Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2017-11-22

Re: [PATCH] defer expensive load_ref_decorations until needed

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-22 05:03:31

Phil Hord [off-list ref] writes:
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With many thousands of references, a simple `git rev-parse HEAD` may take
more than a second to return because it first loads all the refs into
memory even though it will never use them.

Defer loading any references until we actually need them.

Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <redacted>
---
 log-tree.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/log-tree.c b/log-tree.c
index 3b904f037..c1509f8b9 100644
--- a/log-tree.c
+++ b/log-tree.c
@@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ void add_name_decoration(enum decoration_type type, const char *name, struct obj
 	res->next = add_decoration(&name_decoration, obj, res);
 }
 
+static void maybe_load_ref_decorations();
I'll tweak that "()" and the other one we see below to "(void)"
while queuing.

I am not sure if "maybe_" is a good name here, though.  If anything,
you are making the semantics of "load_ref_decorations()" to "maybe"
(but I do not suggest renaming that one).

How about calling it to load_ref_decorations_lazily() or something?

I also wonder if decoration_loaded should now become function-scope
static in this new helper, but that can be left outside of the
topic.

Other than that, I like what this patch attempts to do.  A nicely
identified low-hanging fruit ;-).

Thanks.
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 const struct name_decoration *get_name_decoration(const struct object *obj)
 {
+	maybe_load_ref_decorations();
 	return lookup_decoration(&name_decoration, obj);
 }
 
@@ -150,10 +152,13 @@ static int add_graft_decoration(const struct commit_graft *graft, void *cb_data)
 
 void load_ref_decorations(int flags)
 {
-	if (!decoration_loaded) {
+	decoration_flags = flags;
+}
 
+static void maybe_load_ref_decorations()
+{
+	if (!decoration_loaded) {
 		decoration_loaded = 1;
-		decoration_flags = flags;
 		for_each_ref(add_ref_decoration, NULL);
 		head_ref(add_ref_decoration, NULL);
 		for_each_commit_graft(add_graft_decoration, NULL);
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