git@vger.kernel.org mailing list mirror (one of many)
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] gc: run more pre-detach operations under lock
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:10:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190619191037.GE28145@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1dh8ne4.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 08:01:55PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> > You could sort of avoid the problem here too with
> >
> > parallel 'git fetch --no-auto-gc {}' ::: $(git remote)
> > git gc --auto
> >
> > It's definitely simpler, but of course we have to manually add
> > --no-auto-gc in everywhere we need, so not quite as elegant.
> >
> > Actually you could already do that with 'git -c gc.auto=false fetch', I guess.
> 
> The point of the 'parallel' example is to show disconnected git
> commands, think trying to run 'git' in a terminal while your editor
> asynchronously runs a polling 'fetch', or a server with multiple
> concurrent clients running 'gc --auto'.
> 
> That's the question my RFC patch raises. As far as I can tell the
> approach in your patch is only needed because our locking for gc is
> buggy, rather than introduce the caveat that an fetch(N) operation won't
> do "gc" until it's finished (we may have hundreds, thousands of remotes,
> I use that for some more obscure use-cases) shouldn't we just fix the
> locking?

I think there may be room for both approaches. Yours fixes the repeated
message in the more general case, but Duy's suggestion is the most
efficient thing.

I agree that the "thousands of remotes" case means we might want to gc
in the interim. But we probably ought to do that deterministically
rather than hoping that the pattern of lock contention makes sense.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-19 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-19  9:46 [PATCH] fetch: only run 'gc' once when fetching multiple remotes Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-06-19 10:26 ` [RFC/PATCH] gc: run more pre-detach operations under lock Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-19 12:51   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-19 18:01     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-19 19:10       ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-06-19 22:49         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-19 23:30           ` [PATCH 0/6] Change <non-empty?> GIT_TEST_* variables to <boolean> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 18:13             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-20 21:00               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 20:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 0/8] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 1/8] config tests: simplify include cycle test Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 2/8] env--helper: new undocumented builtin wrapping git_env_*() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 17:07                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 3/8] config.c: refactor die_bad_number() to not call gettext() early Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 4/8] t6040 test: stop using global "script" variable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 5/8] tests: make GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON a boolean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-24 16:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 6/8] tests README: re-flow a previously changed paragraph Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 7/8] tests: replace test_tristate with "git env--helper" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-09-06 12:13                 ` [PATCH 1/2] t/lib-git-svn.sh: check GIT_TEST_SVN_HTTPD when running SVN HTTP tests SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-06 12:13                   ` [PATCH 2/2] ci: restore running httpd tests SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-06 17:03                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-06 19:13                     ` Jeff King
2019-09-07 10:16                       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-11-22 13:14                         ` [PATCH 0/2] tests: catch non-bool GIT_TEST_* values SZEDER Gábor
2019-11-22 13:14                           ` [PATCH 1/2] tests: add 'test_bool_env' to " SZEDER Gábor
2019-11-25 13:50                             ` Jeff King
2019-11-22 13:14                           ` [PATCH 2/2] t5608-clone-2gb.sh: turn GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB into a bool SZEDER Gábor
2019-11-25 13:53                             ` Jeff King
2019-06-21 10:18               ` [PATCH v3 8/8] tests: make GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS a boolean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 1/8] config tests: simplify include cycle test Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 2/8] env--helper: new undocumented builtin wrapping git_env_*() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 22:11               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-20 22:21                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-21  8:11                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-21 15:04                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 3/8] config.c: refactor die_bad_number() to not call gettext() early Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 4/8] t6040 test: stop using global "script" variable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 5/8] tests: make GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON a boolean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 6/8] tests README: re-flow a previously changed paragraph Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 7/8] tests: replace test_tristate with "git env--helper" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 21:09             ` [PATCH v2 8/8] tests: make GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS a boolean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-19 23:30           ` [PATCH 1/6] env--helper: new undocumented builtin wrapping git_env_*() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 19:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-19 23:30           ` [PATCH 2/6] t6040 test: stop using global "script" variable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 19:54             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-19 23:30           ` [PATCH 3/6] tests: make GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON a boolean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 20:00             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-19 23:30           ` [PATCH 4/6] tests README: re-flow a previously changed paragraph Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-19 23:30           ` [PATCH 5/6] tests: replace test_tristate with "git env--helper" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-19 23:30           ` [PATCH 6/6] tests: make GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS a boolean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 10:26           ` [RFC/PATCH] gc: run more pre-detach operations under lock Duy Nguyen
2019-06-20 21:49             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 10:43           ` Jeff King
2019-06-20 18:55         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-19 19:08     ` Jeff King
2019-06-19 18:59 ` [PATCH] fetch: only run 'gc' once when fetching multiple remotes Jeff King
2019-06-20 10:11   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-20 10:21     ` Jeff King

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20190619191037.GE28145@sigill.intra.peff.net \
    --to=peff@peff.net \
    --cc=avarab@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=mhagger@alum.mit.edu \
    --cc=pclouds@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).