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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refs: fix interleaving hook calls with reference-transaction hook
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 15:00:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200807190024.GA1307861@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpn82gy51.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 10:32:26AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> Test                         HEAD^             HEAD
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 1400.2: update-ref           1.93(1.57+0.42)   1.91(1.55+0.42) -1.0%
> >> 1400.3: update-ref --stdin   0.07(0.02+0.05)   0.07(0.02+0.05) +0.0%
> >> 
> >> Running it a second time gets me +0.5%. :)
> >
> > Yeah, it's also been my take that OS-level overhead is probably going to
> > matter more than those access calls, and I argued such back when I
> > proposed the hook. So I'm perfectly happy to see this caching mechanism
> > go.
> 
> Is the above about negative cache?  IOW, does the above demonstrate
> that one extra access() to make sure there is no hook does not hurt
> us anything?

Yes, those numbers are with no cache at all, and without a hook. So they
are measuring the cost of access() only.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-07 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-07  7:05 [PATCH] refs: fix interleaving hook calls with reference-transaction hook Patrick Steinhardt
2020-08-07  7:58 ` Jeff King
2020-08-07  9:04   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2020-08-07  9:32     ` Jeff King
2020-08-07  9:49       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2020-08-07 17:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 19:00           ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-08-07 18:21         ` Jeff King
2020-08-07 19:26           ` Junio C Hamano

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