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From: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, John Hsing <tsyj2007@gmail.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read-cache.c: fix index memory allocation
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:59:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA58B63.8040800@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vipne50lz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 24.10.2011 09:07, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Thanks.
> 
> This approach may be the most appropriate for the maintenance track, but
> for the purpose of going forward, I wonder if we really want to keep the
> "estimate and allocate a large pool, and carve out individual pieces".
> 
> This bulk-allocate dates back to the days when we didn't have ondisk vs
> incore representation differences, IIRC, and as the result we deliberately
> leak cache entries whenever an entry in the index is replaced with a new
> one. Does the overhead to allocate individually really kill us that much
> for say a tree with 30k files in it?

Probably not; unpack_trees() does that already.  (It calls
create_ce_entry() via unpack_nondirectories() via unpack_callback() via
traverse_trees()).

René

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-22  0:20 a bug when execute "git status" in git version 1.7.7.431.g89633 John Hsing
2011-10-23  8:25 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-10-23  8:35   ` John Hsing
2011-10-23 13:25     ` René Scharfe
2011-10-23 14:28       ` René Scharfe
2011-10-23 16:29       ` Jeff King
2011-10-23 17:50         ` René Scharfe
2011-10-24  1:01           ` [PATCH] read-cache.c: fix index memory allocation René Scharfe
2011-10-24  7:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-24 15:59               ` René Scharfe [this message]
2011-10-24 21:59               ` René Scharfe
2011-10-24 23:34                 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-10-25  0:01                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-10-25 18:00                     ` René Scharfe
2011-10-25 16:24                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-24  7:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-24 15:52               ` René Scharfe

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