v11, 5 partsread-cache: speed up add_index_entry

Makefile, cache.h, read-cache.c, t/helper/.gitignore, t/helper/test-strcmp-offset.c, t/t0065-strcmp-offset.sh

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9ec6065..4c4c246 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -631,6 +631,7 @@ TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-scrap-cache-tree
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sha1
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sha1-array
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sigchain
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-strcmp-offset
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-string-list
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-submodule-config
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-subprocess
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 80b6372..3c55047 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ extern int write_locked_index(struct index_state *, struct lock_file *lock, unsi
 extern int discard_index(struct index_state *);
 extern int unmerged_index(const struct index_state *);
 extern int verify_path(const char *path);
+extern int strcmp_offset(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t *first_change);
 extern int index_dir_exists(struct index_state *istate, const char *name, int namelen);
 extern void adjust_dirname_case(struct index_state *istate, char *name);
 extern struct cache_entry *index_file_exists(struct index_state *istate, const char *name, int namelen, int igncase);
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 9054369..97f13a1 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -887,6 +887,26 @@ static int has_file_name(struct index_state *istate,
 	return retval;
 }
 
+
+/*
+ * Like strcmp(), but also return the offset of the first change.
+ * If strings are equal, return the length.
+ */
+int strcmp_offset(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t *first_change)
+{
+	size_t k;
+
+	if (!first_change)
+		return strcmp(s1, s2);
+
+	for (k = 0; s1[k] == s2[k]; k++)
+		if (s1[k] == '\0')
+			break;
+
+	*first_change = k;
+	return (unsigned char)s1[k] - (unsigned char)s2[k];
+}
+
 /*
  * Do we have another file with a pathname that is a proper
  * subset of the name we're trying to add?
diff --git a/t/helper/.gitignore b/t/helper/.gitignore
index d6e8b36..0a89531 100644
--- a/t/helper/.gitignore
+++ b/t/helper/.gitignore
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 /test-sha1
 /test-sha1-array
 /test-sigchain
+/test-strcmp-offset
 /test-string-list
 /test-submodule-config
 /test-subprocess
diff --git a/t/helper/test-strcmp-offset.c b/t/helper/test-strcmp-offset.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a45a54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/helper/test-strcmp-offset.c
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#include "cache.h"
+
+int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	int result;
+	size_t offset;
+
+	if (!argv[1] || !argv[2])
+		die("usage: %s <string1> <string2>", argv[0]);
+
+	result = strcmp_offset(argv[1], argv[2], &offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Because differnt CRTs behave differently, only rely on signs
+	 * of the result values.
+	 */
+	result = (result < 0 ? -1 :
+			  result > 0 ? 1 :
+			  0);
+	printf("%d %"PRIuMAX"\n", result, (uintmax_t)offset);
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/t/t0065-strcmp-offset.sh b/t/t0065-strcmp-offset.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7d6d214
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0065-strcmp-offset.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='Test strcmp_offset functionality'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+while read s1 s2 expect
+do
+	test_expect_success "strcmp_offset($s1, $s2)" '
+		echo "$expect" >expect &&
+		test-strcmp-offset "$s1" "$s2" >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	'
+done <<-EOF
+abc abc 0 3
+abc def -1 0
+abc abz -1 2
+abc abcdef -1 3
+EOF
+
+test_done

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 97f13a1..6a27688 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -1021,7 +1021,16 @@ static int add_index_entry_with_check(struct index_state *istate, struct cache_e
 
 	if (!(option & ADD_CACHE_KEEP_CACHE_TREE))
 		cache_tree_invalidate_path(istate, ce->name);
-	pos = index_name_stage_pos(istate, ce->name, ce_namelen(ce), ce_stage(ce));
+
+	/*
+	 * If this entry's path sorts after the last entry in the index,
+	 * we can avoid searching for it.
+	 */
+	if (istate->cache_nr > 0 &&
+		strcmp(ce->name, istate->cache[istate->cache_nr - 1]->name) > 0)
+		pos = -istate->cache_nr - 1;
+	else
+		pos = index_name_stage_pos(istate, ce->name, ce_namelen(ce), ce_stage(ce));
 
 	/* existing match? Just replace it. */
 	if (pos >= 0) {

t/perf/p0006-read-tree-checkout.sh, t/perf/repos/.gitignore, t/perf/repos/many-files.sh

