On 27 May 2015 at 12:49, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrm...@wandisco.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote:
>>
>> It seems directory cache checked twice in function
>> svn_fs_fs__rep_contents_dir_entry:
>> [[[
>> svn_error_t *
>> svn_fs_fs__rep_contents_dir_entry(svn_fs_dirent_t **dirent,
>>                                   svn_fs_t *fs,
>>                                   node_revision_t *noderev,
>>                                   const char *name,
>>                                   apr_pool_t *result_pool,
>>                                   apr_pool_t *scratch_pool)
>> {
>>   svn_boolean_t found = FALSE;
>>
>>   /* find the cache we may use */
>>   pair_cache_key_t pair_key = { 0 };
>>   const void *key;
>>   svn_cache__t *cache = locate_dir_cache(fs, &key, &pair_key, noderev,
>>                                          scratch_pool);
>>   if (cache)
>>     {
>> [...]
>>       SVN_ERR(svn_cache__get_partial((void **)dirent,
>>                                      &found,
>>                                      cache,
>>                                      key,
>>                                      svn_fs_fs__extract_dir_entry,
>>                                      &baton,
>>                                      result_pool));
>>     }
>>
>>   /* fetch data from disk if we did not find it in the cache */
>>   if (! found)
>>     {
>> [...]
>>
>>       /* read the dir from the file system. It will probably be put it
>>          into the cache for faster lookup in future calls. */
>>       SVN_ERR(svn_fs_fs__rep_contents_dir(&entries, fs, noderev,
>>                                           scratch_pool, scratch_pool));
>>
>> [...]
>>     }
>>
>>   return SVN_NO_ERROR;
>> }
>> ]]]
>>
>> And svn_fs_fs__rep_contents_dir() functions checks the dir cache again.
>>
>> Is my analysis correct or I missed something important?
>
>
> Your analysis is correct and the code is slightly less efficient
> that it could be. Feel free to add e.g. a "bypass_cache_lookup"
> flag to the svn_fs_fs__rep_contents_dir() signature.
>
Thanks for confirming the issue. I'll fix it then.

> However, the actual gains from this should be minimal because
> the failed lookup is easily dwarfed by the directory parsing time.
> Do you have a specific workload where the double lookup becomes
> more noticeable?
>
No, I don't have any specific workloads. I've noticed it just by
reading code around.

-- 
Ivan Zhakov

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