From: Rafael Silva <rafaeloliveira.cs@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Jonathan Tan" <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] repack: avoid loosening promisor objects in partial clones
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:25:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gohp6kim4fl9tc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa6pt98j4.fsf@gitster.g>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Rafael Silva <rafaeloliveira.cs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When `git repack -A -d` is run in a partial clone, `pack-objects`
>> is invoked twice: once to repack all promisor objects, and once to
>> repack all non-promisor objects. The latter `pack-objects` invocation
>> is with --exclude-promisor-objects and --unpack-unreachable, which
>> loosens all unused objects. Unfortunately, this includes promisor
>> objects.
>>
>> Because the -d argument to `git repack` subsequently deletes all loose
>> objects also in packs, these just-loosened promisor objects will be
>> immediately deleted. However, this extra disk churn is unnecessary in
>> the first place. For example, a newly-clone partial repo that filters
>
> "in a newly-cloned partial repo", I'd think.
>
Thanks, will fix on the next revision.
>> For testing, we need to validate whether any object was loosened.
>> However, the "evidence" (loosened objects) is deleted during the
>> process which prevents us from inspecting the object directory.
>> Instead, let's teach `pack-objects` to count loosened objects and
>> emit via trace2 thus allowing inspecting the debug events after the
>> process is finished. This new event is used on the added regression
>> test.
>
> Nicely designed.
>
Thanks :)
>> + uint32_t loosened_objects_nr = 0;
>> struct object_id oid;
>>
>> for (p = get_all_packs(the_repository); p; p = p->next) {
>> @@ -3492,11 +3493,16 @@ static void loosen_unused_packed_objects(void)
>> nth_packed_object_id(&oid, p, i);
>> if (!packlist_find(&to_pack, &oid) &&
>> !has_sha1_pack_kept_or_nonlocal(&oid) &&
>> - !loosened_object_can_be_discarded(&oid, p->mtime))
>> + !loosened_object_can_be_discarded(&oid, p->mtime)) {
>> if (force_object_loose(&oid, p->mtime))
>> die(_("unable to force loose object"));
>> + loosened_objects_nr++;
>> + }
>> }
>> }
>> +
>> + trace2_data_intmax("pack-objects", the_repository,
>> + "loosen_unused_packed_objects/loosened", loosened_objects_nr);
>> }
>
> OK, so this is just the "stats".
>
>> diff --git a/builtin/repack.c b/builtin/repack.c
>> index 2847fdfbab..5f9bc74adc 100644
>> --- a/builtin/repack.c
>> +++ b/builtin/repack.c
>> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static int delta_base_offset = 1;
>> static int pack_kept_objects = -1;
>> static int write_bitmaps = -1;
>> static int use_delta_islands;
>> -static char *packdir, *packtmp;
>> +static char *packdir, *packtmp_name, *packtmp;
>>
>> static const char *const git_repack_usage[] = {
>> N_("git repack [<options>]"),
>> @@ -530,7 +530,8 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>> }
>>
>> packdir = mkpathdup("%s/pack", get_object_directory());
>> - packtmp = mkpathdup("%s/.tmp-%d-pack", packdir, (int)getpid());
>> + packtmp_name = xstrfmt(".tmp-%d-pack", (int)getpid());
>> + packtmp = mkpathdup("%s/%s", packdir, packtmp_name);
>
> Just a mental note, but we should move away from ".tmp-$$" that is a
> remnant from the days back when this was a shell script, and use the
> tempfile.h API (#leftoverbits). Such a change must not be part of
> this topic, of course.
>
Indeed. This should be move tempfile.h API.
>
> Thanks. Will queue and see what others say.
Thanks for reviewing it.
--
Thanks
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-03 9:04 rather slow 'git repack' in 'blob:none' partial clones SZEDER Gábor
2021-04-05 1:02 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-07 21:17 ` Jeff King
2021-04-08 0:02 ` Jonathan Tan
2021-04-08 0:35 ` Jeff King
2021-04-12 7:09 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-12 21:36 ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-04-12 21:49 ` Bryan Turner
2021-04-12 23:51 ` Jeff King
2021-04-12 23:47 ` Jeff King
2021-04-13 7:12 ` [PATCH 0/3] low-hanging performance fruit with promisor packs Jeff King
2021-04-13 7:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] is_promisor_object(): free tree buffer after parsing Jeff King
2021-04-13 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-14 5:18 ` Jeff King
2021-04-13 7:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] lookup_unknown_object(): take a repository argument Jeff King
2021-04-13 7:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] revision: avoid parsing with --exclude-promisor-objects Jeff King
2021-04-13 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-13 18:10 ` [PATCH 0/3] low-hanging performance fruit with promisor packs SZEDER Gábor
2021-04-14 17:14 ` Jonathan Tan
2021-04-14 19:22 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-13 18:05 ` rather slow 'git repack' in 'blob:none' partial clones SZEDER Gábor
2021-04-14 5:14 ` Jeff King
2021-04-11 10:59 ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-04-12 7:53 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-14 19:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] prevent `repack` to unpack and delete promisor objects Rafael Silva
2021-04-14 19:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] repack: teach --no-prune-packed to skip `git prune-packed` Rafael Silva
2021-04-14 23:50 ` Jonathan Tan
2021-04-18 14:15 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-14 19:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] repack: avoid loosening promisor pack objects in partial clones Rafael Silva
2021-04-15 1:04 ` Jonathan Tan
2021-04-15 3:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-15 9:03 ` Jeff King
2021-04-15 9:05 ` Jeff King
2021-04-18 7:12 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-15 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-18 8:40 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-14 22:10 ` [PATCH 0/2] prevent `repack` to unpack and delete promisor objects Junio C Hamano
2021-04-15 9:15 ` Jeff King
2021-04-18 8:20 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-18 13:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Rafael Silva
2021-04-18 13:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] repack: avoid loosening promisor objects in partial clones Rafael Silva
2021-04-19 19:15 ` Jonathan Tan
2021-04-21 18:54 ` Rafael Silva
2021-04-19 23:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-21 19:25 ` Rafael Silva [this message]
2021-04-21 19:32 ` [PATCH v3] " Rafael Silva
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