speed up refresh_index() by utilizing preload_index()

Speed up refresh_index() by utilizing preload_index() to do most of the work spread across multiple threads. This works because most cache entries will get marked CE_UPTODATE so that refresh_cache_ent() can bail out early when called from within refresh_index(). On a Windows repo with ~200K files, this drops refresh times from 6.64 seconds to 2.87 seconds for a savings of 57%. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Ben Peart committed Oct 29, 2018 at 16:41 UTC 99ce720c338ebeb37331bd98f724569837c74d0d
3 files changed +13 -4
cache.h
+3
@@ -659,6 +659,9 @@ extern int daemonize(void);
659 /* Initialize and use the cache information */
660 struct lock_file;
661 extern int read_index(struct index_state *);
662 +extern void preload_index(struct index_state *index,
663 + const struct pathspec *pathspec,
664 + unsigned int refresh_flags);
665 extern int read_index_preload(struct index_state *,
666 const struct pathspec *pathspec,
667 unsigned int refresh_flags);
preload-index.c
+4 -4
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
9 #include "progress.h"
10
11 #ifdef NO_PTHREADS
12 -static void preload_index(struct index_state *index,
12 +void preload_index(struct index_state *index,
13 const struct pathspec *pathspec,
14 unsigned int refresh_flags)
15 {
@@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ static void *preload_thread(void *_data)
100 return NULL;
101 }
102
103 -static void preload_index(struct index_state *index,
104 - const struct pathspec *pathspec,
105 - unsigned int refresh_flags)
103 +void preload_index(struct index_state *index,
104 + const struct pathspec *pathspec,
105 + unsigned int refresh_flags)
106 {
107 int threads, i, work, offset;
108 struct thread_data data[MAX_PARALLEL];
read-cache.c
+6
@@ -1496,6 +1496,12 @@ int refresh_index(struct index_state *istate, unsigned int flags,
1496 typechange_fmt = (in_porcelain ? "T\t%s\n" : "%s needs update\n");
1497 added_fmt = (in_porcelain ? "A\t%s\n" : "%s needs update\n");
1498 unmerged_fmt = (in_porcelain ? "U\t%s\n" : "%s: needs merge\n");
1499 + /*
1500 + * Use the multi-threaded preload_index() to refresh most of the
1501 + * cache entries quickly then in the single threaded loop below,
1502 + * we only have to do the special cases that are left.
1503 + */
1504 + preload_index(istate, pathspec, 0);
1505 for (i = 0; i < istate->cache_nr; i++) {
1506 struct cache_entry *ce, *new_entry;
1507 int cache_errno = 0;