Make run_diff_index() use unpack_trees(), not read_tree()

A plain "git commit" would still run lstat() a lot more than necessary,
because wt_status_print() would cause the index to be repeatedly flushed
and re-read by wt_read_cache(), and that would cause the CE_UPTODATE bit
to be lost, resulting in the files in the index being lstat'ed three
times each.

The reason why wt-status.c ended up invalidating and re-reading the
cache multiple times was that it uses "run_diff_index()", which in turn
uses "read_tree()" to populate the index with *both* the old index and
the tree we want to compare against.

So this patch re-writes run_diff_index() to not use read_tree(), but
instead use "unpack_trees()" to diff the index to a tree.  That, in
turn, means that we don't need to modify the index itself, which then
means that we don't need to invalidate it and re-read it!

This, together with the lstat() optimizations, means that "git commit"
on the kernel tree really only needs to lstat() the index entries once.
That noticeably cuts down on the cached timings.

Best time before:

	[torvalds@woody linux]$ time git commit > /dev/null
	real    0m0.399s
	user    0m0.232s
	sys     0m0.164s

Best time after:

	[torvalds@woody linux]$ time git commit > /dev/null
	real    0m0.254s
	user    0m0.140s
	sys     0m0.112s

so it's a noticeable improvement in addition to being a nice conceptual
cleanup (it's really not that pretty that "run_diff_index()" dirties the
index!)

Doing an "strace -c" on it also shows that as it cuts the number of
lstat() calls by two thirds, it goes from being lstat()-limited to being
limited by getdents() (which is the readdir system call):

Before:
	% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
	------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
	 60.69    0.000704           0     69230        31 lstat
	 23.62    0.000274           0      5522           getdents
	  8.36    0.000097           0      5508      2638 open
	  2.59    0.000030           0      2869           close
	  2.50    0.000029           0       274           write
	  1.47    0.000017           0      2844           fstat

After:
	% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
	------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
	 45.17    0.000276           0      5522           getdents
	 26.51    0.000162           0     23112        31 lstat
	 19.80    0.000121           0      5503      2638 open
	  4.91    0.000030           0      2864           close
	  1.48    0.000020           0       274           write
	  1.34    0.000018           0      2844           fstat
	...

It passes the test-suite for me, but this is another of one of those
really core functions, and certainly pretty subtle, so..

NOTE! The Linux lstat() system call is really quite cheap when everything
is cached, so the fact that this is quite noticeable on Linux is likely to
mean that it is *much* more noticeable on other operating systems. I bet
you'll see a much bigger performance improvement from this on Windows in
particular.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index c0c247243..27b946d55 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -217,19 +217,12 @@ static void wt_status_print_changed_cb(struct diff_queue_struct *q,
 		wt_status_print_trailer(s);
 }
 
-static void wt_read_cache(struct wt_status *s)
-{
-	discard_cache();
-	read_cache_from(s->index_file);
-}
-
 static void wt_status_print_initial(struct wt_status *s)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct strbuf buf;
 
 	strbuf_init(&buf, 0);
-	wt_read_cache(s);
 	if (active_nr) {
 		s->commitable = 1;
 		wt_status_print_cached_header(s);
@@ -256,7 +249,6 @@ static void wt_status_print_updated(struct wt_status *s)
 	rev.diffopt.detect_rename = 1;
 	rev.diffopt.rename_limit = 100;
 	rev.diffopt.break_opt = 0;
-	wt_read_cache(s);
 	run_diff_index(&rev, 1);
 }
 
@@ -268,7 +260,6 @@ static void wt_status_print_changed(struct wt_status *s)
 	rev.diffopt.output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_CALLBACK;
 	rev.diffopt.format_callback = wt_status_print_changed_cb;
 	rev.diffopt.format_callback_data = s;
-	wt_read_cache(s);
 	run_diff_files(&rev, 0);
 }
 
@@ -335,7 +326,6 @@ static void wt_status_print_verbose(struct wt_status *s)
 	setup_revisions(0, NULL, &rev, s->reference);
 	rev.diffopt.output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH;
 	rev.diffopt.detect_rename = 1;
-	wt_read_cache(s);
 	run_diff_index(&rev, 1);
 
 	fflush(stdout);