From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:29:59 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2016, #07; Mon, 25)
Message-ID: <xmqqmvof9fqw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1604271454250.2896@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Junio,
>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> * js/win32-mmap (2016-04-22) 3 commits
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2016-04-22 at cd39c60)
>>  + mmap(win32): avoid expensive fstat() call
>>  + mmap(win32): avoid copy-on-write when it is unnecessary
>>  + win32mmap: set errno appropriately
>> 
>>  mmap emulation on Windows has been optimized.
>
> Please note that it is not purely an optimization. It is also a bug fix in
> case of a pretty full disk: on Windows, mmap() is backed by the page file
> if it is in copy-on-write mode, and that can fail when the free space on
> the drive that has the page file drops below a certain threshold.

Thanks.  How does this look then?

    * js/win32-mmap (2016-04-22) 3 commits
      (merged to 'next' on 2016-04-22 at cd39c60)
     + mmap(win32): avoid expensive fstat() call
     + mmap(win32): avoid copy-on-write when it is unnecessary
     + win32mmap: set errno appropriately

     mmap emulation on Windows has been optimized and work better without
     consuming paging store when not needed.

     Will merge to 'master'.

Reducing paging file consumption still falls into optimization in my
dictionary, though ;-)