Too many 'stat' calls by git-status on Windows

I have used the Cygwin version of Git on one Windows computer and noticed that git-status is sluggish. So, I have run the Process Monitor to see what is going on.

The below, you can see the result of testing on Windows and Linux on the same repository using the same version of Git. It is rather easy to compare if you notice that the following match between syscalls:

Windows         Linux

QueryOpen lstat or fstat CreateFile open CloseFile close QueryDirectory getdents

I have also tested git-diff to verify that the number of system calls matches pretty well. (In fact, I got practical identical list for stat syscalls for files inside of the working directory on Windows and Linux when ran git-diff.) But something strange is going on with git-status. The beginning of the log is identical on Windows and Linux, but then I see more 'stat's in the Windows log that did not happen on Linux. In total, I see about 3 times increase of 'stat' calls, with all files being stat twice and directories (which are numerous) being stat 3 and more times (some of them as many 39 times...) It seems that every directory is stat as many times as the number of subdirectories it has plus 3.

It appears that the second 'stat' for files on Windows caused by lack of d_type in dirent. When I recompiled the Linux version with NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease, I got the same result for files. (Still I am not sure what caused those extra stat calls for directory, maybe, it is Cygwin specific...)

The question is whether it is possible to avoid this redundant 'stat' for files on system that do not have d_type in dirent or that would require too much modification? Is it possible to use the cache where d_stat is not available provided that the entry is marked as uptodate?

==== Git on Windows (CYGWIN) =====

$ wc -l git-diff.csv  git-status.csv
   5186 git-diff.csv
  21694 git-status.csv

$ csvtool col 5 git-diff.csv | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
   4656 QueryOpen
    100 CreateFile
     94 CloseFile
     80 QuerySecurityFile
     61 ReadFile
     30 QueryInformationVolume
     28 QueryAllInformationFile
     26 RegOpenKey
     24 RegCloseKey
     20 QueryStandardInformationFile

$ csvtool col 5 git-status.csv | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
  12984 QueryOpen
   3086 CreateFile
   2103 CloseFile
   1984 QueryDirectory
    988 QueryFileInternalInformationFile
    132 QuerySecurityFile
    100 ReadFile
     77 WriteFile
     55 QueryInformationVolume
     53 QueryAllInformationFile

Successful open: $ csvtool col 5,7,8 git-diff.csv | grep CreateFile,SUCCESS, | wc -l 94 $ csvtool col 5,7,8 git-status.csv | grep CreateFile,SUCCESS, | wc -l 2103

Successful open for directories: $ csvtool col 5,7,8 git-diff.csv | grep CreateFile,SUCCESS,.*Options:.*Directory | wc -l 37 $ csvtool col 5,7,8 git-status.csv | grep CreateFile,SUCCESS,.*Options:.*Directory | wc -l 1024

Not successful attempts to open $ csvtool col 5,7,8 git-diff.csv | grep CreateFile | grep -v ,SUCCESS, | wc -l 6 $ csvtool col 5,7,8 git-status.csv | grep CreateFile | grep -v ,SUCCESS, | wc -l 983

Attempts to open .gitignore $ csvtool col 5,6 git-diff.csv | grep 'CreateFile,.*\\\.gitignore' | wc -l 0 $ csvtool col 5,6 git-status.csv | grep 'CreateFile,.*\\\.gitignore' | wc -l 986

=== GIT on Linux ===

$ wc -l linux-git-*
   4674 linux-git-diff.log
   9807 linux-git-status.log

$ sed -e 's/(.*//' < linux-git-diff.log  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
   4237 lstat
     88 mmap
     56 open
     50 close
     50 access
     48 fstat
     45 mprotect
     43 read
     15 stat
     13 munmap

The number of lstat+fstat is equal 4285 for git-diff

$ sed -e 's/(.*//' < linux-git-status.log  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
   3279 lstat
   2048 open
   1976 getdents
   1062 close
   1058 fstat
     97 mmap
     67 read
     48 access
     45 mprotect
     40 write

The number of lstat+fstat is equal 4337 for git-status.

Successful open: $ grep -c '^open(.*= [^-]' linux-* linux-git-diff.log:50 linux-git-status.log:1064

Successful open for directories: $ grep -c '^open(.*O_DIRECTORY.*= [^-]' linux-* linux-git-diff.log:1 linux-git-status.log:989

Not successful attempts to open: $ grep -c '^open(.*= -1' linux-* linux-git-diff.log:6 linux-git-status.log:984

Attempts to open .gitignore: $ grep -c '^open(.*.\.gitignore"' linux-* linux-git-diff.log:0 linux-git-status.log:987

=== Linux with NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease ===

$ wc -l linux-git-*no-dtype.log
   4674 linux-git-diff-no-dtype.log
  14040 linux-git-status-no-dtype.log

$ sed -e 's/(.*//' < linux-git-diff-no-dtype.log  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10

   4237 lstat
     88 mmap
     56 open
     50 close
     50 access
     48 fstat
     45 mprotect
     43 read
     15 stat
     13 munmap

The number of lstat+fstat is equal 4285 for git-diff

$ sed -e 's/(.*//' < linux-git-status-no-dtype.log  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10

   7512 lstat
   2048 open
   1976 getdents
   1062 close
   1058 fstat
     97 mmap
     67 read
     48 access
     45 mprotect
     40 write

The number of lstat+fstat is equal 8570 for git-status.

Successful open: $ grep -c '^open(.*= [^-]' linux-*-no-dtype.log linux-git-diff-no-dtype.log:50 linux-git-status-no-dtype.log:1064

Successful open for directories: $ grep -c '^open(.*O_DIRECTORY.*= [^-]' linux-*-no-dtype.log linux-git-diff-no-dtype.log:1 linux-git-status-no-dtype.log:989

Not successful attempts to open: $ grep -c '^open(.*= -1' linux-*-no-dtype.log linux-git-diff-no-dtype.log:6 linux-git-status-no-dtype.log:984

Attempts to open .gitignore: $ grep -c '^open(.*.\.gitignore"' linux-*-no-dtype.log linux-git-diff-no-dtype.log:0 linux-git-status-no-dtype.log:987

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Dmitry