Both `struct block_writer` and `struct reftable_writer` have a `buf`
member that is being reused to optimize the number of allocations.
Rename the variable to `scratch` to clarify its intend and provide a
comment explaining why it exists.
Suggested-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both `writer_add_record()` and `reftable_writer_add_ref()` get executed
for every single ref record we're adding to the reftable writer. And as
both functions use a local buffer to write data, the allocations we have
to do here add up during larger transactions.
Refactor the code to use a scratch buffer part of the `reftable_writer`
itself such that we can reuse it. This signifcantly reduces the number
of allocations during large transactions, e.g. when migrating refs from
the "files" backend to the "reftable" backend. Before this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 5,032,171 allocs, 5,032,122 frees, 418,792,092 bytes allocated
After this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 3,025,864 allocs, 3,025,815 frees, 372,746,291 bytes allocated
This also translate into a small speedup:
Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 827.2 ms ± 16.5 ms [User: 689.4 ms, System: 124.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 809.0 ms … 924.7 ms 50 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 813.6 ms ± 11.6 ms [User: 679.0 ms, System: 123.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 786.7 ms … 833.5 ms 50 runs
Summary
migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran
1.02 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the reftable library to use the `reftable_buf` interface instead
of the `strbuf` interface. This is mostly a mechanical change via sed(1)
with some manual fixes where functions for `strbuf` and `reftable_buf`
differ. The converted code does not yet handle allocation failures. This
will be handled in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
While the reffiles backend honors configured fsync settings, the
reftable backend does not. Address this by fsyncing reftable files using
the write-or-die api's fsync_component() in two places: when we
add additional entries into the table, and when we close the reftable
writer.
This commits adds a flush function pointer as a new member of
reftable_writer because we are not sure that the first argument to the
*write function pointer always contains a file descriptor. In the case of
strbuf_add_void, the first argument is a buffer. This way, we can pass
in a corresponding flush function that knows how to flush depending on
which writer is being used.
This patch does not contain tests as they will need to wait for another
patch to start to exercise the reftable backend. At that point, the
tests will be added to observe that fsyncs are happening when the
reftable is in use.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
