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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy b8a2486f15 index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving
This puts delta resolving on each base on a separate thread, one base
cache per thread. Per-thread data is grouped in struct thread_local.
When running with nr_threads == 1, no pthreads calls are made. The
system essentially runs in non-thread mode.

An experiment on a Xeon 24 core machine with git.git shows that
performance does not increase proportional to the number of cores. So
by default, we use maximum 3 cores. Some numbers with --threads from 1
to 16:

1..4
real    0m8.003s  0m5.307s  0m4.321s  0m3.830s
user    0m7.720s  0m8.009s  0m8.133s  0m8.305s
sys     0m0.224s  0m0.372s  0m0.360s  0m0.360s

5..8
real    0m3.727s  0m3.604s  0m3.332s  0m3.369s
user    0m9.361s  0m9.817s  0m9.525s  0m9.769s
sys     0m0.584s  0m0.624s  0m0.540s  0m0.560s

9..12
real    0m3.036s  0m3.139s  0m3.177s  0m2.961s
user    0m8.977s  0m10.205s 0m9.737s  0m10.073s
sys     0m0.596s  0m0.680s  0m0.684s  0m0.680s

13..16
real    0m2.985s  0m2.894s  0m2.975s  0m2.971s
user    0m9.825s  0m10.573s 0m10.833s 0m11.361s
sys     0m0.788s  0m0.732s  0m0.904s  0m1.016s

On an Intel dual core and linux-2.6.git

1..4
real    2m37.789s 2m7.963s  2m0.920s  1m58.213s
user    2m28.415s 2m52.325s 2m50.176s 2m41.187s
sys     0m7.808s  0m11.181s 0m11.224s 0m10.731s

Thanks Ramsay Jones for troubleshooting and support on MinGW platform.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-07 15:48:15 -07:00

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git-index-pack(1)
=================
NAME
----
git-index-pack - Build pack index file for an existing packed archive
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git index-pack' [-v] [-o <index-file>] <pack-file>
'git index-pack' --stdin [--fix-thin] [--keep] [-v] [-o <index-file>]
[<pack-file>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, and
builds a pack index file (.idx) for it. The packed archive
together with the pack index can then be placed in the
objects/pack/ directory of a git repository.
OPTIONS
-------
-v::
Be verbose about what is going on, including progress status.
-o <index-file>::
Write the generated pack index into the specified
file. Without this option the name of pack index
file is constructed from the name of packed archive
file by replacing .pack with .idx (and the program
fails if the name of packed archive does not end
with .pack).
--stdin::
When this flag is provided, the pack is read from stdin
instead and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If
<pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to
objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with
a default name determined from the pack content. If
<pack-file> is not specified consider using --keep to
prevent a race condition between this process and
'git repack'.
--fix-thin::
Fix a "thin" pack produced by `git pack-objects --thin` (see
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for details) by adding the
excluded objects the deltified objects are based on to the
pack. This option only makes sense in conjunction with --stdin.
--keep::
Before moving the index into its final destination
create an empty .keep file for the associated pack file.
This option is usually necessary with --stdin to prevent a
simultaneous 'git repack' process from deleting
the newly constructed pack and index before refs can be
updated to use objects contained in the pack.
--keep=<msg>::
Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into
its final destination, but rather than creating an empty file
place '<msg>' followed by an LF into the .keep file. The '<msg>'
message can later be searched for within all .keep files to
locate any which have outlived their usefulness.
--index-version=<version>[,<offset>]::
This is intended to be used by the test suite only. It allows
to force the version for the generated pack index, and to force
64-bit index entries on objects located above the given offset.
--strict::
Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links.
--threads=<n>::
Specifies the number of threads to spawn when resolving
deltas. This requires that index-pack be compiled with
pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a warning.
This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search
window is however multiplied by the number of threads.
Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
and use maximum 3 threads.
Note
----
Once the index has been created, the list of object names is sorted
and the SHA1 hash of that list is printed to stdout. If --stdin was
also used then this is prefixed by either "pack\t", or "keep\t" if a
new .keep file was successfully created. This is useful to remove a
.keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with 'git repack'
mentioned above.
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite