From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:21:58 +0000 (-0700) Subject: pack-objects: optimize "recency order" X-Git-Tag: v1.7.7-rc0~52^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b4bb16b9ec331c91e28d2e3e7dee5070534b6a2;p=git.git pack-objects: optimize "recency order" This optimizes the "recency order" (see pack-heuristics.txt in Documentation/technical/ directory) used to order objects within a packfile in three ways: - Commits at the tip of tags are written together, in the hope that revision traversal done in incremental fetch (which starts by putting them in a revision queue marked as UNINTERESTING) will see a better locality of these objects; - In the original recency order, trees and blobs are intermixed. Write trees together before blobs, in the hope that this will improve locality when running pathspec-limited revision traversal, i.e. "git log paths..."; - When writing blob objects out, write the whole family of blobs that use the same delta base object together, by starting from the root of the delta chain, and writing its immediate children in a width-first manner, in the hope that this will again improve locality when reading blobs that belong to the same path, which are likely to be deltified against each other. I tried various workloads in the Linux kernel repositories (HEAD at v3.0-rc6-71-g4dd1b49) packed with v1.7.6 and with this patch, counting how large seeks are needed between adjacent accesses to objects in the pack, and the result looks promising. The history has 2072052 objects, weighing some 490MiB. * Simple commit-only log. $ git log >/dev/null There are 254656 commits in total. v1.7.6 with patch Total number of access : 258,031 258,032 0.0% percentile : 12 12 10.0% percentile : 259 259 20.0% percentile : 294 294 30.0% percentile : 326 326 40.0% percentile : 363 363 50.0% percentile : 415 415 60.0% percentile : 513 513 70.0% percentile : 857 858 80.0% percentile : 10,434 10,441 90.0% percentile : 91,985 91,996 95.0% percentile : 260,852 260,885 99.0% percentile : 1,150,680 1,152,811 99.9% percentile : 3,148,435 3,148,435 Less than 2MiB seek: 99.70% 99.69% 95% of the pack accesses look at data that is no further than 260kB from the previous location we accessed. The patch does not change the order of commit objects very much, and the result is very similar. * Pathspec-limited log. $ git log drivers/net >/dev/null The path is touched by 26551 commits and merges (among 254656 total). v1.7.6 with patch Total number of access : 559,511 558,663 0.0% percentile : 0 0 10.0% percentile : 182 167 20.0% percentile : 259 233 30.0% percentile : 357 304 40.0% percentile : 714 485 50.0% percentile : 5,046 3,976 60.0% percentile : 688,671 443,578 70.0% percentile : 319,574,732 110,370,100 80.0% percentile : 361,647,599 123,707,229 90.0% percentile : 393,195,669 128,947,636 95.0% percentile : 405,496,875 131,609,321 99.0% percentile : 412,942,470 133,078,115 99.5% percentile : 413,172,266 133,163,349 99.9% percentile : 413,354,356 133,240,445 Less than 2MiB seek: 61.71% 62.87% With the current pack heuristics, more than 30% of accesses have to seek further than 300MB; the updated pack heuristics ensures that less than 0.1% of accesses have to seek further than 135MB. This is largely due to the fact that the updated heuristics does not mix blobs and trees together. * Blame. $ git blame drivers/net/ne.c >/dev/null The path is touched by 34 commits and merges. v1.7.6 with patch Total number of access : 178,147 178,166 0.0% percentile : 0 0 10.0% percentile : 142 139 20.0% percentile : 222 194 30.0% percentile : 373 300 40.0% percentile : 1,168 837 50.0% percentile : 11,248 7,334 60.0% percentile : 305,121,284 106,850,130 70.0% percentile : 361,427,854 123,709,715 80.0% percentile : 388,127,343 128,171,047 90.0% percentile : 399,987,762 130,200,707 95.0% percentile : 408,230,673 132,174,308 99.0% percentile : 412,947,017 133,181,160 99.5% percentile : 413,312,798 133,220,425 99.9% percentile : 413,352,366 133,269,051 Less than 2MiB seek: 56.47% 56.83% The result is very similar to the pathspec-limited log above, which only looks at the tree objects. * Packing recent history. $ (git for-each-ref --format='^%(refname)' refs/tags; echo HEAD) | git pack-objects --revs --stdout >/dev/null This should pack data worth 71 commits. v1.7.6 with patch Total number of access : 11,511 11,514 0.0% percentile : 0 0 10.0% percentile : 48 47 20.0% percentile : 134 98 30.0% percentile : 332 178 40.0% percentile : 1,386 293 50.0% percentile : 8,030 478 60.0% percentile : 33,676 1,195 70.0% percentile : 147,268 26,216 80.0% percentile : 9,178,662 464,598 90.0% percentile : 67,922,665 965,782 95.0% percentile : 87,773,251 1,226,102 99.0% percentile : 98,011,763 1,932,377 99.5% percentile : 100,074,427 33,642,128 99.9% percentile : 105,336,398 275,772,650 Less than 2MiB seek: 77.09% 99.04% The long-tail part of the result looks worse with the patch, but the change helps majority of the access. 