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From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump
Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2023 11:52:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230801185232.1457172-1-jonathantanmy@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZMlKMmAs3wKULAOd@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:53:08PM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote:
> > Suddenly reading many (or most) of the repo's trees would be a similar
> > surprise, right?
> 
> That's a good point. I think in general I'd expect Git to avoid
> recomputing Bloom filters where that work can be avoided, if the work in
> order to detect whether or not we need to recompute a filter is cheap
> enough to carry out.

Makes sense. I just don't think that there is a cheap way to detect if
a filter does not need to be recomputed (the closest way I think we have
is something that will require reading a lot of trees in a repo).

> > Also this would happen only if the server operator explicitly sets a
> > changed path filter version. If they leave it as-is, commit graphs will
> > still be written with the same version as the one on disk.
> 
> I think that I could live with that if the default is to leave things
> as-is.

Ah, thanks.
 
> I still think that it's worth it to have this functionality to propagate
> Bloom filters forward should ship in Git, but we can work on that
> outside of this series.

Makes sense.

> > Regarding consulting commit_graph->bloom_filter_settings->hash_version,
> > the issue I ran into was that firstly, I didn't know what to do about
> > commit_graph->base_graph (which also has its own bloom_filter_settings)
> > and what to do if it had a contradictory hash_version. And even if
> > we found a way to unify those, it is not true that every Bloom filter
> > in memory is of that version, since we may have generated some that
> > correspond to the version we're writing (not the version on disk).
> > In particular, the Bloom filters we write come from a commit slab
> > (bloom_filters in bloom.c) and in that slab, both Bloom filters from
> > disk and Bloom filters that were generated in-process coexist.
> 
> Would we ever want to have a commit-graph chain with mixed Bloom filter
> versions?

Probably not, but I wanted to be robust in case a third-party tool wrote a chain with
mixed versions.

> We avoid mixing generation number schemes across multiple layers of a
> commit-graph chain. But I don't see any reason that we should or need to
> have a similar restriction in place for the Bloom filter version. Both
> are readable, as long as the user-provided configuration allows them to
> be.

Yes, that's true - there is no inherent reason why we can't mix them,
unlike with generation numbers.

> We just have to interpret them differently depending on what layer of
> the graph (and therefore, what Bloom filter version they are) they come
> from.
> 
> Sorry for thinking aloud a little there. I think that this means that we
> at minimum have to keep in context the commit-graph layer we found the
> Bloom filter in so that we can tie that back to its Bloom filter
> version. That might just mean that we have to tag each Bloom filter with
> the version it was computed under, or maybe we already have the
> commit-graph layer in context, in which case we shouldn't need an
> additional field.
> 
> My gut is telling me that we probably *do* need such a field, since we
> don't often have a reference to the particular layer that we found a
> Bloom filter in, just the tip of the commit-graph chain that it came
> from.

We'll need the additional field because we don't know which commit graph
layer it comes from. In fact, we don't even know which *repo* the commit
comes from, since the commit slab is global. (Moving the slab to being
under a repo or under a commit graph layer would fix this.)

But I think there still remains the question of whether we really need
to support multiple versions in one Git invocation.

> > I also thought of your other proposal of augmenting struct bloom_filter
> > to also include the version. The issue I ran into there is if, for a
> > given commit, there already exists a Bloom filter read from disk with
> > the wrong version, what should we do? Overwrite it, or store both
> > versions in memory? (We can't just immediately output the Bloom filter
> > to disk and forget about the new version, only storing its size so that
> > we can generate the BIDX, because in the current code, generation and
> > writing to disk are separate. We could try to refactor it, but I didn't
> > want to make such a large change to reduce the possibility of bugs.)
> > Both storing the version number and storing an additional pointer for a
> > second version would increase memory consumption too, even when
> > supporting two versions isn't needed, but maybe this isn't a big deal.
> 
> It's likely that I'm missing something here, but what is stopping us
> from discarding the old Bloom filter as soon as we generate the new
> one? We shouldn't need to load the old filter again out of the commit
> slab, right?
> 
> Thanks,
> Taylor

