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2019-05-28mark_fsmonitor_valid(): mark the index as changed if neededJohannes Schindelin
Without this bug fix, t7519's four "status doesn't detect unreported modifications" test cases would fail occasionally (and, oddly enough, *a lot* more frequently on Windows). The reason is that these test cases intentionally use the side effect of `git status` to re-write the index if any updates were detected: they first clean the worktree, run `git status` to update the index as well as show the output to the casual reader, then make the worktree dirty again and expect no changes to reported if running with a mocked fsmonitor hook. The problem with this strategy was that the index was written during said `git status` on the clean worktree for the *wrong* reason: not because the index was marked as changed (it wasn't), but because the recorded mtimes were racy with the index' own mtime. As the mtime granularity on Windows is 100 nanoseconds (see e.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/SysInfo/file-times), the mtimes of the files are often enough *not* racy with the index', so that that `git status` call currently does not always update the index (including the fsmonitor extension), causing the test case to fail. The obvious fix: if we change *any* index entry's `CE_FSMONITOR_VALID` flag, we should also mark the index as changed. That will cause the index to be written upon `git status`, *including* an updated fsmonitor extension. Side note: Even though the reader might think that the t7519 issue should be *much* more prevalent on Linux, given that the ext4 filesystem (that seems to be used by every Linux distribution) stores mtimes in nanosecond precision. However, ext4 uses `current_kernel_time()` (see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11599#comment762968_11599; it is *amazingly* hard to find any proper source of information about such ext4 questions) whose accuracy seems to depend on many factors but is safely worse than the 100-nanosecond granularity of NTFS (again, it is *horribly* hard to find anything remotely authoritative about this question). So it seems that the racy index condition that hid the bug fixed by this patch simply is a lot more likely on Linux than on Windows. But not impossible ;-) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-14read-cache.c: kill read_index()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
read_index() shares the same problem as hold_locked_index(): it assumes $GIT_DIR/index. Move all call sites to repo_read_index() instead. read_index_preload() and read_index_unmerged() are also killed as a consequence. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-18Merge branch 'nd/pthreads'Junio C Hamano
The codebase has been cleaned up to reduce "#ifndef NO_PTHREADS". * nd/pthreads: Clean up pthread_create() error handling read-cache.c: initialize copy_len to shut up gcc 8 read-cache.c: reduce branching based on HAVE_THREADS read-cache.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS pack-objects: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS preload-index.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS grep: clean up num_threads handling grep: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS attr.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS name-hash.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS index-pack: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS send-pack.c: move async's #ifdef NO_PTHREADS back to run-command.c run-command.h: include thread-utils.h instead of pthread.h thread-utils: macros to unconditionally compile pthreads API
2018-11-05Clean up pthread_create() error handlingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Normally pthread_create() rarely fails. But with new pthreads wrapper, pthread_create() will return ENOSYS on a system without thread support. Threaded code _is_ protected by HAVE_THREADS and pthread_create() should never run in the first place. But the situation could change in the future and bugs may sneak in. Make sure that all pthread_create() reports the error cause. While at there, mark these strings for translation if they aren't. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-05preload-index.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADSNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-30speed up refresh_index() by utilizing preload_index()Ben Peart
Speed up refresh_index() by utilizing preload_index() to do most of the work spread across multiple threads. This works because most cache entries will get marked CE_UPTODATE so that refresh_cache_ent() can bail out early when called from within refresh_index(). On a Windows repo with ~200K files, this drops refresh times from 6.64 seconds to 2.87 seconds for a savings of 57%. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-19Merge branch 'nd/status-refresh-progress'Junio C Hamano
"git status" learns to show progress bar when refreshing the index takes a long time. * nd/status-refresh-progress: status: show progress bar if refreshing the index takes too long
2018-10-19Merge branch 'bp/rename-test-env-var'Junio C Hamano
Some environment variables that control the runtime options of Git used during tests are getting renamed for consistency. * bp/rename-test-env-var: t0000: do not get self-test disrupted by environment warnings preload-index: update GIT_FORCE_PRELOAD_TEST support read-cache: update TEST_GIT_INDEX_VERSION support fsmonitor: update GIT_TEST_FSMONITOR support preload-index: use git_env_bool() not getenv() for customization t/README: correct spelling of "uncommon"
2018-09-28preload-index: update GIT_FORCE_PRELOAD_TEST supportBen Peart
Rename GIT_FORCE_PRELOAD_TEST to GIT_TEST_PRELOAD_INDEX for consistency with the other GIT_TEST_ special setups and properly document its use. Add logic in t/test-lib.sh to give a warning when the old variable is set to let people know they need to update their environment to use the new variable. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-20preload-index: use git_env_bool() not getenv() for customizationBen Peart
