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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: s@kazlauskas.me
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fetching new refs gets progressively slower
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 07:29:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170709112932.njac5m6jmgmjywoz@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170709102506.GA32425@kumabox>

On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 01:25:06PM +0300, s@kazlauskas.me wrote:

> I have a weird issue where fetching a large number of refs will start off
> with lines like these:
> 
> * [new ref]               refs/pull/10000/head -> origin/pr/10000
> * [new ref]               refs/pull/10001/head -> origin/pr/10001
> 
> going fairly fast, and then progressively getting slower and slower. By the
> time git is working on 40 thousandth such ref, it seems like it is only
> handling about 3-5 such “new ref”s.
> 
> These are the steps I used to reproduce:
> 
> $ git clone git@github.com:rust-lang/rust
> $ # edit .git/config to add $ # `fetch =
> +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*` under origin remote
> $ git fetch

Interesting. The CPU is definitely going to user-space, and it does look
like a quadratic case, where we end up re-reading the loose ref
directory for each new ref we write.

The backtrace looks something like:

  #1  0x0000555d86bcaf62 in files_read_raw_ref (ref_store=0x555d88d63a60, 
      refname=0x555d8a4791b0 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/10936", 
      sha1=0x7ffd29cbe1a0 "\003ŕX[\212*\037\064xE\fU\362!z44!<]U", referent=0x555d86efc630 <sb_refname>, 
      type=0x7ffd29cbe0c4) at refs/files-backend.c:686
  #2  0x0000555d86bc845f in refs_read_raw_ref (ref_store=0x555d88d63a60, 
      refname=0x555d8a4791b0 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/10936", 
      sha1=0x7ffd29cbe1a0 "\003ŕX[\212*\037\064xE\fU\362!z44!<]U", referent=0x555d86efc630 <sb_refname>, 
      type=0x7ffd29cbe0c4) at refs.c:1391
  #3  0x0000555d86bc851f in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe (refs=0x555d88d63a60, 
      refname=0x555d8a4791b0 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/10936", resolve_flags=1, 
      sha1=0x7ffd29cbe1a0 "\003ŕX[\212*\037\064xE\fU\362!z44!<]U", flags=0x7ffd29cbe19c) at refs.c:1430
  #4  0x0000555d86bca9de in loose_fill_ref_dir (ref_store=0x555d88d63a60, dir=0x555d8a478cc8, 
      dirname=0x555d8a478cf0 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/") at refs/files-backend.c:485
  #5  0x0000555d86bd1444 in get_ref_dir (entry=0x555d8a478cc0) at refs/ref-cache.c:28
  #6  0x0000555d86bd18d4 in search_for_subdir (dir=0x555d8a478c78, 
      subdirname=0x555d8a414330 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/13832/", len=23, mkdir=0) at refs/ref-cache.c:172
  #7  0x0000555d86bd192d in find_containing_dir (dir=0x555d8a478c78, 
      refname=0x555d8a414330 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/13832/", mkdir=0) at refs/ref-cache.c:191
  #8  0x0000555d86bd23a4 in cache_ref_iterator_begin (cache=0x555d8a418380, 
      prefix=0x555d8a414330 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/13832/", prime_dir=1) at refs/ref-cache.c:567
  #9  0x0000555d86bcb8eb in files_ref_iterator_begin (ref_store=0x555d88d63a60, 
      prefix=0x555d8a414330 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/13832/", flags=1) at refs/files-backend.c:1120
  #10 0x0000555d86bc801a in refs_ref_iterator_begin (refs=0x555d88d63a60, 
      prefix=0x555d8a414330 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/13832/", trim=0, flags=1) at refs.c:1268
  #11 0x0000555d86bc9289 in refs_verify_refname_available (refs=0x555d88d63a60, 
      refname=0x555d88d64b50 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/13832", extras=0x7ffd29cbe620, skip=0x0, err=0x7ffd29cbe710)
      at refs.c:1887
  #12 0x0000555d86bcb553 in lock_raw_ref (refs=0x555d88d63a60, refname=0x555d88d64b50 "refs/remotes/origin/pr/13832", 
      mustexist=0, extras=0x7ffd29cbe620, skip=0x0, lock_p=0x7ffd29cbe588, referent=0x7ffd29cbe590, 
      type=0x555d88d64b38, err=0x7ffd29cbe710) at refs/files-backend.c:956
  #13 0x0000555d86bcf1bc in lock_ref_for_update (refs=0x555d88d63a60, update=0x555d88d64b00, 
      transaction=0x555d88d64d20, head_ref=0x555d8a435630 "refs/heads/master", affected_refnames=0x7ffd29cbe620, 
      err=0x7ffd29cbe710) at refs/files-backend.c:2764

The issue seems recent. Bisecting leads to Michael's 524a9fdb5
(refs_verify_refname_available(): use function in more places,
2017-04-16), which makes sense.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-09 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-09 10:25 Fetching new refs gets progressively slower s
2017-07-09 11:29 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-08-17 15:12   ` [PATCH] files-backend: cheapen refname_available check when locking refs Michael Haggerty
2017-08-17 15:22     ` Jeff King
2017-08-17 17:56       ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-17 21:37       ` Junio C Hamano

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