git/bloom.c, branch v2.30.2

Use new HASHMAP_INIT macro to simplify hashmap initialization

2020-11-11T20:55:27Z

Now that hashamp has lazy initialization and a HASHMAP_INIT macro, hashmaps allocated on the stack can be initialized without a call to hashmap_init() and in some cases makes the code a bit shorter. Convert some callsites over to take advantage of this. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

hashmap: provide deallocation function names

2020-11-02T20:15:50Z

hashmap_free(), hashmap_free_entries(), and hashmap_free_() have existed for a while, but aren't necessarily the clearest names, especially with hashmap_partial_clear() being added to the mix and lazy-initialization now being supported. Peff suggested we adopt the following names[1]: - hashmap_clear() - remove all entries and de-allocate any hashmap-specific data, but be ready for reuse - hashmap_clear_and_free() - ditto, but free the entries themselves - hashmap_partial_clear() - remove all entries but don't deallocate table - hashmap_partial_clear_and_free() - ditto, but free the entries This patch provides the new names and converts all existing callers over to the new naming scheme. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201030125059.GA3277724@coredump.intra.peff.net/ Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

builtin/commit-graph.c: introduce '--max-new-filters='

2020-09-18T17:35:39Z

Introduce a command-line flag to specify the maximum number of new Bloom filters that a 'git commit-graph write' is willing to compute from scratch. Prior to this patch, a commit-graph write with '--changed-paths' would compute Bloom filters for all selected commits which haven't already been computed (i.e., by a previous commit-graph write with '--split' such that a roll-up or replacement is performed). This behavior can cause prohibitively-long commit-graph writes for a variety of reasons: * There may be lots of filters whose diffs take a long time to generate (for example, they have close to the maximum number of changes, diffing itself takes a long time, etc). * Old-style commit-graphs (which encode filters with too many entries as not having been computed at all) cause us to waste time recomputing filters that appear to have not been computed only to discover that they are too-large. This can make the upper-bound of the time it takes for 'git commit-graph write --changed-paths' to be rather unpredictable. To make this command behave more predictably, introduce '--max-new-filters=' to allow computing at most '' Bloom filters from scratch. This lets "computing" already-known filters proceed quickly, while bounding the number of slow tasks that Git is willing to do. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

bloom: encode out-of-bounds filters as non-empty

2020-09-18T04:55:50Z

When a changed-path Bloom filter has either zero, or more than a certain number (commonly 512) of entries, the commit-graph machinery encodes it as "missing". More specifically, it sets the indices adjacent in the BIDX chunk as equal to each other to indicate a "length 0" filter; that is, that the filter occupies zero bytes on disk. This has heretofore been fine, since the commit-graph machinery has no need to care about these filters with too few or too many changed paths. Both cases act like no filter has been generated at all, and so there is no need to store them. In a subsequent commit, however, the commit-graph machinery will learn to only compute Bloom filters for some commits in the current commit-graph layer. This is a change from the current implementation which computes Bloom filters for all commits that are in the layer being written. Critically for this patch, only computing some of the Bloom filters means adding a third state for length 0 Bloom filters: zero entries, too many entries, or "hasn't been computed". It will be important for that future patch to distinguish between "not representable" (i.e., zero or too-many changed paths), and "hasn't been computed". In particular, we don't want to waste time recomputing filters that have already been computed. To that end, change how we store Bloom filters in the "computed but not representable" category: - Bloom filters with no entries are stored as a single byte with all bits low (i.e., all queries to that Bloom filter will return "definitely not") - Bloom filters with too many entries are stored as a single byte with all bits set high (i.e., all queries to that Bloom filter will return "maybe"). These rules are sufficient to not incur a behavior change by changing the on-disk representation of these two classes. Likewise, no specification changes are necessary for the commit-graph format, either: - Filters that were previously empty will be recomputed and stored according to the new rules, and - old clients reading filters generated by new clients will interpret the filters correctly and be none the wiser to how they were generated. Clients will invoke the Bloom machinery in more cases than before, but this can be addressed by returning a NULL filter when all bits are set high. This can be addressed in a future patch. Note that this does increase the size of on-disk commit-graphs, but far less than other proposals. In particular, this is generally more efficient than storing a bitmap for which commits haven't computed their Bloom filters. Storing a bitmap incurs a penalty of one bit per commit, whereas storing explicit filters as above incurs a penalty of one byte per too-large or empty commit. In practice, these boundary commits likely occupy a small proportion of the overall number of commits, and so the size penalty is likely smaller than storing a bitmap for all commits. See, for example, these relative proportions of such boundary commits (collected by SZEDER Gábor): | Percentage of | commit-graph | | | commits modifying | file size | | ├────────┬──────────────┼───────────────────┤ pct. | | 0 path | >= 512 paths | before | after | change | ┌────────────────┼────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────────┤ | android-base | 13.20% | 0.13% | 37.468M | 37.534M | +0.1741 % | | cmssw | 0.15% | 0.23% | 17.118M | 17.119M | +0.0091 % | | cpython | 3.07% | 0.01% | 7.967M | 7.971M | +0.0423 % | | elasticsearch | 0.70% | 1.00% | 8.833M | 8.835M | +0.0128 % | | gcc | 0.00% | 0.08% | 16.073M | 16.074M | +0.0030 % | | gecko-dev | 0.14% | 0.64% | 59.868M | 59.874M | +0.0105 % | | git | 0.11% | 0.02% | 3.895M | 3.895M | +0.0020 % | | glibc | 0.02% | 0.10% | 3.555M | 3.555M | +0.0021 % | | go | 0.00% | 0.07% | 3.186M | 3.186M | +0.0018 % | | homebrew-cask | 0.40% | 0.02% | 7.035M | 7.035M | +0.0065 % | | homebrew-core | 0.01% | 0.01% | 11.611M | 11.611M | +0.0002 % | | jdk | 0.26% | 5.64% | 5.537M | 5.540M | +0.0590 % | | linux | 0.01% | 0.51% | 63.735M | 63.740M | +0.0073 % | | llvm-project | 0.12% | 0.03% | 25.515M | 25.516M | +0.0050 % | | rails | 0.10% | 0.10% | 6.252M | 6.252M | +0.0027 % | | rust | 0.07% | 0.17% | 9.364M | 9.364M | +0.0033 % | | tensorflow | 0.09% | 1.02% | 7.009M | 7.010M | +0.0158 % | | webkit | 0.05% | 0.31% | 17.405M | 17.406M | +0.0047 % | (where the above increase is determined by computing a non-split commit-graph before and after this patch). Given that these projects are all "large" by commit count, the storage cost by writing these filters explicitly is negligible. In the most extreme example, android-base (which has 494,848 commits at the time of writing) would have its commit-graph increase by a modest 68.4 KB. Finally, a test to exercise filters which contain too many changed path entries will be introduced in a subsequent patch. Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor Suggested-by: Jakub Narębski Helped-by: Derrick Stolee Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

