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[PATCH 4/4] mark_parents_uninteresting(): avoid most allocation

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 11, 2018, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20180511180314.GD12543@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20180511180029.GA11290@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Commit 941ba8db57 (Eliminate recursion in setting/clearing marks in commit list, 2012-01-14) used a clever double-loop to avoid allocations for single-parent chains of history. However, it did so only when following parents of parents (which was an uncommon case), and _always_ incurred at least one allocation to populate the list of pending parents in the first place.

We can turn this into zero-allocation in the common case by iterating directly over the initial parent list, and then following up on any pending items we might have discovered.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Again, try "-w" for more readability.
 revision.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 89ff9a99ce..cbe041128e 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -115,32 +115,38 @@ static void commit_stack_clear(struct commit_stack *stack)
 	stack->nr = stack->alloc = 0;
 }
 
-void mark_parents_uninteresting(struct commit *commit)
+static void mark_one_parent_uninteresting(struct commit *commit,
+					  struct commit_stack *pending)
 {
-	struct commit_stack pending = COMMIT_STACK_INIT;
 	struct commit_list *l;
 
+	if (commit->object.flags & UNINTERESTING)
+		return;
+	commit->object.flags |= UNINTERESTING;
+
+	/*
+	 * Normally we haven't parsed the parent
+	 * yet, so we won't have a parent of a parent
+	 * here. However, it may turn out that we've
+	 * reached this commit some other way (where it
+	 * wasn't uninteresting), in which case we need
+	 * to mark its parents recursively too..
+	 */
 	for (l = commit->parents; l; l = l->next)
-		commit_stack_push(&pending, l->item);
+		commit_stack_push(pending, l->item);
+}
 
-	while (pending.nr > 0) {
-		struct commit *commit = commit_stack_pop(&pending);
+void mark_parents_uninteresting(struct commit *commit)
+{
+	struct commit_stack pending = COMMIT_STACK_INIT;
+	struct commit_list *l;
 
-		if (commit->object.flags & UNINTERESTING)
-			return;
-		commit->object.flags |= UNINTERESTING;
+	for (l = commit->parents; l; l = l->next)
+		mark_one_parent_uninteresting(l->item, &pending);
 
-		/*
-		 * Normally we haven't parsed the parent
-		 * yet, so we won't have a parent of a parent
-		 * here. However, it may turn out that we've
-		 * reached this commit some other way (where it
-		 * wasn't uninteresting), in which case we need
-		 * to mark its parents recursively too..
-		 */
-		for (l = commit->parents; l; l = l->next)
-			commit_stack_push(&pending, l->item);
-	}
+	while (pending.nr > 0)
+		mark_one_parent_uninteresting(commit_stack_pop(&pending),
+					      &pending);
 
 	commit_stack_clear(&pending);
 }
-- 
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  4. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2018
  5. 3/4 mark_parents_uninteresting(): replace list with stackJeff King, May 11, 2018
  6. 4/4 mark_parents_uninteresting(): avoid most allocationJeff King, May 11, 2018
  7. Derrick StoleeMay 14, 2018
  8. Jeff KingMay 14, 2018
  9. Derrick StoleeMay 14, 2018
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