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…d prefix Both hunk pipelines now diff commits in loadAllCommits order. Consecutive commits in parent-first timestamp order touch consecutive versions of the same files, so their delta chains share tails that are still in the offset cache; the ref-walk visit order interleaves unrelated lineages. The loaded commit graph resolves every first-parent tree, so the tree memo serves only parents outside the loaded set. The load itself does less serial work: ordering preserves the existing (timestamp, OID) order through position indexes, int32 degree and CSR child arrays, an int32 heap, and a leading-word open-addressing index; walk workers follow one lineage each with a sharded seen set and share work through stealing and donation (the single-worker ordered walk keeps its depth-first order); ParentOIDs compact into one array; header parsing splits lines in place; the graph's two maps build concurrently. rails+trufflehog dedup scan at 16 cores: 2498 ms -> 2026 ms.
…n two passes In first-introduction order a repeated (old, new) blob transition adds no text lines: every line of its hunks was inserted into, or already present in, the fingerprint set when the earlier occurrence was decided. The dedup pipeline registers each computed pair by hand-out position in a first-seen table and skips the diff of later repeats. A skipped repeat is diffed again only when the set has saturated, so fail-open still emits it; results with a dedup-exempt hunk are diffed at every occurrence. Computed pairs go through pairHunksUncached, which compacts hunks exactly as the pair memo would store them, so the dedup path keeps its retention bound and the memo serves the streaming pipeline only. prefilterHunk hashes every line of a hunk first, then probes the snapshot in groups of sixteen after touching each group's home slots, so the core overlaps the cache misses the fingerprint table causes. rails+trufflehog dedup scan at 16 cores: 2026 ms -> 1998 ms; rails peak RSS 1920 MB -> 1760 MB.
Reference implementations define the behavior the optimized paths preserve: the full-tokenization greedy walk for addedHunksWithPosScratch, map-and-heap Kahn ordering for orderCommitsParentFirst (including cycles), and a byte-wise comparison for searchHashes. The tests guard the dedup pipeline's first-introduction semantics across repeated pairs, including repeat emission once the fingerprint table fills, and the walk's every-commit-once and concurrent-visit contracts.
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change speeds up history scanning and makes added-line diffs minimal. The remaining issue is a small prefetch-budget inefficiency for large deltified blobs; scan results are not affected. It is safe to merge, with that minor follow-up recommended. Pre-merge checks |
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The retained-bytes cap of the deduplicating scan was an internal constant (512 MiB). The option lets consumers on small hosts trade scan throughput for peak memory; budgets below 1 MiB are raised to 1 MiB. rails (119k commits, 8 cores): 128 MiB budget with a 64 MiB object cache measures peak heap in use 1368 MB -> 938 MB and scan 2.91 s -> 3.13 s.
… is on A delta-window hit promoted every object into the ARC, whose bound is 16K entries rather than bytes. Under an enabled offset cache the packed object is already retained by (pack, offset), so the ARC copy pinned a second set of blobs. Promotion now applies to loose objects and, with the offset cache disabled, to packed ones. Measured with gpbench (dedup scan, 8 cores): peak RSS rails 1680 MB -> 1481 MB, kubernetes 3758 MB -> 3400 MB; wall 2898 ms -> 2852 ms and 14473 ms -> 14487 ms. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
addedHunksWithPos matched each new line to the earliest equal old line at or after the current position. A block inserted ahead of a line that repeats later in the file made the walk jump to the later copy and report the unchanged lines in between as added, so a scan re-reported every secret in the rest of the file at that commit. Added lines are now the new lines outside a longest common subsequence, computed with Myers' linear-space middle-snake algorithm after trimming the common prefix and suffix on line boundaries. The search is bounded by a comparison budget (1<<24); pairs beyond it keep the greedy walk, whose output on wholesale rewrites is dominated by lines that are new in any alignment. Emitted lines, full history without dedup, against git log -p -U0 --all with rename detection: gitleaks 985,868 -> 586,658 (git 583,509); trufflehog 2,744,027 -> 1,019,408 (git 994,631); rails 40,025,518 -> 3,589,933 (git 3,399,445). Dedup scan of rails, 8 cores: 2860 ms -> 2455 ms; kubernetes dedup lines 93.7M -> 31.0M at unchanged wall time. The differential tests check the LCS definition: the added count equals len(new) - LCS, the unreported lines form a subsequence of old, and hunks are maximal runs.
