Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] config: add new index.threads config setting
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 03:54:39PM -0400, Ben Peart wrote:
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> Add support for a new index.threads config setting which will be used to
> control the threading code in do_read_index(). A value of 0 will tell the
> index code to automatically determine the correct number of threads to use.
> A value of 1 will make the code single threaded. A value greater than 1
> will set the maximum number of threads to use.
>
> For testing purposes, this setting can be overwritten by setting the
> GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> environment variable to a value greater than 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com>
> ---
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> diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
> index aa33ac4f26..0fcecf4500 100644
> --- a/t/README
> +++ b/t/README
> @@ -332,6 +332,11 @@ This is used to allow tests 1, 4-9 in t1700-split-index.sh to succeed
> as they currently hard code SHA values for the index which are no longer
> valid due to the addition of the EOIE extension.
>
> +GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> enables exercising the multi-threaded loading
> +of the index for the whole test suite by bypassing the default number of
> +cache entries and thread minimums. Settting this to 1 will make the
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> +index loading single threaded.
> +
> Naming Tests
> ------------
>
> diff --git a/t/t1700-split-index.sh b/t/t1700-split-index.sh
> index 1f168378c8..ab205954cf 100755
> --- a/t/t1700-split-index.sh
> +++ b/t/t1700-split-index.sh
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ test_description='split index mode tests'
> sane_unset GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
> sane_unset GIT_FSMONITOR_TEST
> GIT_TEST_DISABLE_EOIE=true; export GIT_TEST_DISABLE_EOIE
> +GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=1; export GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS
Why does multithreading have to be disabled in this test?
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> test_expect_success 'enable split index' '
> git config splitIndex.maxPercentChange 100 &&
> --
> 2.18.0.windows.1
>