On 10/29/2018 1:26 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:21 PM Ben Peart <peartben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
@@ -114,6 +104,9 @@ static void preload_index(struct index_state *index,
threads = index->cache_nr / THREAD_COST;
if ((index->cache_nr > 1) && (threads < 2) &&
git_env_bool("GIT_TEST_PRELOAD_INDEX", 0))
threads = 2;
+ cpus = online_cpus();
+ if (threads > cpus)
+ threads = cpus;
if (threads < 2)
return;
trace_performance_enter();
Capping the number of threads to online_cpus() does not always make
sense. In this case (or at least the original use case where we stat()
over nfs) we want to issue as many requests to nfs server as possible
to reduce latency and it has nothing to do with how many cores we
have. Using more threads than cores might make sense since threads are
blocked by nfs client, but we still want to send more to the server.
That makes sense. Some test will be necessary then.
I guess HAVE_THREADS is functionally the same as online_cpus() == 1.
For some reason, I prefer the latter - probably because I'm typically
already calling it and so it doesn't feel like a 'special' value/test I
have to remember. I just know I need to make sure the logic works
correctly with any number of cps greater than zero. :-)