bloom/diff: properly short-circuit on max_changes

2020-09-17T16:31:25Z

Commit e3696980 (diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes, 2020-03-30) intended to create a mechanism to short-circuit a diff calculation after a certain number of paths were modified. By incrementing a "num_changes" counter throughout the recursive ll_diff_tree_paths(), this was supposed to match the number of changes that would be written into the changed-path Bloom filters. Unfortunately, this was not implemented correctly and instead misses simple cases like file modifications. This then does not stop very large changed-path filters from being written (unless they add or remove many files). To start, change the implementation in ll_diff_tree_paths() to instead use the global diff_queue_diff struct's 'nr' member as the count. This is a way to simplify the logic instead of making more mistakes in the complicated diff code. This has a drawback: the diff_queue_diff struct only lists the paths corresponding to blob changes, not their leading directories. Thus, get_or_compute_bloom_filter() needs an additional check to see if the hashmap with the leading directories becomes too large. One reason why this was not caught by test cases was that the test in t4216-log-bloom.sh that was supposed to check this "too many changes" condition only checked this on the initial commit of a repository. The old logic counted these values correctly. Update this test in a few ways: 1. Use GIT_TEST_BLOOM_SETTINGS_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS to reduce the limit, allowing smaller commits to engage with this logic. 2. Create several interesting cases of edits, adds, removes, and mode changes (in the second commit). By testing both sides of the inequality with the *_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS variable, we can see that the count is exactly correct, so none of these changes are missed or over-counted. 3. Use the trace2 data value filter_found_large to verify that these commits are on the correct side of the limit. Another way to verify the behavior is correct is through performance tests. By testing on my local copies of the Git repository and the Linux kernel repository, I could measure the effect of these short-circuits when computing a fresh commit-graph file with changed-path Bloom filters using the command GIT_TEST_BLOOM_SETTINGS_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS=N time \ git commit-graph write --reachable --changed-paths and reporting the wall time and resulting commit-graph size. For Git, the results are | | N=1 | N=10 | N=512 | |--------|----------------|----------------|----------------| | HEAD~1 | 10.90s 9.18MB | 11.11s 9.34MB | 11.31s 9.35MB | | HEAD | 9.21s 8.62MB | 11.11s 9.29MB | 11.29s 9.34MB | For Linux, the results are | | N=1 | N=20 | N=512 | |--------|----------------|---------------|---------------| | HEAD~1 | 61.28s 64.3MB | 76.9s 72.6MB | 77.6s 72.6MB | | HEAD | 49.44s 56.3MB | 68.7s 65.9MB | 69.2s 65.9MB | Naturally, the improvement becomes much less as the limit grows, as fewer commits satisfy the short-circuit. Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

bloom: use provided 'struct bloom_filter_settings'

