test-tool synthesize: precompute pack for 4 GiB + 1
The synthesize helper hashes roughly 8 GiB of data through SHA-1 to
produce a 4 GiB + 1 pack (4 GiB for the pack checksum, 4 GiB for
the blob OID). Since the blob content is all NUL bytes, every byte
in the resulting pack file is deterministic for a given blob size and
hash algorithm.
Add a fast path that writes the pack from precomputed constants:
a 25-byte prefix (pack header, object header, zlib header, first
block header), the zero-filled bulk with periodic 5-byte deflate
block headers, and a 513-byte suffix (tree, two commits, empty tree,
pack SHA-1 checksum). This eliminates all SHA-1 and adler32
computation, making the helper purely I/O-bound.
The precomputed constants are stored in a struct fast_pack array
keyed by hash algorithm format_id, so that adding SHA-256 support
later requires only adding another array entry with its suffix.
The constants were generated by running the generic path and
extracting the non-zero bytes from the resulting pack file.
Benchmarks generating a 4 GiB + 1 pack (3 runs each, SHA1DC on
x86_64):
generic path: 88s / 81s / 140s
fast path: 14s / 13s / 15s
On CI, where t5608 currently takes 200-850 seconds depending on the
job, the fast path cuts the pack-generation phase from minutes to
seconds, leaving only the clone operations themselves.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin committedMay 8, 2026 at 08:16 UTCad6ae3648ac24833f1bb2675091340f59a4c4f4a
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t/helper/test-synthesize.c
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index e2faaad7b4..83c40ee02a 100644--- a/t/helper/test-synthesize.c+++ b/t/helper/test-synthesize.c@@ -112,6 +112,201 @@ static void write_pack_object(FILE *f, struct git_hash_ctx *pack_ctx, algo->final_oid_fn(oid, &ctx); }+/*+ * Fast path: precomputed pack data for a 4 GiB + 1 all-NUL blob.+ *+ * The generated pack is almost entirely zeros with a small constant+ * prefix, periodic deflate block headers, and a constant suffix+ * containing the tree, two commits, and the pack checksum. Because+ * every byte is deterministic for a given blob size and hash algorithm,+ * we can write the pack without computing any hashes at all, reducing+ * runtime from minutes of hash computation to seconds of pure I/O.+ *+ * The blob is stored as an uncompressed deflate stream: a two-byte+ * zlib header, then 65538 blocks of up to 0xffff bytes each, followed+ * by an adler32 checksum. The pack header and deflate framing are+ * shared across hash algorithms; only the suffix (which contains OIDs+ * and the pack checksum) differs.+ *+ * Constants were generated by running the generic path and extracting+ * the non-zero bytes from the resulting pack file.+ */++#define FAST_PACK_4G1_BLOB_SIZE ((size_t)4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 + 1)+#define FAST_PACK_4G1_N_FULL_BLOCKS 65537++/*+ * Per-hash-algorithm constants for the fast path. The prefix and+ * deflate block structure are identical across algorithms; only the+ * suffix (tree, commits, pack checksum) and the commit OID differ.