Re: [PATCH 0/5] Use watchman to reduce index refresh time

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi
>> <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Duy,
>>>
>>>> This series builds on top of the index-helper series I just sent and
>>>> uses watchman to keep track of file changes in order to avoid lstat()
>>>> at refresh time. The series can also be found at [1]
>>>>
>>>> When I started this work, watchman did not support Windows yet. It
>>>> does now, even if still experimental [2]. So Windows people, please
>>>> try it out if you have time.
>>>>
>>>> To put all pieces so far together, we have split-index to reduce index
>>>> write time, untracked cache to reduce I/O as well as computation for
>>>> .gitignore, index-helper for index read time and this series for
>>>> lstat() at refresh time. The remaining piece is killing lstat() from
>>>> untracked cache, but right now it's just some idea and incomplete
>>>> code.
>>>
>>> Did you manage to measure the speedup introduced by this series?
>>
>> It was from last year. I may have measured it but because I didn't
>> save it in the commit message, it was lost anyway. Installing watchman
>> and measuring with webkit.git soon..
>
> Test repo: webkit.git with 104665 tracked files, 5615 untracked,
> 3517 dirs. Best numbers out of a few tries. This is best case
> scenario. Normal usage could have worse numbers.

Thank you for the tests!

I tried to replicate your results on webkit.git with 184672 tracked
files, 5631 untracked, 9330 dirs. Also best numbers out of a few
tries.

> There is something strange about the "-uno" measurements. I don't
> think watchman+untracked cache can beat -uno..  Maybe I did something
> wrong.
>
> 0m0.383s   index v2
> 0m0.351s   index v4
> 0m0.352s   v2 split-index
> 0m0.309s   v2 split index-helper
> 0m0.159s   v2 split helper untracked-cache
> 0m0.123s   v2 split helper "status -uno"
> 0m0.098s   v2 split helper untracked watchman
> 0m0.071s   v2 split helper watchman "status -uno"

I got the following results from "time git status ...":

0m0.774s
0m0.799s split
0m0.766s split helper
0m0.335s split helper untracked
0m0.232s split helper untracked -uno
0m0.284s split helper untracked watchman
0m0.188s split helper untracked watchman -uno

Using David's series I get worse results than all of the above but I
guess it's because his series is based on an ancient git version
(v2.0.0-rc0).

> Note, the watchman series needs
> s/free_watchman_shm/release_watchman_shm/ (I didn't do a good job
> of testing after rebase). And there's a small bug in index-helper
> --detach code writing incorrect PID..

I did the s/free_watchman_shm/release_watchman_shm/ change, but I
didn't notice the index-helper bug.

Thanks,
Christian.