diff --git a/t/perf/p0006-read-tree-checkout.sh b/t/perf/p0006-read-tree-checkout.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..78cc23f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/perf/p0006-read-tree-checkout.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This test measures the performance of various read-tree
+# and checkout operations.  It is primarily interested in
+# the algorithmic costs of index operations and recursive
+# tree traversal -- and NOT disk I/O on thousands of files.
+
+test_description="Tests performance of read-tree"
+
+. ./perf-lib.sh
+
+test_perf_default_repo
+
+# If the test repo was generated by ./repos/many-files.sh
+# then we know something about the data shape and branches,
+# so we can isolate testing to the ballast-related commits
+# and setup sparse-checkout so we don't have to populate
+# the ballast files and directories.
+#
+# Otherwise, we make some general assumptions about the
+# repo and consider the entire history of the current
+# branch to be the ballast.
+
+test_expect_success "setup repo" '
+	if git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/p0006-ballast^{commit}
+	then
+		echo Assuming synthetic repo from many-files.sh
+		git branch br_base            master
+		git branch br_ballast         p0006-ballast^
+		git branch br_ballast_alias   p0006-ballast^
+		git branch br_ballast_plus_1  p0006-ballast
+		git config --local core.sparsecheckout 1
+		cat >.git/info/sparse-checkout <<-EOF
+		/*
+		!ballast/*
+		EOF
+	else
+		echo Assuming non-synthetic repo...
+		git branch br_base            $(git rev-list HEAD | tail -n 1)
+		git branch br_ballast         HEAD^ || error "no ancestor commit from current head"
+		git branch br_ballast_alias   HEAD^
+		git branch br_ballast_plus_1  HEAD
+	fi &&
+	git checkout -q br_ballast &&
+	nr_files=$(git ls-files | wc -l)
+'
+
+test_perf "read-tree br_base br_ballast ($nr_files)" '
+	git read-tree -m br_base br_ballast -n
+'
+
+test_perf "switch between br_base br_ballast ($nr_files)" '
+	git checkout -q br_base &&
+	git checkout -q br_ballast
+'
+
+test_perf "switch between br_ballast br_ballast_plus_1 ($nr_files)" '
+	git checkout -q br_ballast_plus_1 &&
+	git checkout -q br_ballast
+'
+
+test_perf "switch between aliases ($nr_files)" '
+	git checkout -q br_ballast_alias &&
+	git checkout -q br_ballast
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/perf/repos/.gitignore b/t/perf/repos/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72e3dc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/perf/repos/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gen-*/
diff --git a/t/perf/repos/many-files.sh b/t/perf/repos/many-files.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5a1d25e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/perf/repos/many-files.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+## Generate test data repository using the given parameters.
+## When omitted, we create "gen-many-files-d-w-f.git".
+##
+## Usage: [-r repo] [-d depth] [-w width] [-f files]
+##
+## -r repo: path to the new repo to be generated
+## -d depth: the depth of sub-directories
+## -w width: the number of sub-directories at each level
+## -f files: the number of files created in each directory
+##
+## Note that all files will have the same SHA-1 and each
+## directory at a level will have the same SHA-1, so we
+## will potentially have a large index, but not a large
+## ODB.
+##
+## Ballast will be created under "ballast/".
+
+EMPTY_BLOB=e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
+
+set -e
+
+## (5, 10, 9) will create 999,999 ballast files.
+## (4, 10, 9) will create  99,999 ballast files.
+depth=5
+width=10
+files=9
+
+while test "$#" -ne 0
+do
+    case "$1" in
+	-r)
+	    shift;
+	    test "$#" -ne 0 || { echo 'error: -r requires an argument' >&2; exit 1; }
+	    repo=$1;
+	    shift ;;
+	-d)
+	    shift;
+	    test "$#" -ne 0 || { echo 'error: -d requires an argument' >&2; exit 1; }
+	    depth=$1;
+	    shift ;;
+	-w)
+	    shift;
+	    test "$#" -ne 0 || { echo 'error: -w requires an argument' >&2; exit 1; }
+	    width=$1;
+	    shift ;;
+	-f)
+	    shift;
+	    test "$#" -ne 0 || { echo 'error: -f requires an argument' >&2; exit 1; }
+	    files=$1;
+	    shift ;;
+	*)
+	    echo "error: unknown option '$1'" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+	esac
+done
+
+## Inflate the index with thousands of empty files.
+## usage: dir depth width files
+fill_index() {
+	awk -v arg_dir=$1 -v arg_depth=$2 -v arg_width=$3 -v arg_files=$4 '
+		function make_paths(dir, depth, width, files, f, w) {
+			for (f = 1; f <= files; f++) {
+				print dir "/file" f
+			}
+			if (depth > 0) {
+				for (w = 1; w <= width; w++) {
+					make_paths(dir "/dir" w, depth - 1, width, files)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		END { make_paths(arg_dir, arg_depth, arg_width, arg_files) }
+		' </dev/null |
+	sed "s/^/100644 $EMPTY_BLOB	/" |
+	git update-index --index-info
+	return 0
+}
+
+[ -z "$repo" ] && repo=gen-many-files-$depth.$width.$files.git
+
+mkdir $repo
+cd $repo
+git init .
+
+## Create an initial commit just to define master.
+touch many-files.empty
+echo "$depth $width $files" >many-files.params
+git add many-files.*
+git commit -q -m params
+
+## Create ballast for p0006 based upon the given params and
+## inflate the index with thousands of empty files and commit.
+git checkout -b p0006-ballast
+fill_index "ballast" $depth $width $files
+git commit -q -m "ballast"
+
+nr_files=$(git ls-files | wc -l)
+
+## Modify 1 file and commit.
+echo "$depth $width $files" >>many-files.params
+git add many-files.params
+git commit -q -m "ballast plus 1"
+
+## Checkout master to put repo in canonical state (because
+## the perf test may need to clone and enable sparse-checkout
+## before attempting to checkout a commit with the ballast
+## (because it may contain 100K directories and 1M files)).
+git checkout master
+
+echo "Repository "$repo" ($depth, $width, $files) created.  Ballast $nr_files."
+exit 0

