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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Eric Herman <eric@freesa.org>, <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] grep: disable threading in all but worktree case
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 10:02:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112051002.22138.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED8F9AE.8030605@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe wrote:
> Am 02.12.2011 14:07, schrieb Thomas Rast:
> > Measuring grep performance showed that in all but the worktree case
> > (as opposed to --cached,<committish>  or<treeish>), threading
> > actually slows things down.  For example, on my dual-core
> > hyperthreaded i7 in a linux-2.6.git at v2.6.37-rc2, I got:
> >
> > Threads       worktree case                 | --cached case
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 8 (default) | 2.17user 0.15sys 0:02.20real  | 0.11user 0.26sys 0:00.11real
> > 4           | 2.06user 0.17sys 0:02.08real  | 0.11user 0.26sys 0:00.12real
> > 2           | 2.02user 0.25sys 0:02.08real  | 0.15user 0.37sys 0:00.28real
> > NO_PTHREADS | 1.57user 0.05sys 0:01.64real  | 0.09user 0.12sys 0:00.22real
> 
> Are the columns mixed up?

Indeed, sorry.

In case you were wondering why this table is different from the
numbers given in the cover letter: I noticed at some point that I had
an incomplete checkout (apparently 'git checkout -- .' is really not
the same as 'git reset --hard'... sigh).  Then I saw that while the
numbers were different, the conclusion was not, so I forgot to update
it.

> This is a bit radical.  I think the underlying issue that 
> read_sha1_file() is not thread-safe can be solved eventually and then 
> we'd need to readd that code.

I'm also scared of sha1_file.c, especially when it gets down to
packfiles.  But perhaps it wouldn't be *too* hard to do it in parallel
iff the object can be read from the loose object store.

> PS: Patches one and three missed a signoff.

Oops, thanks, turns out I had a misconfigured alias ...

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-05  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-25 14:46 [PATCH] grep: load funcname patterns for -W Thomas Rast
2011-11-25 16:32 ` René Scharfe
2011-11-26 12:15   ` [PATCH] grep: enable multi-threading for -p and -W René Scharfe
2011-11-29  9:54     ` Thomas Rast
2011-11-29 13:49       ` René Scharfe
2011-11-29 14:07         ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-02 13:07           ` [PATCH v2 0/3] grep multithreading and scaling Thomas Rast
2011-12-02 13:07             ` [PATCH v2 1/3] grep: load funcname patterns for -W Thomas Rast
2011-12-02 13:07             ` [PATCH v2 2/3] grep: enable threading with -p and -W using lazy attribute lookup Thomas Rast
2011-12-02 13:07             ` [PATCH v2 3/3] grep: disable threading in all but worktree case Thomas Rast
2011-12-02 16:15               ` René Scharfe
2011-12-05  9:02                 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2011-12-06 22:48                 ` René Scharfe
2011-12-06 23:01                   ` [PATCH 4/2] grep: turn off threading for non-worktree René Scharfe
2011-12-07  4:42                     ` Jeff King
2011-12-07 17:11                       ` René Scharfe
2011-12-07 18:28                         ` Jeff King
2011-12-07 20:11                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-12-07 20:45                         ` Jeff King
2011-12-07  8:12                     ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-07 17:00                       ` René Scharfe
2011-12-10 13:13                         ` Pete Wyckoff
2011-12-12 22:37                           ` René Scharfe
2011-12-07  4:24                   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] grep: disable threading in all but worktree case Jeff King
2011-12-07 16:52                     ` René Scharfe
2011-12-07 18:10                       ` Jeff King
2011-12-07  8:11                   ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-07 16:54                     ` René Scharfe
2011-12-12 21:16                 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] grep attributes and multithreading Thomas Rast
2011-12-12 21:16                   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] grep: load funcname patterns for -W Thomas Rast
2011-12-12 21:16                   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] grep: enable threading with -p and -W using lazy attribute lookup Thomas Rast
2011-12-16  8:22                     ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-16 17:34                       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12 21:16                   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] grep: disable threading in non-worktree case Thomas Rast
2011-12-12 22:37                   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] grep attributes and multithreading René Scharfe
2011-12-12 23:44                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-13  8:44                     ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-23 22:37               ` [PATCH v2 3/3] grep: disable threading in all but worktree case Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-12-23 22:49                 ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-24  1:39                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-12-24  7:07                     ` Jeff King
2011-12-24 10:49                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-12-24 10:55                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-12-24 13:38                         ` Jeff King
2011-12-25  3:32                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-12-02 17:34             ` [PATCH v2 0/3] grep multithreading and scaling Jeff King
2011-12-05  9:38               ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-05 20:16                 ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-06  0:40                 ` Jeff King
2011-12-02 20:02             ` Eric Herman

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