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#include "cache.h"
#include "pack-revindex.h"
#include "object-store.h"
#include "packfile.h"
#include "config.h"
struct revindex_entry {
off_t offset;
unsigned int nr;
};
/*
* Pack index for existing packs give us easy access to the offsets into
* corresponding pack file where each object's data starts, but the entries
* do not store the size of the compressed representation (uncompressed
* size is easily available by examining the pack entry header). It is
* also rather expensive to find the sha1 for an object given its offset.
*
pack-revindex: drop hash table The main entry point to the pack-revindex code is find_pack_revindex(). This calls revindex_for_pack(), which lazily computes and caches the revindex for the pack. We store the cache in a very simple hash table. It's created by init_pack_revindex(), which inserts an entry for every packfile we know about, and we never grow or shrink the hash. If we ever need the revindex for a pack that isn't in the hash, we die() with an internal error. This can lead to a race, because we may load more packs after having called init_pack_revindex(). For example, imagine we have one process which needs to look at the revindex for a variety of objects (e.g., cat-file's "%(objectsize:disk)" format). Simultaneously, git-gc is running, which is doing a `git repack -ad`. We might hit a sequence like: 1. We need the revidx for some packed object. We call find_pack_revindex() and end up in init_pack_revindex() to create the hash table for all packs we know about. 2. We look up another object and can't find it, because the repack has removed the pack it's in. We re-scan the pack directory and find a new pack containing the object. It gets added to our packed_git list. 3. We call find_pack_revindex() for the new object, which hits revindex_for_pack() for our new pack. It can't find the packed_git in the revindex hash, and dies. You could also replace the `repack` above with a push or fetch to create a new pack, though these are less likely (you would have to somehow learn about the new objects to look them up). Prior to 1a6d8b9 (do not discard revindex when re-preparing packfiles, 2014-01-15), this was safe, as we threw away the revindex whenever we re-scanned the pack directory (and thus re-created the revindex hash on the fly). However, we don't want to simply revert that commit, as it was solving a different race. So we have a few options: - We can fix the race in 1a6d8b9 differently, by having the bitmap code look in the revindex hash instead of caching the pointer. But this would introduce a lot of extra hash lookups for common bitmap operations. - We could teach the revindex to dynamically add new packs to the hash table. This would perform the same, but would mean adding extra code to the revindex hash (which currently cannot be resized at all). - We can get rid of the hash table entirely. There is exactly one revindex per pack, so we can just store it in the packed_git struct. Since it's initialized lazily, it does not add to the startup cost. This is the best of both worlds: less code and fewer hash table lookups. The original code likely avoided this in the name of encapsulation. But the packed_git and reverse_index code are fairly intimate already, so it's not much of a loss. This patch implements the final option. It's a minimal conversion that retains the pack_revindex struct. No callers need to change, and we can do further cleanup in a follow-on patch. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-21 07:19:49 +01:00
* The pack index file is sorted by object name mapping to offset;
* this revindex array is a list of offset/index_nr pairs
* ordered by offset, so if you know the offset of an object, next offset
* is where its packed representation ends and the index_nr can be used to
* get the object sha1 from the main index.
*/
pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex 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>
2013-07-11 14:16:00 +02:00
/*
* This is a least-significant-digit radix sort.
*
* It sorts each of the "n" items in "entries" by its offset field. The "max"
* parameter must be at least as large as the largest offset in the array,
* and lets us quit the sort early.
*/
static void sort_revindex(struct revindex_entry *entries, unsigned n, off_t max)
{
pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex 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>
2013-07-11 14:16:00 +02:00
/*
* We use a "digit" size of 16 bits. That keeps our memory
* usage reasonable, and we can generally (for a 4G or smaller
* packfile) quit after two rounds of radix-sorting.
*/
#define DIGIT_SIZE (16)
#define BUCKETS (1 << DIGIT_SIZE)
/*
* We want to know the bucket that a[i] will go into when we are using
* the digit that is N bits from the (least significant) end.
*/
#define BUCKET_FOR(a, i, bits) (((a)[(i)].offset >> (bits)) & (BUCKETS-1))
/*
* We need O(n) temporary storage. Rather than do an extra copy of the
* partial results into "entries", we sort back and forth between the
* real array and temporary storage. In each iteration of the loop, we
* keep track of them with alias pointers, always sorting from "from"
* to "to".
