On Wednesday 04 of December 2013 08:07:23 Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Thomas Rast <tr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paweł Sikora <pawel.sikora@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Umm, there's a gem here that the thread missed so far: > >> my git repo isn't very big[1] but it's checked out on the linear lvm > >> where random i/o generally hurts and strace shows that current git > >> version > >> performs 2x{lstat}+1x{open,read,close} [2] on whole checkout before > >> > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > > There's no reason why it should do the lstat() *twice* for every file. > > But Paweł is right; the code path roughly goes like this: > > > > int cmd_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > > { > > [...] > > > > res = sequencer_pick_revisions(&opts); > > > > int sequencer_pick_revisions(struct replay_opts *opts) > > { > > [...] > > > > read_and_refresh_cache(opts); > > > > [...] > > > > return pick_commits(todo_list, opts); > > > > } > > > > static int pick_commits(struct commit_list *todo_list, struct replay_opts > > *opts) { > > [...] > > > > read_and_refresh_cache(opts); > > > > I'm too tired to dig further, but AFAICT it's just a rather obvious case > > of duplication of effort. > > That's something to optimize, but it's single commit picking, > sequencer_pick_revisions() should call single_pick() instead of > pick_commits(). > > The read+close on the whole checkout looks like there's problem with > refresh operation and git decides to read up and verify sha-1 by > content. Pawel, if you run "strace git update-index --refresh" twice, > does it still show 1 stat + 1 read for every entry on the second try? the 'git update-index --refresh' runs quickly and strace shows only lstat() on every file. i see no massive open/read actions in this case. $ strace -o strace-try1.log git update-index --refresh hmdb: needs update $ strace -o strace-try2.log git update-index --refresh hmdb: needs update $ grep -c lstat strace-try1.log 33793 $ grep -c lstat strace-try2.log 33793 -- gpg key fingerprint = 60B4 9886 AD53 EB3E 88BB 1EB5 C52E D01B 683B 9411 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html