This updates the type-enumeration constants introduced to reduce
the memory footprint of "struct object" to match the type bits
already used in the packfile format, by removing the former
(i.e. TYPE_* constant macros) and using the latter (i.e. enum
object_type) throughout the code for consistency.
Eventually we can stop passing around the "type strings"
entirely, and this will help - no confusion about two different
integer enumeration.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This creates a simple specialized object allocator for basic
objects.
This avoids wasting space with malloc overhead (metadata and
extra alignment), since the specialized allocator knows the
alignment, and that objects, once allocated, are never freed.
It also allows us to track some basic statistics about object
allocations. For example, for the mozilla import, it shows
object usage as follows:
blobs: 627629 (14710 kB)
trees: 1119035 (34969 kB)
commits: 196423 (8440 kB)
tags: 1336 (46 kB)
and the simpler allocator shaves off about 2.5% off the memory
footprint off a "git-rev-list --all --objects", and is a bit
faster too.
[ Side note: this concludes the series of "save memory in object storage".
The thing is, there simply isn't much more to be saved on the objects.
Doing "git-rev-list --all --objects" on the mozilla archive has a final
total RSS of 131498 pages for me: that's about 513MB. Of that, the
object overhead is now just 56MB, the rest is going somewhere else (put
another way: the fact that this patch shaves off 2.5% of the total
memory overhead, considering that objects are now not much more than 10%
of the total shows how big the wasted space really was: this makes
object allocations much more memory- and time-efficient).
I haven't looked at where the rest is, but I suspect the bulk of it is
just the pack-file loading. It may be that we should pack the tree
objects separately from the blob objects: for git-rev-list --objects, we
don't actually ever need to even look at the blobs, but since trees and
blobs are interspersed in the pack-file, we end up not being dense in
the tree accesses, so we end up looking at more pages than we strictly
need to.
So with a 535MB pack-file, it's entirely possible - even likely - that
most of the remaining RSS is just the mmap of the pack-file itself. We
don't need to map in _all_ of it, but we do end up mapping a fair
amount. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This shrinks "struct object" by a small amount, by getting rid of the
"struct type *" pointer and replacing it with a 3-bit bitfield instead.
In addition, we merge the bitfields and the "flags" field, which
incidentally should also remove a useless 4-byte padding from the object
when in 64-bit mode.
Now, our "struct object" is still too damn large, but it's now less
obviously bloated, and of the remaining fields, only the "util" (which is
not used by most things) is clearly something that should be eventually
discarded.
This shrinks the "git-rev-list --all" memory use by about 2.5% on the
kernel archive (and, perhaps more importantly, on the larger mozilla
archive). That may not sound like much, but I suspect it's more on a
64-bit platform.
There are other remaining inefficiencies (the parent lists, for example,
probably have horrible malloc overhead), but this was pretty obvious.
Most of the patch is just changing the comparison of the "type" pointer
from one of the constant string pointers to the appropriate new TYPE_xxx
small integer constant.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds a "tree_entry()" function that combines the common operation of
doing a "tree_entry_extract()" + "update_tree_entry()".
It also has a simplified calling convention, designed for simple loops
that traverse over a whole tree: the arguments are pointers to the tree
descriptor and a name_entry structure to fill in, and it returns a boolean
"true" if there was an entry left to be gotten in the tree.
This allows tree traversal with
struct tree_desc desc;
struct name_entry entry;
desc.buf = tree->buffer;
desc.size = tree->size;
while (tree_entry(&desc, &entry) {
... use "entry.{path, sha1, mode, pathlen}" ...
}
which is not only shorter than writing it out in full, it's hopefully less
error prone too.
[ It's actually a tad faster too - we don't need to recalculate the entry
pathlength in both extract and update, but need to do it only once.
Also, some callers can avoid doing a "strlen()" on the result, since
it's returned as part of the name_entry structure.
However, by now we're talking just 1% speedup on "git-rev-list --objects
--all", and we're definitely at the point where tree walking is no
longer the issue any more. ]
NOTE! Not everybody wants to use this new helper function, since some of
the tree walkers very much on purpose do the descriptor update separately
from the entry extraction. So the "extract + update" sequence still
remains as the core sequence, this is just a simplified interface.
