And add a test case for that.
This certianly loses some of the 2x performance improvement in file
seeking that seekFilteredKeys led to, because now it has to stat the
worktree files again. Without benchmarking, I expect there will still be
a sizable improvement, and also the git-annex branch precaching that
seekFilteredKeys can do will still be a win of its approach.
Also worth noting that lookupKey, when the file DNE, check if it's in an
adjusted branch with hidden files, and if so, finds the key for the
file anyway. That was intended to make git-annex sync --content be able
to process those files, but a side effect was that, when a file was
deleted but the deletion not yet staged, git-annex commands used to
still list it. That was actually a bug. This commit fixes that bug too.
(git-annex sync --content on such a branch does not use seekFilteredKeys
so was not affected by the reversion or by this behavior change)
This commit was sponsored by Jake Vosloo on Patreon.
This was a bit disappointing, I was hoping for a 2x speedup. But, I think
the metadata lookup is wasting a lot of time and also needs to be made to
stream.
The changes to catObjectStreamLsTree were benchmarked to not also speed
up --all around 3% more. Seems I managed to make it polymorphic after all.
This solves the same problem as commit b4d0f6dfc2
but in a better way, that should make processing pointer files maximally
fast. If there is a mixture of pointer files and symlinks, the first
symlinks until the pointer file are handled maximally fast, while the
ones after that go via the slightly slower path.
This removes all calls to inAnnex, except for some involving --batch.
It may be that the batch code could get a similar speedup, but I don't
know if people habitually pass a huge number of files through --batch
that git-annex does not need to do anything to process, so I skipped it
for now.
A few calls to ifAnnexed remain, and might be worth doing more to
convert. In particular, Command.Sync has one that would probably speed
it up by a good amount.
(also removed some dead code from Command.Lock)
This is all good, except for one small problem... When a pointer file
has to be fed into the metadata cat-file, it's possible for a
non-pointer file that comes after it to get fed into the main cat-file
first, so the two files will be processed in a different order than the
user specified.
So, while this is the fast way, I guess I'll have to change it to be
slower, but sequential..
This is only implemented for git-annex get so far. It makes git-annex
get nearly twice as fast in a repo with 10k files, all of them present!
But, see the TODO for some caveats.
This assumes that no location log files will have a newline or carriage
return in their name. catObjectStream skips any such files due to
cat-file not supporting them.
Keys have been prevented from containing newlines since 2011,
commit 480495beb4. If some old repo
had a key with a newline in it, --all will just skip processing that key.
Other things, like .git/annex/unused files certianly assume no newlines in
keys too, and AFAICR, such keys never actually worked.
Carriage return is escaped by preSanitizeKeyName since 2013. WORM keys
generated before that point could perhaps contain a CR. (URL probably not,
http probably doesn't support an URL with a raw CR in it.) So, added
a warning in fsck about such keys. Although, fsck --all will naturally
skip them, so won't be able to warn about them. Not entirely
satisfactory, but I'll bet there are not really any such keys in
existence.
Thanks to Lukey for finding this optimisation.
The cache was removed way back in 2012,
commit 3417c55189
Then I forgot I had removed it! I remember clearly multiple times when I
thought, "this reads the same data twice, but the cache will avoid that
being very expensive".
The reason it was removed was it messed up the assistant noticing when
other processes made changes. That same kind of problem has recently
been addressed when adding the optimisation to avoid reading the journal
unnecessarily.
Indeed, enableInteractiveJournalAccess is run in just the
right places, so can just piggyback on it to know when it's not safe
to use the cache.
Always run Git.Config.store, so when the git config gets reloaded,
the override gets re-added to it, and changeGitRepo then calls extractGitConfig
on it and sees the annex.* settings from the override.
Remove any prior occurance of -c v and add it to the end. This way,
-c foo=1 -c foo=2 -c foo=1 will pass -c foo=1 to git, rather than -c foo=2
Note that, if git had some multiline config that got built up by
multiple -c's, this would not work still. But it never worked because
before the bug got fixed in the first place, the -c value was repeated
many times, so the multivalue thing would have been wrong. I don't think
-c can be used with multiline configs anyway, though git-config does
talk about them?
Added annex.skipunknown git config, that can be set to false to change the
behavior of commands like `git annex get foo*`, to not skip over files/dirs
that are not checked into git and are explicitly listed in the command
line.
Significant complexity was needed to handle git-annex add, which uses some
git ls-files calls, but needs to not use --error-unmatch because of course
the files are not known to git.
annex.skipunknown is planned to change to default to false in a
git-annex release in early 2022. There's a todo for that.
Fix a crash or potentially not all files being exported when sync -J
--content is used with an export remote.
Crash as described in fixed bug report.
waitForAllRunningCommandActions inserted in several points where all the
commandActions started before need to have finished before moving on to
the next stage of the export. A race across those points could have
maybe resulted in not all files being exported, or a wrong tree being
export.
For example, changeExport starting up an action like
a rename of A to B. Then, with that action still running, fillExport
uploading a new A, *before* the rename occurred. That race seems
unlikely to have happened. There are some other ones that this also
fixes.
This relicates git's behavior. It adds a few stat calls for the command
line parameters, so there is some minor slowdown, but even with thousands
of parameters it will not be very noticable, and git does the same statting
in similar circumstances.
Note that this does not prevent eg "git annex add symlink"; the symlink
will be added to git as usual. And "git annex find symlink" will silently
list nothing as well. It's only "symlink/foo" or "subdir/symlink/foo" that
triggers the warning.
