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Karsten Blees
a2d3f15056 Win32: change default of 'core.symlinks' to false
Symlinks on Windows don't work the same way as on Unix systems. E.g. there
are different types of symlinks for directories and files, creating
symlinks requires administrative privileges etc.

By default, disable symlink support on Windows. I.e. users explicitly have
to enable it with 'git config [--system|--global] core.symlinks true'.

The test suite ignores system / global config files. Allow testing *with*
symlink support by checking if native symlinks are enabled in MSys2 (via
'MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict').

Reminder: This would need to be changed if / when we find a way to run the
test suite in a non-MSys-based shell (e.g. dash).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
4cac428600 Win32: factor out retry logic
The retry pattern is duplicated in three places. It also seems to be too
hard to use: mingw_unlink() and mingw_rmdir() duplicate the code to retry,
and both of them do so incompletely. They also do not restore errno if the
user answers 'no'.

Introduce a retry_ask_yes_no() helper function that handles retry with
small delay, asking the user, and restoring errno.

mingw_unlink: include _wchmod in the retry loop (which may fail if the
file is locked exclusively).

mingw_rmdir: include special error handling in the retry loop.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
ba6cfb4b7f Win32: lstat(): return adequate stat.st_size for symlinks
Git typically doesn't trust the stat.st_size member of symlinks (e.g. see
strbuf_readlink()). However, some functions take shortcuts if st_size is 0
(e.g. diff_populate_filespec()).

In mingw_lstat() and fscache_lstat(), make sure to return an adequate size.

The extra overhead of opening and reading the reparse point to calculate
the exact size is not necessary, as git doesn't rely on the value anyway.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
793e31806f mingw: teach fscache and dirent about symlinks
Move S_IFLNK detection to file_attr_to_st_mode() and reuse it in fscache.

Implement DT_LNK detection in dirent.c and the fscache readdir version.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
f027e0c1d7 Win32: let mingw_lstat() error early upon problems with reparse points
When obtaining lstat information for reparse points, we need to call
FindFirstFile() in addition to GetFileInformationEx() to obtain the type
of the reparse point (symlink, mount point etc.). However, currently there
is no error handling whatsoever if FindFirstFile() fails.

Call FindFirstFile() before modifying the stat *buf output parameter and
error out if the call fails.

Note: The FindFirstFile() return value includes all the data that we get
from GetFileAttributesEx(), so we could replace GetFileAttributesEx() with
FindFirstFile(). We don't do that because GetFileAttributesEx() is about
twice as fast for single files. I.e. we only pay the extra cost of calling
FindFirstFile() in the rare case that we encounter a reparse point.

Note: The indentation of the remaining reparse point code will be fixed in
the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
bfb6c707c8 Win32: remove separate do_lstat() function
With the new mingw_stat() implementation, do_lstat() is only called from
mingw_lstat() (with follow == 0). Remove the extra function and the old
mingw_stat()-specific (follow == 1) logic.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
6cc554fdd1 Win32: implement stat() with symlink support
With respect to symlinks, the current stat() implementation is almost the
same as lstat(): except for the file type (st_mode & S_IFMT), it returns
information about the link rather than the target.

Implement stat by opening the file with as little permissions as possible
and calling GetFileInformationByHandle on it. This way, all link resoltion
is handled by the Windows file system layer.

If symlinks are disabled, use lstat() as before, but fail with ELOOP if a
symlink would have to be resolved.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
a1ba0b3a85 Win32: don't call GetFileAttributes twice in mingw_lstat()
GetFileAttributes cannot handle paths with trailing dir separator. The
current [l]stat implementation calls GetFileAttributes twice if the path
has trailing slashes (first with the original path passed to [l]stat, and
and a second time with a path copy with trailing '/' removed).

With Unicode conversion, we get the length of the path for free and also
have a (wide char) buffer that can be modified.

Remove trailing directory separators before calling the Win32 API.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
0ccd0dd1d3 lockfile.c: use is_dir_sep() instead of hardcoded '/' checks
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
5bcdd25640 strbuf_readlink: support link targets that exceed PATH_MAX
strbuf_readlink() refuses to read link targets that exceed PATH_MAX (even
if a sufficient size was specified by the caller).

As some platforms support longer paths, remove this restriction (similar
to strbuf_getcwd()).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Karsten Blees
a1f7c570b5 strbuf_readlink: don't call readlink twice if hint is the exact link size
strbuf_readlink() calls readlink() twice if the hint argument specifies the
exact size of the link target (e.g. by passing stat.st_size as returned by
lstat()). This is necessary because 'readlink(..., hint) == hint' could
mean that the buffer was too small.