We should probably add a silly two-line inline helper function for
initializing the descriptor from the "struct tree" too, just to cut down
on the noise from that common "desc" initializer.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The old tree_entry_list is dead, long live the unified single tree
parser.
Yes, we now still have a compatibility function to create a bogus
tree_entry_list in builtin-read-tree.c, but that is now entirely local
to that very messy piece of code.
I'd love to clean read-tree.c up too, but I'm too scared right now, so
the best I can do is to just contain the damage, and try to make sure
that no new users of the tree_entry_list sprout up by not having it as
an exported interface any more.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
That was a hack, only needed because 'git fsck-objects' didn't look at
the raw tree format. Now that fsck traverses the tree itself, we can
drop it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead, just use the tree buffer directly, and use the tree-walk
infrastructure to walk the buffers instead of the tree-entry list.
The tree-entry list is inefficient, and generates tons of small
allocations for no good reason. The tree-walk infrastructure is
generally no harder to use than following a linked list, and allows
us to do most tree parsing in-place.
Some programs still use the old tree-entry lists, and are a bit
painful to convert without major surgery. For them we have a helper
function that creates a temporary tree-entry list on demand.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is preparatory work for further cleanups, where we try to make
tree_entry look more like the more efficient tree-walk descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows us to avoid allocating information for names etc, because
we can just use the information from the tree buffer directly.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This finally removes the tree-entry list from "struct tree", since most of
the users can just use the tree-walk infrastructure to walk the raw tree
buffers instead of the tree-entry list.
The tree-entry list is inefficient, and generates tons of small
allocations for no good reason. The tree-walk infrastructure is generally
no harder to use than following a linked list, and allows us to do most
tree parsing in-place.
Some programs still use the old tree-entry lists, and are a bit painful to
convert without major surgery. For them we have a helper function that
creates a temporary tree-entry list on demand. We can convert those too
eventually, but with this they no longer affect any users who don't need
the explicit lists.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Don't use the tree_entry list, it really had no major reason not to just
walk the raw tree instead.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is preparatory work for further cleanups, where we try to make
tree_entry look more like the more efficient tree-walk descriptor.
Instead of having a union of pointers to blob/tree/objects, this just
makes "struct tree_entry" have the raw SHA1, and makes all the users use
that instead (often that implies adding a "lookup_tree(..)" on the sha1,
but sometimes the user just wanted the SHA1 in the first place, and it
just avoids an unnecessary indirection).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows us to avoid allocating information for names etc, because
we can just use the information from the tree buffer directly.
We still keep the old "tree_entry_list" in struct tree as well, so old
users aren't affected, apart from the fact that the allocations are
different (if you free a tree entry, you should no longer free the name
allocation for it, since it's allocated as part of "tree->buffer")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes read_tree_recursive and read_tree take a struct tree
instead of a buffer. It also move the declaration of read_tree into
tree.h (where struct tree is defined), and updates ls-tree and
diff-index (the only places that presently use read_tree*()) to use
the new versions.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
ISO C99 (and GCC 3.x or later) lets you write a flexible array
at the end of a structure, like this:
struct frotz {
int xyzzy;
char nitfol[]; /* more */
};
GCC 2.95 and 2.96 let you to do this with "char nitfol[0]";
unfortunately this is not allowed by ISO C90.
This declares such construct like this:
struct frotz {
int xyzzy;
char nitfol[FLEX_ARRAY]; /* more */
};
and git-compat-util.h defines FLEX_ARRAY to 0 for gcc 2.95 and
empty for others.
If you are using a C90 C compiler, you should be able
to override this with CFLAGS=-DFLEX_ARRAY=1 from the
command line of "make".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-ls-tree should be rewritten to use a pathspec the same way everybody
else does. Right now it's the odd man out: if you do
git-ls-tree HEAD divers/char drivers/
it will show the same files _twice_, which is not how pathspecs in general
work.
How about this patch? It breaks some of the git-ls-tree tests, but it
makes git-ls-tree work a lot more like other git pathspec commands, and it
removes more than 150 lines by re-using the recursive tree traversal (but
the "-d" flag is gone for good, so I'm not pushing this too hard).