GIT_FORCE_PRELOAD_TEST is only checked for presence by using getenv(). Use git_env_bool() instead so that GIT_FORCE_PRELOAD_TEST=false can work as expected. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-17Merge branch 'nd/unpack-trees-with-cache-tree'Junio C Hamano
The unpack_trees() API used in checking out a branch and merging walks one or more trees along with the index. When the cache-tree in the index tells us that we are walking a tree whose flattened contents is known (i.e. matches a span in the index), as linearly scanning a span in the index is much more efficient than having to open tree objects recursively and listing their entries, the walk can be optimized, which is done in this topic. * nd/unpack-trees-with-cache-tree: Document update for nd/unpack-trees-with-cache-tree cache-tree: verify valid cache-tree in the test suite unpack-trees: add missing cache invalidation unpack-trees: reuse (still valid) cache-tree from src_index unpack-trees: reduce malloc in cache-tree walk unpack-trees: optimize walking same trees with cache-tree unpack-trees: add performance tracing trace.h: support nested performance tracing
2018-09-17status: show progress bar if refreshing the index takes too longNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Refreshing the index is usually very fast, but it can still take a long time sometimes. Cold cache is one. Or copying a repo to a new place (*). It's good to show something to let the user know "git status" is not hanging, it's just busy doing something. (*) In this case, all stat info in the index becomes invalid and git falls back to rehashing all file content to see if there's any difference between updating stat info in the index. This is quite expensive. Even with a repo as small as git.git, it takes 3 seconds. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-18trace.h: support nested performance tracingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Performance measurements are listed right now as a flat list, which is fine when we measure big blocks. But when we start adding more and more measurements, some of them could be just part of a bigger measurement and a flat list gives a wrong impression that they are executed at the same level instead of nested. Add trace_performance_enter() and trace_performance_leave() to allow indent these nested measurements. For now it does not help much because the only nested thing is (lazy) name hash initialization (e.g. called in diff-index from "git status"). This will help more because I'm going to add some more tracing that's actually nested. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-13preload-index.c: use the right index instead of the_indexNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-13dir.c: remove an implicit dependency on the_index in pathspec codeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Make the match_patchspec API and friends take an index_state instead of assuming the_index in dir.c. All external call sites are converted blindly to keep the patch simple and retain current behavior. Individual call sites may receive further updates to use the right index instead of the_index. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-02trace: measure where the time is spent in the index-heavy operationsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
All the known heavy code blocks are measured (except object database access). This should help identify if an optimization is effective or not. An unoptimized git-status would give something like below: 0.001791141 s: read cache ... 0.004011363 s: preload index 0.000516161 s: refresh index 0.003139257 s: git command: ... 'status' '--porcelain=2' 0.006788129 s: diff-files 0.002090267 s: diff-index 0.001885735 s: initialize name hash 0.032013138 s: read directory 0.051781209 s: git command: './git' 'status' Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-01fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up ↵Ben Peart
detecting new or changed files. When the index is read from disk, the fsmonitor index extension is used to flag the last known potentially dirty index entries. The registered core.fsmonitor command is called with the time the index was last updated and returns the list of files changed since that time. This list is used to flag any additional dirty cache entries and untracked cache directories. We can then use this valid state to speed up preload_index(), ie_match_stat(), and refresh_cache_ent() as they do not need to lstat() files to detect potential changes for those entries marked CE_FSMONITOR_VALID. In addition, if the untracked cache is turned on valid_cached_dir() can skip checking directories for new or changed files as fsmonitor will invalidate the cache only for those directories that have been identified as having potential changes. To keep the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID state accurate during git operations; when git updates a cache entry to match the current state on disk, it will now set the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit. Inversely, anytime git changes a cache entry, the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit is cleared and the corresponding untracked cache directory is marked invalid. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-24preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-indexBen Peart
By default, the preload index code path doesn't run unless there is a minimum of 1000 files. To enable running the test suite and having it execute the preload-index path, add an environment variable (GIT_FORCE_PRELOAD_TEST) which will override that minimum and set it to 2. This enables you run existing tests and have the core.preloadindex code path execute as long as the test has at least 2 files by setting GIT_FORCE_PRELOAD_TEXT=1 before running the test. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-10preload-index: avoid lstat for skip-worktree itemsJeff Hostetler