Use hint + 1 as buffer size to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
08d520df73 Unbreak interactive GPG prompt upon signing
With the recent update in efee955 (gpg-interface: check gpg signature
creation status, 2016-06-17), we ask GPG to send all status updates to
stderr, and then catch the stderr in an strbuf.

But GPG might fail, and send error messages to stderr. And we simply
do not show them to the user.

Even worse: this swallows any interactive prompt for a passphrase. And
detaches stderr from the tty so that the passphrase cannot be read.

So while the first problem could be fixed (by printing the captured
stderr upon error), the second problem cannot be easily fixed, and
presents a major regression.

So let's just revert commit efee9553a4f97b2ecd8f49be19606dd4cf7d9c28.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/871

Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
3dab29b4ae mingw (git_terminal_prompt): do fall back to CONIN$/CONOUT$ method
To support Git Bash running in a MinTTY, we use a dirty trick to access
the MSYS2 pseudo terminal: we execute a Bash snippet that accesses
/dev/tty.

The idea was to fall back to writing to/reading from CONOUT$/CONIN$ if
that Bash call failed because Bash was not found.

However, we should fall back even in other error conditions, because we
have not successfully read the user input. Let's make it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Karsten Blees
6e351ecd8e compat/terminal.c: only use the Windows console if bash 'read -r' fails
Accessing the Windows console through the special CONIN$ / CONOUT$ devices
doesn't work properly for non-ASCII usernames an passwords.

It also doesn't work for terminal emulators that hide the native console
window (such as mintty), and 'TERM=xterm*' is not necessarily a reliable
indicator for such terminals.

The new shell_prompt() function, on the other hand, works fine for both
MSys1 and MSys2, in native console windows as well as mintty, and properly
supports Unicode. It just needs bash on the path (for 'read -s', which is
bash-specific).

On Windows, try to use the shell to read from the terminal. If that fails
with ENOENT (i.e. bash was not found), use CONIN/OUT as fallback.

Note: To test this, create a UTF-8 credential file with non-ASCII chars,
e.g. in git-bash: 'echo url=http://täst.com > cred.txt'. Then in git-cmd,
'git credential fill <cred.txt' works (shell version), while calling git
without the git-wrapper (i.e. 'mingw64\bin\git credential fill <cred.txt')
mangles non-ASCII chars in both console output and input.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Karsten Blees
b1eb679572 mingw: Support git_terminal_prompt with more terminals
The `git_terminal_prompt()` function expects the terminal window to be
attached to a Win32 Console. However, this is not the case with terminal
windows other than `cmd.exe`'s, e.g. with MSys2's own `mintty`.

Non-cmd terminals such as `mintty` still have to have a Win32 Console
to be proper console programs, but have to hide the Win32 Console to
be able to provide more flexibility (such as being resizeable not only
vertically but also horizontally). By writing to that Win32 Console,
`git_terminal_prompt()` manages only to send the prompt to nowhere and
to wait for input from a Console to which the user has no access.

This commit introduces a function specifically to support `mintty` -- or
other terminals that are compatible with MSys2's `/dev/tty` emulation. We
use the `TERM` environment variable as an indicator for that: if the value
starts with "xterm" (such as `mintty`'s "xterm_256color"), we prefer to
let `xterm_prompt()` handle the user interaction.

The most prominent user of `git_terminal_prompt()` is certainly
`git-remote-https.exe`. It is an interesting use case because both
`stdin` and `stdout` are redirected when Git calls said executable, yet
it still wants to access the terminal.

When running inside a `mintty`, the terminal is not accessible to the
`git-remote-https.exe` program, though, because it is a MinGW program
and the `mintty` terminal is not backed by a Win32 console.

To solve that problem, we simply call out to the shell -- which is an
*MSys2* program and can therefore access `/dev/tty`.

Helped-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
2a1b191e70 win32(long path support): leave drive-less absolute paths intact
When trying to ensure that long paths are handled correctly, we
first normalize absolute paths as we encounter them.

However, if the path is a so-called "drive-less" absolute path, i.e. if
it is relative to the current drive but _does_ start with a directory
separator, we would want the normalized path to be such a drive-less
absolute path, too.

Let's do that, being careful to still include the drive prefix when we
need to go through the `\\?\` dance (because there, the drive prefix is
absolutely required).

