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[v2,05/13] reftable/merged: remove unnecessary null check for subiters

Message ID 0adf34d08b781c384d878d7d5f651efcefa7d7ab.1709045927.git.ps@pks.im (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series reftable: improve ref iteration performance (pt.2) | expand

Commit Message

Patrick Steinhardt Feb. 27, 2024, 3:06 p.m. UTC
Whenever we advance a subiter we first call `iterator_is_null()`. This
is not needed though because we only ever advance subiters which have
entries in the priority queue, and we do not end entries to the priority
queue when the subiter has been exhausted.

Drop the check as well as the now-unused function. This results in a
surprisingly big speedup:

    Benchmark 1: show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD~)
      Time (mean ± σ):     138.1 ms ±   4.4 ms    [User: 135.1 ms, System: 2.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):   133.4 ms … 167.3 ms    1000 runs

    Benchmark 2: show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD)
      Time (mean ± σ):     134.4 ms ±   4.2 ms    [User: 131.5 ms, System: 2.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):   130.0 ms … 164.0 ms    1000 runs

    Summary
      show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD) ran
        1.03 ± 0.05 times faster than show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD~)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 reftable/iter.c   |  5 -----
 reftable/iter.h   |  4 ----
 reftable/merged.c | 10 +---------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/reftable/iter.c b/reftable/iter.c
index 8b5ebf6183..7aa30c4a51 100644
--- a/reftable/iter.c
+++ b/reftable/iter.c
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@  license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
 #include "reader.h"
 #include "reftable-error.h"
 
-int iterator_is_null(struct reftable_iterator *it)
-{
-	return !it->ops;
-}
-
 static void filtering_ref_iterator_close(void *iter_arg)
 {
 	struct filtering_ref_iterator *fri = iter_arg;
diff --git a/reftable/iter.h b/reftable/iter.h
index 47d67d84df..537431baba 100644
--- a/reftable/iter.h
+++ b/reftable/iter.h
@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@  license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
 #include "reftable-iterator.h"
 #include "reftable-generic.h"
 
-/* Returns true for a zeroed out iterator, such as the one returned from
- * iterator_destroy. */
-int iterator_is_null(struct reftable_iterator *it);
-
 /* iterator that produces only ref records that point to `oid` */
 struct filtering_ref_iterator {
 	int double_check;
diff --git a/reftable/merged.c b/reftable/merged.c
index ae74234472..29ad09f3d8 100644
--- a/reftable/merged.c
+++ b/reftable/merged.c
@@ -70,8 +70,7 @@  static void merged_iter_close(void *p)
 	reftable_free(mi->subiters);
 }
 
-static int merged_iter_advance_nonnull_subiter(struct merged_iter *mi,
-					       size_t idx)
+static int merged_iter_advance_subiter(struct merged_iter *mi, size_t idx)
 {
 	struct pq_entry e = {
 		.index = idx,
@@ -92,13 +91,6 @@  static int merged_iter_advance_nonnull_subiter(struct merged_iter *mi,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int merged_iter_advance_subiter(struct merged_iter *mi, size_t idx)
-{
-	if (iterator_is_null(&mi->subiters[idx].iter))
-		return 0;
-	return merged_iter_advance_nonnull_subiter(mi, idx);
-}
-
 static int merged_iter_next_entry(struct merged_iter *mi,
 				  struct reftable_record *rec)
 {