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[PATCH v2 1/9] tree-walk: report recursion counts

From
Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 4, 2021, 03:09 UTC
Message-ID
<0e500c86f397987c4d03beac52b1e91f683e4d11.1609729758.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>

The traverse_trees() method recursively walks through trees, but also prunes the tree-walk based on a callback. Some callers, such as unpack_trees(), are quite complicated and can have wildly different performance between two different commands.

Create constants that count these values and then report the results at the end of a process. These counts are cumulative across multiple "root" instances of traverse_trees(), but they provide reproducible values for demonstrating improvements to the pruning algorithm when possible.

This change is modeled after a similar statistics reporting in 42e50e78 (revision.c: add trace2 stats around Bloom filter usage, 2020-04-06).

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
---
 tree-walk.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tree-walk.c b/tree-walk.c
index 0160294712b..2d6226d5f18 100644
--- a/tree-walk.c
+++ b/tree-walk.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "object-store.h"
 #include "tree.h"
 #include "pathspec.h"
+#include "json-writer.h"
 
 static const char *get_mode(const char *str, unsigned int *modep)
 {
@@ -167,6 +168,25 @@ int tree_entry_gently(struct tree_desc *desc, struct name_entry *entry)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static int traverse_trees_atexit_registered;
+static int traverse_trees_count;
+static int traverse_trees_cur_depth;
+static int traverse_trees_max_depth;
+
+static void trace2_traverse_trees_statistics_atexit(void)
+{
+	struct json_writer jw = JSON_WRITER_INIT;
+
+	jw_object_begin(&jw, 0);
+	jw_object_intmax(&jw, "traverse_trees_count", traverse_trees_count);
+	jw_object_intmax(&jw, "traverse_trees_max_depth", traverse_trees_max_depth);
+	jw_end(&jw);
+
+	trace2_data_json("traverse_trees", the_repository, "statistics", &jw);
+
+	jw_release(&jw);
+}
+
 void setup_traverse_info(struct traverse_info *info, const char *base)
 {
 	size_t pathlen = strlen(base);
@@ -180,6 +200,11 @@ void setup_traverse_info(struct traverse_info *info, const char *base)
 	info->namelen = pathlen;
 	if (pathlen)
 		info->prev = &dummy;
+
+	if (trace2_is_enabled() && !traverse_trees_atexit_registered) {
+		atexit(trace2_traverse_trees_statistics_atexit);
+		traverse_trees_atexit_registered = 1;
+	}
 }
 
 char *make_traverse_path(char *path, size_t pathlen,
@@ -416,6 +441,12 @@ int traverse_trees(struct index_state *istate,
 	int interesting = 1;
 	char *traverse_path;
 
+	traverse_trees_count++;
+	traverse_trees_cur_depth++;
+
+	if (traverse_trees_cur_depth > traverse_trees_max_depth)
+		traverse_trees_max_depth = traverse_trees_cur_depth;
+
 	if (n >= ARRAY_SIZE(entry))
 		BUG("traverse_trees() called with too many trees (%d)", n);
 
@@ -515,6 +546,8 @@ int traverse_trees(struct index_state *istate,
 	free(traverse_path);
 	info->traverse_path = NULL;
 	strbuf_release(&base);
+
+	traverse_trees_cur_depth--;
 	return error;
 }
 
-- 
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  1. 0/8 Cleanups around index operationsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  2. 1/8 tree-walk: report recursion countsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  3. Elijah NewrenDec 30, 2020
  4. Derrick StoleeDec 30, 2020
  5. 3/8 cache-tree: use trace2 in cache_tree_update()Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  6. 2/8 unpack-trees: add trace2 regionsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  7. Elijah NewrenDec 30, 2020
  8. 4/8 cache-tree: trace regions for I/ODerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  9. 6/8 index-format: update preamble to cached tree extensionDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  10. Elijah NewrenDec 30, 2020
  11. 8/8 cache-tree: avoid path comparison loop when silentDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  12. Elijah NewrenDec 30, 2020
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2021
  14. Derrick StoleeJan 6, 2021
  15. René ScharfeDec 31, 2020
  16. Derrick StoleeDec 31, 2020
  17. René ScharfeJan 1, 2021
  18. cache-tree: use ce_namelen() instead of strlen()René Scharfe, Jan 2, 2021
  19. Derrick StoleeJan 4, 2021
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2021
  21. René ScharfeJan 2, 2021
  22. 5/8 cache-tree: trace regions for prime_cache_treeDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  23. Elijah NewrenDec 30, 2020
  24. Derrick StoleeDec 30, 2020
  25. 7/8 index-format: discuss recursion of cached-tree betterDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Dec 30, 2020
  26. Elijah NewrenDec 30, 2020
  27. Derrick StoleeDec 30, 2020
  28. 0/9 Cleanups around index operationsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  29. 2/9 unpack-trees: add trace2 regionsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  30. 4/9 cache-tree: trace regions for I/ODerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  31. 1/9 tree-walk: report recursion countsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  32. 3/9 cache-tree: use trace2 in cache_tree_update()Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  33. 5/9 cache-tree: trace regions for prime_cache_treeDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  34. 6/9 index-format: update preamble to cached tree extensionDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  35. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2021
  36. Derrick StoleeJan 7, 2021
  37. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2021
  38. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2021
  39. 7/9 index-format: discuss recursion of cached-tree betterDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  40. 9/9 cache-tree: speed up consecutive path comparisonsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  41. 8/9 cache-tree: use ce_namelen() instead of strlen()René Scharfe via GitGitGadget, Jan 4, 2021
  42. 00/10 Cleanups around index operationsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  43. 01/10 tree-walk: report recursion countsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  44. 02/10 unpack-trees: add trace2 regionsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  45. 03/10 cache-tree: use trace2 in cache_tree_update()Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  46. 04/10 cache-tree: trace regions for I/ODerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  47. 06/10 index-format: use 'cache tree' over 'cached tree'Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  48. 08/10 index-format: discuss recursion of cached-tree betterDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  49. 09/10 cache-tree: use ce_namelen() instead of strlen()René Scharfe via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  50. 10/10 cache-tree: speed up consecutive path comparisonsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  51. 05/10 cache-tree: trace regions for prime_cache_treeDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  52. 07/10 index-format: update preamble to cache tree extensionDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 7, 2021
  53. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2021

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