From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>,
Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@esightcorp.com>,
Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:27:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5DDD89A9-900F-40AD-8F3F-F756D6E0AD6C@wincent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vocjnqf5c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
El 18/02/2010, a las 06:36, Junio C Hamano escribió:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
>
>> It is likely to have better performance if the buffer is small enough to
>> fit in the CPU L1 cache. There are two sequencial passes over the
>> buffer: one for the SHA1 computation, and another for the compression,
>> and currently they're sure to trash the L1 cache on each pass.
>
> I did a very unscientific test to hash about 14k paths (arch/ and fs/ from
> the kernel source) using "git-hash-object -w --stdin-paths" into an empty
> repository with varying sizes of paranoia buffer (quarter, 1, 4, 8 and
> 256kB) and saw 8-30% overhead. 256kB did hurt and around 4kB seemed to be
> optimal for my this small sample load.
>
> In any case, with any size of paranoia, this hurts the sane use case, so
> I'd introduce an expert switch to disable it, like this.
Shouldn't a switch that hurts performance and is only needed for insane use cases default to off rather than on?
Cheers,
Wincent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-18 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20100211234753.22574.48799.reportbug@gibbs.hungrycats.org>
2010-02-12 0:27 ` Bug#569505: git-core: 'git add' corrupts repository if the working directory is modified as it runs Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-12 1:23 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-13 12:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-13 13:39 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2010-02-13 14:39 ` Thomas Rast
2010-02-13 16:29 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2010-02-13 22:09 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-13 22:37 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-14 1:18 ` [PATCH] don't use mmap() to hash files Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 1:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 2:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 3:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 11:14 ` Thomas Rast
2010-02-14 11:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 1:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 2:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 2:42 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 11:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-02-14 11:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-14 18:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 19:06 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 19:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 19:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 19:56 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 23:52 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-15 5:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-15 12:23 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-15 7:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-15 12:25 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 19:55 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 23:13 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-15 4:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-15 5:01 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-15 5:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-15 19:19 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-15 19:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-14 3:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-18 1:16 ` [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 1:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 15:32 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-19 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 1:38 ` Jeff King
2010-02-18 4:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-18 5:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 7:27 ` Wincent Colaiuta [this message]
2010-02-18 16:18 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-18 18:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-18 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 12:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-22 13:33 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-18 10:14 ` Thomas Rast
2010-02-18 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 19:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-18 20:11 ` 16 gig, 350,000 file repository Bill Lear
2010-02-18 20:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-19 9:27 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-02-22 22:20 ` Bill Lear
2010-02-22 22:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-18 20:14 ` [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid Peter Harris
2010-02-18 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 21:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-19 1:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19 15:26 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-19 17:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-19 19:08 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-19 8:28 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-19 17:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-20 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-21 7:21 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-21 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 3:35 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 6:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 12:25 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 15:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-22 16:01 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 17:31 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-22 18:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-22 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 20:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-22 18:05 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 18:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-14 1:36 ` mmap with MAP_PRIVATE is useless (was Re: Bug#569505: git-core: 'git add' corrupts repository if the working directory is modified as it runs) Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-14 1:53 ` mmap with MAP_PRIVATE is useless Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 2:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=5DDD89A9-900F-40AD-8F3F-F756D6E0AD6C@wincent.com \
--to=win@wincent.com \
--cc=dpotapov@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi \
--cc=jrnieder@gmail.com \
--cc=nico@fluxnic.net \
--cc=peff@peff.net \
--cc=trast@student.ethz.ch \
--cc=zblaxell@esightcorp.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.