The "Counting objects" phase of packing is the most time consuming
part for any server providing access to Git repositories. Scanning
through the entire project history, including every revision of
every tree that has ever existed is expensive and takes an incredible
amount of CPU time.
Inline the tree parsing logic, unroll a number of loops, and setup
to better handle the common case of seeing another occurrence of
an object that was already marked SEEN.
This change boosts the "Counting objects" phase when JGit is acting
as a server and is packing the linux-2.6 repository for its client.
Compared to CGit on the same hardware, a JGit daemon server is now
21883 objects/sec faster:
CGit:
Counted 2058062 objects in 38981 ms at 52796.54 objects/sec
Counted 2058062 objects in 38920 ms at 52879.29 objects/sec
Counted 2058062 objects in 39059 ms at 52691.11 objects/sec
JGit (before):
Counted 2058062 objects in 31529 ms at 65275.21 objects/sec
Counted 2058062 objects in 30359 ms at 67790.84 objects/sec
Counted 2058062 objects in 30033 ms at 68526.69 objects/sec
JGit (this commit):
Counted 2058062 objects in 28726 ms at 71644.57 objects/sec
Counted 2058062 objects in 27652 ms at 74427.24 objects/sec
Counted 2058062 objects in 27528 ms at 74762.50 objects/sec
Above the first run was a "cold server". For JGit the JVM had just
started up with `jgit daemon`, and for CGit we hadn't touched the
repository "recently" (but it was certainly in kernel buffer cache).
The second and third runs were against the running JGit JVM, allowing
timing tests to better reflect the benefits of JGit's pack and index
caching, as well as any optimizations the JIT may have performed.
The timings are fair. CGit is opening, checking and mmap'ing both
the pack and index during the timer. JGit is opening, checking
and malloc+read'ing the pack and index data into its Java heap
during the timer. Both processes are walking the same graph space,
and are computing the "path hash" necessary to sort objects in the
object table for delta compression. Since this commit only impacts
the "Counting objects" phase, delta compression was obviously not
included in the timings and JGit may still be performing delta
compression slower than CGit, resulting in an overall slower server
experience for clients.
Change-Id: Ieb184bfaed8475d6960a494b1f3c870e0382164a
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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