Optimize "diff-index --cached" using cache-tree
When running "diff-index --cached" after making a change to only a small
portion of the index, there is no point unpacking unchanged subtrees into
the index recursively, only to find that all entries match anyway. Tweak
unpack_trees() logic that is used to read in the tree object to catch the
case where the tree entry we are looking at matches the index as a whole
by looking at the cache-tree.
As an exercise, after modifying a few paths in the kernel tree, here are
a few numbers on my Athlon 64X2 3800+:
(without patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time git diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.07user 0.02system 0:00.09elapsed 102%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+9407minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.02user 0.00system 0:00.02elapsed 103%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+2446minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Cold cache numbers are very impressive, but it does not matter very much
in practice:
(without patch, cold cache)
$ su root sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ /usr/bin/time git diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.06user 0.17system 0:10.26elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
247032inputs+0outputs (1172major+8237minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, cold cache)
$ su root sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644 b57e1f5... e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000 8c86b72... 0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644 0000000... e69de29... A arche
0.02user 0.01system 0:01.01elapsed 3%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
18440inputs+0outputs (79major+2369minor)pagefaults 0swaps
This of course helps "git status" as well.
(without patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-status >/dev/null
0.17user 0.18system 0:00.35elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+5336outputs (0major+10970minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-status >/dev/null
0.10user 0.16system 0:00.27elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+5336outputs (0major+3921minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
index aaacaf1..8eb3ddb 100644
--- a/unpack-trees.c
+++ b/unpack-trees.c
@@ -326,6 +326,23 @@
if (src[0])
conflicts |= 1;
}
+
+ /* special case: "diff-index --cached" looking at a tree */
+ if (o->diff_index_cached &&
+ n == 1 && dirmask == 1 && S_ISDIR(names->mode)) {
+ int matches;
+ matches = cache_tree_matches_traversal(o->src_index->cache_tree,
+ names, info);
+ /*
+ * Everything under the name matches. Adjust o->pos to
+ * skip the entire hierarchy.
+ */
+ if (matches) {
+ o->pos += matches;
+ return mask;
+ }
+ }
+
if (traverse_trees_recursive(n, dirmask, conflicts,
names, info) < 0)
return -1;
