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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/8] Add configuration options for split-index
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:18:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD16VearVw3EMM_TzV=43qvyoo2PBDhEOFJFuBU5=Pe4Lw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DRmcUzG+Uj65nqmyjbohbWq1Us4c7YkNkG15fjGijfEA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm.. can you do the counting separately? A shared cache_entry must
> have its field "index" greater than zero. By counting the number of
> entries whose index is zero (i.e. not shared) against the total number
> of real (*) entries, you should have a decent estimate when to split.
> Then you can do exactly what "git update-index --no-split-index" and
> "git update-index --split-index" sequence does, but in write_index().
> It's easier than messing inside split-index.c. If we hit performance
> problem, then we can look into changing split-index.c

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion. I will try it.

> (*) remember that some entries may be marked CE_REMOVE, which are dead
> entries and should not be counted because they will never be written
> down on disk.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-25 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-11 17:22 [RFC/PATCH 0/8] Add configuration options for split-index Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/8] config: add git_config_get_split_index() Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/8] split-index: add {add,remove}_split_index() functions Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/8] read-cache: add and then use tweak_split_index() Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/8] update-index: warn in case of split-index incoherency Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/8] Documentation/config: add information for core.splitIndex Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 6/8] Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 7/8] t1700: add tests for core.splitIndex Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 8/8] read-cache: unlink old sharedindex files Christian Couder
2016-07-11 18:27   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-12  7:04     ` Christian Couder
2016-07-12 15:12       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-12 19:45         ` Christian Couder
2016-07-13 15:16           ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-13 17:54             ` Christian Couder
2016-07-12 16:01 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/8] Add configuration options for split-index Duy Nguyen
2016-07-23 16:11   ` Christian Couder
2016-07-25 16:04     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-25 21:18       ` Christian Couder [this message]

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