+ */+struct fast_pack {+ uint32_t format_id;+ const unsigned char *suffix;+ size_t suffix_len;+ const char *commit_oid;+};++/* Pack header + pack object header + zlib header + first block header */+static const unsigned char fast_pack_prefix[] = {+ /* PACK header: signature, version 2, 5 objects */+ 0x50, 0x41, 0x43, 0x4b, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02,+ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x05,+ /* pack object header: blob, size = 4294967297 */+ 0xb1, 0x80, 0x80, 0x80, 0x80, 0x01,+ /* zlib header: CMF=0x78, FLG=0x01 */+ 0x78, 0x01,+ /* first non-final block header: BFINAL=0, LEN=0xffff, NLEN=0x0000 */+ 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00+};++/* Every non-final deflate block header is identical */+static const unsigned char fast_pack_block_header[] = {+ 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00+};++/* Final block (2 data bytes) + adler32 of 4294967297 NUL bytes */+static const unsigned char fast_pack_final_block[] = {+ /* BFINAL=1, LEN=2, NLEN=0xfffd */+ 0x01, 0x02, 0x00, 0xfd, 0xff,+ /* 2 NUL data bytes */+ 0x00, 0x00,+ /* adler32 */+ 0x00, 0xe2, 0x00, 0x01+};++/*+ * SHA-1 suffix: tree, commit, empty tree, final commit, pack checksum.+ */+static const unsigned char fast_pack_sha1_suffix[] = {+ 0xa0, 0x02, 0x78, 0x01, 0x01, 0x20, 0x00, 0xdf,+ 0xff, 0x31, 0x30, 0x30, 0x36, 0x34, 0x34, 0x20,+ 0x66, 0x69, 0x6c, 0x65, 0x00, 0x3e, 0xb7, 0xfe,+ 0xb1, 0x41, 0x3c, 0x75, 0x7f, 0x0d, 0x81, 0x81,+ 0xde, 0xb2, 0x8d, 0x1d, 0xab, 0x03, 0xd6, 0x48,+ 0x46, 0xb4, 0xb4, 0x0c, 0x60, 0x95, 0x0b, 0x78,+ 0x01, 0x01, 0xb5, 0x00, 0x4a, 0xff, 0x74, 0x72,+ 0x65, 0x65, 0x20, 0x63, 0x36, 0x38, 0x33, 0x66,+ 0x63, 0x63, 0x37, 0x64, 0x31, 0x64, 0x38, 0x33,+ 0x65, 0x66, 0x32, 0x66, 0x65, 0x31, 0x61, 0x66,+ 0x35, 0x35, 0x32, 0x31, 0x35, 0x64, 0x30, 0x31,+ 0x36, 0x38, 0x64, 0x62, 0x35, 0x32, 0x61, 0x33,+ 0x61, 0x33, 0x62, 0x0a, 0x61, 0x75, 0x74, 0x68,+ 0x6f, 0x72, 0x20, 0x41, 0x20, 0x55, 0x20, 0x54,+ 0x68, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x20, 0x3c, 0x61, 0x75, 0x74,+ 0x68, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x40, 0x65, 0x78, 0x61, 0x6d,+ 0x70, 0x6c, 0x65, 0x2e, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x3e,+ 0x20, 0x31, 0x32, 0x33, 0x34, 0x35, 0x36, 0x37,+ 0x38, 0x39, 0x30, 0x20, 0x2b, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30,+ 0x30, 0x0a, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x6d, 0x69, 0x74,+ 0x74, 0x65, 0x72, 0x20, 0x43, 0x20, 0x4f, 0x20,+ 0x4d, 0x69, 0x74, 0x74, 0x65, 0x72, 0x20, 0x3c,+ 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x6d, 0x69, 0x74, 0x74, 0x65,+ 0x72, 0x40, 0x65, 0x78, 0x61, 0x6d, 0x70, 0x6c,+ 0x65, 0x2e, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x3e, 0x20, 0x31,+ 0x32, 0x33, 0x34, 0x35, 0x36, 0x37, 0x38, 0x39,+ 0x30, 0x20, 0x2b, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x0a,+ 0x0a, 0x4c, 0x61, 0x72, 0x67, 0x65, 0x20, 0x62,+ 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x62, 0x20, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x6d,+ 0x69, 0x74, 0x0a, 0xc6, 0x55, 0x37, 0x6b, 0x20,+ 0x78, 0x01, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00,+ 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x95, 0x0e, 0x78, 0x01, 0x01,+ 0xe5, 0x00, 0x1a, 0xff, 0x74, 0x72, 0x65, 0x65,+ 0x20, 0x34, 0x62, 0x38, 0x32, 0x35, 0x64, 0x63,+ 0x36, 0x34, 0x32, 0x63, 0x62, 0x36, 0x65, 0x62,+ 0x39, 0x61, 0x30, 0x36, 0x30, 0x65, 0x35, 0x34,+ 0x62, 0x66, 0x38, 0x64, 0x36, 0x39, 0x32, 0x38,+ 0x38, 0x66, 0x62, 0x65, 0x65, 0x34, 0x39, 0x30,+ 0x34, 0x0a, 0x70, 0x61, 0x72, 0x65, 0x6e, 0x74,+ 0x20, 0x63, 0x35, 0x62, 0x32, 0x31, 0x63, 0x36,+ 0x31, 0x31, 0x61, 0x61, 0x35, 0x39, 0x34, 0x65,+ 0x63, 0x39, 0x66, 0x64, 0x37, 0x65, 0x39, 0x32,+ 0x63, 0x66, 0x39, 0x36, 0x34, 0x38, 0x39, 0x31,+ 0x34, 0x63, 0x61, 0x34, 0x63, 