From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, git@jeffhostetler.com, peff@peff.net,
jonathantanmy@google.com, szeder.dev@gmail.com,
sbeller@google.com, Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/13] commit-graph: implement write_commit_graph()
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:02:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d29382b-e0a7-968f-b231-f27f89f275d3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsh9rtsg0.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On 2/23/2018 2:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> jt/binsearch-with-fanout introduces one when there is a 256-entry
>> fanout table (not the case here).
>>
>> The bsearch() method in search.h (and used in
>> pack-write.c:need_large_offset) does not return the _position_ of a
>> found element.
>>
>> Neither of these suit my needs, but I could just be searching for the
>> wrong strings. Also, I could divert my energies in this area to create
>> a generic search in the style of jt/binsearch-with-fanout.
> ... me goes and digs ...
>
> What I had in mind was the one in sha1-lookup.c, actually. Having
> said that, hand-rolling another one is not too huge a deal;
> eventually people will notice and consolidate code after the series
> stabilizes anyway ;-)
Ah, sha1_pos(). That definitely satisfies my use case. Thanks! My local
branch has this replacement.
>
>>>> + num_large_edges++;
>>>> + parent = parent->next;
>>>> + } while (parent);
>>> It feels somewhat wasteful to traverse the commit's parents list
>>> only to count, without populating the octopus table (which I
>>> understand is assumed to be minority case under this design).
>> Since we are writing the commit graph file in-order, we cannot write
>> the octopus table until after the chunk lengths are known.
> Oh, my "minority case" comment was me wondering "since we expect
> there are only a few, why not keep them in memory while we discover
> them here, so that the writing phase that come later do not have to
> go through all commits again counting their parents? would it be
> more performant and a better trade-off?" We can certainly do such
> an optimization later (iow, it is not all that crucial issue and
> certainly I didn't mention the above as something that needs to be
> "fixed"--there is nothing broken).
>
>> store the octopus table in memory and then dump it into the file
>> later, but walking the parents is quite fast after all the commits are
>> loaded. I'm not sure the time optimization merits the extra complexity
>> here. (I'm happy to revisit this if we do see this performance
>> lacking.)
>>
>> P.S. I really like the name "octopus table" and will use that for
>> informal discussions of this format.
> I actually do not mind that name used as the official term. I find
> it far more descriptive and understandable than "long edge" / "large
> edge" at least to a Git person.
I will consider using this in the format and design documents.
>
>> You're right that int_id isn't great, and your more-specific
>> "oid_table_pos" shows an extra reason why it isn't great: when we add
>> the GRAPH_LAST_EDGE bit or set it to GRAPH_PARENT_MISSING, the value
>> is NOT a table position.
> Perhaps I am somewhat biased, but it is quite natural for our
> codebase and internal API to say something like this:
>
> x_pos(table, key) function's return value is the non-negative
> position for the key in the table when the key is there; when it
> returns a negative value, it is (-1 - position) where the "position"
> is the position in the table they key would have been found if
> it was in there.
>
> and store the return value from such a function in a variable called
> "pos". Surely, sometimes "pos" does not have _the_ position, but
> that does not make it a bad name.
>
> Saying "MISSING is a special value that denotes 'nothing is here'"
> and allowing it to be set to a variable that meant to hold the
> position is not such a bad thing, though. After all, that is how
> you use NULL as a special value for a pointer variable ;-).
>
> Same for using the high bit to mean something else. Taking these
> together you would explain "low 31-bit of pos holds the position for
> the item in the table. MISSING is a special value that you can use
> to denote there is nothing. The LAST_EDGE bit denotes that one
> group of positions ends there", or something like that.
>
>> I think the current name makes the following call very clear:
> It is still a strange name nevertheless.
>
>>>> +char *write_commit_graph(const char *obj_dir)
>>>> +{
>>>> + struct packed_oid_list oids;
>>>> + struct packed_commit_list commits;
>>>> + struct sha1file *f;
>>>> + int i, count_distinct = 0;
>>>> + DIR *info_dir;
>>>> + struct strbuf tmp_file = STRBUF_INIT;
>>>> + struct strbuf graph_file = STRBUF_INIT;
>>>> + unsigned char final_hash[GIT_MAX_RAWSZ];
>>>> + char *graph_name;
>>>> + int fd;
>>>> + uint32_t chunk_ids[5];
>>>> + uint64_t chunk_offsets[5];
>>>> + int num_chunks;
>>>> + int num_long_edges;
>>>> + struct commit_list *parent;
>>>> +
>>>> + oids.nr = 0;
>>>> + oids.alloc = (int)(0.15 * approximate_object_count());
>>> Heh, traditionalist would probably avoid unnecessary use of float
>>> and use something like 1/4 or 1/8 ;-) After all, it is merely a
>>> ballpark guestimate.
>>>
>>>> + num_long_edges = 0;
>>> This again is about naming, but I find it a bit unnatural to call
>>> the edge between a chind and its octopus parents "long". Individual
>>> edges are not long--the only thing that is long is your "list of
>>> edges". Some other codepaths in this patch seems to call the same
>>> concept with s/long/large/, which I found somewhat puzzling.