…alks The frontier searches compared strings directly, so every unequal pair paid two pointer dereferences and a length check. Each side now carries a 64-bit fingerprint (length mixed with the first and last eight bytes) and the walks compare fingerprints first; strings are compared on fingerprint equality only. A pair whose length difference already exceeds the budget returns before any comparison. Measured with the full gitleaks scan, Myers time summed over pairs: 529 ms -> 469 ms; the largest pair (a 1477-line word list reordered) 29 ms -> 17 ms. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
The stage-1 cap is max(8, NumCPU/2): unchanged through sixteen CPUs, sixteen at 32, thirty-two at 64. Measured on the rails dedup scan at 32 cores (execution trace): with eight tree workers the hunk workers ran at 10-15 of 32 while waiting on the tree stage; with sixteen the pipeline ran at 27-30 of 32 and wall fell 1.16 s -> 1.03 s (median of 3). commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
commonSuffixLineBoundary compared bytes one at a time; on the rails dedup scan that loop was 15% of CPU (2.37 of 15.3 sampled seconds). The tail is now compared in 256-byte chunks through bytes.Equal, then by 8-byte words, then by bytes, the same shape commonPrefixLineBoundary already uses. Scan CPU 20.0 s -> 17.7 s on rails at 32 cores; a randomized test pins the chunked result to the byte-loop reference across chunk and word edges. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
The dedup pipeline forwarded expensive pairs ahead of order, but only once the tree stage reached their commit. On trufflehog the 54 MB committed binary was tree-diffed 44 ms into the scan, inflated for 97 ms, and held the decision stage from 80 ms to 153 ms of a 167 ms scan. The dedup scan now runs the store's whale prefetch like the streaming scan does, so that inflation starts at scan start: trufflehog 167 ms -> 138 ms, rails unchanged. A test pins that the prefetch is active during the dedup scan and released after it. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
… DAG The reachable ref walk discovers a commit only after inflating its child, so its critical path is the first-parent chain: on rails 176 ms with sixteen workers at a quarter of their capacity. loadFromRefs now reads every commit stored whole in the packs in parallel over index ranges (rails: 118k commits in 24 ms), resolves parents to indexes, and runs the reachable walk in memory; delta-encoded, loose and tag objects (1.4k on rails) are read through walkOne in parallel batches. The reachable set and the parent-first order are unchanged; tests pin the load to the DAG walk on the fixtures and on a repository mixing packed, loose, tagged and unreachable commits. Rails commit load 255 ms -> 125 ms, scan wall 1.01 s -> 0.88 s (interleaved medians of 6). commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
findObject binary-searched the byte fanout's bucket, about four thousand OIDs on a million-object pack, so each lookup paid roughly twelve cache misses into the 19 MiB OID table; the tree stage's object loads made it 7.5% of a rails scan's CPU. Each idx (and the in-memory midx) now carries a fanout over ceil(log2 n) leading bits, clamped to [8, 22], so a bucket holds about one entry and the search settles in a probe or two. Rails scan CPU 17.3 s -> 16.4 s; paired wall ratio against 2fcf290 0.76 -> 0.72. A test drives lookups through the prefix index against the byte fanout for hits, misses and near misses across table sizes. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
The reachable walk already resolves every parent to a position; the ordering and the graph builder then rebuilt that information from OIDs: an open-addressing index plus two lookups per parent link in orderCommitsParentFirst, and a map lookup per link in buildCommitGraphFromCommits. orderCommitsParentFirstIndexed now orders over the resolved positions and returns the permutation, and buildCommitGraphIndexed remaps the parent positions through it. The store reads for commits the enumeration did not cover (delta-encoded, loose, tags) run in a reader pool while the in-memory walk continues instead of in batches between walk rounds. Rails commit load 125 ms -> 92 ms (ordering 30 -> 21, graph 34 -> 17, reachable walk 60 -> 50); the graph is pinned equal to the lookup builder's on the fixtures. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
Three output-identical cuts on the hunk workers' hot path, together 5% of a rails scan's CPU (16.5 s -> 15.7 s): - middleSnake reads its frontiers, fingerprints and lines through unchecked pointer views; the indexes are in range by construction (documented at the loop) and the 33 bounds checks were a fifth of the search's cycles. - addedLinesMyers checks a fingerprint-bitmap lower bound on the edit distance for pairs of 2048 lines or more and hands pairs the bound already places beyond the budget to the greedy walk without searching; the search would have failed at the budget with the same result. On rails 47 such searches cost 395 ms. - store.get skips the ARC probe for a pack-resident object while the offset cache is enabled: nothing adds such objects to the ARC, and the probe took the ARC's exclusive lock on every first read. Tests pin the bound against brute-force edit distances and the refusal of a hopeless search; emission checksums are unchanged. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