*/
struct revindex_entry *tmp, *from, *to;
pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex 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>
2013-07-11 14:16:00 +02:00
int bits;
unsigned *pos;
ALLOC_ARRAY(pos, BUCKETS);
ALLOC_ARRAY(tmp, n);
from = entries;
to = tmp;
pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex 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>
2013-07-11 14:16:00 +02:00
/*
* If (max >> bits) is zero, then we know that the radix digit we are
* on (and any higher) will be zero for all entries, and our loop will
* be a no-op, as everybody lands in the same zero-th bucket.
*/
for (bits = 0; max >> bits; bits += DIGIT_SIZE) {
unsigned i;
memset(pos, 0, BUCKETS * sizeof(*pos));
/*
* We want pos[i] to store the index of the last element that
* will go in bucket "i" (actually one past the last element).
* To do this, we first count the items that will go in each
* bucket, which gives us a relative offset from the last
* bucket. We can then cumulatively add the index from the
* previous bucket to get the true index.
*/
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
pos[BUCKET_FOR(from, i, bits)]++;
for (i = 1; i < BUCKETS; i++)
pos[i] += pos[i-1];
/*
* Now we can drop the elements into their correct buckets (in
* our temporary array). We iterate the pos counter backwards
* to avoid using an extra index to count up. And since we are
* going backwards there, we must also go backwards through the
* array itself, to keep the sort stable.
*
* Note that we use an unsigned iterator to make sure we can
* handle 2^32-1 objects, even on a 32-bit system. But this
* means we cannot use the more obvious "i >= 0" loop condition
* for counting backwards, and must instead check for
* wrap-around with UINT_MAX.
*/
for (i = n - 1; i != UINT_MAX; i--)
to[--pos[BUCKET_FOR(from, i, bits)]] = from[i];
/*
* Now "to" contains the most sorted list, so we swap "from" and
* "to" for the next iteration.
*/
SWAP(from, to);
pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex 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>
2013-07-11 14:16:00 +02:00
}
/*
* If we ended with our data in the original array, great. If not,
* we have to move it back from the temporary storage.
*/
if (from != entries)
COPY_ARRAY(entries, tmp, n);
pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex 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>
2013-07-11 14:16:00 +02:00
free(tmp);
free(pos);
#undef BUCKET_FOR
#undef BUCKETS
#undef DIGIT_SIZE
}
/*
* Ordered list of offsets of objects in the pack.
*/
static void create_pack_revindex(struct packed_git *p)
{
const unsigned num_ent = p->num_objects;
unsigned i;
const char *index = p->index_data;
const unsigned hashsz = the_hash_algo->rawsz;
ALLOC_ARRAY(p->revindex, num_ent + 1);
index += 4 * 256;
if (p->index_version > 1) {
const uint32_t *off_32 =
compute pack .idx byte offsets using size_t A pack and its matching .idx file are limited to 2^32 objects, because the pack format contains a 32-bit field to store the number of objects. Hence we use uint32_t in the code. But the byte count of even a .idx file can be much larger than that, because it stores at least a hash and an offset for each object. So using SHA-1, a v2 .idx file will cross the 4GB boundary at 153,391,650 objects. This confuses load_idx(), which computes the minimum size like this: unsigned long min_size = 8 + 4*256 + nr*(hashsz + 4 + 4) + hashsz + hashsz; Even though min_size will be big enough on most 64-bit platforms, the actual arithmetic is done as a uint32_t, resulting in a truncation. We actually exceed that min_size, but then we do: unsigned long max_size = min_size; if (nr) max_size += (nr - 1)*8; to account for the variable-sized table. That computation doesn't overflow quite so low, but with the truncation for min_size, we end up with a max_size that is much smaller than our actual size. So we complain that the idx is invalid, and can't find any of its objects. We can fix this case by casting "nr" to a size_t, which will do the multiplication in 64-bits (assuming you're on a 64-bit platform; this will never work on a 32-bit system since we couldn't map the whole .idx anyway). Likewise, we don't have to worry about further additions, because adding a smaller number to a size_t will convert the other side to a size_t. A few notes: - obviously we could just declare "nr" as a size_t in the first place (and likewise, packed_git.num_objects). But it's conceptually a uint32_t because of the on-disk format, and we correctly treat it that way in other contexts that don't need to compute byte offsets (e.g., iterating over the set of objects should and generally does use a uint32_t). Switching to size_t would make all of those other cases look wrong. - it could be argued that the proper type is off_t to represent the file offset. But in practice the .idx file must fit within memory, because we mmap the whole thing. And the rest of the code (including the idx_size variable we're comparing against) uses size_t. - we'll add the same cast to the max_size arithmetic line. Even though we're adding to a larger type, which will convert our result, the multiplication is still done as a 32-bit value and can itself overflow. I didn't check this with my test case, since it would need an even larger pack (~530M objects), but looking at compiler output shows that it works this way. The standard should agree, but I couldn't find anything explicit in 6.3.1.8 ("usual arithmetic conversions"). The case in load_idx() was the most immediate one that I was able to trigger. After fixing it, looking up actual objects (including the very last one in sha1 order) works in a test repo with 153,725,110 objects. That's because bsearch_hash() works with uint32_t entry indices, and the actual byte access: int cmp = hashcmp(table + mi * stride, sha1); is done with "stride" as a size_t, causing the uint32_t "mi" to be promoted to a size_t. This is the way most code will access the index data. However, I audited all of the other byte-wise accesses of packed_git.index_data, and many of the others are suspect (they are similar to the max_size one, where we are adding to a properly sized offset or directly to a pointer, but the multiplication in the sub-expression can overflow). I didn't trigger any of these in practice, but I believe they're potential problems, and certainly adding in the cast is not going to hurt anything here. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-13 06:06:48 +01:00
(uint32_t *)(index + 8 + (size_t)p->num_objects * (hashsz + 4));
const uint32_t *off_64 = off_32 + p->num_objects;
for (i = 0; i < num_ent; i++) {
const uint32_t off = ntohl(*off_32++);
if (!(off & 0x80000000)) {
p->revindex[i].offset = off;
} else {
p->revindex[i].offset = get_be64(off_64);
off_64 += 2;
}
p->revindex[i].nr = i;
}
} else {
for (i = 0; i < num_ent; i++) {
const uint32_t hl = *((uint32_t *)(index + (hashsz + 4) * i));
