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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kjetil Barvik <barvik@broadpark.no>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check_updates(): effective removal of cache entries marked CE_REMOVE
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:44:34 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902181436390.21686@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234995483-933-1-git-send-email-barvik@broadpark.no>



On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Kjetil Barvik wrote:
> 
> To fix this, and use an O(N) algorithm instead, where N is the number
> of cache_entries, we delete/remove all entries in one loop through all
> entries.

Ack. We've had things like this before. I'm somewhat surprised that it is 
noticeable even in the "o->update" case (since I would have expected the 
cost of actually doing an unlink() to swamp the memmove overhead), but the 
patch looks obviously correct. 

Looking at the numbers, I guess it's not _really_ noticeable - it's 1.8% 
of git user-space time, which in turn is about 75% of total time, so it's 
not a huge improvement, but I'll certainly ack it anyway as being the 
right thing to do. Every little bit helps. 

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 22:18 [PATCH] check_updates(): effective removal of cache entries marked CE_REMOVE Kjetil Barvik
2009-02-18 22:44 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-02-19  8:24 ` Alex Riesen
2009-02-19  9:06   ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-02-20  7:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-20  9:01   ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-02-20  9:14     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-20 10:15       ` Kjetil Barvik

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