From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>, "Eric Wong" <e@80x24.org>, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] repack: enable bitmaps by default on bare repos Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 21:37:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20190504013713.GC17551@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <xmqq1s1qy2ox.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 04:16:46PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I was revisiting the recent "What's cooking" report, and I am not > sure what the current status of the topic is. > > I do not get a feel that the current bitmap implementation has been > widely used in repositories that have vastly different access > patterns---it probably has been tried only by those who can afford > the engineering cost to see if the implementation happens to work > well for their workload and some may have chosen to adopt it while > others didn't. So it may be very well tuned for the former people > but once we merge this topic down, we'll hear from others with quite > different workload, which may lead to us tuning the code to bit > better to their workload while not hurting other existing users, > hopefully. > > Or not. Note that Ævar's case was somebody running bitmaps locally and trying to push, which I think is generally not a good match for bitmaps (even when they work, they cost more to generate than what you save if you're only pushing once). The goal of Eric's patch was that by kicking in for bare repos, we'd mostly be hitting servers that are serving up fetches. So if by "workload" you mean that we some people might use bare repos for other cases, yeah, there's a potential for confusion or regression there. If you mean that bitmaps might not work for some workloads even when we're serving a lot of fetches, I won't say that's _not_ true, but my experience is that they are generally a net win. Both for the smaller repositories we see on github.com, but also for big, busy ones that our on-premises customers use. Actually, there is one curiosity with Eric's patch that I haven't tested. As I've mentioned before, we store "forks" as single repositories pointing to a single shared alternates repository. Since the bitmap code only handles one .bitmap per invocation, you really want just one big one in the shared repo. If "git repack" in the forks started generating one, that would be surprising and annoying. In practice this is a pretty extreme corner case. And a lot would depend on how you're using "repack" in the fork (e.g., a partial repack would know that it can't generate bitmaps anyway). I'm pretty sure it would not even impact our setup at all, but I can probably come up with a devils advocate one where it would. > I am somewhat tempted to make things more exciting by merging it to > 'next' soonish, but I guess Ævar and you are not quite ready for > that excitement yet, judging from the following (which looks quite > sensible suggestions)? It's OK with me for this to go to 'next'. Note that the other two patches from me could actually graduate separately. One is a straight-out test fix, and the other should always be a win (and does nothing if you're not already generating bitmaps). By the way, there were some timing puzzles mentioned in that second commit. I re-ran them today and everything was what I'd expect. So I wonder if I just screwed up the timings before. I can re-write that commit message if it hasn't made it to 'next' yet. -Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-04 1:42 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2019-02-14 4:31 [PATCH 0/3] some prune optimizations Jeff King 2019-02-14 4:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] prune: lazily perform reachability traversal Jeff King 2019-02-14 10:54 ` Eric Sunshine 2019-02-14 11:07 ` Jeff King 2019-02-14 4:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] prune: use bitmaps for " Jeff King 2019-03-09 2:49 ` bitmaps by default? [was: prune: use bitmaps for reachability traversal] Eric Wong 2019-03-10 23:39 ` Jeff King 2019-03-12 3:13 ` [PATCH] repack: enable bitmaps by default on bare repos Eric Wong 2019-03-12 9:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-03-12 10:49 ` Jeff King 2019-03-12 12:05 ` Jeff King 2019-03-13 1:51 ` Eric Wong 2019-03-13 14:54 ` Jeff King 2019-03-14 9:12 ` [PATCH v3] " Eric Wong 2019-03-14 16:02 ` Jeff King 2019-03-15 6:21 ` [PATCH 0/2] enable bitmap hash-cache by default Jeff King 2019-03-15 6:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] t5310: correctly remove bitmaps for jgit test Jeff King 2019-03-15 13:25 ` SZEDER Gábor 2019-03-15 18:36 ` Jeff King 2019-03-15 6:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: default to writing bitmap hash-cache Jeff King 2019-04-09 15:10 ` [PATCH v3] repack: enable bitmaps by default on bare repos Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-04-10 22:57 ` Jeff King 2019-04-25 7:16 ` Junio C Hamano 2019-05-04 1:37 ` Jeff King [this message] 2019-05-04 6:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-04 13:23 ` SZEDER Gábor 2019-05-08 20:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-09 4:24 ` Junio C Hamano 2019-05-07 7:45 ` Jeff King 2019-05-07 8:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-08 7:11 ` Jeff King 2019-05-08 14:20 ` Derrick Stolee 2019-05-08 16:13 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-08 22:25 ` Jeff King 2019-05-23 11:30 ` Jeff King 2019-05-23 12:53 ` Derrick Stolee 2019-05-24 7:24 ` Jeff King 2019-05-24 10:33 ` Derrick Stolee 2019-05-23 19:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-24 7:27 ` Jeff King 2019-05-24 7:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-24 8:26 ` Jeff King 2019-05-24 9:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-24 9:29 ` SZEDER Gábor 2019-05-24 11:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-24 11:41 ` SZEDER Gábor 2019-05-24 11:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-24 12:34 ` SZEDER Gábor 2019-05-24 13:41 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-05-24 11:31 ` [PATCH] pack-bitmap: look for an uninteresting bitmap Derrick Stolee 2019-04-15 15:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] prune: use bitmaps for reachability traversal Derrick Stolee 2019-04-18 19:49 ` Jeff King 2019-04-18 20:08 ` [PATCH] t5304: add a test for pruning with bitmaps Jeff King 2019-04-20 1:01 ` Derrick Stolee 2019-04-20 3:24 ` Jeff King 2019-04-20 21:01 ` Derrick Stolee 2019-02-14 4:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] prune: check SEEN flag for reachability Jeff King
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