From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
To: Robert Zeh <robert.allan.zeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:26:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302101226.12646.mfick@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKXa9=qQwJqxZLxhAS35QeF1+dwH+ukod0NfFggVCuUZHz-USg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:03:00 pm Robert Zeh wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Junio C Hamano
<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> >> This is much better than Junio's suggestion to study
> >> possible implementations on all platforms and
> >> designing a generic daemon/ communication channel.
> >> That's no weekend project.
> >
> > It appears that you misunderstood what I wrote. That
> > was not "here is a design; I want it in my system. Go
> > implemment it".
> >
> > It was "If somebody wants to discuss it but does not
> > know where to begin, doing a small experiment like
> > this and reporting how well it worked here may be one
> > way to do so.", nothing more.
>
> What if instead of communicating over a socket, the
> daemon dumped a file containing all of the lstat
> information after git wrote a file? By definition the
> daemon should know about file writes.
But git doesn't, how will it know when the file is written?
Will it use inotify, or poll (kind of defeats the point)?
-Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-10 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-08 21:10 inotify to minimize stat() calls Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-08 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-08 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-09 2:10 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 2:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-09 2:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-09 3:36 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-09 12:05 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 12:11 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 12:53 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 12:59 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 17:10 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 18:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-10 5:24 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 11:17 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 11:22 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-11 2:56 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-11 11:12 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-07 22:16 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-08 0:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-08 7:01 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-08 8:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-08 9:24 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-08 10:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-10 8:23 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-13 12:59 ` [PATCH] status: hint the user about -uno if read_directory takes too long Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-03-13 15:21 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-13 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 10:22 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-14 15:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-15 12:30 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-15 15:52 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-15 15:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-15 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-15 17:41 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-15 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-15 21:14 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-15 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-16 7:21 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-17 4:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-16 1:51 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 13:26 ` inotify to minimize stat() calls demerphq
2013-02-10 15:35 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-14 14:36 ` Magnus Bäck
2013-02-10 16:45 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-11 3:03 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 16:58 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-02-11 3:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-12 20:48 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-13 10:06 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-13 12:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-13 18:18 ` Jeff King
2013-02-13 19:47 ` Jeff King
2013-02-13 20:25 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-13 22:55 ` Jeff King
2013-02-14 0:48 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-27 14:45 ` [PATCH] name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true Karsten Blees
2013-02-27 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-27 21:52 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-27 23:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Karsten Blees
2013-02-28 0:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-19 9:49 ` inotify to minimize stat() calls Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-19 14:25 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-19 13:16 ` Drew Northup
2013-02-19 13:47 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-10 19:03 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-10 19:26 ` Martin Fick [this message]
2013-02-10 20:18 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-11 3:21 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-11 14:13 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-19 9:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH] " Robert Zeh
2013-04-24 21:32 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-25 19:44 ` Robert Zeh
2013-04-25 21:20 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-26 15:35 ` Robert Zeh
2013-04-25 8:18 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-25 19:37 ` Robert Zeh
2013-04-25 19:59 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-27 13:51 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-27 23:56 ` Duy Nguyen
[not found] ` <CAKXa9=r2A7UeBV2s2H3wVGdPkS1zZ9huNJhtvTC-p0S5Ed12xA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-30 0:27 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 11:32 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-14 15:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2013-02-14 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-19 9:40 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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