On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, at 1:20 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Hi, > > On 29-06-2020 21:13:43 -0500, Sid Spry wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have some runnable pseudocode outlining a faster tree verification > > algorithm. > > Before I create patches I'd like to see if there is any guidance on making > > the > > changes as unobtrusive as possible. If the radical change in algorithm is > > acceptable I can work on adding the changes. > > > > Instead of composing any kind of structured data out of the portage tree my > > algorithm just lists all files and then optionally batches them out to > > threads. > > There is a noticeable speedup by eliding the tree traversal operations which > > can be seen when running the algorithm with a single thread and comparing > > it to > > the current algorithm in gemato (which should still be discussed here?). > > I remember something that gemato used to use multiple threads, but > because it totally saturated disk-IO, it was brought back to a single > thread. People were complaining about unusable systems. >
I think this is an argument for cgroups limits support on the portage process or account as opposed to an argument against picking a better algorithm. That is something I have been working towards, but I am only one man. > In any case, can you share your performance results? What speedup did > you see, on warm and hot FS caches? Which type of disk do you use? > I ran all tests multiple times to make them warm off of a Samsung SSD, but nothing very precise yet. % gemato verify --openpgp-key signkey.asc /var/db/repos/gentoo [...] INFO:root:Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo... INFO:root:/var/db/repos/gentoo verified in 16.45 seconds sometimes going higher, closer to 18s, vs. % ./veriftree.py 4.763171965983929 So roughly an order of magnitude speedup without batching to threads. > You could compare against qmanifest, which uses OpenMP-based > paralllelism while verifying the tree. On SSDs this does help. > I lost my notes -- how do I specify to either gemato or qmanifest the GnuPG directory? My code is partially structured as it is because I had problems doing this. I rediscovered -K/--openpgp-key in gemato but am unsure for qmanifest.
