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* [PATCH 0/5] Create 'expire' and 'repack' verbs for git-multi-pack-index
@ 2018-12-10 18:06 Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
  2018-12-10 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' verb Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
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From: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget @ 2018-12-10 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: sbeller, peff, jrnieder, avarab, Junio C Hamano

The multi-pack-index provides a fast way to find an object among a large
list of pack-files. It stores a single pack-reference for each object id, so
duplicate objects are ignored. Among a list of pack-files storing the same
object, the most-recently modified one is used.

Create new verbs for the multi-pack-index builtin.

 * 'git multi-pack-index expire': If we have a pack-file indexed by the
   multi-pack-index, but all objects in that pack are duplicated in
   more-recently modified packs, then delete that pack (and any others like
   it). Delete the reference to that pack in the multi-pack-index.
   
   
 * 'git multi-pack-index repack --batch-size=': Starting from the oldest
   pack-files covered by the multi-pack-index, find those whose on-disk size
   is below the batch size until we have a collection of packs whose sizes
   add up to the batch size. Create a new pack containing all objects that
   the multi-pack-index references to those packs.
   
   

This allows us to create a new pattern for repacking objects: run 'repack'.
After enough time has passed that all Git commands that started before the
last 'repack' are finished, run 'expire' again. This approach has some
advantages over the existing "repack everything" model:

 1. Incremental. We can repack a small batch of objects at a time, instead
    of repacking all reachable objects. We can also limit ourselves to the
    objects that do not appear in newer pack-files.
    
    
 2. Highly Available. By adding a new pack-file (and not deleting the old
    pack-files) we do not interrupt concurrent Git commands, and do not
    suffer performance degradation. By expiring only pack-files that have no
    referenced objects, we know that Git commands that are doing normal
    object lookups* will not be interrupted.
    
    
 3. Note: if someone concurrently runs a Git command that uses
    get_all_packs(), then that command could try to read the pack-files and
    pack-indexes that we are deleting during an expire command. Such
    commands are usually related to object maintenance (i.e. fsck, gc,
    pack-objects) or are related to less-often-used features (i.e.
    fast-import, http-backend, server-info).
    
    

We plan to use this approach in VFS for Git to do background maintenance of
the "shared object cache" which is a Git alternate directory filled with
packfiles containing commits and trees. We currently download pack-files on
an hourly basis to keep up-to-date with the central server. The cache
servers supply packs on an hourly and daily basis, so most of the hourly
packs become useless after a new daily pack is downloaded. The 'expire'
command would clear out most of those packs, but many will still remain with
fewer than 100 objects remaining. The 'repack' command (with a batch size of
1-3gb, probably) can condense the remaining packs in commands that run for
1-3 min at a time. Since the daily packs range from 100-250mb, we will also
combine and condense those packs.

Thanks, -Stolee

Derrick Stolee (5):
  multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' verb
  midx: refactor permutation logic
  multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' verb
  multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' verb
  midx: implement midx_repack()

 Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt |  20 +++
 builtin/multi-pack-index.c             |  12 +-
 midx.c                                 | 222 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 midx.h                                 |   2 +
 t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh            |  98 +++++++++++
 5 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


