[v2,11/11] grep: move driver pre-load out of critical section

Commit Message

Matheus Tavares Sept. 30, 2019, 1:50 a.m. UTC

In builtin/grep.c:add_work() we pre-load the userdiff drivers before
adding the grep_source in the todo list. This operation is currently
being performed after acquiring the grep_mutex, but as it's already
thread-safe, we don't need to protect it here. So let's move it out of
the critical section which should avoid thread contention and improve
performance.

Running[1] `git grep --threads=8 abcd[02] HEAD` on chromium's
repository[2], I got the following mean times for 30 executions after 2
warmups:

        Original         |  6.2886s
-------------------------|-----------
 Out of critical section |  5.7852s

[1]: Tests performed on an i7-7700HQ with 16GB of RAM and SSD, running
     Manjaro Linux.
[2]: chromium’s repo at commit 03ae96f (“Add filters testing at DSF=2”,
         04-06-2019), after a 'git gc' execution.

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <[e-mail]>
---
 builtin/grep.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 163f14b60d..d275b76647 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -92,8 +92,11 @@  static pthread_cond_t cond_result;
 
 static int skip_first_line;
 
-static void add_work(struct grep_opt *opt, const struct grep_source *gs)
+static void add_work(struct grep_opt *opt, struct grep_source *gs)
 {
+	if (opt->binary != GREP_BINARY_TEXT)
+		grep_source_load_driver(gs, opt->repo->index);
+
 	grep_lock();
 
 	while ((todo_end+1) % ARRAY_SIZE(todo) == todo_done) {
@@ -101,9 +104,6 @@  static void add_work(struct grep_opt *opt, const struct grep_source *gs)
 	}
 
 	todo[todo_end].source = *gs;
-	if (opt->binary != GREP_BINARY_TEXT)
-		grep_source_load_driver(&todo[todo_end].source,
-					opt->repo->index);
 	todo[todo_end].done = 0;
 	strbuf_reset(&todo[todo_end].out);
 	todo_end = (todo_end + 1) % ARRAY_SIZE(todo);