, since we are sorting on a simple off_t, we can use numeric sorts that perform better. A radix sort can run in O(k*n), where k is the number of "digits" in our number. For a 64-bit off_t, using 16-bit "digits" gives us k=4. On the linux.git repo, with about 3M objects to sort, this yields a 400% speedup. Here are the best-of-five numbers for running echo HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk) on a fully packed repository, which is dominated by time spent building the pack revindex: before after real 0m0.834s 0m0.204s user 0m0.788s 0m0.164s sys 0m0.040s 0m0.036s This matches our algorithmic expectations. log(3M) is ~21.5, so a traditional sort is ~21.5n. Our radix sort runs in k*n, where k is the number of radix digits. In the worst case, this is k=4 for a 64-bit off_t, but we can quit early when the largest value to be sorted is smaller. For any repository under 4G, k=2. Our algorithm makes two passes over the list per radix digit, so we end up with 4n. That should yield ~5.3x speedup. We see 4x here; the difference is probably due to the extra bucket book-keeping the radix sort has to do. On a smaller repo, the difference is less impressive, as log(n) is smaller. For git.git, with 173K objects (but still k=2), we see a 2.7x improvement: before after real 0m0.046s 0m0.017s user 0m0.036s 0m0.012s sys 0m0.008s 0m0.000s On even tinier repos (e.g., a few hundred objects), the speedup goes away entirely, as the small advantage of the radix sort gets erased by the book-keeping costs (and at those sizes, the cost to generate the the rev-index gets lost in the noise anyway). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12pack-revindex: use unsigned to store number of objectsJeff King
A packfile may have up to 2^32-1 objects in it, so the "right" data type to use is uint32_t. We currently use a signed int, which means that we may behave incorrectly for packfiles with more than 2^31-1 objects on 32-bit systems. Nobody has noticed because having 2^31 objects is pretty insane. The linux.git repo has on the order of 2^22 objects, which is hundreds of times smaller than necessary to trigger the bug. Let's bump this up to an "unsigned". On 32-bit systems, this gives us the correct data-type, and on 64-bit systems, it is probably more efficient to use the native "unsigned" than a true uint32_t. While we're at it, we can fix the binary search not to overflow in such a case if our unsigned is 32 bits. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-23janitor: useless checks before freePierre Habouzit
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02make find_pack_revindex() aware of the nasty worldNicolas Pitre
It currently calls die() whenever given offset is not found thinking that such thing should never happen. But this offset may come from a corrupted pack whych _could_ happen and not be found. Callers should deal with this possibility gracefully instead. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-23discard revindex data when pack list changesNicolas Pitre
This is needed to fix verify-pack -v with multiple pack arguments. Also, in theory, revindex data (if any) must be discarded whenever reprepare_packed_git() is called. In practice this is hard to trigger though. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24call init_pack_revindex() lazilyNicolas Pitre
This makes life much easier for next patch, as well as being more efficient when the revindex is actually not used. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-01factorize revindex code out of builtin-pack-objects.cNicolas Pitre
No functional change. This is needed to fix verify-pack in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>