From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Kim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Supplements to "packed_ref_cache: don't use mmap() for small files"
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:23:44 +0100 (STD) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1801172123020.31@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1516017331.git.mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Hi Michael,
On Mon, 15 Jan 2018, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> Thanks for your patch. I haven't measured the performance difference
> of `mmap()` vs. `read()` for small `packed-refs` files, but it's not
> surprising that `read()` would be faster.
>
> I especially like the fix for zero-length `packed-refs` files. (Even
> though AFAIK Git never writes such files, they are totally legitimate
> and shouldn't cause Git to fail.) With or without the additions
> mentioned below,
>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
>
> While reviewing your patch, I realized that some areas of the existing
> code use constructs that are undefined according to the C standard,
> such as computing `NULL + 0` and `NULL - NULL`. This was already wrong
> (and would come up more frequently after your change). Even though
> these are unlikely to be problems in the real world, it would be good
> to avoid them.
>
> So I will follow up this email with three patches:
>
> 1. Mention that `snapshot::buf` can be NULL for empty files
>
> I suggest squashing this into your patch, to make it clear that
> `snapshot::buf` and `snapshot::eof` can also be NULL if the
> `packed-refs` file is empty.
>
> 2. create_snapshot(): exit early if the file was empty
>
> Avoid undefined behavior by returning early if `snapshot->buf` is
> NULL.
>
> 3. find_reference_location(): don't invoke if `snapshot->buf` is NULL
>
> Avoid undefined behavior and confusing semantics by not calling
> `find_reference_location()` when `snapshot->buf` is NULL.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Haggerty (3):
> SQUASH? Mention that `snapshot::buf` can be NULL for empty files
> create_snapshot(): exit early if the file was empty
> find_reference_location(): don't invoke if `snapshot->buf` is NULL
I reviewed those patches and find the straight-forward (and obviously
good).
Thanks,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-13 16:11 [PATCH] packed_ref_cache: don't use mmap() for small files Kim Gybels
2018-01-13 18:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-01-14 19:14 ` [PATCH v2] " Kim Gybels
2018-01-15 12:17 ` [PATCH 0/3] Supplements to "packed_ref_cache: don't use mmap() for small files" Michael Haggerty
2018-01-15 12:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] SQUASH? Mention that `snapshot::buf` can be NULL for empty files Michael Haggerty
2018-01-15 12:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] create_snapshot(): exit early if the file was empty Michael Haggerty
2018-01-15 12:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] find_reference_location(): don't invoke if `snapshot->buf` is NULL Michael Haggerty
2018-01-17 20:23 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2018-01-17 21:52 ` [PATCH 0/3] Supplements to "packed_ref_cache: don't use mmap() for small files" Junio C Hamano
2018-01-15 21:15 ` [PATCH] packed_ref_cache: don't use mmap() for small files Jeff King
2018-01-15 23:37 ` Kim Gybels
2018-01-15 23:52 ` Jeff King
2018-01-16 19:38 ` [PATCH v3] " Kim Gybels
2018-01-17 22:09 ` Jeff King
2018-01-21 4:41 ` Michael Haggerty
2018-01-22 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-24 11:05 ` Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 11:14 ` [PATCH 0/6] Yet another approach to handling empty snapshots Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] struct snapshot: store `start` rather than `header_len` Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 20:36 ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 11:14 ` [PATCH 2/6] create_snapshot(): use `xmemdupz()` rather than a strbuf Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 11:14 ` [PATCH 3/6] find_reference_location(): make function safe for empty snapshots Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 20:27 ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-24 21:34 ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 11:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] packed_ref_iterator_begin(): make optimization more general Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 20:32 ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 11:14 ` [PATCH 5/6] load_contents(): don't try to mmap an empty file Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 11:14 ` [PATCH 6/6] packed_ref_cache: don't use mmap() for small files Michael Haggerty
2018-01-24 20:38 ` [PATCH 0/6] Yet another approach to handling empty snapshots Jeff King
2018-01-24 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-15 16:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-01-24 18:05 ` [PATCH v3] packed_ref_cache: don't use mmap() for small files Junio C Hamano
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