Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()'

When we ask get_stat_data() to get the mode and size of an index entry,
we can avoid the lstat() call if we have marked the index entry as being
uptodate due to earlier lstat() calls.

This avoids a lot of unnecessary lstat() calls in eg 'git checkout',
where the last phase shows the differences to the working tree
(requiring a diff), but earlier phases have already verified the index.

On the kernel repo (with a fast machine and everything cached), this
changes timings of a nul 'git checkout' from

- Before (best of ten):

0.14user 0.05system 0:00.19elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+13237minor)pagefaults 0swaps

- After
0.11user 0.03system 0:00.15elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+13235minor)pagefaults 0swaps

so it can obviously be noticeable, although equally obviously it's not a
show-stopper on this particular machine. The difference is likely larger
on slower machines, or with operating systems that don't do as good a job
of name caching.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/diff-lib.c b/diff-lib.c
index ae96c64ca209f4df9008198e8a04b160bed618c7..d230efc146a73ae84cfd11c829c8404345d77273 100644 (file)
--- a/diff-lib.c
+++ b/diff-lib.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int get_stat_data(struct cache_entry *ce,
        const unsigned char *sha1 = ce->sha1;
        unsigned int mode = ce->ce_mode;
 
-       if (!cached) {
+       if (!cached && !ce_uptodate(ce)) {
                int changed;
                struct stat st;
                changed = check_removed(ce, &st);