base-commit: 26aa9fc81d4c7f6c3b456a29da0b7ec72e5c6595
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-92%2Fderrickstolee%2Fmidx-expire%2Fupstream-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-92/derrickstolee/midx-expire/upstream-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/92
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2018-12-11  1:35   ` Stefan Beller
2018-12-11  1:59     ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-12-11 12:32       ` Derrick Stolee
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2018-12-11  1:54   ` Stefan Beller
2018-12-11 12:45     ` Derrick Stolee
2018-12-10 18:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] midx: implement midx_repack() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-11  2:32   ` Stefan Beller
2018-12-11 13:00     ` Derrick Stolee
2018-12-12  7:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-13  4:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-21 16:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Create 'expire' and 'repack' verbs for git-multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-21 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] repack: refactor pack deletion for future use Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-21 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-21 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-21 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] midx: refactor permutation logic Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-21 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' verb Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-21 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] midx: implement midx_repack() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2018-12-21 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:21   ` [PATCH v3 0/9] Create 'expire' and 'repack' verbs for git-multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 1/9] repack: refactor pack deletion for future use Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 2/9] Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 3/9] multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 4/9] midx: simplify computation of pack name lengths Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 5/9] midx: refactor permutation logic and pack sorting Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-23 21:00       ` Jonathan Tan
2019-01-24 17:34         ` Derrick Stolee
2019-01-24 19:17           ` Derrick Stolee
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 6/9] multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' verb Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:54       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-01-10 18:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-23 22:13       ` Jonathan Tan
2019-01-24 17:36         ` Derrick Stolee
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 7/9] multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-09 15:56       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-01-23 22:38       ` Jonathan Tan
2019-01-24 19:36         ` Derrick Stolee
2019-01-24 21:38           ` Jonathan Tan
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 8/9] midx: implement midx_repack() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-23 22:33       ` Jonathan Tan
2019-01-09 15:21     ` [PATCH v3 9/9] multi-pack-index: test expire while adding packs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-17 15:27     ` [PATCH v3 0/9] Create 'expire' and 'repack' verbs for git-multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee
2019-01-23 22:44     ` Jonathan Tan
2019-01-24 21:51     ` [PATCH v4 00/10] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:51       ` [PATCH v4 01/10] repack: refactor pack deletion for future use Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:51       ` [PATCH v4 02/10] Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:51       ` [PATCH v4 03/10] multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:51       ` [PATCH v4 05/10] midx: refactor permutation logic and pack sorting Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:51       ` [PATCH v4 04/10] midx: simplify computation of pack name lengths Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:51       ` [PATCH v4 06/10] multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:51       ` [PATCH v4 07/10] multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-25 23:24         ` Josh Steadmon
2019-01-24 21:52       ` [PATCH v4 08/10] midx: implement midx_repack() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-26 17:10         ` Derrick Stolee
2019-01-27 22:50           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-24 21:52       ` [PATCH v4 09/10] multi-pack-index: test expire while adding packs Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 21:52       ` [PATCH v4 10/10] midx: add test that 'expire' respects .keep files Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2019-01-24 22:14       ` [PATCH v4 00/10] Create 'expire' and 'repack' verbs for git-multi-pack-index Jonathan Tan
2019-01-25 23:49       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-04-24 15:14       ` [PATCH v5 00/11] " Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 01/11] repack: refactor pack deletion for future use Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 02/11] Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 03/11] multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 04/11] midx: simplify computation of pack name lengths Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 05/11] midx: refactor permutation logic and pack sorting Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 06/11] multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 07/11] multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 08/11] midx: implement midx_repack() Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 09/11] multi-pack-index: test expire while adding packs Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 10/11] midx: add test that 'expire' respects .keep files Derrick Stolee
2019-04-24 15:14         ` [PATCH v5 11/11] t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: test batch size zero Derrick Stolee
2019-04-25  5:38         ` [PATCH v5 00/11] Create 'expire' and 'repack' verbs for git-multi-pack-index Junio C Hamano
2019-04-25 11:06           ` Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47         ` [PATCH v6 " Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 01/11] repack: refactor pack deletion for future use Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 02/11] Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 03/11] multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 04/11] midx: simplify computation of pack name lengths Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 05/11] midx: refactor permutation logic and pack sorting Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 06/11] multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 07/11] multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 08/11] midx: implement midx_repack() Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 09/11] multi-pack-index: test expire while adding packs Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 10/11] midx: add test that 'expire' respects .keep files Derrick Stolee
2019-05-14 18:47           ` [PATCH v6 11/11] t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: test batch size zero Derrick Stolee
2019-06-10 14:15           ` [PATCH v6 00/11] Create 'expire' and 'repack' verbs for git-multi-pack-index Derrick Stolee
2019-06-10 17:31             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-10 17:57               ` Derrick Stolee

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