As the code is written today index_bulk_checkin only accepts blobs.
Remove the enum object_type parameter and rename index_bulk_checkin to
index_blob_bulk_checkin, index_stream to index_blob_stream,
deflate_to_pack to deflate_blob_to_pack, stream_to_pack to
stream_blob_to_pack, to make this explicit.
Not supporting commits, tags, or trees has no downside as it is not
currently supported now, and commits, tags, and trees being smaller by
design do not have the problem that the problem that index_bulk_checkin
was built to solve.
Before we start adding code to support the hash function transition
supporting additional objects types in index_bulk_checkin has no real
additional cost, just an extra function parameter to know what the
object type is. Once we begin the hash function transition this is not
the case.
The hash function transition document specifies that a repository with
compatObjectFormat enabled will compute and store both the SHA-1 and
SHA-256 hash of every object in the repository.
What makes this a challenge is that it is not just an additional hash
over the same object. Instead the hash function transition document
specifies that the compatibility hash (specified with
compatObjectFormat) be computed over the equivalent object that another
git repository whose storage hash (specified with objectFormat) would
store. When comparing equivalent repositories built with different
storage hash functions, the oids embedded in objects used to refer to
other objects differ and the location of signatures within objects
differ.
As blob objects have neither oids referring to other objects nor stored
signatures their storage hash and their compatibility hash are computed
over the same object.
The other kinds of objects: trees, commits, and tags, all store oids
referring to other objects. Signatures are stored in commit and tag
objects. As oids and the tags to store signatures are not the same size
in repositories built with different storage hashes the size of the
equivalent objects are also different.
A version of index_bulk_checkin that supports more than just blobs when
computing both the SHA-1 and the SHA-256 of every object added would
need a different, and more expensive structure. The structure is more
expensive because it would be required to temporarily buffering the
equivalent object the compatibility hash needs to be computed over.
A temporary object is needed, because before a hash over an object can
computed it's object header needs to be computed. One of the members of
the object header is the entire size of the object. To know the size of
an equivalent object an entire pass over the original object needs to be
made, as trees, commits, and tags are composed of a variable number of
variable sized pieces. Unfortunately there is no formula to compute the
size of an equivalent object from just the size of the original object.
Avoid all of those future complications by limiting index_bulk_checkin
to only work on blobs.
Inspired-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since a64215b6cd ("object.h: stop depending on cache.h; make
cache.h depend on object.h", 2023-02-24), we have a few headers that
could have replaced their include of cache.h with an include of
object.h. Make that change now.
Some C files had to start including cache.h after this change (or some
smaller header it had brought in), because the C files were depending
on things from cache.h but were only formerly implicitly getting
cache.h through one of these headers being modified in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When adding many objects to a repo with `core.fsync=loose-object`,
the cost of fsync'ing each object file can become prohibitive.
One major source of the cost of fsync is the implied flush of the
hardware writeback cache within the disk drive. This commit introduces
a new `core.fsyncMethod=batch` option that batches up hardware flushes.
It hooks into the bulk-checkin odb-transaction functionality, takes
advantage of tmp-objdir, and uses the writeout-only support code.
When the new mode is enabled, we do the following for each new object:
1a. Create the object in a tmp-objdir.
2a. Issue a pagecache writeback request and wait for it to complete.
At the end of the entire transaction when unplugging bulk checkin:
1b. Issue an fsync against a dummy file to flush the log and hardware
writeback cache, which should by now have seen the tmp-objdir writes.
2b. Rename all of the tmp-objdir files to their final names.
3b. When updating the index and/or refs, we assume that Git will issue
another fsync internal to that operation. This is not the default
today, but the user now has the option of syncing the index and there
is a separate patch series to implement syncing of refs.
On a filesystem with a singular journal that is updated during name
operations (e.g. create, link, rename, etc), such as NTFS, HFS+, or XFS
we would expect the fsync to trigger a journal writeout so that this
sequence is enough to ensure that the user's data is durable by the time
the git command returns. This sequence also ensures that no object files
appear in the main object store unless they are fsync-durable.
Batch mode is only enabled if core.fsync includes loose-objects. If
the legacy core.fsyncObjectFiles setting is enabled, but core.fsync does
not include loose-objects, we will use file-by-file fsyncing.
In step (1a) of the sequence, the tmp-objdir is created lazily to avoid
work if no loose objects are ever added to the ODB. We use a tmp-objdir
to maintain the invariant that no loose-objects are visible in the main
ODB unless they are properly fsync-durable. This is important since
future ODB operations that try to create an object with specific
contents will silently drop the new data if an object with the target
hash exists without checking that the loose-object contents match the
hash. Only a full git-fsck would restore the ODB to a functional state
where dataloss doesn't occur.
In step (1b) of the sequence, we issue a fsync against a dummy file
created specifically for the purpose. This method has a little higher
cost than using one of the input object files, but makes adding new
callers of this mechanism easier, since we don't need to figure out
which object file is "last" or risk sharing violations by caching the fd
of the last object file.
_Performance numbers_:
Linux - Hyper-V VM running Kernel 5.11 (Ubuntu 20.04) on a fast SSD.
Mac - macOS 11.5.1 running on a Mac mini on a 1TB Apple SSD.
Windows - Same host as Linux, a preview version of Windows 11.
Adding 500 files to the repo with 'git add' Times reported in seconds.
object file syncing | Linux | Mac | Windows
--------------------|-------|-------|--------
disabled | 0.06 | 0.35 | 0.61
fsync | 1.88 | 11.18 | 2.47
batch | 0.15 | 0.41 | 1.53
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clearer in the naming and documentation of the plug_bulk_checkin
and unplug_bulk_checkin APIs that they can be thought of as
a "transaction" to optimize operations on the object database. These
transactions may be nested so that subsystems like the cache-tree
writing code can optimize their operations without caring whether the
top-level code has a transaction active.
Add a flush_odb_transaction API that will be used in update-index to
make objects visible even if a transaction is active. The flush call may
also be useful in future cases if we hold a transaction active around
calling hooks.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In previous patches, extern was mechanically removed from function
declarations without care to formatting, causing parameter lists to be
misaligned. Manually format changed sections such that the parameter
lists should be realigned.
Viewing this patch with 'git diff -w' should produce no output.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations.
Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are
caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with
processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern`
declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch.
This was the Coccinelle patch used:
@@
type T;
identifier f;
@@
- extern
T f(...);
and it was run with:
$ git ls-files \*.{c,h} |
grep -v ^compat/ |
xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place
Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly
copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much
as possible.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I looped over the toplevel header files, creating a temporary two-line C
program for each consisting of
#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include $HEADER
This patch is the result of manually fixing errors in compiling those
tiny programs.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the index_bulk_checkin function, and the static functions it
calls, to use pointers to struct object_id.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CodingGuidelines states that the first #include in C files should be
git-compat-util.h or another header file that includes it, such as
cache.h or builtin.h.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This extends the earlier approach to stream a large file directly from the
filesystem to its own packfile, and allows "git add" to send large files
directly into a single pack. Older code used to spawn fast-import, but the
new bulk-checkin API replaces it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eric W. Biederman
Elijah Newren
Neeraj Singh
Denton Liu
brian m. carlson
David Aguilar
Junio C Hamano