I did not look at the code closely enough except to see that there was
a gap between generating the new-version Bloom filters and writing them
to disk, and I was concerned that now, or in the future, there would
be some code in that gap that reads the Bloom filter for a commit and
expects the old-version Bloom filter there.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-01 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-22 21:48 [PATCH 0/2] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Jonathan Tan
2023-05-22 21:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] t4216: test wrong bloom filter version rejection Jonathan Tan
2023-05-22 21:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] commit-graph: fix murmur3, bump filter ver. to 2 Jonathan Tan
2023-05-23 13:00   ` Derrick Stolee
2023-05-23 23:00     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-05-23 23:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-24 21:26       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-05-26 13:19         ` Derrick Stolee
2023-05-30 17:26           ` Jonathan Tan
2023-05-23  4:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Junio C Hamano
2023-05-31 23:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Jonathan Tan
2023-05-31 23:12   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths Jonathan Tan
2023-05-31 23:12   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion Jonathan Tan
2023-05-31 23:12   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] commit-graph: new filter ver. that fixes murmur3 Jonathan Tan
2023-06-03  1:01   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Junio C Hamano
2023-06-03  2:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-07 16:30       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-07 21:37         ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-08 19:21 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Jonathan Tan
2023-06-08 19:21   ` [PATCH v3 1/4] gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT Jonathan Tan
2023-06-08 19:52     ` Ramsay Jones
2023-06-12 21:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-08 19:21   ` [PATCH v3 2/4] t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths Jonathan Tan
2023-06-08 19:21   ` [PATCH v3 3/4] repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion Jonathan Tan
2023-06-08 19:21   ` [PATCH v3 4/4] commit-graph: new filter ver. that fixes murmur3 Jonathan Tan
2023-06-08 19:50   ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Ramsay Jones
2023-06-09  0:08     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-12 21:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-13 17:16       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-13 17:29         ` [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: use octal escapes, not hex Jonathan Tan
2023-06-13 18:16           ` Eric Sunshine
2023-06-13 18:43             ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-13 19:15               ` Eric Sunshine
2023-06-13 19:29                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-13 19:16         ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Junio C Hamano
2023-06-13 17:39 ` [PATCH v4 " Jonathan Tan
2023-06-13 17:39   ` [PATCH v4 1/4] gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT Jonathan Tan
2023-06-13 21:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-20 13:22       ` Derrick Stolee
2023-06-21 12:08       ` Taylor Blau
2023-06-22 22:26         ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-23 13:05           ` Derrick Stolee
2023-06-13 17:39   ` [PATCH v4 2/4] t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths Jonathan Tan
2023-06-13 17:39   ` [PATCH v4 3/4] repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion Jonathan Tan
2023-06-20 13:28     ` Derrick Stolee
2023-06-21 12:14     ` Taylor Blau
2023-06-13 17:39   ` [PATCH v4 4/4] commit-graph: new filter ver. that fixes murmur3 Jonathan Tan
2023-06-20 13:39     ` Derrick Stolee
2023-06-20 18:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-13 19:21   ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Junio C Hamano
2023-06-20 13:43     ` Derrick Stolee
2023-06-20 21:56       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-21 12:19       ` Taylor Blau
2023-06-21 17:53         ` Derrick Stolee
2023-06-22 22:27           ` Jonathan Tan
2023-06-23 13:18             ` Derrick Stolee
2023-07-13 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 " Jonathan Tan
2023-07-13 21:42   ` [PATCH v5 1/4] gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT Jonathan Tan
2023-07-19 17:25     ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-20 20:20       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-21  1:38         ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-13 21:42   ` [PATCH v5 2/4] t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths Jonathan Tan
2023-07-13 22:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-19 17:27       ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-19 17:55         ` [PATCH 0/4] commit-graph: avoid looking at Bloom filter data directly Taylor Blau
2023-07-19 17:55           ` [PATCH 1/4] t/helper/test-read-graph.c: extract `dump_graph_info()` Taylor Blau
2023-07-19 17:55           ` [PATCH 2/4] bloom.h: make `load_bloom_filter_from_graph()` public Taylor Blau
2023-07-19 17:55           ` [PATCH 3/4] t/helper/test-read-graph: implement `bloom-filters` mode Taylor Blau
2023-07-19 17:55           ` [PATCH 4/4] fixup! t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths Taylor Blau
2023-07-19 19:24           ` [PATCH 0/4] commit-graph: avoid looking at Bloom filter data directly Junio C Hamano
2023-07-20 20:22           ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-13 21:42   ` [PATCH v5 3/4] repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion Jonathan Tan
2023-07-19 18:10     ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-20 20:42       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-20 21:02         ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-13 21:42   ` [PATCH v5 4/4] commit-graph: new filter ver. that fixes murmur3 Jonathan Tan
2023-07-19 18:24     ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-20 21:27       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-26 23:32         ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-13 22:16   ` [PATCH v5 0/4] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Junio C Hamano
2023-07-13 22:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-14 18:48     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-20 21:46 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] " Jonathan Tan
2023-07-20 21:46   ` [PATCH v6 1/7] gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT Jonathan Tan
2023-07-20 21:46   ` [PATCH v6 2/7] t/helper/test-read-graph.c: extract `dump_graph_info()` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-26 23:26     ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-20 21:46   ` [PATCH v6 3/7] bloom.h: make `load_bloom_filter_from_graph()` public Jonathan Tan
2023-07-20 21:46   ` [PATCH v6 4/7] t/helper/test-read-graph: implement `bloom-filters` mode Jonathan Tan
2023-07-20 21:46   ` [PATCH v6 5/7] t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths Jonathan Tan
2023-07-26 23:28     ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-20 21:46   ` [PATCH v6 6/7] repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion Jonathan Tan
2023-07-20 21:46   ` [PATCH v6 7/7] commit-graph: new filter ver. that fixes murmur3 Jonathan Tan
2023-07-25 20:52   ` [PATCH v6 0/7] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Junio C Hamano
2023-07-26 20:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-27  0:17     ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-27  0:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-27 17:39         ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-27 17:56           ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-27 20:53             ` Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:08               ` Taylor Blau
2023-08-01 18:52                 ` Jonathan Tan [this message]
2023-08-03  0:01                 ` Taylor Blau
2023-08-03 13:18                   ` Derrick Stolee
2023-08-03 18:45                     ` Taylor Blau
2023-07-27 18:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-01 18:41 ` [PATCH v7 " Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:41   ` [PATCH v7 1/7] gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:41   ` [PATCH v7 2/7] t/helper/test-read-graph.c: extract `dump_graph_info()` Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:41   ` [PATCH v7 3/7] bloom.h: make `load_bloom_filter_from_graph()` public Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:41   ` [PATCH v7 4/7] t/helper/test-read-graph: implement `bloom-filters` mode Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:41   ` [PATCH v7 5/7] t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:41   ` [PATCH v7 6/7] repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:41   ` [PATCH v7 7/7] commit-graph: new filter ver. that fixes murmur3 Jonathan Tan
2023-08-01 18:44   ` [PATCH v7 0/7] Changed path filter hash fix and version bump Junio C Hamano
2023-08-01 20:58     ` Taylor Blau
2023-08-01 21:07       ` Junio C Hamano

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