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4586.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Karsten Blees
f0c7c00a1e Win32: fix 'lstat("dir/")' with long paths
Use a suffciently large buffer to strip the trailing slash.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Karsten Blees
90a0bd5642 mingw: support long paths
Windows paths are typically limited to MAX_PATH = 260 characters, even
though the underlying NTFS file system supports paths up to 32,767 chars.
This limitation is also evident in Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and many
other applications (including IDEs).

Particularly annoying is that most Windows APIs return bogus error codes
if a relative path only barely exceeds MAX_PATH in conjunction with the
current directory, e.g. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND / ENOENT instead of the
infinitely more helpful ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE / ENAMETOOLONG.

Many Windows wide char APIs support longer than MAX_PATH paths through the
file namespace prefix ('\\?\' or '\\?\UNC\') followed by an absolute path.
Notable exceptions include functions dealing with executables and the
current directory (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, Get/SetCurrentDirectory) as
well as the entire shell API (ShellExecute, SHGetSpecialFolderPath...).

Introduce a handle_long_path function to check the length of a specified
path properly (and fail with ENAMETOOLONG), and to optionally expand long
paths using the '\\?\' file namespace prefix. Short paths will not be
modified, so we don't need to worry about device names (NUL, CON, AUX).

Contrary to MSDN docs, the GetFullPathNameW function doesn't seem to be
limited to MAX_PATH (at least not on Win7), so we can use it to do the
heavy lifting of the conversion (translate '/' to '\', eliminate '.' and
'..', and make an absolute path).

Add long path error checking to xutftowcs_path for APIs with hard MAX_PATH
limit.

Add a new MAX_LONG_PATH constant and xutftowcs_long_path function for APIs
that support long paths.

While improved error checking is always active, long paths support must be
explicitly enabled via 'core.longpaths' option. This is to prevent end
users to shoot themselves in the foot by checking out files that Windows
Explorer, cmd/bash or their favorite IDE cannot handle.

Test suite:
Test the case is when the full pathname length of a dir is close
to 260 (MAX_PATH).
Bug report and an original reproducer by Andrey Rogozhnikov:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199

[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts, added support for
chdir(), etc]

Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Doug Kelly
ed4cdb7392 pack-objects (mingw): demonstrate a segmentation fault with large deltas
There is a problem in the way 9ac3f0e5b3e4 (pack-objects: fix
performance issues on packing large deltas, 2018-07-22) initializes that
mutex in the `packing_data` struct. The problem manifests in a
segmentation fault on Windows, when a mutex (AKA critical section) is
accessed without being initialized. (With pthreads, you apparently do
not really have to initialize them?)

This was reported in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1839.

Signed-off-by: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
0352225519 Merge branch 'dont-clean-junctions-fscache'
We already avoid traversing NTFS junction points in `git clean -dfx`.
With this topic branch, we do that when the FSCache is enabled, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:59 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
1d4e21b2fa Merge branch 'fscache-and-sparse-checkout'
When updating the skip-worktree bits in the index to align with new
values in a sparse-checkout file, Git scans the entire working
directory with lstat() calls. In a sparse-checkout, many of these
lstat() calls are for paths that do not exist.

Enable the fscache feature during this scan.

In a local test of a repo with ~2.2 million paths, updating the index
with `git read-tree -m -u HEAD` with a sparse-checkout file containing
only `/.gitattributes` improved from 2-3 minutes to 15-20 seconds.

More work could be done to stop running lstat() calls when recursing
into directories that are known to not exist.
2024-09-18 09:45:58 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
d021adfcef Merge pull request #1937 from benpeart/fscache-NtQueryDirectoryFile-gfw
fscache: teach fscache to use NtQueryDirectoryFile
2024-09-18 09:45:58 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
9cf3d51399 Merge pull request #1934 from benpeart/fscache-thread-safe-enable-gfw
fscache: make fscache_enable() thread safe
2024-09-18 09:45:58 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
046969a734 Merge remote-tracking branch 'benpeart/fscache-per-thread-gfw'
This brings substantial wins in performance because the FSCache is now
per-thread, being merged to the primary thread only at the end, so we do
not have to lock (except while merging).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:58 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
009a7462b0 Merge pull request #1910 from benpeart/fscache_statistics-gfw
fscache: add fscache hit statistics
2024-09-18 09:45:58 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
50cab11e18 Merge pull request #1911 from benpeart/git_test_fscache-gfw
fscache: add GIT_TEST_FSCACHE support
2024-09-18 09:45:57 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
7aa80493e6 Merge pull request #1909 from benpeart/free-fscache-after-status-gfw
status: disable and free fscache at the end of the status command
2024-09-18 09:45:57 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5ed6db3ac1 Merge pull request #1908 from benpeart/FindFirstFileEx-gfw
fscache: use FindFirstFileExW to avoid retrieving the short name
2024-09-18 09:45:57 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
2beebf9fe8 Merge pull request #1827 from benpeart/fscache_refresh_index
Enable the filesystem cache (fscache) in refresh_index().
2024-09-18 09:45:57 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
ef9ec880a3 Merge pull request #1468 from atetubou/fscache_checkout_flush
checkout.c: enable fscache for checkout again