Linus
Store pointers to referenced objects in a variable sized array instead
of linked list. This cuts down memory usage of utilities which use
object references; e.g., git-fsck-objects --full on the git.git
repository consumes about 2 MB of memory tracked by Massif instead of
7 MB before the change. Object refs are still the biggest consumer of
memory (57%), but the malloc overhead for a single block instead of a
linked list is substantially smaller.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In particular, warn about things like zero-padding of the mode bits,
which is a big no-no, since it makes otherwise identical trees have
different representations (and thus different SHA1 numbers).
Also make the warnings more regular.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
An earlier change to optimize directory-file conflict check
broke what "read-tree --emu23" expects. This is fixed by this
commit.
(1) Introduces an explicit flag to tell add_cache_entry() not to
check for conflicts and use it when reading an existing tree
into an empty stage --- by definition this case can never
introduce such conflicts.
(2) Makes read-cache.c:has_file_name() and read-cache.c:has_dir_name()
aware of the cache stages, and flag conflict only with paths
in the same stage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make 'sha1' parameters const where possible
Signed-off-by: Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a complete rewrite of ls-tree to make it behave more
like what "/bin/ls -a" does in the current working directory.
Namely, the changes are:
- Unlike the old ls-tree behaviour that used paths arguments to
restrict output (not that it worked as intended---as pointed
out in the mailing list discussion, it was quite incoherent),
this rewrite uses paths arguments to specify what to show.
- Without arguments, it implicitly uses the root level as its
sole argument ("/bin/ls -a" behaves as if "." is given
without argument).
- Without -r (recursive) flag, it shows the named blob (either
file or symlink), or the named tree and its immediate
children.
- With -r flag, it shows the named path, and recursively
descends into it if it is a tree.
- With -d flag, it shows the named path and does not show its
children even if the path is a tree, nor descends into it
recursively.
This is still request-for-comments patch. There is no mailing
list consensus that this proposed new behaviour is a good one.
The patch to t/t3100-ls-tree-restrict.sh illustrates
user-visible behaviour changes. Namely:
* "git-ls-tree $tree path1 path0" lists path1 first and then
path0. It used to use paths as an output restrictor and
showed output in cache entry order (i.e. path0 first and then
path1) regardless of the order of paths arguments.
* "git-ls-tree $tree path2" lists path2 and its immediate
children but having explicit paths argument does not imply
recursive behaviour anymore, hence paths/baz is shown but not
paths/baz/b.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds knowledge of delta objects to fsck-cache and various object
parsing code. A new switch to git-fsck-cache is provided to display the
maximum delta depth found in a repository.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When "path" exists as a file or a symlink in the index, an
attempt to add "path/file" is refused because it results in file
vs directory conflict. Similarly when "path/file1",
"path/file2", etc. exist, an attempt to add "path" as a file or
a symlink is refused. With git-update-cache --replace, these
existing entries that conflict with the entry being added are
automatically removed from the cache, with warning messages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It turns out that parse_object() is loading and decompressing given
object to free it just before calling the specific object parsing
function which does mmap and decompress the same object again. This
patch introduces the ability to parse specific objects directly from a
memory buffer.
Without this patch, running git-fsck-cache on the kernel repositorytake:
real 0m13.006s
user 0m11.421s
sys 0m1.218s
With this patch applied:
real 0m8.060s
user 0m7.071s
sys 0m0.710s
The performance increase is significant, and this is kind of a
prerequisite for sane delta object support with fsck.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The tree object parsing used to get the executable bit wrong,
and didn't know about symlinks. Also, fsck really wants the
full mode value so that it can verify the other bits for sanity,
so save it all in struct tree_entry.
This patch fixes memory leaks in parse_object() and related functions;
these leaks were very noticeable when running git-fsck-cache.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We check the ordering of the entries, and we verify that none
of the entries has a slash in it (this allows us to remove the
hacky "has_full_path" member from the tree structure, since we
now just test it by walking the tree entries instead).
Introduce xmalloc and xrealloc to die gracefully with a descriptive
message when out of memory, rather than taking a SIGSEGV.
Signed-off-by: Christopher Li<chrislgit@chrisli.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds the contents of trees to struct tree.
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds