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[[PATCH v2] 4/4] rebase: avoid computing unnecessary patch IDs

From
KWKevin Willford <kcwillford@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2016, 16:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20160729161920.3792-5-kcwillford@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20160729161920.3792-1-kcwillford@gmail.com>
From: Kevin Willford <kewillf@microsoft.com>

The `rebase` family of Git commands avoid applying patches that were already integrated upstream. They do that by using the revision walking option that computes the patch IDs of the two sides of the rebase (local-only patches vs upstream-only ones) and skipping those local patches whose patch ID matches one of the upstream ones.

In many cases, this causes unnecessary churn, as already the set of paths touched by a given commit would suffice to determine that an upstream patch has no local equivalent.

This hurts performance in particular when there are a lot of upstream patches, and/or large ones.

Therefore, let's introduce the concept of a "diff-header-only" patch ID, compare those first, and only evaluate the "full" patch ID lazily.

Please note that in contrast to the "full" patch IDs, those "diff-header-only" patch IDs are prone to collide with one another, as adjacent commits frequently touch the very same files. Hence we now have to be careful to allow multiple hash entries with the same hash. We accomplish that by using the hashmap_add() function that does not even test for hash collisions. This also allows us to evaluate the full patch ID lazily, i.e. only when we found commits with matching diff-header-only patch IDs.

We add a performance test that demonstrates ~1-6% improvement. In practice this will depend on various factors such as how many upstream changes and how big those changes are along with whether file system caches are cold or warm. As Git's test suite has no way of catching performance regressions, we also add a regression test that verifies that the full patch ID computation is skipped when the diff-header-only computation suffices.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kcwillford@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/log.c                        |  2 +-
 patch-ids.c                          | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 patch-ids.h                          |  2 +-
 t/perf/p3400-rebase.sh               | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 t/perf/p3400-rebase.sh
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index fd1652f..b076993 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ static void prepare_bases(struct base_tree_info *bases,
 		struct object_id *patch_id;
 		if (commit->util)
 			continue;
-		if (commit_patch_id(commit, &diffopt, sha1))
+		if (commit_patch_id(commit, &diffopt, sha1, 0))
 			die(_("cannot get patch id"));
 		ALLOC_GROW(bases->patch_id, bases->nr_patch_id + 1, bases->alloc_patch_id);
 		patch_id = bases->patch_id + bases->nr_patch_id;
diff --git a/patch-ids.c b/patch-ids.c
index 69a14a3..0a4828a 100644
--- a/patch-ids.c
+++ b/patch-ids.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #include "patch-ids.h"
 
 int commit_patch_id(struct commit *commit, struct diff_options *options,
-		    unsigned char *sha1)
+		    unsigned char *sha1, int diff_header_only)
 {
 	if (commit->parents)
 		diff_tree_sha1(commit->parents->item->object.oid.hash,
@@ -13,13 +13,21 @@ int commit_patch_id(struct commit *commit, struct diff_options *options,
 	else
 		diff_root_tree_sha1(commit->object.oid.hash, "", options);
 	diffcore_std(options);
-	return diff_flush_patch_id(options, sha1, 0);
+	return diff_flush_patch_id(options, sha1, diff_header_only);
 }
 
 static int patch_id_cmp(struct patch_id *a,
 			struct patch_id *b,
-			void *keydata)
+			struct diff_options *opt)
 {
+	if (is_null_sha1(a->patch_id) &&
+	    commit_patch_id(a->commit, opt, a->patch_id, 0))
+		return error("Could not get patch ID for %s",
+			oid_to_hex(&a->commit->object.oid));
+	if (is_null_sha1(b->patch_id) &&
+	    commit_patch_id(b->commit, opt, b->patch_id, 0))
+		return error("Could not get patch ID for %s",
+			oid_to_hex(&b->commit->object.oid));
 	return hashcmp(a->patch_id, b->patch_id);
 }
 
@@ -43,11 +51,13 @@ static int init_patch_id_entry(struct patch_id *patch,
 			       struct commit *commit,
 			       struct patch_ids *ids)
 {
+	unsigned char header_only_patch_id[GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ];
+
 	patch->commit = commit;
-	if (commit_patch_id(commit, &ids->diffopts, patch->patch_id))
+	if (commit_patch_id(commit, &ids->diffopts, header_only_patch_id, 1))
 		return -1;
 
-	hashmap_entry_init(patch, sha1hash(patch->patch_id));
+	hashmap_entry_init(patch, sha1hash(header_only_patch_id));
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -60,7 +70,7 @@ struct patch_id *has_commit_patch_id(struct commit *commit,
 	if (init_patch_id_entry(&patch, commit, ids))
 		return NULL;
 
-	return hashmap_get(&ids->patches, &patch, NULL);
+	return hashmap_get(&ids->patches, &patch, &ids->diffopts);
 }
 
 struct patch_id *add_commit_patch_id(struct commit *commit,
diff --git a/patch-ids.h b/patch-ids.h
index dea1ecd..0f34ea1 100644
--- a/patch-ids.h
+++ b/patch-ids.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ struct patch_ids {
 };
 
 int commit_patch_id(struct commit *commit, struct diff_options *options,
-		    unsigned char *sha1);
+		    unsigned char *sha1, int);
 int init_patch_ids(struct patch_ids *);
 int free_patch_ids(struct patch_ids *);
 struct patch_id *add_commit_patch_id(struct commit *, struct patch_ids *);
diff --git a/t/perf/p3400-rebase.sh b/t/perf/p3400-rebase.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3e7d52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/perf/p3400-rebase.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='Tests rebase performance'
+. ./perf-lib.sh
+
+test_perf_default_repo
+
+test_expect_success 'setup' '
+	git checkout -f -b base &&
+	git checkout -b to-rebase &&
+	git checkout -b upstream &&
+	for i in $(seq 100)
+	do
+		# simulate huge diffs
+		echo change$i >unrelated-file$i &&
+		seq 1000 >>unrelated-file$i &&
+		git add unrelated-file$i &&
+		test_tick &&
+		git commit -m commit$i unrelated-file$i &&
+		echo change$i >unrelated-file$i &&
+		seq 1000 | tac >>unrelated-file$i &&
+		git add unrelated-file$i &&
+		test_tick &&
+		git commit -m commit$i-reverse unrelated-file$i ||
+		break
+	done &&
+	git checkout to-rebase &&
+	test_commit our-patch interesting-file
+'
+
+test_perf 'rebase on top of a lot of unrelated changes' '
+	git rebase --onto upstream HEAD^ &&
+	git rebase --onto base HEAD^
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh b/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh
index 28d4f6b..fff3322 100755
--- a/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh
+++ b/t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh
@@ -206,5 +206,22 @@ test_expect_success '--count --left-right' '
 	git rev-list --count --left-right C...D > actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
+remove_loose_object () {
+	sha1="$(git rev-parse "$1")" &&
+	remainder=${sha1#??} &&
+	firsttwo=${sha1%$remainder} &&
+	rm .git/objects/$firsttwo/$remainder
+}
+test_expect_success '--cherry-pick avoids looking at full diffs' '
+	git checkout -b shy-diff &&
+	test_commit dont-look-at-me &&
+	echo Hello >dont-look-at-me.t &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m tip dont-look-at-me.t &&
+	git checkout -b mainline HEAD^ &&
+	test_commit to-cherry-pick &&
+	remove_loose_object shy-diff^:dont-look-at-me.t &&
+	git rev-list --cherry-pick ...shy-diff
+'
 
 test_done

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  2. 1/4] patch-ids: stop using a hand-rolled hashmap implementationKevin Willford, Jul 29, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2016
  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 1, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2016
  6. Eric WongAug 1, 2016
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  8. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2016
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  11. 2/4] patch-ids: replace the seen indicator with a commit pointerKevin Willford, Jul 29, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2016
  13. 4/4] rebase: avoid computing unnecessary patch IDsKevin Willford, Jul 29, 2016
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  15. Johannes SchindelinAug 1, 2016
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  19. Johannes SchindelinAug 2, 2016
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  21. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2016
  22. Johannes SchindelinAug 4, 2016
  23. 3/4] patch-ids: add flag to create the diff patch id using header only dataKevin Willford, Jul 29, 2016
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2016
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