midx: implement `midx_preferred_pack()`

When performing a binary search over the objects in a MIDX's bitmap
(i.e. in pseudo-pack order), the reader reconstructs the pseudo-pack
ordering using a combination of (a) the preferred pack, (b) the pack's
lexical position in the MIDX based on pack names, and (c) the object
offset within the pack.

In order to perform this binary search, the reader must know the
identity of the preferred pack. This could be stored in the MIDX, but
isn't for historical reasons, mostly because it can easily be inferred
at read-time by looking at the object in the first bit position and
finding out which pack it was selected from in the MIDX, like so:

    nth_midxed_pack_int_id(m, pack_pos_to_midx(m, 0));

In midx_to_pack_pos() which performs this binary search, we look up the
identity of the preferred pack before each search. This is relatively
quick, since it involves two table-driven lookups (one in the MIDX's
revindex for `pack_pos_to_midx()`, and another in the MIDX's object
table for `nth_midxed_pack_int_id()`).

But since the preferred pack does not change after the MIDX is written,
it is safe to cache this value on the MIDX itself.

Write a helper to do just that, and rewrite all of the existing
call-sites that care about the identity of the preferred pack in terms
of this new helper.

This will prepare us for a subsequent patch where we will need to binary
search through the MIDX's pseudo-pack order multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/midx.h b/midx.h
index 89c5aa637e..f87a8fff26 100644
--- a/midx.h
+++ b/midx.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct multi_pack_index {
 	unsigned char num_chunks;
 	uint32_t num_packs;
 	uint32_t num_objects;
+	int preferred_pack_idx;
 
 	int local;
 
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ int midx_contains_pack(struct multi_pack_index *m,
 		       const char *idx_or_pack_name);
 int midx_locate_pack(struct multi_pack_index *m, const char *idx_or_pack_name,
 		     uint32_t *pos);
+int midx_preferred_pack(struct multi_pack_index *m, uint32_t *pack_int_id);
 int prepare_multi_pack_index_one(struct repository *r, const char *object_dir, int local);
 
 /*