Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] sha1_file: open window into packfiles with O_CLOEXEC

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:55:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > So I guess it's possible that it produces a noticeable effect in some
> > cases, but I'm still somewhat doubtful. And actually repacking your
> > repository had a greater effect in every case I measured (in addition to
> > providing other speedups).
> 
> Let's keep doubting.  I prefer one-step-at-a-time approach to
> things anyway, and what I plan in the near term are:
> 
>  * use the "open() with O_NOATIME|O_CLOEXEC, gradually losing the
>    bits during fallback" approach in the ls/git-open-cloexec topic,
>    in order to help ls/filter-process topic be part of the upcoming
>    release;
> 
>  * simplify the logic to the "open(2) with O_CLOEXEC, set O_NOATIME
>    with fcntl(2)" in jc/git-open-cloexec~1 after 2.11 ships;
> 
>  * cook "drop the latter half of setting O_NOATIME" which is at the
>    tip of jc/git-open-cloexec in 'next', and while Linus is looking
>    the other way ^W^W^W^W^W^W^W after people had chance to complain
>    with numbers, merge it to a future release iff it still looked OK
>    to drop O_NOATIME thing.

Great, that sounds like a good way to proceed (and if the final step
never happens, no big deal).

-Peff