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 6a27688..9af0bd4 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -910,6 +910,9 @@ int strcmp_offset(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t *first_change)
 /*
  * Do we have another file with a pathname that is a proper
  * subset of the name we're trying to add?
+ *
+ * That is, is there another file in the index with a path
+ * that matches a sub-directory in the given entry?
  */
 static int has_dir_name(struct index_state *istate,
 			const struct cache_entry *ce, int pos, int ok_to_replace)
@@ -918,6 +921,48 @@ static int has_dir_name(struct index_state *istate,
 	int stage = ce_stage(ce);
 	const char *name = ce->name;
 	const char *slash = name + ce_namelen(ce);
+	size_t len_eq_last;
+	int cmp_last = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * We are frequently called during an iteration on a sorted
+	 * list of pathnames and while building a new index.  Therefore,
+	 * there is a high probability that this entry will eventually
+	 * be appended to the index, rather than inserted in the middle.
+	 * If we can confirm that, we can avoid binary searches on the
+	 * components of the pathname.
+	 *
+	 * Compare the entry's full path with the last path in the index.
+	 */
+	if (istate->cache_nr > 0) {
+		cmp_last = strcmp_offset(name,
+			istate->cache[istate->cache_nr - 1]->name,
+			&len_eq_last);
+		if (cmp_last > 0) {
+			if (len_eq_last == 0) {
+				/*
+				 * The entry sorts AFTER the last one in the
+				 * index and their paths have no common prefix,
+				 * so there cannot be a F/D conflict.
+				 */
+				return retval;
+			} else {
+				/*
+				 * The entry sorts AFTER the last one in the
+				 * index, but has a common prefix.  Fall through
+				 * to the loop below to disect the entry's path
+				 * and see where the difference is.
+				 */
+			}
+		} else if (cmp_last == 0) {
+			/*
+			 * The entry exactly matches the last one in the
+			 * index, but because of multiple stage and CE_REMOVE
+			 * items, we fall through and let the regular search
+			 * code handle it.
+			 */
+		}
+	}
 
 	for (;;) {
 		int len;

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 9af0bd4..c252b6c 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static int has_dir_name(struct index_state *istate,
 	}
 
 	for (;;) {
-		int len;
+		size_t len;
 
 		for (;;) {
 			if (*--slash == '/')
@@ -975,6 +975,67 @@ static int has_dir_name(struct index_state *istate,
 		}
 		len = slash - name;
 
+		if (cmp_last > 0) {
+			/*
+			 * (len + 1) is a directory boundary (including
+			 * the trailing slash).  And since the loop is
+			 * decrementing "slash", the first iteration is
+			 * the longest directory prefix; subsequent
+			 * iterations consider parent directories.
+			 */
+
+			if (len + 1 <= len_eq_last) {
+				/*
+				 * The directory prefix (including the trailing
+				 * slash) also appears as a prefix in the last
+				 * entry, so the remainder cannot collide (because
+				 * strcmp said the whole path was greater).
+				 *
+				 * EQ: last: xxx/A
+				 *     this: xxx/B
+				 *
+				 * LT: last: xxx/file_A
+				 *     this: xxx/file_B
+				 */
+				return retval;
+			}
+
+			if (len > len_eq_last) {
+				/*
+				 * This part of the directory prefix (excluding
+				 * the trailing slash) is longer than the known
+				 * equal portions, so this sub-directory cannot
+				 * collide with a file.
+				 *
+				 * GT: last: xxxA
+				 *     this: xxxB/file
+				 */
+				return retval;
+			}
+
+			if (istate->cache_nr > 0 &&
+				ce_namelen(istate->cache[istate->cache_nr - 1]) > len) {
+				/*
+				 * The directory prefix lines up with part of
+				 * a longer file or directory name, but sorts
+				 * after it, so this sub-directory cannot
+				 * collide with a file.
+				 *
+				 * last: xxx/yy-file (because '-' sorts before '/')
+				 * this: xxx/yy/abc
+				 */
+				return retval;
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * This is a possible collision. Fall through and
+			 * let the regular search code handle it.
+			 *
+			 * last: xxx
+			 * this: xxx/file
+			 */
+		}
+
 		pos = index_name_stage_pos(istate, name, len, stage);
 		if (pos >= 0) {
 			/*