maintenance: auto-size incremental-repack batch

When repacking during the 'incremental-repack' task, we use the
--batch-size option in 'git multi-pack-index repack'. The initial setting
used --batch-size=0 to repack everything into a single pack-file. This is
not sustainable for a large repository. The amount of work required is
also likely to use too many system resources for a background job.

Update the 'incremental-repack' task by dynamically computing a
--batch-size option based on the current pack-file structure.

The dynamic default size is computed with this idea in mind for a client
repository that was cloned from a very large remote: there is likely one
"big" pack-file that was created at clone time. Thus, do not try
repacking it as it is likely packed efficiently by the server.

Instead, we select the second-largest pack-file, and create a batch size
that is one larger than that pack-file. If there are three or more
pack-files, then this guarantees that at least two will be combined into
a new pack-file.

Of course, this means that the second-largest pack-file size is likely
to grow over time and may eventually surpass the initially-cloned
pack-file. Recall that the pack-file batch is selected in a greedy
manner: the packs are considered from oldest to newest and are selected
if they have size smaller than the batch size until the total selected
size is larger than the batch size. Thus, that oldest "clone" pack will
be first to repack after the new data creates a pack larger than that.

We also want to place some limits on how large these pack-files become,
in order to bound the amount of time spent repacking. A maximum
batch-size of two gigabytes means that large repositories will never be
packed into a single pack-file using this job, but also that repack is
rather expensive. This is a trade-off that is valuable to have if the
maintenance is being run automatically or in the background. Users who
truly want to optimize for space and performance (and are willing to pay
the upfront cost of a full repack) can use the 'gc' task to do so.

Create a test for this two gigabyte limit by creating an EXPENSIVE test
that generates two pack-files of roughly 2.5 gigabytes in size, then
performs an incremental repack. Check that the --batch-size argument in
the subcommand uses the hard-coded maximum.

Helped-by: Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
index a2db2291b0..9e6ea23f35 100755
--- a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
+++ b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
@@ -181,10 +181,42 @@ test_expect_success 'incremental-repack task' '
 	test_line_count = 4 packs-between &&
 
 	# the job deletes the two old packs, and does not write
-	# a new one because only one pack remains.
+	# a new one because the batch size is not high enough to
+	# pack the largest pack-file.
 	git maintenance run --task=incremental-repack &&
 	ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >packs-after &&
-	test_line_count = 1 packs-after
+	test_line_count = 2 packs-after
+'
+
+test_expect_success EXPENSIVE 'incremental-repack 2g limit' '
+	for i in $(test_seq 1 5)
+	do
+		test-tool genrandom foo$i $((512 * 1024 * 1024 + 1)) >>big ||
+		return 1
+	done &&
+	git add big &&
+	git commit -m "Add big file (1)" &&
+
+	# ensure any possible loose objects are in a pack-file
+	git maintenance run --task=loose-objects &&
+
+	rm big &&
+	for i in $(test_seq 6 10)
+	do
+		test-tool genrandom foo$i $((512 * 1024 * 1024 + 1)) >>big ||
+		return 1
+	done &&
+	git add big &&
+	git commit -m "Add big file (2)" &&
+
+	# ensure any possible loose objects are in a pack-file
+	git maintenance run --task=loose-objects &&
+
+	# Now run the incremental-repack task and check the batch-size
+	GIT_TRACE2_EVENT="$(pwd)/run-2g.txt" git maintenance run \
+		--task=incremental-repack 2>/dev/null &&
+	test_subcommand git multi-pack-index repack \
+		 --no-progress --batch-size=2147483647 <run-2g.txt
 '
 
 test_done