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From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Eric Wong" <e@80x24.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] repack: enable bitmaps by default on bare repos
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 10:20:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561912f3-4761-c690-5327-501e20023e4d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190508071105.GA14043@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 5/8/2019 3:11 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 10:12:06AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
>>> I think we'd want a way to tell the bitmap code to update our progress
>>> meter as it traverses (both single objects, but also taking into account
>>> when it finds a bitmap and then suddenly bumps the value by a large
>>> amount).
>>
>> Not splitting it will fix the progress bar stalling, so it fixes the
>> problem that the user is wondering if the command is entirely hanging.
>>
>> But I was hoping to give the user an idea of roughly where we're
>> spending our time, e.g. so you can see how much the pack.useSparse
>> setting is helping (or not).
> 
> Yeah, I think that's a bigger and more complicated problem. I admit that
> my main annoyance is just the stall while we fill in the bitmaps (and
> it's easy because the bitmap traversal is the same unit of work as a
> regular traversal).

The pack.useSparse setting also speeds up a section that is not marked
by progress: that portion usually is walking all UNINTERESTING trees and
the"Enumerating Objects" progress is just for walking the INTERESTING objects.
 
>> So something where we report sub-progress as we go along, and perhaps
>> print some brief summary at the end if it took long enough, e.g.:
>>
>>     Enumerating Objects (X^1%) => Marking trees (Y^1%)
>>     Enumerating Objects (X^2%) => Calculating bitmaps (Y^2%)

I like this idea for splitting the "normal" mechanism, too:

     Enumerating Objects (X^1%) => Marking trees (Y^1%)
     Enumerating Objects (X^2%) => Enumerating objects to pack (Y^2%)

>> I.e. bringing the whole "nested" trace2 regions full circle with the
>> progress bar where we could elect to trace/show some of that info, and
>> then you could turn on some trace2 mode/verbose progress to see more.
> 
> I do wonder if this really needs to be part of the progress bar. The
> goal of the progress bar is to give the user a sense that work is
> happening, and (if possible, but not for "enumerating") an idea of when
> it might finish. If the trace code can already do detailed timings, then
> shouldn't we just be encouraging people to use that?

The problem I've seen (without bitmaps) is that running `git push` can
take a while before _any_ progress is listed.

Good news is: `pack.useSparse` fixed our push problem in the Windows OS
repo. The end-to-end time for `git push` sped up by 7.7x with the change,
and this "blank" time is too fast for users to notice.

Updating the progress could help in cases without pack.useSparse.

Thanks,
-Stolee

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-08 14:20 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
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 [this message]
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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