0x32, 0x34, 0x31,+ 0x32, 0x0a, 0x61, 0x75, 0x74, 0x68, 0x6f, 0x72,+ 0x20, 0x41, 0x20, 0x55, 0x20, 0x54, 0x68, 0x6f,+ 0x72, 0x20, 0x3c, 0x61, 0x75, 0x74, 0x68, 0x6f,+ 0x72, 0x40, 0x65, 0x78, 0x61, 0x6d, 0x70, 0x6c,+ 0x65, 0x2e, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x3e, 0x20, 0x31,+ 0x32, 0x33, 0x34, 0x35, 0x36, 0x37, 0x38, 0x39,+ 0x30, 0x20, 0x2b, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x0a,+ 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x6d, 0x69, 0x74, 0x74, 0x65,+ 0x72, 0x20, 0x43, 0x20, 0x4f, 0x20, 0x4d, 0x69,+ 0x74, 0x74, 0x65, 0x72, 0x20, 0x3c, 0x63, 0x6f,+ 0x6d, 0x6d, 0x69, 0x74, 0x74, 0x65, 0x72, 0x40,+ 0x65, 0x78, 0x61, 0x6d, 0x70, 0x6c, 0x65, 0x2e,+ 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x3e, 0x20, 0x31, 0x32, 0x33,+ 0x34, 0x35, 0x36, 0x37, 0x38, 0x39, 0x30, 0x20,+ 0x2b, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x0a, 0x0a, 0x45,+ 0x6d, 0x70, 0x74, 0x79, 0x20, 0x74, 0x72, 0x65,+ 0x65, 0x20, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x6d, 0x69, 0x74,+ 0x0a, 0xaa, 0xb8, 0x45, 0x01, 0x8e, 0xfc, 0xf0,+ 0x2f, 0x9c, 0xc5, 0xcc, 0x4f, 0x6a, 0x1a, 0xc9,+ 0x2b, 0x23, 0xa9, 0xff, 0x91, 0x06, 0xc2, 0x70,+ 0xe3+};++static const struct fast_pack fast_packs[] = {+ {+ .format_id = GIT_SHA1_FORMAT_ID,+ .suffix = fast_pack_sha1_suffix,+ .suffix_len = sizeof(fast_pack_sha1_suffix),+ .commit_oid = "aac43daf40d0377af31aa9c798a4ae8a31b55c1d",+ },+};++/*+ * Try the fast path for known blob sizes. Returns 1 if the pack was+ * written from precomputed constants, 0 if the caller should fall+ * through to the generic path.+ */+static int generate_fast_pack(const char *path, size_t blob_size,+ const struct git_hash_algo *algo)+{+ const struct fast_pack *fp = NULL;+ FILE *f;+ size_t i;++ if (blob_size != FAST_PACK_4G1_BLOB_SIZE)+ return 0;++ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(fast_packs); i++) {+ if (fast_packs[i].format_id == algo->format_id) {+ fp = &fast_packs[i];+ break;+ }+ }+ if (!fp)+ return 0;++ f = xfopen(path, "wb");++ fwrite_or_die(f, fast_pack_prefix, sizeof(fast_pack_prefix));++ /* First full block: 0xffff zero bytes (header already in prefix) */+ fwrite_or_die(f, zeros, BLOCK_SIZE);++ /* Remaining non-final full blocks */+ for (i = 1; i < FAST_PACK_4G1_N_FULL_BLOCKS; i++) {+ fwrite_or_die(f, fast_pack_block_header,+ sizeof(fast_pack_block_header));+ fwrite_or_die(f, zeros, BLOCK_SIZE);+ }++ /* Final block (2 data bytes) + adler32 */+ fwrite_or_die(f, fast_pack_final_block,+ sizeof(fast_pack_final_block));++ /* Tree, commits, and pack checksum */+ fwrite_or_die(f, fp->suffix, fp->suffix_len);++ if (fclose(f))+ die_errno(_("could not close '%s'"), path);++ printf("%s\n", fp->commit_oid);+ return 1;+}+ /* * Generate a pack file with a single large (>4GB) reachable object. *@@ -127,7 +322,7 @@ static void write_pack_object(FILE *f, struct git_hash_ctx *pack_ctx, static int generate_pack_with_large_object(const char *path, size_t blob_size, const struct git_hash_algo *algo) {- FILE *f = xfopen(path, "wb");+ FILE *f; struct git_hash_ctx pack_ctx; unsigned char pack_hash[GIT_MAX_RAWSZ]; struct object_id blob_oid, tree_oid, commit_oid, empty_tree_oid, final_commit_oid;@@ -139,6 +334,11 @@ static int generate_pack_with_large_object(const char *path, size_t blob_size, .hdr_entries = htonl(object_count), };+ if (generate_fast_pack(path, blob_size, algo))+ return 0;++ f = xfopen(path, "wb");+ algo->init_fn(&pack_ctx); /* Write pack header */