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The main entry point to the pack-revindex code is
find_pack_revindex(). This calls revindex_for_pack(), which
lazily computes and caches the revindex for the pack.
We store the cache in a very simple hash table. It's created
by init_pack_revindex(), which inserts an entry for every
packfile we know about, and we never grow or shrink the
hash. If we ever need the revindex for a pack that isn't in
the hash, we die() with an internal error.
This can lead to a race, because we may load more packs
after having called init_pack_revindex(). For example,
imagine we have one process which needs to look at the
revindex for a variety of objects (e.g., cat-file's
"%(objectsize:disk)" format). Simultaneously, git-gc is
running, which is doing a `git repack -ad`. We might hit a
sequence like:
1. We need the revidx for some packed object. We call
find_pack_revindex() and end up in init_pack_revindex()
to create the hash table for all packs we know about.
2. We look up another object and can't find it, because
the repack has removed the pack it's in. We re-scan the
pack directory and find a new pack containing the
object. It gets added to our packed_git list.
3. We call find_pack_revindex() for the new object, which
hits revindex_for_pack() for our new pack. It can't
find the packed_git in the revindex hash, and dies.
You could also replace the `repack` above with a push or
fetch to create a new pack, though these are less likely
(you would have to somehow learn about the new objects to
look them up).
Prior to 1a6d8b9 (do not discard revindex when re-preparing
packfiles, 2014-01-15), this was safe, as we threw away the
revindex whenever we re-scanned the pack directory (and thus
re-created the revindex hash on the fly). However, we don't
want to simply revert that commit, as it was solving a
different race.
So we have a few options:
- We can fix the race in 1a6d8b9 differently, by having
the bitmap code look in the revindex hash instead of
caching the pointer. But this would introduce a lot of
extra hash lookups for common bitmap operations.
- We could teach the revindex to dynamically add new packs
to the hash table. This would perform the same, but
would mean adding extra code to the revindex hash (which
currently cannot be resized at all).
- We can get rid of the hash table entirely. There is
exactly one revindex per pack, so we can just store it
in the packed_git struct. Since it's initialized lazily,
it does not add to the startup cost.
This is the best of both worlds: less code and fewer
hash table lookups. The original code likely avoided
this in the name of encapsulation. But the packed_git
and reverse_index code are fairly intimate already, so
it's not much of a loss.
This patch implements the final option. It's a minimal
conversion that retains the pack_revindex struct. No callers
need to change, and we can do further cleanup in a follow-on
patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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