p->revindex[i].offset = ntohl(hl);
p->revindex[i].nr = i;
}
}
/*
* This knows the pack format -- the hash trailer
* follows immediately after the last object data.
*/
p->revindex[num_ent].offset = p->pack_size - hashsz;
p->revindex[num_ent].nr = -1;
sort_revindex(p->revindex, num_ent, p->pack_size);
}
packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as well as prepare the code for the existence of such files. The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object (the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on its offset. This has two major drawbacks: First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in a pack. Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) + sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16. To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g., running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory. Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack. Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process. As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as it does to print that entire object's _contents_: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj Time (mean ± σ): 3.4 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms] Range (min … max): 3.2 ms … 3.7 ms 726 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj Time (mean ± σ): 210.3 ms ± 8.9 ms [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms] Range (min … max): 193.7 ms … 224.4 ms 13 runs Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated. The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the pack. The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by pack offset. One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to) eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack. This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table). Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while switching between binary searching through the reverse index and searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough, with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after 'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still marginally faster than printing its size: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 22.6 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms] Range (min … max): 21.4 ms … 23.5 ms 41 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 17.2 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms] Range (min … max): 15.6 ms … 18.2 ms 45 runs (Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve cold cache performance not pursued here: - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format. Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I implemented the format, and it did show `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.) On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads. - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you can no longer directly index the table). So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about many objects rather than a single one). The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look like noise in the following patch's benchmarks. This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that follow after that. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-26 00:37:14 +01:00
static int create_pack_revindex_in_memory(struct packed_git *p)
{
if (git_env_bool(GIT_TEST_REV_INDEX_DIE_IN_MEMORY, 0))
die("dying as requested by '%s'",
GIT_TEST_REV_INDEX_DIE_IN_MEMORY);
packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as well as prepare the code for the existence of such files. The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object (the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on its offset. This has two major drawbacks: First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in a pack. Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) + sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16. To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g., running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory. Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack. Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process. As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as it does to print that entire object's _contents_: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj Time (mean ± σ): 3.4 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms] Range (min … max): 3.2 ms … 3.7 ms 726 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj Time (mean ± σ): 210.3 ms ± 8.9 ms [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms] Range (min … max): 193.7 ms … 224.4 ms 13 runs Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated. The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the pack. The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by pack offset. One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to) eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack. This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table). Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while switching between binary searching through the reverse index and searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough, with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after 'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still marginally faster than printing its size: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 22.6 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms] Range (min … max): 21.4 ms … 23.5 ms 41 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 17.2 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms] Range (min … max): 15.6 ms … 18.2 ms 45 runs (Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve cold cache performance not pursued here: - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format. Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I implemented the format, and it did show `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.) On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads. - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you can no longer directly index the table). So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about many objects rather than a single one). The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look like noise in the following patch's benchmarks. This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that follow after that. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-26 00:37:14 +01:00
if (open_pack_index(p))
return -1;
create_pack_revindex(p);
return 0;
}
packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as well as prepare the code for the existence of such files. The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object (the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on its offset. This has two major drawbacks: First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in a pack. Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) + sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16. To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g., running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory. Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack. Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process. As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as it does to print that entire object's _contents_: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj Time (mean ± σ): 3.4 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms] Range (min … max): 3.2 ms … 3.7 ms 726 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj Time (mean ± σ): 210.3 ms ± 8.9 ms [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms] Range (min … max): 193.7 ms … 224.4 ms 13 runs Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated. The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the pack. The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by pack offset. One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to) eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack. This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table). Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while switching between binary searching through the reverse index and searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough, with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after 'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still marginally faster than printing its size: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 22.6 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms] Range (min … max): 21.4 ms … 23.5 ms 41 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 17.2 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms] Range (min … max): 15.6 ms … 18.2 ms 45 runs (Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve cold cache performance not pursued here: - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format. Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I implemented the format, and it did show `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.) On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads. - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you can no longer directly index the table). So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about many objects rather than a single one). The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look like noise in the following patch's benchmarks. This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that follow after that. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-26 00:37:14 +01:00
static char *pack_revindex_filename(struct packed_git *p)
{
size_t len;
if (!strip_suffix(p->pack_name, ".pack", &len))
BUG("pack_name does not end in .pack");
return xstrfmt("%.*s.rev", (int)len, p->pack_name);
}
#define RIDX_HEADER_SIZE (12)
#define RIDX_MIN_SIZE (RIDX_HEADER_SIZE + (2 * the_hash_algo->rawsz))
struct revindex_header {
uint32_t signature;
uint32_t version;
uint32_t hash_id;
};
static int load_revindex_from_disk(char *revindex_name,
uint32_t num_objects,
const uint32_t **data_p, size_t *len_p)
{
int fd, ret = 0;
struct stat st;
void *data = NULL;
size_t revindex_size;
struct revindex_header *hdr;
fd = git_open(revindex_name);
if (fd < 0) {
ret = -1;
goto cleanup;
}
if (fstat(fd, &st)) {
ret = error_errno(_("failed to read %s"), revindex_name);
goto cleanup;
}
revindex_size = xsize_t(st.st_size);
if (revindex_size < RIDX_MIN_SIZE) {
ret = error(_("reverse-index file %s is too small"), revindex_name);
goto cleanup;
}
if (revindex_size - RIDX_MIN_SIZE != st_mult(sizeof(uint32_t), num_objects)) {
ret = error(_("reverse-index file %s is corrupt"), revindex_name);
goto cleanup;
}
data = xmmap(NULL, revindex_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
hdr = data;
if (ntohl(hdr->signature) != RIDX_SIGNATURE) {
ret = error(_("reverse-index file %s has unknown signature"), revindex_name);
goto cleanup;
}
if (ntohl(hdr->version) != 1) {
ret = error(_("reverse-index file %s has unsupported version %"PRIu32),
revindex_name, ntohl(hdr->version));
goto cleanup;
}
if (!(ntohl(hdr->hash_id) == 1 || ntohl(hdr->hash_id) == 2)) {
ret = error(_("reverse-index file %s has unsupported hash id %"PRIu32),
revindex_name, ntohl(hdr->hash_id));
goto cleanup;
}
cleanup:
if (ret) {
if (data)
munmap(data, revindex_size);
} else {
*len_p = revindex_size;
*data_p = (const uint32_t *)data;
}
close(fd);
return ret;
}
static int load_pack_revindex_from_disk(struct packed_git *p)
{
char *revindex_name;
int ret;
if (open_pack_index(p))
return -1;
revindex_name = pack_revindex_filename(p);
ret = load_revindex_from_disk(revindex_name,
p->num_objects,
&p->revindex_map,
&p->revindex_size);
if (ret)
goto cleanup;
p->revindex_data = (const uint32_t *)((const char *)p->revindex_map + RIDX_HEADER_SIZE);
cleanup:
free(revindex_name);
return ret;
}
int load_pack_revindex(struct packed_git *p)
{
if (p->revindex || p->revindex_data)
return 0;
if (!load_pack_revindex_from_disk(p))
return 0;
else if (!create_pack_revindex_in_memory(p))
return 0;
return -1;
}
int offset_to_pack_pos(struct packed_git *p, off_t ofs, uint32_t *pos)
{
unsigned lo, hi;
if (load_pack_revindex(p) < 0)
return -1;
lo = 0;
hi = p->num_objects + 1;
do {
const unsigned mi = lo + (hi - lo) / 2;
off_t got = pack_pos_to_offset(p, mi);
if (got == ofs) {
*pos = mi;
return 0;
} else if (ofs < got)
hi = mi;
else
lo = mi + 1;
} while (lo < hi);
error("bad offset for revindex");
return -1;
}
pack-revindex: introduce a new API In the next several patches, we will prepare for loading a reverse index either in memory (mapping the inverse of the .idx's contents in-core), or directly from a yet-to-be-introduced on-disk format. To prepare for that, we'll introduce an API that avoids the caller explicitly indexing the revindex pointer in the packed_git structure. There are four ways to interact with the reverse index. Accordingly, four functions will be exported from 'pack-revindex.h' by the time that the existing API is removed. A caller may: 1. Load the pack's reverse index. This involves opening up the index, generating an array, and then sorting it. Since opening the index can fail, this function ('load_pack_revindex()') returns an int. Accordingly, it takes only a single argument: the 'struct packed_git' the caller wants to build a reverse index for. This function is well-suited for both the current and new API. Callers will have to continue to open the reverse index explicitly, but this function will eventually learn how to detect and load a reverse index from the on-disk format, if one exists. Otherwise, it will fallback to generating one in memory from scratch. 