From: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: christian.couder@gmail.com, gitster@pobox.com,
jrnieder@gmail.com, olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com, pclouds@gmail.com,
jonathantanmy@google.com, peff@peff.net,
Brandon Williams <bwilliams.eng@gmail.com>,
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 10/12] grep: re-enable threads in non-worktree case
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:39:58 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c09e9169dfb21fc2cd3f69700316d3a87e72019.1579141989.git.matheus.bernardino@usp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1579141989.git.matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
They were disabled at 53b8d93 ("grep: disable threading in non-worktree
case", 12-12-2011), due to observable performance drops (to the point
that using a single thread would be faster than multiple threads). But
now that zlib inflation can be performed in parallel we can regain the
speedup, so let's re-enable threads in non-worktree grep.
Grepping 'abcd[02]' ("Regex 1") and '(static|extern) (int|double) \*'
("Regex 2") at chromium's repository[1] I got:
Threads | Regex 1 | Regex 2
---------|------------|-----------
1 | 17.2920s | 20.9624s
2 | 9.6512s | 11.3184s
4 | 6.7723s | 7.6268s
8** | 6.2886s | 6.9843s
These are all means of 30 executions after 2 warmup runs. All tests were
executed on an i7-7700HQ (quad-core w/ hyper-threading), 16GB of RAM and
SSD, running Manjaro Linux. But to make sure the optimization also
performs well on HDD, the tests were repeated on another machine with an
i5-4210U (dual-core w/ hyper-threading), 8GB of RAM and HDD (SATA III,
5400 rpm), also running Manjaro Linux:
Threads | Regex 1 | Regex 2
---------|------------|-----------
1 | 18.4035s | 22.5368s
2 | 12.5063s | 14.6409s
4** | 10.9136s | 12.7106s
** Note that in these cases we relied on hyper-threading, and that's
probably why we don't see a big difference in time.
Unfortunately, multithreaded git-grep might be slow in the non-worktree
case when --textconv is used and there're too many text conversions.
Probably the reason for this is that the object read lock is used to
protect fill_textconv() and therefore there is a mutual exclusion
between textconv execution and object reading. Because both are
time-consuming operations, not being able to perform them in parallel
can cause performance drops. To inform the users about this (and other
threading details), let's also add a "NOTES ON THREADS" section to
Documentation/git-grep.txt.
[1]: chromium’s repo at commit 03ae96f (“Add filters testing at DSF=2”,
04-06-2019), after a 'git gc' execution.
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
---
Documentation/git-grep.txt | 11 +++++++++++
builtin/grep.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index c89fb569e3..de628741fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -347,6 +347,17 @@ EXAMPLES
`git grep solution -- :^Documentation`::
Looks for `solution`, excluding files in `Documentation`.
+NOTES ON THREADS
+----------------
+
+The `--threads` option (and the grep.threads configuration) will be ignored when
+`--open-files-in-pager` is used, forcing a single-threaded execution.
+
+When grepping the object store (with `--cached` or giving tree objects), running
+with multiple threads might perform slower than single threaded if `--textconv`
+is given and there're too many text conversions. So if you experience low
+performance in this case, it might be desirable to use `--threads=1`.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 1535fd50f8..6aaa8d4406 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (recurse_submodules && (!use_index || untracked))
die(_("option not supported with --recurse-submodules"));
- if (list.nr || cached || show_in_pager) {
+ if (show_in_pager) {
if (num_threads > 1)
warning(_("invalid option combination, ignoring --threads"));
num_threads = 1;
--
2.24.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-16 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-10 20:27 [GSoC][PATCH 0/4] grep: re-enable threads when cached, w/ parallel inflation Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 1/4] object-store: add lock to read_object_file_extended() Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 2/4] grep: allow locks to be enabled individually Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 3/4] grep: disable grep_read_mutex when possible Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 4/4] grep: re-enable threads in some non-worktree cases Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] grep: improve threading and fix race conditions Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] grep: fix race conditions on userdiff calls Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] grep: fix race conditions at grep_submodule() Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] grep: fix racy calls in grep_objects() Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] replace-object: make replace operations thread-safe Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] object-store: allow threaded access to object reading Matheus Tavares
2019-11-12 2:54 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-11-13 5:20 ` Jeff King
2019-11-14 5:57 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2019-11-14 6:01 ` Jeff King
2019-11-14 18:15 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-11-15 4:12 ` Jeff King
2019-12-19 22:27 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-01-09 22:02 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-01-10 19:07 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] grep: replace grep_read_mutex by internal obj read lock Matheus Tavares
2019-10-01 19:23 ` [PATCH] squash! " Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] submodule-config: add skip_if_read option to repo_read_gitmodules() Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] grep: allow submodule functions to run in parallel Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] grep: protect packed_git [re-]initialization Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] grep: re-enable threads in non-worktree case Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] grep: move driver pre-load out of critical section Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 00/12] grep: improve threading and fix race conditions Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 01/12] grep: fix race conditions on userdiff calls Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 02/12] grep: fix race conditions at grep_submodule() Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 03/12] grep: fix racy calls in grep_objects() Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 04/12] replace-object: make replace operations thread-safe Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 05/12] object-store: allow threaded access to object reading Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 06/12] grep: replace grep_read_mutex by internal obj read lock Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 07/12] submodule-config: add skip_if_read option to repo_read_gitmodules() Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 08/12] grep: allow submodule functions to run in parallel Matheus Tavares
2020-01-29 11:26 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-29 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-29 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-29 20:42 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-01-30 13:28 ` Philippe Blain
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 09/12] grep: protect packed_git [re-]initialization Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` Matheus Tavares [this message]
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 11/12] grep: move driver pre-load out of critical section Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:40 ` [PATCH v3 12/12] grep: use no. of cores as the default no. of threads Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 13:11 ` Victor Leschuk
2020-01-16 14:47 ` [PATCH] " Matheus Tavares
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