From: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1] Add virtual file system settings and hook proc
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 15:00:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <140226a2-a40e-1965-b665-46eec81d907a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa7momlx6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On 11/4/2018 7:02 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> + if (*dtype == DT_UNKNOWN)
>>>> + *dtype = get_dtype(NULL, istate, pathname, pathlen);
>>>
>>> We try to defer paying cost to determine unknown *dtype as late as
>>> possible by having this call in last_exclude_matching_from_list(),
>>> and not here. If we are doing this, we probably should update the
>>> callpaths that call last_exclude_matching_from_list() to make the
>>> caller responsible for doing get_dtype() and drop the lazy finding
>>> of dtype from the callee. Alternatively, the new "is excluded from
>>> vfs" helper can learn to do the lazy get_dtype() just like the
>>> existing last_exclude_matching_from_list() does. I suspect the
>>> latter may be simpler.
>>
>> In is_excluded_from_virtualfilesystem() dtype can't be lazy because it
>> is always needed (which is why I test and die if it isn't known).
>
> You make a call to that function even when virtual-file-system hook
> is not in use, i.e. instead of the caller saying
>
> if (is_vfs_in_use()) {
> *dtype = get_dtype(...);
> if (is_excluded_from_vfs(...) > 0)
> return 1;
> }
>
> your caller makes an unconditional call to is_excluded_from_vfs().
> Isn't that the only reason why you break the laziness of determining
> dtype?
>
> You can keep the caller simple by making an unconditional call, but
> maintain the laziness by updating the callig convention to pass
> dtype (not *dtype) to the function, e.g..
>
> if (is_excluded_from_vfs(pathname, pathlen, dtype) > 0)
> return 1;
>
> and then at the beginning of the helper
>
> if (is_vfs_in_use())
> return -1; /* undetermined */
> *dtype = get_dtype(...);
> ... whatever logic it has now ...
>
> no?
>
Oops! You're right, I docall get_dtype() even if the vfs isn't in use.
I'll add an additional test to avoid doing that. Thank you.
I did look into moving the delay load logic into is_excluded_from_vfs()
but get_dtype() is static to dir.c and I'd prefer to keep it that way if
possible.
>> Your comments are all feedback on the code - how it was implemented,
>> style, etc. Any thoughts on whether this is something we could/should
>> merge into master (after any necessary cleanup)? Would anyone else
>> find this interesting/helpful?
>
> I am pretty much neutral. Not strongly opposed to it, but not all
> that interested until seeing its integration with the "userland" to
> see how the whole thing works ;-)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-30 19:16 [RFC v1] Add virtual file system settings and hook proc Ben Peart
2018-10-30 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 20:12 ` Ben Peart
2018-11-05 0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-05 20:00 ` Ben Peart [this message]
2018-10-31 19:11 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-31 20:53 ` Ben Peart
2018-11-04 6:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-04 21:01 ` brian m. carlson
2018-11-05 15:22 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-05 20:18 ` Ben Peart
2018-11-05 20:27 ` Ben Peart
2018-11-05 11:40 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-05 15:26 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-05 20:07 ` Ben Peart
2018-11-05 21:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-27 19:50 ` [PATCH v1] teach git to support a virtual (partially populated) work directory Ben Peart
2018-11-28 13:31 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-11-29 14:09 ` Ben Peart
2018-12-13 19:41 ` [PATCH v2] " Ben Peart
2019-01-28 19:00 ` Ben Peart
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