The reachable walk copied each commit's 72-byte record out of the idx-ordered enumeration as it visited it, three cache misses per commit on rails (28 ms for 119k commits). The walk now reads only the parent CSR, the visited flags and the visit order, all int32 arrays that fit the cache, and the result and parent positions are assembled afterwards in parallel chunks. Rails walk 28 ms -> 8 ms; set and order unchanged. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
The whale prefetch admitted only blobs stored whole, and the dedup pipeline's early forwarding of expensive pairs stops once 256 MiB of forwarded results are undecided. On prometheus two 43 MB versions of a committed test binary, each stored as a delta of the previous one, met both gaps: not prefetched, not forwarded, and inflated for 160 ms and 106 ms while the decision stage waited on them. Whale candidates are now sized through their delta chain (whaleSizeAt, which also serves the pipeline's expensive-pair estimate) and loaded through the chain, so a deltified whale inflates at scan start like a whole one. Prometheus dedup scan 0.73 s -> 0.54 s (interleaved medians of 6); rails and trufflehog unchanged. A test builds a repository whose repack stores one of two whale versions as a delta and checks both are prefetched with their bytes and type. commentlint: allow(JUDGE)
…edup state Fixes from the review of this branch. Each bug has a test that fails without its fix. - loadCommitsAndGraph served the graph-derived branch whenever the cached commit list was nil, which a load over a repository with no refs leaves behind. A reused scanner then returned zero commits after the first commit landed. The cache now keys on tips and the shallow file, and the graph marks a completed load. - walkCommitsFromRefsOrdered checked for an error only when a worker's private stack was empty, so visit kept running after it failed (12 BlobScanner calls instead of 1 in blob-mode Scan). The ordered walk is now a single depth-first loop that stops at the first error, the form its production callers use. - After the fingerprint set saturated, workers still skipped repeated pairs and the decision goroutine re-diffed each one serially. The decision stage now releases the first-seen table at saturation, so workers diff repeats in parallel. Repeats the decision stage re-diffs are charged to the retained budget. gitlab-foss dedup scan: 130.5 s -> 38.6 s, same 18,264,461 hunks. - The first-seen pair table grew with every distinct pair. It is now capped by the pair-cache budget (WithPairCacheBudget) at 128 bytes per entry, and it shards on both OIDs through the selector pairCache uses, which spreads file additions across all shards. - The whale prefetch charged a deltified candidate its chain's largest header size, while a copy-heavy delta can build a far larger target. Delta candidates are now charged the target size their instruction stream declares. Rails scans match in both pipelines (same hunk counts, times within noise). go test ./... and go test -race pass.
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- Around line 12-28: Remove the duplicate lcsLength helper from
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Skip deltified whale candidates whose declared target exceeds maxDeltaObjectSize; the loader inflates under that limit, so admitting them charged the prefetch budget for entries that could never materialize. Pin with TestWhalePrefetchSkipsDeltaAboveObjectLimit. Fix the inverted assertion message in TestWhalePrefetchChargesDeltaTarget and drop lcsLength in favor of the identical lcsLen helper.
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74efedf kept every pack-resident object out of the ARC while the offset cache was enabled. With WithOffsetCacheBudget below 128 MiB the per-shard budget sits under maxCacheableSize, so the offset cache rejects objects it still blocked from ARC promotion, and repeated reads re-inflated them once the delta window evicted them. Promotion now skips only objects the offset cache admits, and the ARC probe runs for packed objects unless the cache admits every cacheable size, so the default configuration keeps the lock-free fast path.
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When WithOffsetCacheBudget is set to any small positive value, enabled() still starts a whale cache with the fixed 256 MiB whalePrefetchBudget. On a repository containing enough qualifying multi-megabyte blobs, a scanner configured for (for example) a 1 MiB offset budget can therefore retain roughly 256 MiB of additional (pack, offset) object data for the duration of the scan, defeating the option's documented use for bounding aggregate memory. Pass the configured cache budget into whale admission, or disable/cap prefetch when that budget is smaller.