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:57 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5f58b1b8c3 Merge pull request #1426 from atetubou/fetch_pack
fetch-pack.c: enable fscache for stats under .git/objects
2024-09-18 09:45:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6c967abe3a Merge pull request #1344 from jeffhostetler/perf_add_excludes_with_fscache
dir.c: make add_excludes aware of fscache during status
2024-09-18 09:45:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
c70161ad6a Merge pull request #971 from jeffhostetler/jeffhostetler/add_preload_fscache
add: use preload-index and fscache for performance
2024-09-18 09:45:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
3566c8ebc4 Merge pull request #994 from jeffhostetler/jeffhostetler/fscache_nfd
fscache: add not-found directory cache to fscache
2024-09-18 09:45:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
4aaf31785e Merge branch 'fscache' 2024-09-18 09:45:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
7d7c8d2d24 clean: make use of FSCache
The `git clean` command needs to enumerate plenty of files and
directories, and can therefore benefit from the FSCache.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:54 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
8b5b156302 unpack-trees: enable fscache for sparse-checkout
When updating the skip-worktree bits in the index to align with new
values in a sparse-checkout file, Git scans the entire working
directory with lstat() calls. In a sparse-checkout, many of these
lstat() calls are for paths that do not exist.

Enable the fscache feature during this scan. Since enable_fscache()
calls nest, the disable_fscache() method decrements a counter and
would only clear the cache if that counter reaches zero.

In a local test of a repo with ~2.2 million paths, updating the index
with git read-tree -m -u HEAD with a sparse-checkout file containing
only /.gitattributes improved from 2-3 minutes to ~6 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:54 +02:00
Ben Peart
8be5c62d49 fscache: teach fscache to use NtQueryDirectoryFile
Using FindFirstFileExW() requires the OS to allocate a 64K buffer for each
directory and then free it when we call FindClose().  Update fscache to call
the underlying kernel API NtQueryDirectoryFile so that we can do the buffer
management ourselves.  That allows us to allocate a single buffer for the
lifetime of the cache and reuse it for each directory.

This change improves performance of 'git status' by 18% in a repo with ~200K
files and 30k folders.

Documentation for NtQueryDirectoryFile can be found at:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/content/ntifs/nf-ntifs-ntquerydirectoryfile
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/file-attribute-constants
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/reparse-point-tags

To determine if the specified directory is a symbolic link, inspect the
FileAttributes member to see if the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT flag is
set. If so, EaSize will contain the reparse tag (this is a so far
undocumented feature, but confirmed by the NTFS developers). To
determine if the reparse point is a symbolic link (and not some other
form of reparse point), test whether the tag value equals the value
IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK.

The NtQueryDirectoryFile() call works best (and on Windows 8.1 and
earlier, it works *only*) with buffer sizes up to 64kB. Which is 32k
wide characters, so let's use that as our buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:54 +02:00
Ben Peart
29054d2a19 fscache: make fscache_enable() thread safe
The recent change to make fscache thread specific relied on fscache_enable()
being called first from the primary thread before being called in parallel
from worker threads.  Make that more robust and protect it with a critical
section to avoid any issues.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2024-09-18 09:45:54 +02:00
Ben Peart
a6a4906528 fscache: teach fscache to use mempool
Now that the fscache is single threaded, take advantage of the mem_pool as
the allocator to significantly reduce the cost of allocations and frees.

With the reduced cost of free, in future patches, we can start freeing the
fscache at the end of commands instead of just leaking it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:54 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
87a73ce92e fscache: implement an FSCache-aware is_mount_point()
When FSCache is active, we can cache the reparse tag and use it directly
to determine whether a path refers to an NTFS junction, without any
additional, costly I/O.