Avoid running a large number of git cat-file child processes when run with
a large -J value.
This implementation takes care to avoid adding any overhead to git-annex
when run without -J. When run with -J, there is a small bit of added
overhead, to manipulate the resource pool. That optimisation added a
fair bit of complexity.
This does mean that RemoteDaemon.Transport.Tor's call runs it, otherwise
no change, but this is groundwork for doing more such expensive actions
in dupState.
Git has an obnoxious special case in git config, a line "foo" is the same
as "foo = true". That means there is no way to examine the output of
git config and tell if it was run with --null or not, since a "foo"
in the first line could be such a boolean, or could be followed by its
value on the next line if --null were used.
So, rather than trying to do such a detection, track the style of config
at all the points where it's generated.
The only price paid is one additional MVar read per write to the journal.
Presumably writing a journal file dominiates over a MVar read time by
several orders of magnitude.
--batch does not get the speedup because then it needs to notice when
another process has made a change. Also made the assistant and other damon
modes bypass the optimisation, which would not help them anyway.
The 'fail' method has been moved to the 'MonadFail' class. I made the changes
so that the code still compiles with previous versions of 'base' that don't
have the new MonadFail class exported by Prelude yet.
It's important that it be clear that it overrides a config, such that
reloading the git config won't change it, and in particular, setConfig
won't change it.
Most of the calls to changeGitConfig were actually after setConfig,
which was redundant and unncessary. So removed those.
The only remaining one, besides --debug, is in the handling of
repository-global config values. That one's ok, because the
way mergeGitConfig is implemented, it does not override any value that
is set in git config. If a value with a repo-global setting was passed
to setConfig, it would set it in the git config, reload the git config,
re-apply mergeGitConfig, and use the newly set value, which is the right
thing.
The git add behavior changes could be avoided if it turns out to be
really annoying, but then it would need to behave the old way when
annex.dotfiles=false and the new way when annex.dotfiles=true. I'd
rather not have the config option result in such divergent behavior as
`git annex add .` skipping a dotfile (old) vs adding to annex (new).
Note that the assistant always adds dotfiles to the annex.
This is surprising, but not new behavior. Might be worth making it also
honor annex.dotfiles, but I wonder if perhaps some user somewhere uses
it and keeps large files in a directory that happens to begin with a
dot. Since dotfiles and dotdirs are a unix culture thing, and the
assistant users may not be part of that culture, it seems best to keep
its current behavior for now.
git-annex find is now RawFilePath end to end, no string conversions.
So is git-annex get when it does not need to get anything.
So this is a major milestone on optimisation.
Benchmarks indicate around 30% speedup in both commands.
Probably many other performance improvements. All or nearly all places
where a file is statted use RawFilePath now.
Adds a dependency on filepath-bytestring, an as yet unreleased fork of
filepath that operates on RawFilePath.
Git.Repo also changed to use RawFilePath for the path to the repo.
This does eliminate some RawFilePath -> FilePath -> RawFilePath
conversions. And filepath-bytestring's </> is probably faster.
But I don't expect a major performance improvement from this.
This is mostly groundwork for making Annex.Location use RawFilePath,
which will allow for a conversion-free pipleline.
The parser and looking up config keys in the map should both be faster
due to using ByteString.
I had hoped this would speed up startup time, but any improvement to
that was too small to measure. Seems worth keeping though.
Note that the parser breaks up the ByteString, but a config map ends up
pointing to the config as read, which is retained in memory until every
value from it is no longer used. This can change memory usage
patterns marginally, but won't affect git-annex.
Finally builds (oh the agoncy of making it build), but still very
unmergable, only Command.Find is included and lots of stuff is badly
hacked to make it compile.
Benchmarking vs master, this git-annex find is significantly faster!
Specifically:
num files old new speedup
48500 4.77 3.73 28%
12500 1.36 1.02 66%
20 0.075 0.074 0% (so startup time is unchanged)
That's without really finishing the optimization. Things still to do:
* Eliminate all the fromRawFilePath, toRawFilePath, encodeBS,
decodeBS conversions.
* Use versions of IO actions like getFileStatus that take a RawFilePath.
* Eliminate some Data.ByteString.Lazy.toStrict, which is a slow copy.
* Use ByteString for parsing git config to speed up startup.
It's likely several of those will speed up git-annex find further.
And other commands will certianly benefit even more.
Goal is to make git-annex faster by using ByteString for all the
worktree traversal. For now, this is focusing on Command.Find,
in order to benchmark how much it helps. (All other commands are
temporarily disabled)
Currently in a very bad unbuildable in-between state.
See the comment for a trace of the deadlock.
Added a new StartStage. New worker threads begin in the StartStage.
Once a thread is ready to do work, it moves away from the StartStage,
and no thread will ever transition back to it.
A thread that blocks waiting on another thread that is processing
the same key will block while in the StartStage. That other thread
will never switch back to the StartStage, and so the deadlock is avoided.
Drop support for building with ghc older than 8.4.4, and with older
versions of serveral haskell libraries than will be included in Debian 10.
The only remaining version ifdefs in the entire code base are now a couple
for aws!
This commit should only be merged after the Debian 10 release.
And perhaps it will need to wait longer than that; it would make
backporting new versions of git-annex to Debian 9 (stretch) which
has been actively happening as recently as this year.
This commit was sponsored by Ilya Shlyakhter.
