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[PATCH 6/8] commit: provide a fast multi-tip contains function

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 25, 2014, 23:47 UTC
Message-ID
<20140625234730.GF23146@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20140625233429.GA20457@sigill.intra.peff.net>

When commands like "git branch --contains" want to know which branches contain a particular commit, they run a series of merge-base calculations, one per branch. This can be very slow if you have a large number of branches.

We made "tag --contains" faster in ffc4b80 (tag: speed up --contains calculation, 2011-06-11) by switching to a different algorithm that caches intermediate "contains" information from each tag we check. The downside of the new algorithm is that it moves depth-first through the graph. So it tends to go all the way to the roots, even if the contained commit is near the top of history. That works OK for tags, because repositories tend to have tags near the roots anyway (e.g., a v0.1 or similar). The number of commits we look at increased a little bit, but since we avoid traversing over the same parts of history repeatedly, it was a huge net win.

For "branch --contains", it is less clear that this is a win. Most branches stay up to date, so we can bound a search for a recent commit when we hit the merge base between the commit and the branches.

The ideal would be to use the merge-base-style breadth-first traversal, but to perform a single traversal for all tips. The problem is that we need one bit of storage per tip in each commit, and "struct commit" has only a fixed number of bits. We can solve that by using a process similar to paint_down_to_common, but instead of storing PARENT1 and PARENT2 flags, using a commit slab to store one bit per tip.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
This is the interesting commit, and I'd really love some eyes on the
logic. It's basically paint_down_to_common but with the PARENT1 and
PARENT2 flags replaced with larger bitfields.

I haven't quite convinced myself that the stale logic in the middle is right. The origin paint_down function checks "PARENT1 | PARENT2" to see if we found a merge base (even though PARENT2 may represent many tips). Here I check whether we have _any_ "left" parent flag and _any_ "right" parent flag. I'm not sure if I actually need to be finding the merge base of _all_ of the commits. I don't think so, and I can't find a case where this doesn't work, but perhaps I am not being imaginative enough.

 commit.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 commit.h |  17 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 119 insertions(+)
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 445b679..66e0def 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "commit-slab.h"
 #include "prio-queue.h"
 #include "sha1-lookup.h"
+#include "bitset.h"
 
 static struct commit_extra_header *read_commit_extra_header_lines(const char *buf, size_t len, const char **);
 
@@ -1040,6 +1041,107 @@ struct commit_list *reduce_heads(struct commit_list *heads)
 	return result;
 }
 
