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[PATCH] connected: always use partial clone optimization

From
JTJonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date
Mar 20, 2020, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20200320220045.258462-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

With 50033772d5 ("connected: verify promisor-ness of partial clone", 2020-01-30), the fast path (checking promisor packs) in check_connected() now passes a subset of the slow path (rev-list) - if all objects to be checked are found in promisor packs, both the fast path and the slow path will pass; otherwise, the fast path will definitely not pass. This means that we can always attempt the fast path whenever we need to do the slow path.

The fast path is currently guarded by a flag; therefore, remove that flag. Also, make the fast path fallback to the slow path - if the fast path fails, the failing OID and all remaining OIDs will be passed to rev-list.

The main user-visible benefit is the performance of fetch from a partial clone - specifically, the speedup of the connectivity check done before the fetch. In particular, a no-op fetch into a partial clone on my computer was sped up from 7 seconds to 0.01 seconds. This is a complement to the work in 2df1aa239c ("fetch: forgo full connectivity check if --filter", 2020-01-30), which is the child of the aforementioned 50033772d5. In that commit, the connectivity check *after* the fetch was sped up.

The addition of the fast path might cause performance reductions in these cases:

 - If a partial clone or a fetch into a partial clone fails, Git will
   fruitlessly run rev-list (it is expected that everything fetched
   would go into promisor packs, so if that didn't happen, it is most
   likely that rev-list will fail too).
 - Any connectivity checks done by receive-pack, in the (in my opinion,
   unlikely) event that a partial clone serves receive-pack.

I think that these cases are rare enough, and the performance reduction in this case minor enough (additional object DB access), that the benefit of avoiding a flag outweighs these.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
---
This is the second half of the work I did previously [1]. Quoting from
[1]:
> For example, a local fetch was sped up from 6.63s to 3.39s. The bulk of
> the remaining time is spent in yet another connectivity check
> (fetch_refs -> check_exist_and_connected) prior to the fetch - that will
> hopefully be done in a subsequent patch.

This is the subsequent patch. (Note that the timings were done on another computer, so don't compare the timings from [1] and this patch directly.)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/be1d6aa4c4fd8868f3682b73c01a92d3830534ad.1578802317.git.jonathantanmy@google.com/
---
 builtin/clone.c | 7 ++-----
 builtin/fetch.c | 7 -------
 connected.c     | 9 +++++++--
 connected.h     | 9 ---------
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index 1ad26f4d8c..4b2b14ff61 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -672,8 +672,7 @@ static void update_remote_refs(const struct ref *refs,
 			       const char *branch_top,
 			       const char *msg,
 			       struct transport *transport,
-			       int check_connectivity,
-			       int check_refs_are_promisor_objects_only)
+			       int check_connectivity)
 {
 	const struct ref *rm = mapped_refs;
 
@@ -682,8 +681,6 @@ static void update_remote_refs(const struct ref *refs,
 
 		opt.transport = transport;
 		opt.progress = transport->progress;
-		opt.check_refs_are_promisor_objects_only =
-			!!check_refs_are_promisor_objects_only;
 
 		if (check_connected(iterate_ref_map, &rm, &opt))
 			die(_("remote did not send all necessary objects"));
@@ -1275,7 +1272,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	update_remote_refs(refs, mapped_refs, remote_head_points_at,
 			   branch_top.buf, reflog_msg.buf, transport,
-			   !is_local, filter_options.choice);
+			   !is_local);
 
 	update_head(our_head_points_at, remote_head, reflog_msg.buf);
 
diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
index bf6bab80fa..1097e1e512 100644
--- a/builtin/fetch.c
+++ b/builtin/fetch.c
@@ -908,13 +908,6 @@ static int store_updated_refs(const char *raw_url, const char *remote_name,
 	if (!connectivity_checked) {
 		struct check_connected_options opt = CHECK_CONNECTED_INIT;
 
-		if (filter_options.choice)
-			/*
-			 * Since a filter is specified, objects indirectly
-			 * referenced by refs are allowed to be absent.
-			 */
-			opt.check_refs_are_promisor_objects_only = 1;
-
 		rm = ref_map;
 		if (check_connected(iterate_ref_map, &rm, &opt)) {
 			rc = error(_("%s did not send all necessary objects\n"), url);
diff --git a/connected.c b/connected.c
index 7e9bd1bc62..846f2e4eef 100644
--- a/connected.c
+++ b/connected.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ int check_connected(oid_iterate_fn fn, void *cb_data,
 		strbuf_release(&idx_file);
 	}
 
-	if (opt->check_refs_are_promisor_objects_only) {
+	if (has_promisor_remote()) {
 		/*
 		 * For partial clones, we don't want to have to do a regular
 		 * connectivity check because we have to enumerate and exclude
@@ -71,13 +71,18 @@ int check_connected(oid_iterate_fn fn, void *cb_data,
 				if (find_pack_entry_one(oid.hash, p))
 					goto promisor_pack_found;
 			}
-			return 1;
+			/*
+			 * Fallback to rev-list with oid and the rest of the
+			 * object IDs provided by fn.
+			 */
+			goto no_promisor_pack_found;
 promisor_pack_found:
 			;
 		} while (!fn(cb_data, &oid));
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+no_promisor_pack_found:
 	if (opt->shallow_file) {
 		argv_array_push(&rev_list.args, "--shallow-file");
 		argv_array_push(&rev_list.args, opt->shallow_file);
diff --git a/connected.h b/connected.h
index eba5c261ba..8d5a6b3ad6 100644
--- a/connected.h
+++ b/connected.h
@@ -46,15 +46,6 @@ struct check_connected_options {
 	 * during a fetch.
 	 */
 	unsigned is_deepening_fetch : 1;
-
-	/*
-	 * If non-zero, only check that the top-level objects referenced by the
-	 * wanted refs (passed in as cb_data) are promisor objects. This is
-	 * useful for partial clones, where enumerating and excluding all
-	 * promisor objects is very slow and the commit-walk itself becomes a
-	 * no-op.
-	 */
-	unsigned check_refs_are_promisor_objects_only : 1;
 };
 
 #define CHECK_CONNECTED_INIT { 0 }
-- 
2.25.1.696.g5e7596f4ac-goog
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