Lazily open pack index files on demand

In some repository configurations the user may have many packfiles,
but all of the recent commits/trees/tags/blobs are likely to
be in the most recent packfile (the one with the newest mtime).
It is therefore common to be able to complete an entire operation
by accessing only one packfile, even if there are 25 packfiles
available to the repository.

Rather than opening and mmaping the corresponding .idx file for
every pack found, we now only open and map the .idx when we suspect
there might be an object of interest in there.

Of course we cannot known in advance which packfile contains an
object, so we still need to scan the entire packed_git list to
locate anything.  But odds are users want to access objects in the
most recently created packfiles first, and that may be all they
ever need for the current operation.

Junio observed in b867092f that placing recent packfiles before
older ones can slightly improve access times for recent objects,
without degrading it for historical object access.

This change improves upon Junio's observations by trying even harder
to avoid the .idx files that we won't need.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index cd875bc2e9..0f4a05b51e 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -485,10 +485,11 @@ extern struct packed_git *find_sha1_pack(const unsigned char *sha1,
 					 struct packed_git *packs);
 
 extern void pack_report(void);
+extern int open_pack_index(struct packed_git *);
 extern unsigned char* use_pack(struct packed_git *, struct pack_window **, off_t, unsigned int *);
 extern void unuse_pack(struct pack_window **);
 extern struct packed_git *add_packed_git(const char *, int, int);
-extern const unsigned char *nth_packed_object_sha1(const struct packed_git *, uint32_t);
+extern const unsigned char *nth_packed_object_sha1(struct packed_git *, uint32_t);
 extern off_t find_pack_entry_one(const unsigned char *, struct packed_git *);
 extern void *unpack_entry(struct packed_git *, off_t, enum object_type *, unsigned long *);
 extern unsigned long unpack_object_header_gently(const unsigned char *buf, unsigned long len, enum object_type *type, unsigned long *sizep);