When cloning from a server that supports packfile URIs we may see
multiple URIs being announced by the server. If so, the expectation is
that the client will download all of those packfiles. This is being done
sequentially, where we fetch one packfile after the other.
In many cases this should be fine, but there are scenarios where it's
not. When packfiles are for example hosted by object storage (think AWS
S3 or GCS) then the way to achieve high performance is typically to
parallelize downloading the data as a single connection is often capped
at a certain bandwidth. Furthermore, when the server announces a bunch
of smaller packfiles, then the overhead of establishing the connection
may eventually add up.
Despite the limitations caused by the network bandwidth and latency, Git
also runs git-index-pack(1) on all of the fetched packfiles. This is
another task that can be easily parallelized for another speedup.
All of these limitations can be addressed by parallelizing the fetch.
Introduce a new configuration option that allows the user to ask for
this: by default we continue to not parallelize the fetch to retain the
status quo. But when configured to 0 (where we auto-detect the number of
cores) or a value larger than 1 we perform the fetches concurrently.
With this infrastructure in place we can significantly speed up such
fetches. Using a local HTTP server demonstrates the speedup when using a
throttled connection of 2MB/s and downloading 8x1MB packfiles:
Benchmark 1: 2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 1 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 4.321 s ± 0.003 s [User: 0.195 s, System: 0.113 s]
Range (min … max): 4.318 s … 4.325 s 5 runs
Benchmark 2: 2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 2 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 2.284 s ± 0.241 s [User: 0.191 s, System: 0.114 s]
Range (min … max): 2.173 s … 2.714 s 5 runs
Benchmark 3: 2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 4 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 1.212 s ± 0.238 s [User: 0.192 s, System: 0.105 s]
Range (min … max): 1.102 s … 1.638 s 5 runs
Benchmark 4: 2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 8 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 569.9 ms ± 2.5 ms [User: 183.4 ms, System: 116.0 ms]
Range (min … max): 566.5 ms … 573.4 ms 5 runs
Summary
2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 8 threads ran
2.13 ± 0.42 times faster than 2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 4 threads
4.01 ± 0.42 times faster than 2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 2 threads
7.58 ± 0.03 times faster than 2MB/s, 8x1MB packfiles, 1 threads
Quite unsurprisingly, we scale almost linearly with the number of
threads in this case as we're limited by the bandwidth of a single
connection. But we can also demonstrate a speedup on an unthrottled
connection when downloading slightly larger packfiles:
Benchmark 1: unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 1 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 2.434 s ± 0.031 s [User: 2.067 s, System: 0.329 s]
Range (min … max): 2.381 s … 2.460 s 5 runs
Benchmark 2: unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 2 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 1.353 s ± 0.129 s [User: 2.025 s, System: 0.328 s]
Range (min … max): 1.288 s … 1.583 s 5 runs
Benchmark 3: unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 4 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 702.9 ms ± 23.9 ms [User: 1732.5 ms, System: 313.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 660.7 ms … 718.5 ms 5 runs
Benchmark 4: unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 8 threads
Time (mean ± σ): 455.1 ms ± 7.7 ms [User: 1730.0 ms, System: 372.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 442.8 ms … 462.8 ms 5 runs
Summary
unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 8 threads ran
1.54 ± 0.06 times faster than unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 4 threads
2.97 ± 0.29 times faster than unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 2 threads
5.35 ± 0.11 times faster than unthrottled, 8x16MB packfiles, 1 threads
In this case, the speedup is caused by us running git-index-pack(1) in
parallel. The improvement isn't linear, but still quite significant.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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README.md
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.adoc to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.adoc for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-<commandname>.adoc for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.adoc
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission and Documentation/CodingGuidelines).
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The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
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- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
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