Btw, I also tried doing some very poor-man's profiling on "git commit"
without any of the readtree/writetree/updateindex commands.
Around 50% of the time was in (bottom few frames may have varied)
#1 0x00000000004c467e in find_pack_entry (sha1=0x1475a44 ,
e=0x7fff2621f070) at sha1_file.c:2027
#2 0x00000000004c57b0 in has_sha1_file (sha1=0x7fe2cd9c7900 "00") at
sha1_file.c:2567
#3 0x000000000046e4af in update_one (it=<value optimized out>,
cache=<value optimized out>, entries=<value optimized out>, base=<value
optimized out>, baselen=<value optimized out>, missing_ok=<value optimized
out>, dryrun=0) at cache-\
tree.c:333
#4 0x000000000046e278 in update_one (it=<value optimized out>,
cache=<value optimized out>, entries=<value optimized out>, base=<value
optimized out>, baselen=<value optimized out>, missing_ok=<value optimized
out>, dryrun=0) at cache-\
tree.c:285
#5 0x000000000046e278 in update_one (it=<value optimized out>,
cache=<value optimized out>, entries=<value optimized out>, base=<value
optimized out>, baselen=<value optimized out>, missing_ok=<value optimized
out>, dryrun=0) at cache-\
tree.c:285
#6 0x000000000046e278 in update_one (it=<value optimized out>,
cache=<value optimized out>, entries=<value optimized out>, base=<value
optimized out>, baselen=<value optimized out>, missing_ok=<value optimized
out>, dryrun=0) at cache-\
tree.c:285
#7 0x000000000046e278 in update_one (it=<value optimized out>,
cache=<value optimized out>, entries=<value optimized out>, base=<value
optimized out>, baselen=<value optimized out>, missing_ok=<value optimized
out>, dryrun=0) at cache-\
tree.c:285
#8 0x000000000046e278 in update_one (it=<value optimized out>,
cache=<value optimized out>, entries=<value optimized out>, base=<value
optimized out>, baselen=<value optimized out>, missing_ok=<value optimized
out>, dryrun=0) at cache-\
tree.c:285
#9 0x000000000046e869 in cache_tree_update (it=<value optimized out>,
cache=<value optimized out>, entries=dwarf2_read_address: Corrupted DWARF
expression.
) at cache-tree.c:379
#10 0x000000000041cade in prepare_to_commit (index_file=0x781740
".git/index", prefix=<value optimized out>, current_head=<value optimized
out>, s=0x7fff26220d00, author_ident=<value optimized out>) at
builtin/commit.c:866
#11 0x000000000041d891 in cmd_commit (argc=0, argv=0x7fff262213a0,
prefix=0x0) at builtin/commit.c:1407
#12 0x0000000000404bf7 in handle_internal_command (argc=4,
argv=0x7fff262213a0) at git.c:308
#13 0x0000000000404e2f in main (argc=4, argv=0x7fff262213a0) at git.c:512
And 30% of the time was in:
#0 0x00000034af2c34a5 in _lxstat () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x00000000004abe0f in refresh_cache_ent (istate=0x780940,
ce=0x7f8462a34e40, options=0, err=0x7fff6dd9f588) at
/usr/include/sys/stat.h:443
#2 0x00000000004ac1a0 in refresh_index (istate=0x780940, flags=<value
optimized out>, pathspec=<value optimized out>, seen=<value optimized
out>, header_msg=0x0) at read-cache.c:1133
#3 0x000000000041b60a in refresh_cache_or_die (refresh_flags=<value
optimized out>) at builtin/commit.c:331
#4 0x000000000041bc39 in prepare_index (argc=0, argv=0x7fff6dda0310,
prefix=0x0, current_head=<value optimized out>, is_status=<value optimized
out>) at builtin/commit.c:414
#5 0x000000000041d878 in cmd_commit (argc=0, argv=0x7fff6dda0310,
prefix=0x0) at builtin/commit.c:1403
Josh
On 12/8/11 4:09 PM, "Joshua Redstone" <joshua.redstone@xxxxxx> wrote:
>On 12/7/11 5:39 PM, "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Joshua Redstone <joshua.redstone@xxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>> Hi Duy,
>>> Thanks for the documentation link.
>>>
>>> git ls-files shows 100k files, which matches # of files in the working
>>> tree ('find . -type f -print | wc -l').
>>
>>Any chance you can split it into smaller repositories, or remove files
>>from working directory (e.g. if you store logs, you don't have to keep
>>logs from all time in working directory, they can be retrieved from
>>history).
>
>It's not really feasible to split it into smaller repositories. In fact,
>we're expecting it to grow between 3x and 5x in number of files and number
>of commits.
>
>>
>>> I added a 'git read-tree HEAD' before the git-add, and a 'git
>>>write-tree'
>>> after the add. With that, the commit time slowed down to 8 seconds per
>>> commit, plus 4 more seconds for the read-tree/add/write-tree ops. The
>>> read-tree/add/write-tree each took about a second.
>>
>>read-tree destroys stat info in index, refreshing 100k entries in
>>index in this case may take some time. Try this to see if commit time
>>reduces and how much time update-index takes
>>
>>read-tree HEAD
>>update-index --refresh
>>add ....
>>write-tree
>>commit -q
>
>I added the "update-index --refresh" and the time for commit became more
>like 0.6 seconds.
>In this setup: read-tree takes ~2 seconds, update-index takes ~8 seconds,
>git-add takes 1 to 4 seconds, and write-tree takes less than 1 second.
>
>>
>>> As an experiment, I also tried removing the 'git read-tree' and just
>>> having the git-write-tree. That sped up commits to 0.6 seconds, but
>>>the
>>> overall time for add/write-tree/commit was still 3 to 6 seconds.
>>
>>overall time is not really important because we duplicate work here
>>(write-tree is done as part of commit again). What I'm trying to do is
>>to determine how much time each operation in commit may take.
>>--
>>Duy
>
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