fetch-pack: grow stateless RPC windows exponentially

When updating large repositories, the LARGE_FLUSH limit (that is, the
limit at which the window growth strategy switches from exponential to
linear) is reached quite quickly. Use a conservative exponential growth
strategy when that limit is reached instead (and increase LARGE_FLUSH so
that there is no regression in window size).

This optimization is only applied during stateless RPCs to avoid the
issue raised and fixed in commit 44d8dc54 (Fix potential local
deadlock during fetch-pack, 2011-03-29).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

fetch-pack.c

@@ -243,16 +243,21 @@ static void insert_one_alternate_ref(const struct ref *ref, void *unused)
 
 #define INITIAL_FLUSH 16
 #define PIPESAFE_FLUSH 32
-#define LARGE_FLUSH 1024
+#define LARGE_FLUSH 16384
 
 static int next_flush(struct fetch_pack_args *args, int count)
 {
-	int flush_limit = args->stateless_rpc ? LARGE_FLUSH : PIPESAFE_FLUSH;
-
-	if (count < flush_limit)
+	if (args->stateless_rpc) {
+		if (count < LARGE_FLUSH)
+			count <<= 1;
+		else
+			count = count * 11 / 10;
+	} else {
+		if (count < PIPESAFE_FLUSH)
 			count <<= 1;
 		else
-		count += flush_limit;
+			count += PIPESAFE_FLUSH;
+	}
 	return count;
 }