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[PATCH v3 1/8] diffcore-rename: enable filtering possible rename sources

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Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2021, 00:38 UTC
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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

Add the ability to diffcore_rename_extended() to allow external callers to declare that they only need renames detected for a subset of source files, and use that information to skip detecting renames for them.

There are two important pieces to this optimization that may not be obvious at first glance:

  * We do not require callers to just filter the filepairs out
    to remove the non-relevant sources, because exact rename detection
    is fast and when it finds a match it can remove both a source and a
    destination whereas the relevant_sources filter can only remove a
    source.
  * We need to filter out the source pairs in a preliminary pass instead
    of adding a
       strset_contains(relevant_sources, one->path)
    check within the nested matrix loop.  The reason for that is if we
    have 30k renames, doing 30k * 30k = 900M strset_contains() calls
    becomes extraordinarily expensive and defeats the performance gains
    from this change; we only want to do 30k such calls instead.

If callers pass NULL for relevant_sources, that is special cases to treat all sources as relevant. Since all callers currently pass NULL, this optimization does not yet have any effect. Subsequent commits will have merge-ort compute a set of relevant_sources to restrict which sources we detect renames for, and have merge-ort pass that set of relevant_sources to diffcore_rename_extended().

A note about filtering order:

Some may be curious why we don't filter out irrelevant sources at the same time we filter out exact renames. While that technically could be done at this point, there are two reasons to defer it:

First, was to reinforce a lesson that was too easy to forget. As I mentioned above, in the past I filtered irrelevant sources out before exact rename checking, and then discovered that exact renames' ability to remove both sources and destinations was an important consideration and thus doing the filtering after exact rename checking would speed things up. Then at some point I realized that basename matching could also remove both sources and destinations, and decided to put irrelevant source filtering after basename filtering. That slowed things down a lot. But, despite learning about this important ordering, in later restructuring I forgot and made the same mistake of putting the filtering after basename guided rename detection again. So, I have this series of patches structured to do the irrelevant filtering last to start to show how much extra it costs, and then add relevant filtering in to find_basename_matches() to show how much it speeds things up. Basically, it's a way to reinforce something that apparently was too easy to forget, and make sure the commit messages record this lesson.

Second, the items in the "relevant_sources" in this patch series will include all sources that *might be* relevant. It has to be conservative and catch anything that might need a rename, but in the patch series after this one we'll find ways to weed out more of the *might be* relevant ones. Unfortunately, merge-ort does not have sufficient information to weed those ones out, and there isn't enough information at the time of filtering exact renames out to remove the extra ones either. It has to be deferred. So the deferral is in part to simplify some later additions.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 diffcore-rename.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 diffcore.h        |  1 +
 merge-ort.c       |  1 +
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/diffcore-rename.c b/diffcore-rename.c
index 1fe902ed2af0..7f6115fd9018 100644
--- a/diffcore-rename.c
+++ b/diffcore-rename.c
@@ -991,11 +991,12 @@ static int find_renames(struct diff_score *mx,
 	return count;
 }
 
-static void remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(int detecting_copies)
+static void remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(int detecting_copies,
+					   struct strset *interesting)
 {
 	int i, new_num_src;
 
-	if (detecting_copies)
+	if (detecting_copies && !interesting)
 		return; /* nothing to remove */
 	if (break_idx)
 		return; /* culling incompatible with break detection */
@@ -1022,12 +1023,18 @@ static void remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(int detecting_copies)
 	 *      from rename_src here.
 	 */
 	for (i = 0, new_num_src = 0; i < rename_src_nr; i++) {
+		struct diff_filespec *one = rename_src[i].p->one;
+
 		/*
 		 * renames are stored in rename_dst, so if a rename has
 		 * already been detected using this source, we can just
 		 * remove the source knowing rename_dst has its info.
 		 */
-		if (rename_src[i].p->one->rename_used)
+		if (!detecting_copies && one->rename_used)
+			continue;
+
+		/* If we don't care about the source path, skip it */
+		if (interesting && !strset_contains(interesting, one->path))
 			continue;
 
 		if (new_num_src < i)
@@ -1040,6 +1047,7 @@ static void remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(int detecting_copies)
 }
 
 void diffcore_rename_extended(struct diff_options *options,
+			      struct strset *relevant_sources,
 			      struct strset *dirs_removed,
 			      struct strmap *dir_rename_count)
 {
@@ -1060,6 +1068,8 @@ void diffcore_rename_extended(struct diff_options *options,
 	want_copies = (detect_rename == DIFF_DETECT_COPY);
 	if (dirs_removed && (break_idx || want_copies))
 		BUG("dirs_removed incompatible with break/copy detection");
+	if (break_idx && relevant_sources)
+		BUG("break detection incompatible with source specification");
 	if (!minimum_score)
 		minimum_score = DEFAULT_RENAME_SCORE;
 
