Changes from V1:
- Based patch series off of commit in master
- Minor updates based on initial code review feedback
Summary:
This patch series improves the performance of loading indexes by
reducing the number of malloc() calls. Loading the index from disk is
partly dominated by the time in malloc(), which is called for each
index entry. This patch series reduces the number of times malloc() is
called as part of loading the index, and instead allocates a block of
memory upfront that is large enough to hold all of the cache entries,
and chunks this memory itself. This change builds on [1].
Git previously allocated block of memory for the index cache entries
until [2].
This 5 part patch series is broken up as follows:
1/5, 2/5 - Move cache entry lifecycle methods behind an API
3/5 - Fill out memory pool API to include lifecycle and other
methods used in later patches
4/5 - Allocate cache entry structs from memory pool
5/5 - Add extra optional validation
Performance Benchmarks:
To evaluate the performance of this approach, the p0002-read-cache.sh
test was run with several combinations of allocators (glibc default,
tcmalloc, jemalloc), with and without block allocation, and across
several different index sized (100K, 1M, 2M entries). The details on
how these repositories were constructed can be found in [3].The
p0002-read-cache.sh was run with the iteration count set to 1 and
$GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10.
The tests were run with iteration count set to 1 because this best
approximates the real behavior. The read_cache/discard_cache test will
load / free the index N times, and the performance of this logic is
different between N = 1 and N > 1. As the production code does not
read / discard the index in a loop, a better approximation is when N =
1.
100K
Test baseline block_allocation
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1 times 0.03(0.01+0.01) 0.02(0.01+0.01)
-33.3%
1M:
Test baseline block_allocation
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1 times 0.23(0.12+0.11) 0.17(0.07+0.09)
-26.1%
2M:
Test baseline block_allocation
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1 times 0.45(0.26+0.19) 0.39(0.17+0.20)
-13.3%
With 100K entries, it only takes 0.3 seconds to read the entries even
without using block allocation, so there is only a small change in the
wall clock time. We can see a larger wall clack improvement with 1M
and 2M entries.
For completeness, here is the p0002-read-cache tests for git.git and
linux.git:
git.git:
Test baseline block_allocation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1000 times 0.30(0.26+0.03) 0.17(0.13+0.03)
-43.3%
linux.git:
Test baseline block_allocation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1000 times 7.05(6.01+0.84) 4.61(3.74+0.66)
-34.6%
We also investigated the performance of just using different
allocators. We can see that there is not a consistent performance
gain.
100K
Test baseline tcmalloc
jemalloc
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1 times 0.03(0.01+0.01) 0.03(0.01+0.01)
+0.0% 0.03(0.02+0.01) +0.0%
1M:
Test baseline tcmalloc
jemalloc
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1 times 0.23(0.12+0.11) 0.21(0.10+0.10)
-8.7% 0.27(0.16+0.10) +17.4%
2M:
Test baseline tcmalloc
jemalloc
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1 times 0.45(0.26+0.19) 0.46(0.25+0.21)
+2.2% 0.57(0.36+0.21) +26.7%
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/
[2] debed2a629 (read-cache.c: allocate index entries individually - 2011-10-24)
[3] Constructing test repositories:
The test repositories were constructed with t/perf/repos/many_files.sh with the
following parameters:
100K: many-files.sh 4 10 9
1M: many-files.sh 5 10 9
2M: many-files.sh 6 8 7
Base Ref: master
Web-Diff: [email protected]:jamill/git.git/commit/2152d28016
Checkout: git fetch [email protected]:jamill/git.git
users/jamill/block_allocation-v2 && git checkout 2152d28016
Jameson Miller (5):
read-cache: teach refresh_cache_entry() to take istate
block alloc: add lifecycle APIs for cache_entry structs
mem-pool: fill out functionality
block alloc: allocate cache entries from mem_pool
block alloc: add validations around cache_entry lifecyle
apply.c | 26 +++---
blame.c | 5 +-
builtin/checkout.c | 8 +-
builtin/difftool.c | 8 +-
builtin/reset.c | 6 +-
builtin/update-index.c | 26 +++---
cache.h | 40 ++++++++-
git.c | 3 +
mem-pool.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
mem-pool.h | 34 ++++++++
merge-recursive.c | 4 +-
read-cache.c | 232 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
resolve-undo.c | 6 +-
split-index.c | 31 +++++--
tree.c | 4 +-
unpack-trees.c | 27 +++---
16 files changed, 479 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)
base-commit: 1f1cddd558b54bb0ce19c8ace353fd07b758510d
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