revision: insert unsorted, then sort in prepare_revision_walk()

Speed up prepare_revision_walk() by adding commits without sorting to the commit_list and at the end sort the list in one go. Thanks to mergesort() working behind the scenes, this is a lot faster for large numbers of commits than the current insert sort. Also introduce and use commit_list_reverse(), to keep the ordering of commits sharing the same commit date unchanged. That's because commit_list_insert_by_date() sorts commits with descending date, but adds later entries with the same date entries last, while commit_list_insert() always inserts entries at the top. The following commit_list_sort_by_date() keeps the order of entries sharing the same date. Jeff's test case, in a repo with lots of refs, was to run: # make a new commit on top of HEAD, but not yet referenced sha1=`git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -p HEAD </dev/null` # now do the same "connected" test that receive-pack would do git rev-list --objects $sha1 --not --all With a git.git with a ref for each revision, master needs (best of five): real 0m2.210s user 0m2.188s sys 0m0.016s And with this patch: real 0m0.480s user 0m0.456s sys 0m0.020s Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

René Scharfe committed Apr 1, 2012 at 00:11 UTC fbc08ea177f8284d10c62ad39de51edb21af88b0
3 files changed +19 -1
commit.c
+15
@@ -361,6 +361,21 @@ struct commit_list *commit_list_insert(struct commit *item, struct commit_list *
361 return new_list;
362 }
363
364 +void commit_list_reverse(struct commit_list **list_p)
365 +{
366 + struct commit_list *prev = NULL, *curr = *list_p, *next;
367 +
368 + if (!list_p)
369 + return;
370 + while (curr) {
371 + next = curr->next;
372 + curr->next = prev;
373 + prev = curr;
374 + curr = next;
375 + }
376 + *list_p = prev;
377 +}
378 +
379 unsigned commit_list_count(const struct commit_list *l)
380 {
381 unsigned c = 0;
commit.h
+1
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ unsigned commit_list_count(const struct commit_list *l);
57 struct commit_list *commit_list_insert_by_date(struct commit *item,
58 struct commit_list **list);
59 void commit_list_sort_by_date(struct commit_list **list);
60 +void commit_list_reverse(struct commit_list **list_p);
61
62 void free_commit_list(struct commit_list *list);
63
revision.c
+3 -1
@@ -2054,11 +2054,13 @@ int prepare_revision_walk(struct rev_info *revs)
2054 if (commit) {
2055 if (!(commit->object.flags & SEEN)) {
2056 commit->object.flags |= SEEN;
2057 - commit_list_insert_by_date(commit, &revs->commits);
2057 + commit_list_insert(commit, &revs->commits);
2058 }
2059 }
2060 e++;
2061 }
2062 + commit_list_reverse(&revs->commits);
2063 + commit_list_sort_by_date(&revs->commits);
2064 if (!revs->leak_pending)
2065 free(list);
2066