Add the core implementation for computing Bloom filters for
the paths changed between a commit and it's first parent.
We fill the Bloom filters as (const char *data, int len) pairs
as `struct bloom_filters" within a commit slab.
Filters for commits with no changes and more than 512 changes,
is represented with a filter of length zero. There is no gain
in distinguishing between a computed filter of length zero for
a commit with no changes, and an uncomputed filter for new commits
or for commits with more than 512 changes. The effect on
`git log -- path` is the same in both cases. We will fall back to
the normal diffing algorithm when we can't benefit from the
existence of Bloom filters.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce the constructs for Bloom filters, Bloom filter keys
and Bloom filter settings.
For details on what Bloom filters are and how they work, refer
to Dr. Derrick Stolee's blog post [1]. It provides a concise
explanation of the adoption of Bloom filters as described in
[2] and [3].
Implementation specifics:
1. We currently use 7 and 10 for the number of hashes and the
size of each entry respectively. They served as great starting
values, the mathematical details behind this choice are
described in [1] and [4]. The implementation, while not
completely open to it at the moment, is flexible enough to allow
for tweaking these settings in the future.
Note: The performance gains we have observed with these values
are significant enough that we did not need to tweak these
settings. The performance numbers are included in the cover letter
of this series and in the commit message of the subsequent commit
where we use Bloom filters to speed up `git log -- path`.
2. As described in [1] and [3], we do not need 7 independent hashing
functions. We use the Murmur3 hashing scheme, seed it twice and
then combine those to procure an arbitrary number of hash values.
3. The filters will be sized according to the number of changes in
each commit, in multiples of 8 bit words.
[1] Derrick Stolee
"Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters"
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/super-charging-the-git-commit-graph-iv-Bloom-filters/
[2] Flavio Bonomi, Michael Mitzenmacher, Rina Panigrahy, Sushil Singh, George Varghese
"An Improved Construction for Counting Bloom Filters"
http://theory.stanford.edu/~rinap/papers/esa2006b.pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1007/11841036_61
[3] Peter C. Dillinger and Panagiotis Manolios
"Bloom Filters in Probabilistic Verification"
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pete/pub/Bloom-filters-verification.pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30494-4_26
[4] Thomas Mueller Graf, Daniel Lemire
"Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08258
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for computing changed paths Bloom filters,
implement the Murmur3 hash algorithm as described in [1].
It hashes the given data using the given seed and produces
a uniformly distributed hash value.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash#Algorithm
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Helped-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