2. Convert a pack position into an offset. This operation is now called `pack_pos_to_offset()`. It takes a pack and a position, and returns the corresponding off_t. Any error simply calls BUG(), since the callers are not well-suited to handle a failure and keep going. 3. Convert a pack position into an index position. Same as above; this takes a pack and a position, and returns a uint32_t. This operation is known as `pack_pos_to_index()`. The same thinking about error conditions applies here as well. 4. Find the pack position for a given offset. This operation is now known as `offset_to_pack_pos()`. It takes a pack, an offset, and a pointer to a uint32_t where the position is written, if an object exists at that offset. Otherwise, -1 is returned to indicate failure. Unlike some of the callers that used to access '->offset' and '->nr' directly, the error checking around this call is somewhat more robust. This is important since callers should always pass an offset which points at the boundary of two objects. The API, unlike direct access, enforces that that is the case. This will become important in a subsequent patch where a caller which does not but could check the return value treats the signed `-1` from `find_revindex_position()` as an index into the 'revindex' array. Two design warts are carried over into the new API: - Asking for the index position of an out-of-bounds object will result in a BUG() (since no such object exists), but asking for the offset of the non-existent object at the end of the pack returns the total size of the pack. This makes it convenient for callers who always want to take the difference of two adjacent object's offsets (to compute the on-disk size) but don't want to worry about boundaries at the end of the pack. - offset_to_pack_pos() lazily loads the reverse index, but pack_pos_to_index() doesn't (callers of the former are well-suited to handle errors, but callers of the latter are not). Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-13 23:23:31 +01:00
uint32_t pack_pos_to_index(struct packed_git *p, uint32_t pos)
{
packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as well as prepare the code for the existence of such files. The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object (the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on its offset. This has two major drawbacks: First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in a pack. Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) + sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16. To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g., running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory. Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack. Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process. As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as it does to print that entire object's _contents_: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj Time (mean ± σ): 3.4 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms] Range (min … max): 3.2 ms … 3.7 ms 726 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj Time (mean ± σ): 210.3 ms ± 8.9 ms [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms] Range (min … max): 193.7 ms … 224.4 ms 13 runs Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated. The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the pack. The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by pack offset. One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to) eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack. This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table). Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while switching between binary searching through the reverse index and searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough, with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after 'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still marginally faster than printing its size: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 22.6 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms] Range (min … max): 21.4 ms … 23.5 ms 41 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 17.2 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms] Range (min … max): 15.6 ms … 18.2 ms 45 runs (Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve cold cache performance not pursued here: - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format. Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I implemented the format, and it did show `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.) On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads. - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you can no longer directly index the table). So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about many objects rather than a single one). The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look like noise in the following patch's benchmarks. This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that follow after that. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-26 00:37:14 +01:00
if (!(p->revindex || p->revindex_data))
pack-revindex: introduce a new API In the next several patches, we will prepare for loading a reverse index either in memory (mapping the inverse of the .idx's contents in-core), or directly from a yet-to-be-introduced on-disk format. To prepare for that, we'll introduce an API that avoids the caller explicitly indexing the revindex pointer in the packed_git structure. There are four ways to interact with the reverse index. Accordingly, four functions will be exported from 'pack-revindex.h' by the time that the existing API is removed. A caller may: 1. Load the pack's reverse index. This involves opening up the index, generating an array, and then sorting it. Since opening the index can fail, this function ('load_pack_revindex()') returns an int. Accordingly, it takes only a single argument: the 'struct packed_git' the caller wants to build a reverse index for. This function is well-suited for both the current and new API. Callers will have to continue to open the reverse index explicitly, but this function will eventually learn how to detect and load a reverse index from the on-disk format, if one exists. Otherwise, it will fallback to generating one in memory from scratch. 2. Convert a pack position into an offset. This operation is now called `pack_pos_to_offset()`. It takes a pack and a position, and returns the corresponding off_t. Any error simply calls BUG(), since the callers are not well-suited to handle a failure and keep going. 