Teach 'git checkout' to preload the index contents

This makes git checkout know to use the threaded index preloading if it
is enabled in the config file. You need to have

	[core]
		preloadindex = true

in your config file to see it, and for that feature to make sense your
filesystem needs to be able to do concurrent 'lstat()' lookups, but when
that is the case (especially NFS over a high-latency network), this can
be a noticeable performance win.

But with a low-latency network and at least older Linux NFS clients, this
will clearly potentially cause a lot of lock contention. It may still
speed up the uncached case, but the threading and locking overhead will
result in the cached case likely slowing down.

That was almost certainly fixed by Linux commit fc0f684c2 ("NFS: Remove
BKL from NFS lookup code"), but that one got merged into 2.6.27-rc1, so
older kernel versions than 2.6.27 will not scale very well.

But regardless, it's the right thing to do. If your filesystem doesn't
scale, don't enable index preloading.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
index b5dd9c07b42e0130384259715730f52bc8c4e6c3..f1342abd025a3dc5f533205f623c1a82ffbf2ebe 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static int checkout_paths(struct tree *source_tree, const char **pathspec,
        struct lock_file *lock_file = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct lock_file));
 
        newfd = hold_locked_index(lock_file, 1);
-       if (read_cache() < 0)
+       if (read_cache_preload(pathspec) < 0)
                return error("corrupt index file");
 
        if (source_tree)
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts,
        struct lock_file *lock_file = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct lock_file));
        int newfd = hold_locked_index(lock_file, 1);
 
-       if (read_cache() < 0)
+       if (read_cache_preload(NULL) < 0)
                return error("corrupt index file");
 
        if (opts->force) {