Note: this change only makes a difference with the next commit, which
will make use of the FSCache in `git clean` (contingent on
`core.fscache` set, of course).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:54 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
dd188facde fscache: remember the reparse tag for each entry
We will use this in the next commit to implement an FSCache-aware
version of is_mount_point().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:54 +02:00
Ben Peart
284eb3e968 fscache: add fscache hit statistics
Track fscache hits and misses for lstat and opendir requests.  Reporting of
statistics is done when the cache is disabled for the last time and freed
and is only reported if GIT_TRACE_FSCACHE is set.

Sample output is:

11:33:11.836428 compat/win32/fscache.c:433 fscache: lstat 3775, opendir 263, total requests/misses 4052/269

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00
Ben Peart
fc7b9bfc8e fscache: add GIT_TEST_FSCACHE support
Add support to fscache to enable running the entire test suite with the
fscache enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00
Ben Peart
d45c22b661 status: disable and free fscache at the end of the status command
At the end of the status command, disable and free the fscache so that we
don't leak the memory and so that we can dump the fscache statistics.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00
Ben Peart
747bfe0ea4 fscache: use FindFirstFileExW to avoid retrieving the short name
Use FindFirstFileExW with FindExInfoBasic to avoid forcing NTFS to look up
the short name.  Also switch to a larger (64K vs 4K) buffer using
FIND_FIRST_EX_LARGE_FETCH to minimize round trips to the kernel.

In a repo with ~200K files, this drops warm cache status times from 3.19
seconds to 2.67 seconds for a 16% savings.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00
Ben Peart
56cf1702b6 Enable the filesystem cache (fscache) in refresh_index().
On file systems that support it, this can dramatically speed up operations
like add, commit, describe, rebase, reset, rm that would otherwise have to
lstat() every file to "re-match" the stat information in the index to that
of the file system.

On a synthetic repo with 1M files, "git reset" dropped from 52.02 seconds to
14.42 seconds for a savings of 72%.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00
Takuto Ikuta
0b3cb8680a checkout.c: enable fscache for checkout again
This is retry of #1419.

I added flush_fscache macro to flush cached stats after disk writing
with tests for regression reported in #1438 and #1442.

git checkout checks each file path in sorted order, so cache flushing does not
make performance worse unless we have large number of modified files in
a directory containing many files.

Using chromium repository, I tested `git checkout .` performance when I
delete 10 files in different directories.
With this patch:
TotalSeconds: 4.307272
TotalSeconds: 4.4863595
TotalSeconds: 4.2975562
Avg: 4.36372923333333

Without this patch:
TotalSeconds: 20.9705431
TotalSeconds: 22.4867685
TotalSeconds: 18.8968292
Avg: 20.7847136

I confirmed this patch passed all tests in t/ with core_fscache=1.

Signed-off-by: Takuto Ikuta <tikuta@chromium.org>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00
Takuto Ikuta
f16ef35926 fetch-pack.c: enable fscache for stats under .git/objects
When I do git fetch, git call file stats under .git/objects for each
refs. This takes time when there are many refs.

By enabling fscache, git takes file stats by directory traversing and that
improved the speed of fetch-pack for repository having large number of
refs.

In my windows workstation, this improves the time of `git fetch` for
chromium repository like below. I took stats 3 times.

* With this patch
TotalSeconds: 9.9825165
TotalSeconds: 9.1862075
TotalSeconds: 10.1956256
Avg: 9.78811653333333

* Without this patch
TotalSeconds: 15.8406702
TotalSeconds: 15.6248053
TotalSeconds: 15.2085938
Avg: 15.5580231

Signed-off-by: Takuto Ikuta <tikuta@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00
Ben Peart
3972d4c924 fscache: update fscache to be thread specific instead of global
The threading model for fscache has been to have a single, global cache.
This puts requirements on it to be thread safe so that callers like
preload-index can call it from multiple threads.  This was implemented
with a single mutex and completion events which introduces contention
between the calling threads.

Simplify the threading model by making fscache thread specific.  This allows
us to remove the global mutex and synchronization events entirely and instead
associate a fscache with every thread that requests one. This works well with
the current multi-threading which divides the cache entries into blocks with
a separate thread processing each block.

At the end of each worker thread, if there is a fscache on the primary
thread, merge the cached results from the worker into the primary thread
cache. This enables us to reuse the cache later especially when scanning for
untracked files.

In testing, this reduced the time spent in preload_index() by about 25% and
also reduced the CPU utilization significantly.  On a repo with ~200K files,
it reduced overall status times by ~12%.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2024-09-18 09:45:53 +02:00