@@ -1127,9 +1137,10 @@ void diffcore_rename_extended(struct diff_options *options,
 		/*
 		 * Cull sources:
 		 *   - remove ones corresponding to exact renames
+		 *   - remove ones not found in relevant_sources
 		 */
 		trace2_region_enter("diff", "cull after exact", options->repo);
-		remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(want_copies);
+		remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(want_copies, relevant_sources);
 		trace2_region_leave("diff", "cull after exact", options->repo);
 	} else {
 		/* Determine minimum score to match basenames */
@@ -1148,7 +1159,7 @@ void diffcore_rename_extended(struct diff_options *options,
 		 *   - remove ones involved in renames (found via exact match)
 		 */
 		trace2_region_enter("diff", "cull after exact", options->repo);
-		remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(want_copies);
+		remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(want_copies, NULL);
 		trace2_region_leave("diff", "cull after exact", options->repo);
 
 		/* Preparation for basename-driven matching. */
@@ -1167,9 +1178,10 @@ void diffcore_rename_extended(struct diff_options *options,
 		/*
 		 * Cull sources, again:
 		 *   - remove ones involved in renames (found via basenames)
+		 *   - remove ones not found in relevant_sources
 		 */
 		trace2_region_enter("diff", "cull basename", options->repo);
-		remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(want_copies);
+		remove_unneeded_paths_from_src(want_copies, relevant_sources);
 		trace2_region_leave("diff", "cull basename", options->repo);
 	}
 
@@ -1342,5 +1354,5 @@ void diffcore_rename_extended(struct diff_options *options,
 
 void diffcore_rename(struct diff_options *options)
 {
-	diffcore_rename_extended(options, NULL, NULL);
+	diffcore_rename_extended(options, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 }
diff --git a/diffcore.h b/diffcore.h
index c6ba64abd198..737c93a6cc79 100644
--- a/diffcore.h
+++ b/diffcore.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ void partial_clear_dir_rename_count(struct strmap *dir_rename_count);
 void diffcore_break(struct repository *, int);
 void diffcore_rename(struct diff_options *);
 void diffcore_rename_extended(struct diff_options *options,
+			      struct strset *relevant_sources,
 			      struct strset *dirs_removed,
 			      struct strmap *dir_rename_count);
 void diffcore_merge_broken(void);
diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index 467404cc0a35..aba0b9fa54c3 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -2029,6 +2029,7 @@ static void detect_regular_renames(struct merge_options *opt,
 	diff_queued_diff = renames->pairs[side_index];
 	trace2_region_enter("diff", "diffcore_rename", opt->repo);
 	diffcore_rename_extended(&diff_opts,
+				 NULL,
 				 &renames->dirs_removed[side_index],
 				 &renames->dir_rename_count[side_index]);
 	trace2_region_leave("diff", "diffcore_rename", opt->repo);
-- 
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  1. 0/8 Optimization batch 9: avoid detecting irrelevant renamesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  2. 1/8 diffcore-rename: enable filtering possible rename sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  3. 3/8 merge-ort: add data structures for an alternate tree traversalElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  4. 2/8 merge-ort: precompute subset of sources for which we need rename detectionElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  5. 4/8 merge-ort: introduce wrappers for alternate tree traversalElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  6. 5/8 merge-ort: precompute whether directory rename detection is neededElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  7. 6/8 merge-ort: use relevant_sources to filter possible rename sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  8. 7/8 merge-ort: skip rename detection entirely if possibleElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  9. 8/8 diffcore-rename: avoid doing basename comparisons for irrelevant sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 28, 2021
  10. Elijah NewrenMar 1, 2021
  11. Elijah NewrenMar 4, 2021
  12. 0/8 Optimization batch 9: avoid detecting irrelevant renamesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  13. 2/8 merge-ort: precompute subset of sources for which we need rename detectionElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  14. 1/8 diffcore-rename: enable filtering possible rename sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  15. Derrick StoleeMar 9, 2021
  16. Elijah NewrenMar 9, 2021
  17. Derrick StoleeMar 9, 2021
  18. 6/8 merge-ort: use relevant_sources to filter possible rename sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  19. 3/8 merge-ort: add data structures for an alternate tree traversalElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  20. 4/8 merge-ort: introduce wrappers for alternate tree traversalElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  21. Derrick StoleeMar 9, 2021
  22. 5/8 merge-ort: precompute whether directory rename detection is neededElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  23. 8/8 diffcore-rename: avoid doing basename comparisons for irrelevant sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  24. 7/8 merge-ort: skip rename detection entirely if possibleElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2021
  25. Derrick StoleeMar 9, 2021
  26. Elijah NewrenMar 9, 2021
  27. Derrick StoleeMar 9, 2021
  28. Derrick StoleeMar 10, 2021
  29. 0/8 Optimization batch 9: avoid detecting irrelevant renamesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  30. 1/8 diffcore-rename: enable filtering possible rename sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  31. 3/8 merge-ort: add data structures for an alternate tree traversalElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  32. 5/8 merge-ort: precompute whether directory rename detection is neededElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  33. 2/8 merge-ort: precompute subset of sources for which we need rename detectionElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  34. 4/8 merge-ort: introduce wrappers for alternate tree traversalElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  35. 8/8 diffcore-rename: avoid doing basename comparisons for irrelevant sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  36. 6/8 merge-ort: use relevant_sources to filter possible rename sourcesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  37. 7/8 merge-ort: skip rename detection entirely if possibleElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 11, 2021
  38. Derrick StoleeMar 15, 2021
  39. Elijah NewrenMar 15, 2021

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