git/reftable
Patrick Steinhardt 19b9496c1f reftable/merged: transfer ownership of records when iterating
When iterating over records with the merged iterator we put the records
into a priority queue before yielding them to the caller. This means
that we need to allocate the contents of these records before we can
pass them over to the caller.

The handover to the caller is quite inefficient though because we first
deallocate the record passed in by the caller and then copy over the new
record, which requires us to reallocate memory.

Refactor the code to instead transfer ownership of the new record to the
caller. So instead of reallocating all contents, we now release the old
record and then copy contents of the new record into place.

The following benchmark of `git show-ref --quiet` in a repository with
around 350k refs shows a clear improvement. Before:

    HEAP SUMMARY:
        in use at exit: 21,163 bytes in 193 blocks
      total heap usage: 708,058 allocs, 707,865 frees, 36,783,255 bytes allocated

After:

    HEAP SUMMARY:
        in use at exit: 21,163 bytes in 193 blocks
      total heap usage: 357,007 allocs, 356,814 frees, 24,193,602 bytes allocated

This shows that we now have roundabout a single allocation per record
that we're yielding from the iterator. Ideally, we'd also get rid of
this allocation so that the number of allocations doesn't scale with the
number of refs anymore. This would require some larger surgery though
because the memory is owned by the priority queue before transferring it
over to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-03 09:54:21 -08:00
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basics.c reftable: utility functions 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
basics.h reftable: utility functions 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
basics_test.c reftable: utility functions 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
block.c reftable/block: reuse buffer to compute record keys 2023-12-11 07:23:17 -08:00
block.h reftable/block: reuse buffer to compute record keys 2023-12-11 07:23:17 -08:00
block_test.c reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays 2024-01-03 09:54:20 -08:00
blocksource.c reftable: handle interrupted reads 2023-12-11 07:23:16 -08:00
blocksource.h reftable: add blocksource, an abstraction for random access reads 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
constants.h reftable: (de)serialization for the polymorphic record type. 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
dump.c hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h 2023-04-24 12:47:32 -07:00
error.c reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include 2023-04-24 12:47:33 -07:00
generic.c reftable: make assignments portable to AIX xlc v12.01 2022-03-28 13:58:10 -07:00
generic.h reftable: generic interface to tables 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
iter.c reftable: make reftable_record a tagged union 2022-01-20 11:31:53 -08:00
iter.h reftable/block: introduce macro to initialize struct block_iter 2023-12-11 07:23:17 -08:00
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merged.c reftable/merged: transfer ownership of records when iterating 2024-01-03 09:54:21 -08:00
merged.h reftable/merged: reuse buffer to compute record keys 2023-12-11 07:23:16 -08:00
merged_test.c reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays 2024-01-03 09:54:20 -08:00
pq.c reftable: use a pointer for pq_entry param 2022-09-15 11:32:37 -07:00
pq.h reftable: use a pointer for pq_entry param 2022-09-15 11:32:37 -07:00
pq_test.c reftable: use a pointer for pq_entry param 2022-09-15 11:32:37 -07:00
publicbasics.c reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include 2023-04-24 12:47:33 -07:00
reader.c reftable/block: introduce macro to initialize struct block_iter 2023-12-11 07:23:17 -08:00
reader.h reftable: read reftable files 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
readwrite_test.c reftable/record: store "val2" hashes as static arrays 2024-01-03 09:54:21 -08:00
record.c reftable/record: store "val2" hashes as static arrays 2024-01-03 09:54:21 -08:00
record.h reftable: add print functions to the record types 2022-01-20 11:31:53 -08:00
record_test.c reftable/record: store "val2" hashes as static arrays 2024-01-03 09:54:21 -08:00
refname.c reftable: implement refname validation 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
refname.h reftable: implement refname validation 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
refname_test.c reftable: implement refname validation 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-blocksource.h reftable: add blocksource, an abstraction for random access reads 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-error.h reftable: signal overflow 2021-12-23 12:28:34 -08:00
reftable-generic.h reftable: generic interface to tables 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-iterator.h reftable: generic interface to tables 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-malloc.h reftable: utility functions 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-merged.h reftable: add merged table view 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-reader.h reftable: read reftable files 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-record.h reftable/record: store "val2" hashes as static arrays 2024-01-03 09:54:21 -08:00
reftable-stack.h reftable: implement stack, a mutable database of reftable files. 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-tests.h reftable: add a heap-based priority queue for reftable records 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
reftable-writer.h reftable: rename writer_stats to reftable_writer_stats 2022-02-23 13:36:26 -08:00
stack.c reftable/stack: do not auto-compact twice in reftable_stack_add() 2024-01-03 09:54:20 -08:00
stack.h reftable: implement stack, a mutable database of reftable files. 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
stack_test.c reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays 2024-01-03 09:54:20 -08:00
system.h hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h 2023-04-24 12:47:32 -07:00
test_framework.c reftable: utility functions 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
test_framework.h reftable: wrap EXPECT macros in do/while 2023-12-11 07:23:15 -08:00
tree.c reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include 2023-04-24 12:47:33 -07:00
tree.h reftable: a generic binary tree implementation 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00
tree_test.c reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include 2023-04-24 12:47:33 -07:00
writer.c reftable/writer: fix index corruption when writing multiple indices 2024-01-03 09:54:20 -08:00
writer.h reftable: write reftable files 2021-10-08 10:45:48 -07:00