Optimize "diff-index --cached" using cache-tree
When running "diff-index --cached" after making a change to only a small
portion of the index, there is no point unpacking unchanged subtrees into
the index recursively, only to find that all entries match anyway. Tweak
unpack_trees() logic that is used to read in the tree object to catch the
case where the tree entry we are looking at matches the index as a whole
by looking at the cache-tree.
As an exercise, after modifying a few paths in the kernel tree, here are
a few numbers on my Athlon 64X2 3800+:
(without patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time git diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644
b57e1f5...
e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000
8c86b72...
0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644
0000000...
e69de29... A arche
0.07user 0.02system 0:00.09elapsed 102%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+9407minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644
b57e1f5...
e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000
8c86b72...
0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644
0000000...
e69de29... A arche
0.02user 0.00system 0:00.02elapsed 103%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+2446minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Cold cache numbers are very impressive, but it does not matter very much
in practice:
(without patch, cold cache)
$ su root sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ /usr/bin/time git diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644
b57e1f5...
e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000
8c86b72...
0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644
0000000...
e69de29... A arche
0.06user 0.17system 0:10.26elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
247032inputs+0outputs (1172major+8237minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, cold cache)
$ su root sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-diff --cached --raw
:100644 100644
b57e1f5...
e69de29... M Makefile
:100644 000000
8c86b72...
0000000... D arch/x86/Makefile
:000000 100644
0000000...
e69de29... A arche
0.02user 0.01system 0:01.01elapsed 3%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
18440inputs+0outputs (79major+2369minor)pagefaults 0swaps
This of course helps "git status" as well.
(without patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-status >/dev/null
0.17user 0.18system 0:00.35elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+5336outputs (0major+10970minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(with patch, hot cache)
$ /usr/bin/time ../git.git/git-status >/dev/null
0.10user 0.16system 0:00.27elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+5336outputs (0major+3921minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>