Re: [PATCH 0/6] thread lazy_init_name_hash

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git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch series is a performance optimization for
> lazy_init_name_hash() in name-hash.c on very large
> repositories.
>
> This change allows lazy_init_name_hash() to optionally
> use multiple threads when building the the_index.dir_hash
> and the_index.name_hash hashmaps.  The original code path
> has been preserved and is used when the repo is small or
> the system does not have sufficient CPUs.
>
> A helper command (t/helper/test-lazy-init-name-hash) was
> created to demonstrate performance differences and validate
> output.  For example, use the '-p' option to compare both
> code paths on a large repo.
>
> During our testing on the Windows source tree (3.1M
> files, 500K folders, 450MB index), this change reduced
> the runtime of lazy_init_name_hash() from 1.4 to 0.27
> seconds.
>
> This patch series replaces my earlier
>      * jh/memihash-opt (2017-02-17) 5 commits
> patch series.

Ahh.  I was scratching my head trying to remember why some of these
look so familiar.  [PATCH v2 ...] would have helped.

Thank you for an update.

>
> Jeff Hostetler (6):
>   name-hash: specify initial size for istate.dir_hash table
>   hashmap: allow memihash computation to be continued
>   hashmap: Add disallow_rehash setting
>   name-hash: perf improvement for lazy_init_name_hash
>   name-hash: add test-lazy-init-name-hash
>   name-hash: add perf test for lazy_init_name_hash
>
>  Makefile                            |   1 +
>  cache.h                             |   1 +
>  hashmap.c                           |  29 ++-
>  hashmap.h                           |  25 ++
>  name-hash.c                         | 490 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  t/helper/test-lazy-init-name-hash.c | 264 +++++++++++++++++++
>  t/perf/p0004-lazy-init-name-hash.sh |  19 ++
>  7 files changed, 820 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 t/helper/test-lazy-init-name-hash.c
>  create mode 100644 t/perf/p0004-lazy-init-name-hash.sh



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