Re: [PATCH] refs.c: add a function to sort a ref list, rather then sorting on add

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:
>>
>> Rather than sorting the refs list while building it, sort in one go
>> after it is built using a merge sort.  This has a large performance
>> boost with large numbers of refs.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks fine. I think that even your new times are a bit high (over two 
> seconds?) but things are clearly better. Have you looked at what takes so 
> long now? 

I wonder why the loss of "we are replacing the same one" case in
the original add_ref() was not compensated for in the new
sort_ref_list().

I think we would not call add_ref() to the same list with
duplicate names, unless (1) filesystem is grossly corrupt, (2)
somebody added a new ref while we are walking (how does
readdir() behave in such a case???), or (3) packed-refs file is
corrupt.




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