Optimize diff-cache -p --cached

This patch optimizes "diff-cache -p --cached" by avoiding to
inflate blobs into temporary files when the blob recorded in the
cache matches the corresponding file in the work tree.  The file
in the work tree is passed as the comparison source in such a
case instead.

This optimization kicks in only when we have already read the
cache this optimization and this is deliberate.  Especially,
diff-tree does not use this code, because changes are contained
in small number of files relative to the project size most of
the time, and reading cache is so expensive for a large project
that the cost of reading it outweighs the savings by not
inflating blobs.

Also this patch cleans up the structure passed from diff clients
by removing one unused structure member.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 54 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 4a54688cb..8dfa62443 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -132,11 +132,50 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name,
 	execlp("/bin/sh","sh", "-c", cmd, NULL);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Given a name and sha1 pair, if the dircache tells us the file in
+ * the work tree has that object contents, return true, so that
+ * prepare_temp_file() does not have to inflate and extract.
+ */
+static int work_tree_matches(const char *name, const unsigned char *sha1)
+{
+	struct cache_entry *ce;
+	struct stat st;
+	int pos, len;
+	
+	/* We do not read the cache ourselves here, because the
+	 * benchmark with my previous version that always reads cache
+	 * shows that it makes things worse for diff-tree comparing
+	 * two linux-2.6 kernel trees in an already checked out work
+	 * tree.  This is because most diff-tree comparison deals with
+	 * only a small number of files, while reading the cache is
+	 * expensive for a large project, and its cost outweighs the
+	 * savings we get by not inflating the object to a temporary
+	 * file.  Practically, this code only helps when we are used
+	 * by diff-cache --cached, which does read the cache before
+	 * calling us.
+	 */ 
+	if (!active_cache)
+		return 0;
+
+	len = strlen(name);
+	pos = cache_name_pos(name, len);
+	if (pos < 0)
+		return 0;
+	ce = active_cache[pos];
+	if ((stat(name, &st) < 0) ||
+	    cache_match_stat(ce, &st) ||
+	    memcmp(sha1, ce->sha1, 20))
+		return 0;
+	return 1;
+}
+
 static void prepare_temp_file(const char *name,
 			      struct diff_tempfile *temp,
 			      struct diff_spec *one)
 {
 	static unsigned char null_sha1[20] = { 0, };
+	int use_work_tree = 0;
 
 	if (!one->file_valid) {
 	not_a_valid_file:
@@ -150,20 +189,22 @@ static void prepare_temp_file(const char *name,
 	}
 
 	if (one->sha1_valid &&
-	    !memcmp(one->u.sha1, null_sha1, sizeof(null_sha1))) {
-		one->sha1_valid = 0;
-		one->u.name = name;
-	}
+	    (!memcmp(one->blob_sha1, null_sha1, sizeof(null_sha1)) ||
+	     work_tree_matches(name, one->blob_sha1)))
+		use_work_tree = 1;
 
-	if (!one->sha1_valid) {
+	if (!one->sha1_valid || use_work_tree) {
 		struct stat st;
-		temp->name = one->u.name;
+		temp->name = name;
 		if (stat(temp->name, &st) < 0) {
 			if (errno == ENOENT)
 				goto not_a_valid_file;
 			die("stat(%s): %s", temp->name, strerror(errno));
 		}
-		strcpy(temp->hex, sha1_to_hex(null_sha1));
+		if (!one->sha1_valid)
+			strcpy(temp->hex, sha1_to_hex(null_sha1));
+		else
+			strcpy(temp->hex, sha1_to_hex(one->blob_sha1));
 		sprintf(temp->mode, "%06o",
 			S_IFREG |ce_permissions(st.st_mode));
 	}
@@ -173,10 +214,10 @@ static void prepare_temp_file(const char *name,
 		char type[20];
 		unsigned long size;
 
-		blob = read_sha1_file(one->u.sha1, type, &size);
+		blob = read_sha1_file(one->blob_sha1, type, &size);
 		if (!blob || strcmp(type, "blob"))
 			die("unable to read blob object for %s (%s)",
-			    name, sha1_to_hex(one->u.sha1));
+			    name, sha1_to_hex(one->blob_sha1));
 
 		strcpy(temp->tmp_path, ".diff_XXXXXX");
 		fd = mkstemp(temp->tmp_path);
@@ -187,7 +228,7 @@ static void prepare_temp_file(const char *name,
 		close(fd);
 		free(blob);
 		temp->name = temp->tmp_path;
-		strcpy(temp->hex, sha1_to_hex(one->u.sha1));
+		strcpy(temp->hex, sha1_to_hex(one->blob_sha1));
 		temp->hex[40] = 0;
 		sprintf(temp->mode, "%06o", one->mode);
 	}
@@ -286,7 +327,7 @@ void diff_addremove(int addremove, unsigned mode,
 	char concatpath[PATH_MAX];
 	struct diff_spec spec[2], *one, *two;
 
-	memcpy(spec[0].u.sha1, sha1, 20);
+	memcpy(spec[0].blob_sha1, sha1, 20);
 	spec[0].mode = mode;
 	spec[0].sha1_valid = spec[0].file_valid = 1;
 	spec[1].file_valid = 0;
@@ -311,9 +352,9 @@ void diff_change(unsigned old_mode, unsigned new_mode,
 	char concatpath[PATH_MAX];
 	struct diff_spec spec[2];
 
-	memcpy(spec[0].u.sha1, old_sha1, 20);
+	memcpy(spec[0].blob_sha1, old_sha1, 20);
 	spec[0].mode = old_mode;
-	memcpy(spec[1].u.sha1, new_sha1, 20);
+	memcpy(spec[1].blob_sha1, new_sha1, 20);
 	spec[1].mode = new_mode;
 	spec[0].sha1_valid = spec[0].file_valid = 1;
 	spec[1].sha1_valid = spec[1].file_valid = 1;