>> How about "num_extra_edges"...
> Yes, "extra" in the name makes it very understandable.
>
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Thread overview: 146+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-30 21:39 [PATCH v2 00/14] Serialized Git Commit Graph Derrick Stolee
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] commit-graph: add format document Derrick Stolee
2018-02-01 21:44 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] graph: add commit graph design document Derrick Stolee
2018-01-31 2:19 ` Stefan Beller
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] commit-graph: create git-commit-graph builtin Derrick Stolee
2018-02-02 0:53 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] commit-graph: implement construct_commit_graph() Derrick Stolee
2018-02-01 22:23 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-01 23:46 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-02 15:32 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-05 16:06 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-07 15:08 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-07 15:10 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph --write Derrick Stolee
2018-02-01 23:33 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-02 18:36 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-02 22:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-03 1:58 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-03 9:28 ` Jeff King
2018-02-05 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-06 18:55 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-01 23:48 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-05 18:07 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-02 1:47 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph --read Derrick Stolee
2018-01-31 2:22 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-02 0:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-02 0:23 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-05 19:29 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph --update-head Derrick Stolee
2018-02-02 1:35 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-05 21:01 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-02 2:45 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph --clear Derrick Stolee
2018-02-02 4:01 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] commit-graph: teach git-commit-graph --delete-expired Derrick Stolee
2018-02-02 15:04 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] commit-graph: add core.commitgraph setting Derrick Stolee
2018-01-31 22:44 ` Igor Djordjevic
2018-02-02 16:01 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] commit: integrate commit graph with commit parsing Derrick Stolee
2018-02-02 1:51 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-06 14:53 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] commit-graph: read only from specific pack-indexes Derrick Stolee
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] commit-graph: close under reachability Derrick Stolee
2018-01-30 21:39 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] commit-graph: build graph from starting commits Derrick Stolee
2018-01-30 21:47 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] Serialized Git Commit Graph Stefan Beller
2018-02-01 2:34 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 " Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] commit-graph: add format document Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-08 21:33 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 23:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] graph: add commit graph design document Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] commit-graph: create git-commit-graph builtin Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-08 21:36 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 23:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] commit-graph: implement write_commit_graph() Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 22:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-15 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-15 18:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] commit-graph: implement 'git-commit-graph write' Derrick Stolee
2018-02-13 21:57 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] commit-graph: implement 'git-commit-graph read' Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] commit-graph: update graph-head during write Derrick Stolee
2018-02-12 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-12 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-12 21:24 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-13 22:38 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] commit-graph: implement 'git-commit-graph clear' Derrick Stolee
2018-02-13 22:49 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] commit-graph: implement --delete-expired Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] commit-graph: add core.commitGraph setting Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] commit: integrate commit graph with commit parsing Derrick Stolee
2018-02-14 0:12 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-14 18:08 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-15 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] commit-graph: close under reachability Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] commit-graph: read only from specific pack-indexes Derrick Stolee
2018-02-08 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] commit-graph: build graph from starting commits Derrick Stolee
2018-02-09 13:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-09 13:45 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-14 18:15 ` [PATCH v3 00/14] Serialized Git Commit Graph Derrick Stolee
2018-02-14 18:27 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-14 19:11 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] " Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] commit-graph: add format document Derrick Stolee
2018-02-20 20:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-21 19:23 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-21 19:45 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-21 19:48 ` Stefan Beller
2018-03-30 13:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2018-04-02 13:09 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-04-02 14:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] graph: add commit graph design document Derrick Stolee
2018-02-20 21:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 15:44 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-21 19:34 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] commit-graph: create git-commit-graph builtin Derrick Stolee
2018-02-20 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-21 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 16:07 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-26 16:25 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-26 17:08 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] commit-graph: implement write_commit_graph() Derrick Stolee
2018-02-20 22:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 17:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-23 19:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 20:02 ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2018-02-26 16:10 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-28 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] commit-graph: implement 'git-commit-graph write' Derrick Stolee
2018-02-21 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] commit-graph: implement git commit-graph read Derrick Stolee
2018-02-21 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-22 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] commit-graph: implement --set-latest Derrick Stolee
2018-02-22 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 17:53 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] commit-graph: implement --delete-expired Derrick Stolee
2018-02-21 21:34 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-23 17:43 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-22 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 17:59 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-23 19:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-23 19:41 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-23 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] commit-graph: add core.commitGraph setting Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] commit-graph: close under reachability Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] commit: integrate commit graph with commit parsing Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] commit-graph: read only from specific pack-indexes Derrick Stolee
2018-02-21 22:25 ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-23 19:19 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-02-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] commit-graph: build graph from starting commits Derrick Stolee
2018-03-30 11:10 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] Serialized Git Commit Graph Jakub Narebski
2018-04-02 13:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-04-02 14:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2018-04-02 15:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-04-02 17:35 ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-02 17:54 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-04-02 18:02 ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-07 22:37 ` Jakub Narebski
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