99.04% of the accesses need less than 2MiB of seeking, compared to 77.09% with the current packing heuristics. * Index pack. $ git index-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack*.pack v1.7.6 with patch Total number of access : 2,791,228 2,788,802 0.0% percentile : 9 9 10.0% percentile : 140 89 20.0% percentile : 233 167 30.0% percentile : 322 235 40.0% percentile : 464 310 50.0% percentile : 862 423 60.0% percentile : 2,566 686 70.0% percentile : 25,827 1,498 80.0% percentile : 1,317,862 4,971 90.0% percentile : 11,926,385 119,398 95.0% percentile : 41,304,149 952,519 99.0% percentile : 227,613,070 6,709,650 99.5% percentile : 321,265,121 11,734,871 99.9% percentile : 382,919,785 33,155,191 Less than 2MiB seek: 81.73% 96.92% As the index-pack command already walks objects in the delta chain order, writing the blobs out in the delta chain order seems to drastically improve the locality of access. Note that a half-a-gigabyte packfile comfortably fits in the buffer cache, and you would unlikely to see much performance difference on a modern and reasonably beefy machine with enough memory and local disks. Benchmarking with cold cache (or over NFS) would be interesting. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c index f402a843b..27132bb93 100644 --- a/builtin/pack-objects.c +++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ struct object_entry { * objects against. */ unsigned char no_try_delta; + unsigned char tagged; /* near the very tip of refs */ + unsigned char filled; /* assigned write-order */ }; /* @@ -95,6 +97,7 @@ static unsigned long window_memory_limit = 0; */ static int *object_ix; static int object_ix_hashsz; +static struct object_entry *locate_object_entry(const unsigned char *sha1); /* * stats @@ -199,6 +202,7 @@ static void copy_pack_data(struct sha1file *f, } } +/* Return 0 if we will bust the pack-size limit */ static unsigned long write_object(struct sha1file *f, struct object_entry *entry, off_t write_offset) @@ -433,6 +437,134 @@ static int write_one(struct sha1file *f, return 1; } +static int mark_tagged(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, + void *cb_data) +{ + unsigned char peeled[20]; + struct object_entry *entry = locate_object_entry(sha1); + + if (entry) + entry->tagged = 1; + if (!peel_ref(path, peeled)) { + entry = locate_object_entry(peeled); + if (entry) + entry->tagged = 1; + } + return 0; +} + +static void add_to_write_order(struct object_entry **wo, + int *endp, + struct object_entry *e) +{ + if (e->filled) + return; + wo[(*endp)++] = e; + e->filled = 1; +} + +static void add_descendants_to_write_order(struct object_entry **wo, + int *endp, + struct object_entry *e) +{ + struct object_entry *child; + + for (child = e->delta_child; child; child = child->delta_sibling) + add_to_write_order(wo, endp, child); + for (child = e->delta_child; child; child = child->delta_sibling) + add_descendants_to_write_order(wo, endp, child); +} + +static void add_family_to_write_order(struct object_entry **wo, + int *endp, + struct object_entry *e) +{ + struct object_entry *root; + + for (root = e; root->delta; root = root->delta) + ; /* nothing */ + add_to_write_order(wo, endp, root); + add_descendants_to_write_order(wo, endp, root); +} + +static struct object_entry **compute_write_order(void) +{ + int i, wo_end; + + struct object_entry **wo = xmalloc(nr_objects * sizeof(*wo)); + + for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) { + objects[i].tagged = 0; + objects[i].filled = 0; + objects[i].delta_child = NULL; + objects[i].delta_sibling = NULL; + } + + /* + * Fully connect delta_child/delta_sibling network. + * Make sure delta_sibling is sorted in the original + * recency order. + */ + for (i = nr_objects - 1; 0 <= i; i--) { + struct object_entry *e = &objects[i]; + if (!e->delta) + continue; + /* Mark me as the first child */ + e->delta_sibling = e->delta->delta_child; + e->delta->delta_child = e; + } + + /* + * Mark objects that are at the tip of tags. + */ + for_each_tag_ref(mark_tagged, NULL); + + /* + * Give the commits in the original recency order until + * we see a tagged tip. + */ + for (i = wo_end = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) { + if (objects[i].tagged) + break; + add_to_write_order(wo, &wo_end, &objects[i]); + } + + /* + * Then fill all the tagged tips. + */ + for (; i < nr_objects; i++) { + if (objects[i].tagged) + add_to_write_order(wo, &wo_end, &objects[i]); + } + + /* + * And then all remaining commits and tags. + */ + for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) { + if (objects[i].type != OBJ_COMMIT && + objects[i].type != OBJ_TAG) + continue; + add_to_write_order(wo, &wo_end, &objects[i]); + } + + /* + * And then all the trees. + */ + for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) { + if (objects[i].type != OBJ_TREE) + continue; + add_to_write_order(wo, &wo_end, &objects[i]); + } + + /* + * Finally all the rest in really tight order + */ + for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) + add_family_to_write_order(wo, &wo_end, &objects[i]); + + return wo; +} + static void write_pack_file(void) { uint32_t i = 0, j; @@ -441,10 +573,12 @@ static void write_pack_file(void) struct pack_header hdr; uint32_t nr_remaining = nr_result; time_t last_mtime = 0; + struct object_entry **write_order; if (progress > pack_to_stdout) progress_state = start_progress("Writing objects", nr_result); written_list = xmalloc(nr_objects * sizeof(*written_list)); + write_order = compute_write_order(); do { unsigned char sha1[20]; @@ -468,7 +602,8 @@ static void write_pack_file(void) offset = sizeof(hdr); nr_written = 0; for (; i < nr_objects; i++) { - if (!write_one(f, objects + i, &offset)) + struct object_entry *e = write_order[i]; + if (!write_one(f, e, &offset)) break; display_progress(progress_state, written); } @@ -545,6 +680,7 @@ static void write_pack_file(void) } while (nr_remaining && i < nr_objects); free(written_list); + free(write_order); stop_progress(&progress_state); if (written != nr_result) die("wrote %"PRIu32" objects while expecting %"PRIu32,