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2020-03-30diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changesDerrick Stolee
When computing the changed-paths bloom filters for the commit-graph, we limit the size of the filter by restricting the number of paths in the diff. Instead of computing a large diff and then ignoring the result, it is better to halt the diff computation early. Create a new "max_changes" option in struct diff_options. If non-zero, then halt the diff computation after discovering strictly more changed paths. This includes paths corresponding to trees that change. Use this max_changes option in the bloom filter calculations. This reduces the time taken to compute the filters for the Linux kernel repo from 2m50s to 2m35s. On a large internal repository with ~500 commits that perform tree-wide changes, the time reduced from 6m15s to 3m48s. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30bloom.c: core Bloom filter implementation for changed paths.Garima Singh
Add the core implementation for computing Bloom filters for the paths changed between a commit and it's first parent. We fill the Bloom filters as (const char *data, int len) pairs as `struct bloom_filters" within a commit slab. Filters for commits with no changes and more than 512 changes, is represented with a filter of length zero. There is no gain in distinguishing between a computed filter of length zero for a commit with no changes, and an uncomputed filter for new commits or for commits with more than 512 changes. The effect on `git log -- path` is the same in both cases. We will fall back to the normal diffing algorithm when we can't benefit from the existence of Bloom filters. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30bloom.c: introduce core Bloom filter constructsGarima Singh
Introduce the constructs for Bloom filters, Bloom filter keys and Bloom filter settings. For details on what Bloom filters are and how they work, refer to Dr. Derrick Stolee's blog post [1]. It provides a concise explanation of the adoption of Bloom filters as described in [2] and [3]. Implementation specifics: 1. We currently use 7 and 10 for the number of hashes and the size of each entry respectively. They served as great starting values, the mathematical details behind this choice are described in [1] and [4]. The implementation, while not completely open to it at the moment, is flexible enough to allow for tweaking these settings in the future. Note: The performance gains we have observed with these values are significant enough that we did not need to tweak these settings. The performance numbers are included in the cover letter of this series and in the commit message of the subsequent commit where we use Bloom filters to speed up `git log -- path`. 2. As described in [1] and [3], we do not need 7 independent hashing functions. We use the Murmur3 hashing scheme, seed it twice and then combine those to procure an arbitrary number of hash values. 3. The filters will be sized according to the number of changes in each commit, in multiples of 8 bit words. [1] Derrick Stolee "Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/super-charging-the-git-commit-graph-iv-Bloom-filters/ [2] Flavio Bonomi, Michael Mitzenmacher, Rina Panigrahy, Sushil Singh, George Varghese "An Improved Construction for Counting Bloom Filters" http://theory.stanford.edu/~rinap/papers/esa2006b.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/11841036_61 [3] Peter C. Dillinger and Panagiotis Manolios "Bloom Filters in Probabilistic Verification" http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pete/pub/Bloom-filters-verification.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30494-4_26 [4] Thomas Mueller Graf, Daniel Lemire "Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters" https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08258 Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30bloom.c: add the murmur3 hash implementationGarima Singh
In preparation for computing changed paths Bloom filters, implement the Murmur3 hash algorithm as described in [1]. It hashes the given data using the given seed and produces a uniformly distributed hash value. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash#Algorithm Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Helped-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>