3. Convert a pack position into an index position. Same as above; this takes a pack and a position, and returns a uint32_t. This operation is known as `pack_pos_to_index()`. The same thinking about error conditions applies here as well. 4. Find the pack position for a given offset. This operation is now known as `offset_to_pack_pos()`. It takes a pack, an offset, and a pointer to a uint32_t where the position is written, if an object exists at that offset. Otherwise, -1 is returned to indicate failure. Unlike some of the callers that used to access '->offset' and '->nr' directly, the error checking around this call is somewhat more robust. This is important since callers should always pass an offset which points at the boundary of two objects. The API, unlike direct access, enforces that that is the case. This will become important in a subsequent patch where a caller which does not but could check the return value treats the signed `-1` from `find_revindex_position()` as an index into the 'revindex' array. Two design warts are carried over into the new API: - Asking for the index position of an out-of-bounds object will result in a BUG() (since no such object exists), but asking for the offset of the non-existent object at the end of the pack returns the total size of the pack. This makes it convenient for callers who always want to take the difference of two adjacent object's offsets (to compute the on-disk size) but don't want to worry about boundaries at the end of the pack. - offset_to_pack_pos() lazily loads the reverse index, but pack_pos_to_index() doesn't (callers of the former are well-suited to handle errors, but callers of the latter are not). Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-13 23:23:31 +01:00
BUG("pack_pos_to_index: reverse index not yet loaded");
if (p->num_objects <= pos)
BUG("pack_pos_to_index: out-of-bounds object at %"PRIu32, pos);
packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as well as prepare the code for the existence of such files. The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object (the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on its offset. This has two major drawbacks: First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in a pack. Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) + sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16. To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g., running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory. Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack. Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process. As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as it does to print that entire object's _contents_: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj Time (mean ± σ): 3.4 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms] Range (min … max): 3.2 ms … 3.7 ms 726 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj Time (mean ± σ): 210.3 ms ± 8.9 ms [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms] Range (min … max): 193.7 ms … 224.4 ms 13 runs Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated. The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the pack. The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by pack offset. One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to) eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack. This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table). Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while switching between binary searching through the reverse index and searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough, with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after 'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still marginally faster than printing its size: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 22.6 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms] Range (min … max): 21.4 ms … 23.5 ms 41 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 17.2 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms] Range (min … max): 15.6 ms … 18.2 ms 45 runs (Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve cold cache performance not pursued here: - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format. Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I implemented the format, and it did show `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.) On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads. - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you can no longer directly index the table). So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about many objects rather than a single one). The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look like noise in the following patch's benchmarks. This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that follow after that. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-26 00:37:14 +01:00
if (p->revindex)
return p->revindex[pos].nr;
else
return get_be32(p->revindex_data + pos);
pack-revindex: introduce a new API In the next several patches, we will prepare for loading a reverse index either in memory (mapping the inverse of the .idx's contents in-core), or directly from a yet-to-be-introduced on-disk format. To prepare for that, we'll introduce an API that avoids the caller explicitly indexing the revindex pointer in the packed_git structure. There are four ways to interact with the reverse index. Accordingly, four functions will be exported from 'pack-revindex.h' by the time that the existing API is removed. A caller may: 1. Load the pack's reverse index. This involves opening up the index, generating an array, and then sorting it. Since opening the index can fail, this function ('load_pack_revindex()') returns an int. Accordingly, it takes only a single argument: the 'struct packed_git' the caller wants to build a reverse index for. This function is well-suited for both the current and new API. Callers will have to continue to open the reverse index explicitly, but this function will eventually learn how to detect and load a reverse index from the on-disk format, if one exists. Otherwise, it will fallback to generating one in memory from scratch. 2. Convert a pack position into an offset. This operation is now called `pack_pos_to_offset()`. It takes a pack and a position, and returns the corresponding off_t. Any error simply calls BUG(), since the callers are not well-suited to handle a failure and keep going. 3. Convert a pack position into an index position. Same as above; this takes a pack and a position, and returns a uint32_t. This operation is known as `pack_pos_to_index()`. The same thinking about error conditions applies here as well. 4. Find the pack position for a given offset. This operation is now known as `offset_to_pack_pos()`. It takes a pack, an offset, and a pointer to a uint32_t where the position is written, if an object exists at that offset. Otherwise, -1 is returned to indicate failure. Unlike some of the callers that used to access '->offset' and '->nr' directly, the error checking around this call is somewhat more robust. This is important since callers should always pass an offset which points at the boundary of two objects. The API, unlike direct access, enforces that that is the case. This will become important in a subsequent patch where a caller which does not but could check the return value treats the signed `-1` from `find_revindex_position()` as an index into the 'revindex' array. Two design warts are carried over into the new API: - Asking for the index position of an out-of-bounds object will result in a BUG() (since no such object exists), but asking for the offset of the non-existent object at the end of the pack returns the total size of the pack. This makes it convenient for callers who always want to take the difference of two adjacent object's offsets (to compute the on-disk size) but don't want to worry about boundaries at the end of the pack. - offset_to_pack_pos() lazily loads the reverse index, but pack_pos_to_index() doesn't (callers of the former are well-suited to handle errors, but callers of the latter are not). Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-13 23:23:31 +01:00
