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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fsck: free tree buffers after walking unreachable objects
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:27:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5yhfyztm.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YyywSdrWO61Kza0e@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:58:17 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I do think it is true that this is the final time we'd look at these
> objects. But I don't think it would be a disaster if somebody did. The
> free_tree_buffer() function clears the "parsed" flag on the struct. 

Ah, that is perfectly fine, then.  Thanks.

> As a side note, IMHO having tree->buffer at all is a mistake, because it
> leads to exactly this kind of confusion about when the buffer should be
> discarded. We'd be better off having all callers parse directly into a
> local buffer, and then clean up when they're done.

Yeah, tree-walk.c users woud use tree_desc structure anyway, and
instead of having a moving pointer that points into a separate thing
(i.e. tree->buffer), it could have its own copy of the "whole buffer"
that can be used to free when it is done iterating over entries.

> .... But that's obviously a much bigger change.

Yup.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-22 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-20 19:27 [INVESTIGATION] why is fsck --connectivity-only so much more expensive than rev-list --objects --all? John Cai
2022-09-20 20:41 ` Jeff King
2022-09-22 10:09   ` [PATCH 0/3] reducing fsck memory usage Jeff King
2022-09-22 10:11     ` [PATCH 1/3] fsck: free tree buffers after walking unreachable objects Jeff King
2022-09-22 18:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-22 18:58         ` Jeff King
2022-09-22 19:27           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-09-22 22:16             ` Jeff King
2022-09-22 10:13     ` [PATCH 2/3] fsck: turn off save_commit_buffer Jeff King
2022-09-22 10:15     ` [PATCH 3/3] parse_object_buffer(): respect save_commit_buffer Jeff King

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