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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fetch-pack: grow stateless RPC windows exponentially
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:20:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzipde5xb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160719195347.GF29326@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:53:47 -0700")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> In the stateless-rpc case, linear growth means getting a bounded
> number of 'have's worth of benefit (new 'have's) in each round, in
> exchange for a linearly increasing cost (existing 'have's).  That is a
> high cost for limited benefit.  Exponential growth is a better deal.

Ahh, of course (silly me).  I somehow forgot the cost of having to
repeat what we have already sent to the other side.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-19 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18 18:36 [PATCH] fetch-pack: grow stateless RPC windows exponentially Jonathan Tan
2016-07-18 18:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2016-07-18 19:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 19:16     ` Jonathan Tan
2016-07-18 19:31       ` Jonathan Nieder
2016-07-18 20:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 21:05           ` Jonathan Tan
2016-07-18 21:36             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 22:21               ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Tan
2016-07-18 22:40                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2016-07-19 16:46                 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-19 19:03                   ` Jonathan Tan
2016-07-19 19:17                     ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-19 19:23                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 19:53                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2016-07-19 20:20                         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-20 13:40                         ` Jeff King

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