}
off_t pack_pos_to_offset(struct packed_git *p, uint32_t pos)
{
packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as well as prepare the code for the existence of such files. The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object (the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on its offset. This has two major drawbacks: First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in a pack. Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) + sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16. To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g., running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory. Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack. Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process. As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as it does to print that entire object's _contents_: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj Time (mean ± σ): 3.4 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms] Range (min … max): 3.2 ms … 3.7 ms 726 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj Time (mean ± σ): 210.3 ms ± 8.9 ms [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms] Range (min … max): 193.7 ms … 224.4 ms 13 runs Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated. The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the pack. The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by pack offset. One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to) eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack. This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table). Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while switching between binary searching through the reverse index and searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough, with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after 'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still marginally faster than printing its size: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 22.6 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms] Range (min … max): 21.4 ms … 23.5 ms 41 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 17.2 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms] Range (min … max): 15.6 ms … 18.2 ms 45 runs (Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve cold cache performance not pursued here: - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format. Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I implemented the format, and it did show `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.) On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads. - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you can no longer directly index the table). So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about many objects rather than a single one). The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look like noise in the following patch's benchmarks. This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that follow after that. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-26 00:37:14 +01:00
if (!(p->revindex || p->revindex_data))
pack-revindex: introduce a new API In the next several patches, we will prepare for loading a reverse index either in memory (mapping the inverse of the .idx's contents in-core), or directly from a yet-to-be-introduced on-disk format. To prepare for that, we'll introduce an API that avoids the caller explicitly indexing the revindex pointer in the packed_git structure. There are four ways to interact with the reverse index. Accordingly, four functions will be exported from 'pack-revindex.h' by the time that the existing API is removed. A caller may: 1. Load the pack's reverse index. This involves opening up the index, generating an array, and then sorting it. Since opening the index can fail, this function ('load_pack_revindex()') returns an int. Accordingly, it takes only a single argument: the 'struct packed_git' the caller wants to build a reverse index for. This function is well-suited for both the current and new API. Callers will have to continue to open the reverse index explicitly, but this function will eventually learn how to detect and load a reverse index from the on-disk format, if one exists. Otherwise, it will fallback to generating one in memory from scratch. 2. Convert a pack position into an offset. This operation is now called `pack_pos_to_offset()`. It takes a pack and a position, and returns the corresponding off_t. Any error simply calls BUG(), since the callers are not well-suited to handle a failure and keep going. 3. Convert a pack position into an index position. Same as above; this takes a pack and a position, and returns a uint32_t. This operation is known as `pack_pos_to_index()`. The same thinking about error conditions applies here as well. 4. Find the pack position for a given offset. This operation is now known as `offset_to_pack_pos()`. It takes a pack, an offset, and a pointer to a uint32_t where the position is written, if an object exists at that offset. Otherwise, -1 is returned to indicate failure. Unlike some of the callers that used to access '->offset' and '->nr' directly, the error checking around this call is somewhat more robust. This is important since callers should always pass an offset which points at the boundary of two objects. The API, unlike direct access, enforces that that is the case. This will become important in a subsequent patch where a caller which does not but could check the return value treats the signed `-1` from `find_revindex_position()` as an index into the 'revindex' array. Two design warts are carried over into the new API: - Asking for the index position of an out-of-bounds object will result in a BUG() (since no such object exists), but asking for the offset of the non-existent object at the end of the pack returns the total size of the pack. This makes it convenient for callers who always want to take the difference of two adjacent object's offsets (to compute the on-disk size) but don't want to worry about boundaries at the end of the pack. - offset_to_pack_pos() lazily loads the reverse index, but pack_pos_to_index() doesn't (callers of the former are well-suited to handle errors, but callers of the latter are not). Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-13 23:23:31 +01:00
