packfile.c: speed up loading lots of packfiles

When loading packfiles on start-up, we traverse the internal packfile
list once per file to avoid reloading packfiles that have already
been loaded. This check runs in quadratic time, so for poorly
maintained repos with a large number of packfiles, it can be pretty
slow.

Add a hashmap containing the packfile names as we load them so that
the average runtime cost of checking for already-loaded packs becomes
constant.

Add a perf test to p5303 to show speed-up.

The existing p5303 test runtimes are dominated by other factors and do
not show an appreciable speed-up. The new test in p5303 clearly exposes
a speed-up in bad cases. In this test we create 10,000 packfiles and
measure the start-up time of git rev-parse, which does little else
besides load in the packs.

Here are the numbers for the new p5303 test:

Test                         HEAD^             HEAD
---------------------------------------------------------------------
5303.12: load 10,000 packs   1.03(0.92+0.10)   0.12(0.02+0.09) -88.3%

Signed-off-by: Colin Stolley <cstolley@runbox.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
[jc: squashed the change to call hashmap in install_packed_git() by peff]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

4 files changed, 52 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/object-store.h b/object-store.h
index 7f7b3cdd80..55ee639350 100644
--- a/object-store.h
+++ b/object-store.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ struct oid_array *odb_loose_cache(struct object_directory *odb,
 void odb_clear_loose_cache(struct object_directory *odb);
 
 struct packed_git {
+	struct hashmap_entry packmap_ent;
 	struct packed_git *next;
 	struct list_head mru;
 	struct pack_window *windows;
@@ -88,6 +89,20 @@ struct packed_git {
 
 struct multi_pack_index;
 
+static inline int pack_map_entry_cmp(const void *unused_cmp_data,
+				     const struct hashmap_entry *entry,
+				     const struct hashmap_entry *entry2,
+				     const void *keydata)
+{
+	const char *key = keydata;
+	const struct packed_git *pg1, *pg2;
+
+	pg1 = container_of(entry, const struct packed_git, packmap_ent);
+	pg2 = container_of(entry2, const struct packed_git, packmap_ent);
+
+	return strcmp(pg1->pack_name, key ? key : pg2->pack_name);
+}
+
 struct raw_object_store {
 	/*
 	 * Set of all object directories; the main directory is first (and
@@ -132,6 +147,12 @@ struct raw_object_store {
 	struct list_head packed_git_mru;
 
 	/*
+	 * A map of packfiles to packed_git structs for tracking which
+	 * packs have been loaded already.
+	 */
+	struct hashmap pack_map;
+
+	/*
 	 * A fast, rough count of the number of objects in the repository.
 	 * These two fields are not meant for direct access. Use
 	 * approximate_object_count() instead.
diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 3b8b8c55c9..142ef69399 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ struct raw_object_store *raw_object_store_new(void)
 
 	memset(o, 0, sizeof(*o));
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&o->packed_git_mru);
+	hashmap_init(&o->pack_map, pack_map_entry_cmp, NULL, 0);
 	return o;
 }
 
@@ -518,6 +519,8 @@ void raw_object_store_clear(struct raw_object_store *o)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&o->packed_git_mru);
 	close_object_store(o);
 	o->packed_git = NULL;
+
+	hashmap_free(&o->pack_map);
 }
 
 void parsed_object_pool_clear(struct parsed_object_pool *o)
diff --git a/packfile.c b/packfile.c
index 355066de17..f0dc63e92f 100644
--- a/packfile.c
+++ b/packfile.c
@@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ void install_packed_git(struct repository *r, struct packed_git *pack)
 
 	pack->next = r->objects->packed_git;
 	r->objects->packed_git = pack;
+
+	hashmap_entry_init(&pack->packmap_ent, strhash(pack->pack_name));
+	hashmap_add(&r->objects->pack_map, &pack->packmap_ent);
 }
 
 void (*report_garbage)(unsigned seen_bits, const char *path);
@@ -856,20 +859,18 @@ static void prepare_pack(const char *full_name, size_t full_name_len,
 
 	if (strip_suffix_mem(full_name, &base_len, ".idx") &&
 	    !(data->m && midx_contains_pack(data->m, file_name))) {
-		/* Don't reopen a pack we already have. */
-		for (p = data->r->objects->packed_git; p; p = p->next) {
-			size_t len;
-			if (strip_suffix(p->pack_name, ".pack", &len) &&
-			    len == base_len &&
-			    !memcmp(p->pack_name, full_name, len))
-				break;
-		}
+		struct hashmap_entry hent;
+		char *pack_name = xstrfmt("%.*s.pack", (int)base_len, full_name);
+		unsigned int hash = strhash(pack_name);
+		hashmap_entry_init(&hent, hash);
 
-		if (!p) {
+		/* Don't reopen a pack we already have. */
+		if (!hashmap_get(&data->r->objects->pack_map, &hent, pack_name)) {
 			p = add_packed_git(full_name, full_name_len, data->local);
 			if (p)
 				install_packed_git(data->r, p);
 		}
+		free(pack_name);
 	}
 
 	if (!report_garbage)
diff --git a/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh b/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
index 3779851941..ede78e19e2 100755
--- a/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
+++ b/t/perf/p5303-many-packs.sh
@@ -84,4 +84,22 @@ do
 	'
 done
 
+# Measure pack loading with 10,000 packs.
+test_expect_success 'generate lots of packs' '
+	for i in $(test_seq 10000); do
+		echo "blob"
+		echo "data <<EOF"
+		echo "blob $i"
+		echo "EOF"
+		echo "checkpoint"
+	done |
+	git -c fastimport.unpackLimit=0 fast-import
+'
+
+# The purpose of this test is to evaluate load time for a large number
+# of packs while doing as little other work as possible.
+test_perf "load 10,000 packs" '
+	git rev-parse --verify "HEAD^{commit}"
+'
+
 test_done