2020-09-17T16:31:25Z

When 'get_or_compute_bloom_filter()' needs to compute a Bloom filter from scratch, it looks to the default 'struct bloom_filter_settings' in order to determine the maximum number of changed paths, number of bits per entry, and so on. All of these values have so far been constant, and so there was no need to pass in a pointer from the caller (eg., the one that is stored in the 'struct write_commit_graph_context'). Start passing in a 'struct bloom_filter_settings *' instead of using the default values to respect graph-specific settings (eg., in the case of setting 'GIT_TEST_BLOOM_SETTINGS_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS'). In order to have an initialized value for these settings, move its initialization to earlier in the commit-graph write. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

bloom: split 'get_bloom_filter()' in two

2020-09-17T16:31:25Z

'get_bloom_filter' takes a flag to control whether it will compute a Bloom filter if the requested one is missing. In the next patch, we'll add yet another parameter to this method, which would force all but one caller to specify an extra 'NULL' parameter at the end. Instead of doing this, split 'get_bloom_filter' into two functions: 'get_bloom_filter' and 'get_or_compute_bloom_filter'. The former only looks up a Bloom filter (and does not compute one if it's missing, thus dropping the 'compute_if_not_present' flag). The latter does compute missing Bloom filters, with an additional parameter to store whether or not it needed to do so. This simplifies many call-sites, since the majority of existing callers to 'get_bloom_filter' do not want missing Bloom filters to be computed (so they can drop the parameter entirely and use the simpler version of the function). While we're at it, instrument the new 'get_or_compute_bloom_filter()' with counters in the 'write_commit_graph_context' struct which store the number of filters that we did and didn't compute, as well as filters that were truncated. It would be nice to drop the 'compute_if_not_present' flag entirely, since all remaining callers of 'get_or_compute_bloom_filter' pass it as '1', but this will change in a future patch and hence cannot be removed. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

commit-graph: introduce 'get_bloom_filter_settings()'

2020-09-09T19:51:48Z

Many places in the code often need a pointer to the commit-graph's 'struct bloom_filter_settings', in which case they often take the value from the top-most commit-graph. In the non-split case, this works as expected. In the split case, however, things get a little tricky. Not all layers in a chain of incremental commit-graphs are required to themselves have Bloom data, and so whether or not some part of the code uses Bloom filters depends entirely on whether or not the top-most level of the commit-graph chain has Bloom filters. This has been the behavior since Bloom filters were introduced, and has been codified into the tests since a759bfa9ee (t4216: add end to end tests for git log with Bloom filters, 2020-04-06). In fact, t4216.130 requires that Bloom filters are not used in exactly the case described earlier. There is no reason that this needs to be the case, since it is perfectly valid for commits in an earlier layer to have Bloom filters when commits in a newer layer do not. Since Bloom settings are guaranteed in practice to be the same for any layer in a chain that has Bloom data, it is sufficient to traverse the '->base_graph' pointer until either (1) a non-null 'struct bloom_filter_settings *' is found, or (2) until we are at the root of the commit-graph chain. Introduce a 'get_bloom_filter_settings()' function that does just this, and use it instead of purely dereferencing the top-most graph's '->bloom_filter_settings' pointer. While we're at it, add an additional test in t5324 to guard against code in the commit-graph writing machinery that doesn't correctly handle a NULL 'struct bloom_filter *'. Co-authored-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-bloom-updates' into master

2020-07-30T20:20:31Z

Updates to the changed-paths bloom filter. * ds/commit-graph-bloom-updates: commit-graph: check all leading directories in changed path Bloom filters revision: empty pathspecs should not use Bloom filters revision.c: fix whitespace commit-graph: check chunk sizes after writing commit-graph: simplify chunk writes into loop commit-graph: unify the signatures of all write_graph_chunk_*() functions commit-graph: persist existence of changed-paths bloom: fix logic in get_bloom_filter() commit-graph: change test to die on parse, not load commit-graph: place bloom_settings in context

bloom: fix logic in get_bloom_filter()

2020-07-01T21:17:43Z

The get_bloom_filter() method is a bit complicated in some parts where it does not need to be. In particular, it needs to return a NULL filter only when compute_if_not_present is zero AND the filter data cannot be loaded from a commit-graph file. This currently happens by accident because the commit-graph does not load changed-path Bloom filters from an existing commit-graph when writing a new one. This will change in a later patch. Also clean up some style issues while we are here. One side-effect of returning a NULL filter is that the filters that are reported as "too large" will now be reported as NULL insead of length zero. This case was not properly covered before, so add a test. Further, remote the counting of the zero-length filters from revision.c and the trace2 logs. Helped-by: René Scharfe Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano