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config_file: avoid re-reading files on write
When we rewrite the configuration file due to any of its values being modified, we call `config_refresh` to update the in-memory representation of our config file backend. This is needlessly wasteful though, as `config_refresh` will always open the on-disk representation to reads the file contents while we already know the complete file contents at this point in time as we have just written it to disk. Implement a new function `config_refresh_from_buffer` that will refresh the backend's config entries from a buffer instead of from the config file itself. Note that this will thus _not_ update the backend's timestamp, which will cause us to re-read the buffer when performing a read operation on it. But this is still an improvement as we now lazily re-read the contents, and most importantly we will avoid constantly re-reading the contents if we perform multiple write operations. The following strace demonstrates this if we're re-writing a key multiple times. It uses our config example with `config_set` changed to update the file 10 times with different keys: $ strace lg2 config x.x z |& grep '^open.*config' open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 And now with the optimization of `config_refresh_from_buffer`: $ strace lg2 config x.x z |& grep '^open.*config' open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/home/pks/.config/git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 3 open("/tmp/repo/.git/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 As can be seen, this is quite a lot of `open` calls less.
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‎src/config_file.c‎

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@@ -200,9 +200,27 @@ static int config_set_entries(git_config_backend *cfg, git_config_entries *entri
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return error;
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}
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static int config_refresh_from_buffer(git_config_backend *cfg, const char *buf, size_t buflen)
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{
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diskfile_backend *b = GIT_CONTAINER_OF(cfg, diskfile_backend, header.parent);
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git_config_entries *entries = NULL;
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int error;
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if ((error = git_config_entries_new(&entries)) < 0 ||
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(error = config_read_buffer(entries, b->header.repo, &b->file,
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b->header.level, 0, buf, buflen)) < 0 ||
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(error = config_set_entries(cfg, entries)) < 0)
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goto out;
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entries = NULL;
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out:
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git_config_entries_free(entries);
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return error;
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}
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static int config_refresh(git_config_backend *cfg)
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{
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diskfile_backend *b = (diskfile_backend *)cfg;
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diskfile_backend *b = GIT_CONTAINER_OF(cfg, diskfile_backend, header.parent);
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git_config_entries *entries = NULL;
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int error, modified;
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@@ -1230,7 +1248,7 @@ static int config_write(diskfile_backend *cfg, const char *orig_key, const char
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if ((result = git_filebuf_commit(&file)) < 0)
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goto done;
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if ((result = config_refresh(&cfg->header.parent)) < 0)
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if ((result = config_refresh_from_buffer(&cfg->header.parent, buf.ptr, buf.size)) < 0)
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goto done;
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}
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