From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] pack-objects: use mru list when iterating over packs
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:28:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8tw7gr82.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160808145042.uwrk2m6jq3m4li37@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 8 Aug 2016 10:50:43 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Here's a list of approaches I think we can use to fix this:
>
> 1. squelch the warning and ignore it. The downside here, besides not
> warning the user about true in-pack cycles, is that we have no
> opportunity to actually find a new delta (because we realize the
> problem only after the delta-compression phase).
>
> My test repository is a bad packing of all of the forks of
> torvalds/linux, with 3600 packs. I'm happy to share it if anybody
> wants to see it, but note that it is 11GB.
>
> The space overhead of the resulting pack in this case is ~3.2%
> (versus a pack generated by the original code, using the static
> pack order). Which is really not that bad, but I'm sure there are
> more pathological cases (i.e., there were on the order of hundreds
> or maybe thousands of cycles that needed broken, out of about 15
> million total objects; but one could imagine the worst case as
> nr_of_objects/2).
> ...
>
> So I dunno. I really like the MRU approach if we can salvage it.
I think I share the same feeling. As long as the chance is small
enough that the pack reordering creates a new cycle, the resulting
pack would not become too bloated by the last-ditch cycle breaking
code and finding a replacement delta instead of inflating it may not
be worth the trouble.
It worries me a lot to lose the warning unconditionally, though.
That's the (only) coal-mine canary that lets us notice a problem
when we actually start hitting that last-ditch cycle breaking too
often.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-29 4:04 [PATCH v2 0/7] speed up pack-objects counting with many packs Jeff King
2016-07-29 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] t/perf: add tests for many-pack scenarios Jeff King
2016-07-29 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] sha1_file: drop free_pack_by_name Jeff King
2016-07-29 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] add generic most-recently-used list Jeff King
2016-07-29 4:09 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] find_pack_entry: replace last_found_pack with MRU cache Jeff King
2016-07-29 4:10 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early Jeff King
2016-07-29 4:11 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] pack-objects: compute local/ignore_pack_keep early Jeff King
2016-07-29 4:15 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] pack-objects: use mru list when iterating over packs Jeff King
2016-07-29 5:45 ` Jeff King
2016-07-29 15:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-08 14:50 ` Jeff King
2016-08-08 16:28 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-08 16:51 ` Jeff King
2016-08-08 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-09 14:04 ` Jeff King
2016-08-09 17:45 ` Jeff King
2016-08-09 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-09 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-10 11:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] pack-objects mru Jeff King
2016-08-10 12:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] pack-objects: break delta cycles before delta-search phase Jeff King
2016-08-10 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-11 5:02 ` Jeff King
2016-08-11 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 " Jeff King
2016-08-11 6:57 ` [PATCH v3 " Jeff King
2016-08-11 9:20 ` [PATCH v5] pack-objects mru Jeff King
2016-08-11 9:24 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] provide an initializer for "struct object_info" Jeff King
2016-08-11 9:25 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] sha1_file: make packed_object_info public Jeff King
2016-08-11 9:26 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] pack-objects: break delta cycles before delta-search phase Jeff King
2016-08-11 9:26 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] pack-objects: use mru list when iterating over packs Jeff King
2016-08-11 9:57 ` [PATCH v5] pack-objects mru Jeff King
2016-08-11 15:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-11 16:19 ` Jeff King
2016-08-10 12:03 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] pack-objects: use mru list when iterating over packs Jeff King
2016-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] pack-objects mru Junio C Hamano
2016-08-11 4:48 ` Jeff King
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