BUG("pack_pos_to_index: reverse index not yet loaded");
if (p->num_objects < pos)
BUG("pack_pos_to_offset: out-of-bounds object at %"PRIu32, pos);
packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as well as prepare the code for the existence of such files. The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object (the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on its offset. This has two major drawbacks: First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in a pack. Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) + sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16. To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g., running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory. Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack. Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process. As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as it does to print that entire object's _contents_: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj Time (mean ± σ): 3.4 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms] Range (min … max): 3.2 ms … 3.7 ms 726 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj Time (mean ± σ): 210.3 ms ± 8.9 ms [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms] Range (min … max): 193.7 ms … 224.4 ms 13 runs Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated. The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the pack. The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by pack offset. One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to) eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack. This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table). Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while switching between binary searching through the reverse index and searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough, with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after 'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still marginally faster than printing its size: Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 22.6 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms] Range (min … max): 21.4 ms … 23.5 ms 41 runs Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 17.2 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms] Range (min … max): 15.6 ms … 18.2 ms 45 runs (Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve cold cache performance not pursued here: - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format. Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I implemented the format, and it did show `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.) On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads. - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you can no longer directly index the table). So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about many objects rather than a single one). The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look like noise in the following patch's benchmarks. This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that follow after that. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-26 00:37:14 +01:00
if (p->revindex)
return p->revindex[pos].offset;
else if (pos == p->num_objects)
return p->pack_size - the_hash_algo->rawsz;
else
return nth_packed_object_offset(p, pack_pos_to_index(p, pos));
pack-revindex: introduce a new API In the next several patches, we will prepare for loading a reverse index either in memory (mapping the inverse of the .idx's contents in-core), or directly from a yet-to-be-introduced on-disk format. To prepare for that, we'll introduce an API that avoids the caller explicitly indexing the revindex pointer in the packed_git structure. There are four ways to interact with the reverse index. Accordingly, four functions will be exported from 'pack-revindex.h' by the time that the existing API is removed. A caller may: 1. Load the pack's reverse index. This involves opening up the index, generating an array, and then sorting it. Since opening the index can fail, this function ('load_pack_revindex()') returns an int. Accordingly, it takes only a single argument: the 'struct packed_git' the caller wants to build a reverse index for. This function is well-suited for both the current and new API. Callers will have to continue to open the reverse index explicitly, but this function will eventually learn how to detect and load a reverse index from the on-disk format, if one exists. Otherwise, it will fallback to generating one in memory from scratch. 2. Convert a pack position into an offset. This operation is now called `pack_pos_to_offset()`. It takes a pack and a position, and returns the corresponding off_t. Any error simply calls BUG(), since the callers are not well-suited to handle a failure and keep going. 3. Convert a pack position into an index position. Same as above; this takes a pack and a position, and returns a uint32_t. This operation is known as `pack_pos_to_index()`. The same thinking about error conditions applies here as well. 4. Find the pack position for a given offset. This operation is now known as `offset_to_pack_pos()`. It takes a pack, an offset, and a pointer to a uint32_t where the position is written, if an object exists at that offset. Otherwise, -1 is returned to indicate failure. Unlike some of the callers that used to access '->offset' and '->nr' directly, the error checking around this call is somewhat more robust. This is important since callers should always pass an offset which points at the boundary of two objects. The API, unlike direct access, enforces that that is the case. This will become important in a subsequent patch where a caller which does not but could check the return value treats the signed `-1` from `find_revindex_position()` as an index into the 'revindex' array. Two design warts are carried over into the new API: - Asking for the index position of an out-of-bounds object will result in a BUG() (since no such object exists), but asking for the offset of the non-existent object at the end of the pack returns the total size of the pack. This makes it convenient for callers who always want to take the difference of two adjacent object's offsets (to compute the on-disk size) but don't want to worry about boundaries at the end of the pack. - offset_to_pack_pos() lazily loads the reverse index, but pack_pos_to_index() doesn't (callers of the former are well-suited to handle errors, but callers of the latter are not). Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-13 23:23:31 +01:00
}