revision.c: reduce object database queries

derrickstolee · gitster · commit ebbed3ba04ce · 2018-02-27T15:04:52.000-08:00
In mark_parents_uninteresting(), we check for the existence of an
object file to see if we should treat a commit as parsed. The result
is to set the "parsed" bit on the commit.

Modify the condition to only check has_object_file() if the result
would change the parsed bit.

When a local branch is different from its upstream ref, "git status"
will compute ahead/behind counts. This uses paint_down_to_common()
and hits mark_parents_uninteresting(). On a copy of the Linux repo
with a local instance of "master" behind the remote branch
"origin/master" by ~60,000 commits, we find the performance of
"git status" went from 1.42 seconds to 1.32 seconds, for a relative
difference of -7.0%.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee &lt;dstolee@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ void mark_parents_uninteresting(struct commit *commit)
 			 * it is popped next time around, we won't be trying
 			 * to parse it and get an error.
 			 */
-			if (!has_object_file(&commit->object.oid))
+			if (!commit->object.parsed &&
+			    !has_object_file(&commit->object.oid))
 				commit->object.parsed = 1;
 
 			if (commit->object.flags & UNINTERESTING)
