From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:18:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: fix threaded load balancing
Message-ID: <20071208091842.GA23489@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712080000120.555@xanadu.home>

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:03:17AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> This patch implements a completely different approach by initially
> splitting the work in large chunks uniformly amongst all threads, and
> whenever a thread is done then it steals half of the remaining work from
> another thread with the largest amount of unprocessed objects.

Yay! This works great on my "pack a few hundred very large objects" repo.

-Peff