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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
	Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: performance on repack
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:52:35 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708141037020.5415@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070814031236.GC27913@spearce.org>

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This solution was my first thought too. Use the main thread to get
> > everything needed for the object into RAM, then multi-thread the
> > compute bound, in-memory delta search operation. Shared CPU caches
> > might make this very fast.
> 
> I have been thinking about doing this, especially now that the
> default window size is much larger.  I think the default is up as
> high as 50, which means we'd keep that shiny new UltraSPARC T2 busy.
> Not that I have one...  so anyone from Sun is welcome to send me
> one if they want.  ;-)

Note that the default of 50 applies to the maximum delta depth, not the 
delta search window.  And the delta depth limit is costless on the 
packing side.  I, too, wouldn't mind the UltraSPARC T2 though.


Nicolas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-11 21:12 performance on repack Jon Smirl
2007-08-11 22:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 22:34   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-11 23:21     ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-12 10:33 ` Martin Koegler
2007-08-12 13:49   ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-14  3:12     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-14  4:10       ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-14  5:13         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-14  5:57           ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-14 14:52       ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-08-14 21:41       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-15  1:20         ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-15  1:59           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-15  5:32         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-15 15:08           ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-15 17:11             ` Martin Koegler
2007-08-15 18:38               ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-15 19:00                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-15 19:42                   ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-16  8:10                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-16 15:34                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-16 16:13                       ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-16 16:21                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-15 21:05             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-15 20:49           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-30  4:27             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-30  4:36               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-30 16:17                 ` Jon Smirl
2007-09-01 21:54                 ` Jon Smirl

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