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H A D | setlocalversion | diff 523f3dbc187a9618d4fd80c2b438e4d490705dcd Mon Nov 18 12:01:54 CET 2024 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> setlocalversion: work around "git describe" performance
Contrary to expectations, passing a single candidate tag to "git describe" is slower than not passing any --match options.
$ time git describe --debug ... traversed 10619 commits ... v6.12-rc5-63-g0fc810ae3ae1
real 0m0.169s
$ time git describe --match=v6.12-rc5 --debug ... traversed 1310024 commits v6.12-rc5-63-g0fc810ae3ae1
real 0m1.281s
In fact, the --debug output shows that git traverses all or most of history. For some repositories and/or git versions, those 1.3s are actually 10-15 seconds.
This has been acknowledged as a performance bug in git [1], and a fix is on its way [2]. However, no solution is yet in git.git, and even when one lands, it will take quite a while before it finds its way to a release and for $random_kernel_developer to pick that up.
So rewrite the logic to use plumbing commands. For each of the candidate values of $tag, we ask: (1) is $tag even an annotated tag? (2) Is it eligible to describe HEAD, i.e. an ancestor of HEAD? (3) If so, how many commits are in $tag..HEAD?
I have tested that this produces the same output as the current script for ~700 random commits between v6.9..v6.10. For those 700 commits, and in my git repo, the 'make -s kernelrelease' command is on average ~4 times faster with this patch applied (geometric mean of ratios).
For the commit mentioned in Josh's original report [3], the time-consuming part of setlocalversion goes from
$ time git describe --match=v6.12-rc5 c1e939a21eb1 v6.12-rc5-44-gc1e939a21eb1
real 0m1.210s
to
$ time git rev-list --count --left-right v6.12-rc5..c1e939a21eb1 0 44
real 0m0.037s
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241101113910.GA2301440@coredump.intra.peff.net/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241106192236.GC880133@coredump.intra.peff.net/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/309549cafdcfe50c4fceac3263220cc3d8b109b2.1730337435.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZPtlxmdIJXOe0sEy@google.com/ Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/309549cafdcfe50c4fceac3263220cc3d8b109b2.1730337435.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org/ Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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