+define_commit_slab(bit_slab, unsigned char);
+
+static int init_contains_bits(const struct commit_list *commits,
+			      struct bit_slab *bits,
+			      struct prio_queue *queue)
+{
+	int i, nr = commit_list_count(commits);
+
+	init_bit_slab_with_stride(bits, bitset_sizeof(nr));
+	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++, commits = commits->next) {
+		struct commit *c = commits->item;
+
+		prio_queue_put(queue, c);
+		bitset_set(bit_slab_at(bits, c), i);
+	}
+
+	return nr;
+}
+
+static int queue_has_nonstale_bits(struct prio_queue *queue, struct bit_slab *stale)
+{
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < queue->nr; i++) {
+		struct commit *commit = queue->array[i];
+		if (!*bit_slab_at(stale, commit))
+			return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void fill_contains_result(unsigned char *result, int nr,
+				 struct bit_slab *bits,
+				 const struct commit_list *other_side)
+{
+	const struct commit_list *c;
+
+	memset(result, 0, nr);
+	for (c = other_side; c; c = c->next) {
+		unsigned char *c_bits = bit_slab_at(bits, c->item);
+		int i;
+
+		for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
+			result[i] |= bitset_get(c_bits, i);
+	}
+}
+
+void commit_contains(const struct commit_list *left,
+		     const struct commit_list *right,
+		     unsigned char *left_contains,
+		     unsigned char *right_contains)
+{
+	struct prio_queue queue = { compare_commits_by_commit_date };
+	struct bit_slab left_bits, right_bits, stale_bits;
+	int left_nr, right_nr;
+
+	left_nr = init_contains_bits(left, &left_bits, &queue);
+	right_nr = init_contains_bits(right, &right_bits, &queue);
+	init_bit_slab(&stale_bits);
+
+	while (queue_has_nonstale_bits(&queue, &stale_bits)) {
+		struct commit *commit = prio_queue_get(&queue);
+		struct commit_list *parents;
+		unsigned char *c_left, *c_right, *c_stale;
+
+		c_left = bit_slab_at(&left_bits, commit);
+		c_right = bit_slab_at(&right_bits, commit);
+		c_stale = bit_slab_at(&stale_bits, commit);
+
+		if (!bitset_empty(c_left, left_nr) &&
+		    !bitset_empty(c_right, right_nr))
+			*c_stale = 1;
+
+		for (parents = commit->parents; parents; parents = parents->next) {
+			struct commit *p = parents->item;
+			unsigned char *p_left = bit_slab_at(&left_bits, p),
+				      *p_right = bit_slab_at(&right_bits, p);
+
+			if (bitset_equal(c_left, p_left, left_nr) &&
+			    bitset_equal(c_right, p_right, right_nr))
+				continue;
+			if (parse_commit(p))
+				die("unable to parse commit");
+			bitset_or(p_left, c_left, left_nr);
+			bitset_or(p_right, c_right, right_nr);
+			*bit_slab_at(&stale_bits, p) |= *c_stale;
+			prio_queue_put(&queue, p);
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (left_contains)
+		fill_contains_result(left_contains, left_nr, &left_bits, right);
+	if (right_contains)
+		fill_contains_result(right_contains, right_nr, &right_bits, left);
+
+	clear_prio_queue(&queue);
+	clear_bit_slab(&left_bits);
+	clear_bit_slab(&right_bits);
+	clear_bit_slab(&stale_bits);
+}
+
+
 static const char gpg_sig_header[] = "gpgsig";
 static const int gpg_sig_header_len = sizeof(gpg_sig_header) - 1;
 
diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index a9f177b..d3a142a 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -307,4 +307,21 @@ int compare_commits_by_commit_date(const void *a_, const void *b_, void *unused)
 LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL
 extern int run_commit_hook(int editor_is_used, const char *index_file, const char *name, ...);
 
+/*
+ * Calculate which commits in left contain commits in right, and vice versa.
+ *
+ * The left_contains result, if non-NULL, must point to an array of unsigned
+ * char with as many elements as there are items in the "left" commit_list.
+ * When the function completes, the nth char in left_contains will be non-zero
+ * iff the nth commit in the "left" list contains at least one commit from the
+ * "right" list.
+ *
+ * The right_contains result works in the same way, but with left and right
+ * swapped.
+ */
+void commit_contains(const struct commit_list *left,
+		     const struct commit_list *right,
+		     unsigned char *left_contains,
+		     unsigned char *right_contains);
+
 #endif /* COMMIT_H */
-- 
2.0.0.566.gfe3e6b2
Previous: Jeff KingNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 17 of 26 in “use merge-base for tag --contains”
  1. 0/8 use merge-base for tag --containsJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  2. 1/8 tag: allow --sort with -nJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  3. 2/8 tag: factor out decision to stream tagsJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  4. 3/8 paint_down_to_common: use prio_queueJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2014
  6. Jeff KingJul 1, 2014
  7. 4/8 add functions for memory-efficient bitmapsJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  8. Torsten BögershausenJun 26, 2014
  9. Jeff KingJun 26, 2014
  10. Eric SunshineJun 29, 2014
  11. Jeff KingJun 30, 2014
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2014
  13. Jeff KingJul 1, 2014
  14. 5/8 string-list: add pos to iterator callbackJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2014
  16. Jeff KingJul 1, 2014
  17. 6/8 commit: provide a fast multi-tip contains functionJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2014
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2014
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2014
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2014
  22. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2014
  23. 7/8 tag: use commit_containsJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  24. 8/8 perf: add tests for tag --containsJeff King, Jun 25, 2014
  25. Jeff KingJun 26, 2014
  26. Jeff KingJun 26, 2014

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