Re: [External Mail]Re: Partial-clone cause big performance impact on server

程洋 [off-list ref] 于2022年8月13日周六 16:00写道：

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    3. with GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1. We found on big repositories (200K+refs, 6m+ objects). Git will sends 40k want.
    4. And we then track our server(which is gerrit with jgit). We found the server is couting objects. Then we check those 40k objects, most of them are blobs rather than commit. (which means they're not in bitmap)
    5. We believe that's the root cause of our problem. Git sends too many "want SHA1" which are not in bitmap, cause the server to count objects frequently, which then slow down the server.

What we want is, download the things we need to checkout to specific commit. But if one commit contain so many objects (like us , 40k+). It takes more time to counting than downloading.
Is it possible to let git only send "commit want" rather than all the objects SHA1 one by one?

On a technical level, it may be possible - at the point in the Git code where the
batch prefetch occurs, I'm not sure if we have the commit, but we could
plumb the commit information there. (We have the tree, but this doesn't help
us here because as far as I know, the tree won't be in the bitmap so the server
would need to count objects anyway, resulting in the same problem.)

However, sending only commits as wants would mean that we would be
fetching more blobs than needed. For example, if we were to clone (with
checkout) and then checkout HEAD^, sending a "commit want" for the latter
checkout would result in all blobs referenced by the commit's tree being
fetched and not only the blobs that are different.

It seems your solution require changes from both server side and client side
Why not we just add another filter, allow partial-clone always sends commit level want?
If we checkout HEAD~1, then client can send "want HEAD~1 HEAD~2".

I am interesting about this question too, maybe I can try if we can do
this.. ;-)

ZheNing Hu