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d7f58eab
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Date :
2019-06-21T11:55:21
config_file: implement stat cache to avoid repeated rehashing
To decide whether a config file has changed, we always hash its
complete contents. This is unnecessarily expensive, as
well-behaved filesystems will always update stat information for
files which have changed. So before computing the hash, we should
first check whether the stat info has actually changed for either
the configuration file or any of its includes. This avoids having
to re-read the configuration file and its includes every time
when we check whether it's been modified.
Tracing the for-each-ref example previous to this commit, one can
see that we repeatedly re-open both the repo configuration as
well as the global configuration:
$ strace lg2 for-each-ref |& grep config
access("/home/pks/.gitconfig", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/pks/.config/git/config", F_OK) = 0
access("/etc/gitconfig", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
access("/tmp/repo/.git/config", F_OK) = 0
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffd15c05290) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/pks/.gitconfig", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
access("/home/pks/.config/git/config", F_OK) = 0
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffd15c051f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffd15c05090) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffd15c05090) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffd15c05090) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
With the change, we only do stats for those files and open them a
single time, only:
$ strace lg2 for-each-ref |& grep config
access("/home/pks/.gitconfig", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/pks/.config/git/config", F_OK) = 0
access("/etc/gitconfig", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
access("/tmp/repo/.git/config", F_OK) = 0
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540d20) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/pks/.gitconfig", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
access("/home/pks/.config/git/config", F_OK) = 0
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540ca0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540c80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540b40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540b20) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540b40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540b20) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
stat("/tmp/repo/.git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540b40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.gitconfig", 0x7ffe70540b20) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/pks/.config/git/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1154, ...}) = 0
The following benchmark has been performed with and without the
stat cache in a best-of-ten run:
```
int lg2_repro(git_repository *repo, int argc, char **argv)
{
git_config *cfg;
int32_t dummy;
int i;
UNUSED(argc);
UNUSED(argv);
check_lg2(git_repository_config(&cfg, repo),
"Could not obtain config", NULL);
for (i = 1; i < 100000; ++i)
git_config_get_int32(&dummy, cfg, "foo.bar");
git_config_free(cfg);
return 0;
}
```
Without stat cache:
$ time lg2 repro
real 0m1.528s
user 0m0.568s
sys 0m0.944s
With stat cache:
$ time lg2 repro
real 0m0.526s
user 0m0.268s
sys 0m0.258s
This benchmark shows a nearly three-fold performance improvement.
This change requires that we check our configuration stress tests
as we're now in fact becoming more racy. If somebody is writing a
configuration file at nearly the same time (there is a window of
100ns on Windows-based systems), then it might be that we realize
that this file has actually changed and thus may not re-read it.
This will only happen if either an external process is rewriting
the configuration file or if the same process has multiple
`git_config` structures pointing to the same time, where one of
both is being used to write and the other one is used to read
values.