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The blocksource interface provides an interface to read blocks from a reftable table. This interface is implemented using read(3P) calls on the underlying file descriptor. While this works alright, this pattern is very inefficient when repeatedly querying the reftable stack for one or more refs. This inefficiency can mostly be attributed to the fact that we often need to re-read the same blocks over and over again, and every single time we need to call read(3P) again. A natural fit in this context is to use mmap(3P) instead of read(3P), which has a bunch of benefits: - We do not need to come up with a caching strategy for some of the blocks as this will be handled by the kernel already. - We can avoid the overhead of having to call into the read(3P) syscall repeatedly. - We do not need to allocate returned blocks repeatedly, but can instead hand out pointers into the mmapped region directly. Using mmap comes with a significant drawback on Windows though, because mmapped files cannot be deleted and neither is it possible to rename files onto an mmapped file. But for one, the reftable library gracefully handles the case where auto-compaction cannot delete a still-open stack already and ignores any such errors. Also, `reftable_stack_clean()` will prune stale tables which are not referenced by "tables.list" anymore so that those files can eventually be pruned. And second, we never rewrite already-written stacks, so it does not matter that we cannot rename a file over an mmaped file, either. Another unfortunate property of mmap is that it is not supported by all systems. But given that the size of reftables should typically be rather limited (megabytes at most in the vast majority of repositories), we can use the fallback implementation provided by `git_mmap()` which reads the whole file into memory instead. This is the same strategy that the "packed" backend uses. While this change doesn't significantly improve performance in the case where we're seeking through stacks once (like e.g. git-for-each-ref(1) would). But it does speed up usecases where there is lots of random access to refs, e.g. when writing. The following benchmark demonstrates these savings with git-update-ref(1) creating N refs in an otherwise empty repository: Benchmark 1: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 5.1 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 2.5 ms, System: 2.5 ms] Range (min … max): 4.8 ms … 7.1 ms 111 runs Benchmark 2: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 14.8 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 7.1 ms, System: 7.5 ms] Range (min … max): 14.1 ms … 18.7 ms 84 runs Benchmark 3: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 926.4 ms ± 5.6 ms [User: 448.5 ms, System: 477.7 ms] Range (min … max): 920.0 ms … 936.1 ms 10 runs Benchmark 4: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 5.0 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 2.5 ms] Range (min … max): 4.7 ms … 5.4 ms 111 runs Benchmark 5: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 10.5 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 5.0 ms, System: 5.3 ms] Range (min … max): 10.0 ms … 10.9 ms 93 runs Benchmark 6: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 529.6 ms ± 9.1 ms [User: 268.0 ms, System: 261.4 ms] Range (min … max): 522.4 ms … 547.1 ms 10 runs Summary update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD) ran 1.01 ± 0.06 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD~) 2.08 ± 0.07 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD) 2.95 ± 0.14 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD~) 105.33 ± 3.76 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) 184.24 ± 5.89 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD~) Theoretically, we could also replicate the strategy of the "packed" backend where small tables are read into memory instead of using mmap. Benchmarks did not confirm that this has a performance benefit though. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> |
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basics.c | ||
basics.h | ||
basics_test.c | ||
block.c | ||
block.h | ||
block_test.c | ||
blocksource.c | ||
blocksource.h | ||
constants.h | ||
dump.c | ||
error.c | ||
generic.c | ||
generic.h | ||
iter.c | ||
iter.h | ||
LICENSE | ||
merged.c | ||
merged.h | ||
merged_test.c | ||
pq.c | ||
pq.h | ||
pq_test.c | ||
publicbasics.c | ||
reader.c | ||
reader.h | ||
readwrite_test.c | ||
record.c | ||
record.h | ||
record_test.c | ||
refname.c | ||
refname.h | ||
refname_test.c | ||
reftable-blocksource.h | ||
reftable-error.h | ||
reftable-generic.h | ||
reftable-iterator.h | ||
reftable-malloc.h | ||
reftable-merged.h | ||
reftable-reader.h | ||
reftable-record.h | ||
reftable-stack.h | ||
reftable-tests.h | ||
reftable-writer.h | ||
stack.c | ||
stack.h | ||
stack_test.c | ||
system.h | ||
test_framework.c | ||
test_framework.h | ||
tree.c | ||
tree.h | ||
tree_test.c | ||
writer.c | ||
writer.h |