read-cache: make the index write buffer size 128K
Writing an index 8K at a time invokes the OS filesystem and caching code
very frequently, introducing noticeable overhead while writing large
indexes. When experimenting with different write buffer sizes on Windows
writing the Windows OS repo index (260MB), most of the benefit came by
bumping the index write buffer size to 64K. I picked 128K to ensure that
we're past the knee of the curve.
With this change, the time under do_write_index for an index with 3M
files goes from ~1.02s to ~0.72s.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@ntdev.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 29144cf..a5b2779 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -2447,7 +2447,7 @@
}
}
-#define WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE 8192
+#define WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE (128 * 1024)
static unsigned char write_buffer[WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE];
static unsigned long write_buffer_len;
