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[PATCH 1/5] reftable/stack: return stack segments directly

From
Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2025, 14:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20251031-562-add-sub-command-to-check-if-maintenance-is-needed-v1-1-a03d53e28d0e@gmail.com>
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<20251031-562-add-sub-command-to-check-if-maintenance-is-needed-v1-0-a03d53e28d0e@gmail.com>

The `stack_table_sizes_for_compaction()` function returns individual sizes of each reftable table. This function is only called by `reftable_stack_auto_compact()` to decide which tables need to be compacted, if any.

Modify the function to directly return the segments, which avoids the extra step of receiving the sizes only to pass it to `suggest_compaction_segment()`.

A future commit will also add functionality for checking whether auto-compaction is necessary without performing it. This change allows code re-usability in that context.

Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
---
 reftable/stack.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/reftable/stack.c b/reftable/stack.c
index 65d89820bd..49387f9344 100644
--- a/reftable/stack.c
+++ b/reftable/stack.c
@@ -1626,7 +1626,8 @@ struct segment suggest_compaction_segment(uint64_t *sizes, size_t n,
 	return seg;
 }
 
-static uint64_t *stack_table_sizes_for_compaction(struct reftable_stack *st)
+static int stack_segments_for_compaction(struct reftable_stack *st,
+					 struct segment *seg)
 {
 	int version = (st->opts.hash_id == REFTABLE_HASH_SHA1) ? 1 : 2;
 	int overhead = header_size(version) - 1;
@@ -1634,29 +1635,29 @@ static uint64_t *stack_table_sizes_for_compaction(struct reftable_stack *st)
 
 	REFTABLE_CALLOC_ARRAY(sizes, st->merged->tables_len);
 	if (!sizes)
-		return NULL;
+		return REFTABLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY_ERROR;
 
 	for (size_t i = 0; i < st->merged->tables_len; i++)
 		sizes[i] = st->tables[i]->size - overhead;
 
-	return sizes;
+	*seg = suggest_compaction_segment(sizes, st->merged->tables_len,
+					  st->opts.auto_compaction_factor);
+	reftable_free(sizes);
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 int reftable_stack_auto_compact(struct reftable_stack *st)
 {
 	struct segment seg;
-	uint64_t *sizes;
+	int err;
 
 	if (st->merged->tables_len < 2)
 		return 0;
 
-	sizes = stack_table_sizes_for_compaction(st);
-	if (!sizes)
-		return REFTABLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY_ERROR;
-
-	seg = suggest_compaction_segment(sizes, st->merged->tables_len,
-					 st->opts.auto_compaction_factor);
-	reftable_free(sizes);
+	err = stack_segments_for_compaction(st, &seg);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	if (segment_size(&seg) > 0)
 		return stack_compact_range(st, seg.start, seg.end - 1,
-- 
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