Re: [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: fix threaded load balancing

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 12/9/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +               if (victim) {
> > +                       sub_size = victim->remaining / 2;
> > +                       list = victim->list + victim->list_size - sub_size;
> > +                       while (sub_size && list[0]->hash &&
> > +                              list[0]->hash == list[-1]->hash) {
> > +                               list++;
>
> I think you needed to copy sub_size to another variable for this loop

Copying sub_size was wrong. I believe you are checking for deltas on
the same file. It's probably that chain of 103,817 deltas that can't
be broken up.

ChainLength     Objects Cumulative
1:      103817  103817
2:      67332   171149
3:      57520   228669
4:      52570   281239
5:      43910   325149
6:      37520   362669
7:      35248   397917
8:      29819   427736
9:      27619   455355
10:     22656   478011
11:     21073   499084
...

>
> > +                               sub_size--;
> > +                       }
> > +                       target->list = list;
> > +                       victim->list_size -= sub_size;
> > +                       victim->remaining -= sub_size;
> > +               }



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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com