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Re: [PATCH 00/13] reftable: prepare for re-seekable iterators

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 8, 2024, 23:42 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
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> To address this inefficiency, the patch series at hand refactors the
> reftable library such that creation of iterators and seeking on an
> iterator are separate steps. This refactoring prepares us for reusing
> iterators to perform multiple seeks, which in turn will allow us to
> reuse internal data structures for subsequent seeks.
;-)
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> Note: this series does not yet go all the way to re-seekable iterators,
> and there are no users yet. The patch series is complex enough as-is
> already, so I decided to defer that to the next iteration. Thus, the
> whole refactoring here should essentially be a large no-op that prepares
> the infrastructure for re-seekable iterators.
>
> The series depends on pks/reftable-write-optim at fa74f32291
> (reftable/block: reuse compressed array, 2024-04-08).

There is another topic on reftable to make write options tweakable, whose addition of reftable/dump and reader_print_blocks interface needs to be adjusted to this change, I think.

 reftable/reader.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git c/reftable/reader.c w/reftable/reader.c
index 2ea830bdb6..fd516e01db 100644
--- c/reftable/reader.c
+++ w/reftable/reader.c
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ int reftable_reader_print_blocks(const char *tablename)
 		},
 	};
 	struct reftable_block_source src = { 0 };
-	struct table_iter ti = TABLE_ITER_INIT;
+	struct table_iter *ti;
 	struct reftable_reader *r = NULL;
 	size_t i;
 	int err;
@@ -854,11 +854,14 @@ int reftable_reader_print_blocks(const char *tablename)
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto done;
 
+	REFTABLE_ALLOC_ARRAY(ti, 1);
+	table_iter_init(ti, r);
+
 	printf("header:\n");
 	printf("  block_size: %d\n", r->block_size);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sections); i++) {
-		err = reader_start(r, &ti, sections[i].type, 0);
+		err = table_iter_seek_start(ti, sections[i].type, 0);
 		if (err < 0)
 			goto done;
 		if (err > 0)
@@ -867,10 +870,10 @@ int reftable_reader_print_blocks(const char *tablename)
 		printf("%s:\n", sections[i].name);
 
 		while (1) {
-			printf("  - length: %u\n", ti.br.block_len);
-			printf("    restarts: %u\n", ti.br.restart_count);
+			printf("  - length: %u\n", ti->br.block_len);
+			printf("    restarts: %u\n", ti->br.restart_count);
 
-			err = table_iter_next_block(&ti);
+			err = table_iter_next_block(ti);
 			if (err < 0)
 				goto done;
 			if (err > 0)
@@ -880,6 +883,6 @@ int reftable_reader_print_blocks(const char *tablename)
 
 done:
 	reftable_reader_free(r);
-	table_iter_close(&ti);
+	table_iter_close(ti);
 	return err;
 }
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Message 23 of 50 in “reftable: prepare for re-seekable iterators”
  1. 00/13 reftable: prepare for re-seekable iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  2. 01/13 reftable/block: use `size_t` to track restart point indexPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  3. 02/13 reftable/reader: avoid copying index iteratorPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  4. 03/13 reftable/reader: unify indexed and linear seekingPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  5. 04/13 reftable/reader: separate concerns of table iter and reftable readerPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  6. 05/13 reftable/reader: inline `reader_seek_internal()`Patrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  7. 06/13 reftable/reader: set up the reader when initializing table iteratorPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  8. 07/13 reftable/merged: split up initialization and seeking of recordsPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  9. Justin ToblerMay 10, 2024
  10. Patrick SteinhardtMay 13, 2024
  11. 08/13 reftable/merged: simplify indices for subiteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  12. Justin ToblerMay 10, 2024
  13. Patrick SteinhardtMay 13, 2024
  14. 09/13 reftable/generic: move seeking of records into the iteratorPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  15. Justin ToblerMay 10, 2024
  16. Patrick SteinhardtMay 13, 2024
  17. 10/13 reftable/generic: adapt interface to allow reuse of iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  18. 11/13 reftable/reader: adapt interface to allow reuse of iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  19. Justin ToblerMay 10, 2024
  20. Patrick SteinhardtMay 13, 2024
  21. 12/13 reftable/stack: provide convenience functions to create iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  22. 13/13 reftable/merged: adapt interface to allow reuse of iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 8, 2024
  23. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2024
  24. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2024
  25. Patrick SteinhardtMay 10, 2024
  26. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2024
  27. Patrick SteinhardtMay 10, 2024
  28. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2024
  29. 00/13 reftable: prepare for re-seekable iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  30. 01/13 reftable/block: use `size_t` to track restart point indexPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  31. Karthik NayakMay 21, 2024
  32. Patrick SteinhardtMay 22, 2024
  33. 02/13 reftable/reader: avoid copying index iteratorPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  34. 03/13 reftable/reader: unify indexed and linear seekingPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  35. Karthik NayakMay 21, 2024
  36. Patrick SteinhardtMay 22, 2024
  37. Karthik NayakMay 22, 2024
  38. 04/13 reftable/reader: separate concerns of table iter and reftable readerPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  39. 05/13 reftable/reader: inline `reader_seek_internal()`Patrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  40. 06/13 reftable/reader: set up the reader when initializing table iteratorPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  41. 07/13 reftable/merged: split up initialization and seeking of recordsPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  42. 08/13 reftable/merged: simplify indices for subiteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  43. 09/13 reftable/generic: move seeking of records into the iteratorPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  44. 10/13 reftable/generic: adapt interface to allow reuse of iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  45. 11/13 reftable/reader: adapt interface to allow reuse of iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  46. 12/13 reftable/stack: provide convenience functions to create iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  47. 13/13 reftable/merged: adapt interface to allow reuse of iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt, May 13, 2024
  48. Justin ToblerMay 15, 2024
  49. Karthik NayakMay 21, 2024
  50. Patrick SteinhardtMay 22, 2024

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