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* [GSoC Patch v3 0/4] Move generation, graph_pos to a slab
@ 2020-06-12 18:40 Abhishek Kumar
  2020-06-12 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] alloc: introduce parsed_commits_count Abhishek Kumar
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From: Abhishek Kumar @ 2020-06-12 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: stolee, jnareb

The struct commit is used in many contexts. However, members
`generation` and `graph_pos` are only used for commit graph related
operations and otherwise waste memory.

This wastage would have been more pronounced as we transition to
generation number v2, which uses 64-bit generation number instead of
current 32-bits.

While the overall test suite runs slightly faster than master
(series: 27m10s, master: 27ms34s, faster by 2.35%), certain commands
like `git merge-base --is-ancestory` are slowed by nearly 40% as
discovered by SDEZER Gabor [1].

Derrick Stolee believes the slow down is attributable to the underlying
algorithm rather than the slowness of commit-slab access [2] and we will
follow-up on that in a later series.

I did not mention maximum RSS in the commit messages as they were nearly
identical (series: 68104kb, master: 68040kb, fewer by <0.1%). This leads
me to conclude that either the test using maximum memory involves commit
graph or did not involve the struct commit at all. The move to
commit-slab reduces memory footprint for the cases where struct commit
is used but members generation and graph position are not. Average RSS
would have been a good and more representative measure, but 
unfortunately time(1) could not measure it on my system.

With this, I feel the patch will require minor fixes, if any. I am
moving ahead with working the next step of "Implement Generation Number
v2" that is proper handling of commit-graph format change.

Based on the discussions, I feel we should compute both generation
number v1 and the date offset value with storing date offsets in a new
chunk as the cost is mostly from walking the commits.

Abhishek Kumar (4):
  alloc: introduce parsed_commits_count
  commit-graph: introduce commit_graph_data_slab
  commit: move members graph_pos, generation to a slab
  commit-graph: minimize commit_graph_data_slab access

 alloc.c                         |   6 +-
 blame.c                         |   2 +-
 bloom.c                         |   7 +-
 commit-graph.c                  | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 commit-graph.h                  |  10 +++
 commit-reach.c                  |  69 +++++++++++-------
 commit.c                        |   8 ++-
 contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci |  18 +++++
 revision.c                      |  20 +++---
 9 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)

-- 
2.27.0

Changes in v3:
- Introduce alloc commit to fix the failing diff-submodule test.
- Elaborate on performance and slow down noticed in the commit message.

Changes in v2:
- Introduce struct commit_graph_data.
- Merge `graph_pos`, `generation` slabs into a single,
  `commit_graph_data` slab.
- Use graph position for an intermediate check for generation, saving
  the cost of initializing generation numbers.
- Add an follow-up patch caching results of slab access in local
  variables.
- Move coccinelle transformation to commit.coccinelle instead of
  creating new scripts.
- Elaborate on removing default values from init_commit_node().
- Revert moving macro constants (e.g. COMMIT_NOT_FROM_GRAPH,
  GENERATION_NUMBER_ZERO) from commit.h to commit-graph.h

CI Build: https://travis-ci.com/github/abhishekkumar2718/git  

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2020-06-12 20:08   ` Junio C Hamano
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2020-06-13 18:57     ` Abhishek Kumar
2020-06-12 23:16   ` Jakub Narębski
2020-06-12 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] commit-graph: introduce commit_graph_data_slab Abhishek Kumar
2020-06-13  6:53   ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-06-17  9:18     ` Abhishek Kumar
2020-06-12 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] commit: move members graph_pos, generation to a slab Abhishek Kumar
2020-06-12 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] commit-graph: minimize commit_graph_data_slab access Abhishek Kumar
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