Teach preload-index to avoid lstat() calls for index-entries with skip-worktree bit set. This is a performance optimization. During a sparse-checkout, the skip-worktree bit is set on items that were not populated and therefore are not present in the worktree. The per-thread preload-index loop performs a series of tests on each index-entry as it attempts to compare the worktree version with the index and mark them up-to-date. This patch short-cuts that work. On a Windows 10 system with a very large repo (450MB index) and various levels of sparseness, performance was improved in the {preloadindex=true, fscache=false} case by 80% and in the {preloadindex=true, fscache=true} case by 20% for various commands. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-13cache.h: rename cache_def_free to cache_def_clearKarsten Blees
Rename cache_def_free to cache_def_clear as it doesn't free the struct cache_def, but just clears its content. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-07symlinks: remove PATH_MAX limitationKarsten Blees
'git checkout' fails if a directory is longer than PATH_MAX, because the lstat_cache in symlinks.c checks if the leading directory exists using PATH_MAX-bounded string operations. Remove the limitation by using strbuf instead. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24pathspec: convert some match_pathspec_depth() to ce_path_match()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
This helps reduce the number of match_pathspec_depth() call sites and show how match_pathspec_depth() is used. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15convert read_cache_preload() to take struct pathspecNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15move struct pathspec and related functions to pathspec.[ch]Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspecNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24Make ce_uptodate() trustworthy againJunio C Hamano
The rule has always been that a cache entry that is ce_uptodate(ce) means that we already have checked the work tree entity and we know there is no change in the work tree compared to the index, and nobody should have to double check. Note that false ce_uptodate(ce) does not mean it is known to be dirty---it only means we don't know if it is clean. There are a few codepaths (refresh-index and preload-index are among them) that mark a cache entry as up-to-date based solely on the return value from ie_match_stat(); this function uses lstat() to see if the work tree entity has been touched, and for a submodule entry, if its HEAD points at the same commit as the commit recorded in the index of the superproject (a submodule that is not even cloned is considered clean). A submodule is no longer considered unmodified merely because its HEAD matches the index of the superproject these days, in order to prevent people from forgetting to commit in the submodule and updating the superproject index with the new submodule commit, before commiting the state in the superproject. However, the patch to do so didn't update the codepath that marks cache entries up-to-date based on the updated definition and instead worked it around by saying "we don't trust the return value of ce_uptodate() for submodules." This makes ce_uptodate() trustworthy again by not marking submodule entries up-to-date. The next step _could_ be to introduce a few "in-core" flag bits to cache_entry structure to record "this entry is _known_ to be dirty", call is_submodule_modified() from ie_match_stat(), and use these new bits to avoid running this rather expensive check more than once, but that can be a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-23janitor: add DIV_ROUND_UP and use it.Pierre Habouzit
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-10Make index preloading check the whole path to the fileLinus Torvalds
This uses the new thread-safe 'threaded_has_symlink_leading_path()' function to efficiently verify that the whole path leading up to the filename is a proper path, and does not contain symlinks. This makes 'ce_uptodate()' a much stronger guarantee: it no longer just guarantees that the 'lstat()' of the path would match, it also means that we know that people haven't played games with moving directories around and covered it up with symlinks. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-02Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADSJunio C Hamano
This introduces make variable NO_PTHREADS for platforms that lack the support for pthreads library or people who do not want to use it for whatever reason. When defined, it makes the multi-threaded index preloading into a no-op, and also disables threaded delta searching by pack-objects. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk> Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> (AIX 4.3.x) Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-17Fix index preloading for racy dirty caseLinus Torvalds
In the threaded index preloading case, we must be sure to always use the CE_MATCH_RACY_IS_DIRTY flag when calling ie_match_stat(), in order to make sure that we only ever look at the stat() data, and don't try to do anything fancy. Because most of git internals are not thread-safe, and must not be called in parallel. Otherwise, what happens is that if the timestamps indicate that an entry _might_ be dirty, we might start actually comparing filesystem data with the object database. And we mustn't do that, because that would involve looking up and creating the object structure, and that whole code sequence with read_sha1_file() where we look up and add objects to the hashes is definitely not thread-safe. Nor do we want to add locking, because the whole point of the preload was to be simple and not affect anything else. With CE_MATCH_RACY_IS_DIRTY, we get what we wanted, and we'll just leave the hard cases well alone, to be done later in the much simpler serial case. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-15Add cache preload facilityLinus Torvalds
This can do the lstat() storm in parallel, giving potentially much improved performance for cold-cache cases or things like NFS that have weak metadata caching. Just use "read_cache_preload()" instead of "read_cache()" to force an optimistic preload of the index stat data. The function takes a pathspec as its argument, allowing us to preload only the relevant portion of the index. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>