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Performance, memory and diff-quality work on the hunk scan path, on top of
main(9a62459, after #14, #15 and #20). The first three commits keep emissions byte-identical tomain(order-independent digests pinned for gitleaks, trufflehog and rails in dedup and non-dedup mode at 4, 8 and 64 workers; kubernetes and linux dedup hunk counts and digests match). The last commit changes the added-line alignment (see "Diff alignment" below), so emissions after it differ frommainby design.What changed
Parent-first order for every hunk scan. The streaming pipeline dispatched commits in ref-walk visit order, which interleaves unrelated lineages. Both pipelines now consume
loadAllCommitsorder: consecutive commits touch consecutive versions of the same files, so delta-chain tails stay in the offset cache. The loaded commit graph resolves every first-parent tree; the tree memo serves only parents outside the loaded set.Smaller serial prefix.
orderCommitsParentFirstkeeps the same (timestamp, OID) order through position indexes, int32 degree/CSR arrays, an int32 heap and a leading-word open-addressing index (rails: 173 ms -> 32 ms). Walk workers follow one lineage each with a sharded seen set and share work through stealing and donation (the single-worker ordered walk keeps its depth-first order). ParentOIDs compact into one array; header parsing splits lines in place; the graph's two maps build concurrently; the dedup pipeline no longer re-orders an already ordered list.Dedup skips repeated pairs by key. In first-introduction order a repeated
(old, new)transition adds no text lines, so the dedup pipeline registers each computed pair by hand-out position and skips later repeats (re-diffed only once the fingerprint table has saturated, so fail-open still emits them; results with a dedup-exempt hunk are re-diffed). Computed pairs are compacted exactly as the pair memo would store them, so the dedup path keeps its retention bound while the memo serves the streaming pipeline only.Two-pass fingerprint probing.
prefilterHunkhashes a hunk's lines first and probes the snapshot in groups of sixteen after touching their home slots, so the cache misses on the fingerprint table overlap.WithHunkDedupRetainedBudget. The retained-bytes cap of the dedup pipeline (512 MiB) is configurable; budgets below 1 MiB are raised to 1 MiB. rails on 8 cores: 128 MiB with a 64 MiB object cache measures peak heap in use 1368 MB -> 938 MB at 2.91 s -> 3.13 s.Packed objects stay out of the ARC when the offset cache is on. A delta-window hit promoted every object into the entry-count-bounded ARC, pinning a second copy of blobs the offset cache already served. Dedup scan, 8 cores: peak RSS rails 1680 MB -> 1481 MB, kubernetes 3758 MB -> 3400 MB, wall unchanged.
Diff alignment
addedHunksWithPosmatched each new line to the earliest equal old line at or after the current position. A block inserted ahead of a line that repeats later in the file (a test case whose first linecfgName: "simple",recurs, an import moved up) made the walk jump to the later copy and report every unchanged line in between as added, so a scan re-reported every secret in the rest of the file at that commit. Added lines are now the new lines outside a longest common subsequence (Myers' linear-space middle-snake search after trimming the common prefix and suffix on line boundaries), bounded by a comparison budget of 1<<24; pairs beyond it (0.1-0.3% of pairs) keep the greedy walk.Emitted lines over the full history without dedup, against
git log -p -U0 --all --full-historywith rename detection:Scan time with the new alignment: rails dedup 8 cores 2860 ms -> 2455 ms, 64 cores 1250 ms -> 1090 ms; kubernetes dedup unchanged (5.6 s at 64 cores). The differential tests check the LCS definition (added count = len(new) - LCS, unreported lines form a subsequence of old, hunks are maximal runs).
Measurements
Dedup hunk scan (
DiffHistoryHunksFunc,WithHunkLineDedup+WithSkipMergeDiffs, FNV consumer), Graviton3 arm64, Go 1.26.5. Paired confirmation (3 alternating pairs,main9a62459 vs e946d5d), primary metric = trufflehog + rails at 16 cores:Other configurations, single runs against
main:For reference,
git log -p -U0 --full-history --all --diff-filter=tuxdbtakes 0.6 s (gitleaks), 3.0 s (trufflehog) and 25.6 s (rails) single-threaded.Correctness
go vet,go test -count=1 .,go test -race -count=1 .pass.mainfor gitleaks, trufflehog and rails (dedup and non-dedup, 4/8/64 workers); kubernetes and linux dedup hunk counts and digests matchmain. After 3811d26 the alignment change is the only source of emission differences.addedHunksWithPosScratchon random edits (including inserted blocks whose lines repeat), work-budget fallback, common-suffix trimming, packed objects kept out of the ARC,WithHunkDedupRetainedBudget, reference Kahn ordering vsorderCommitsParentFirst(including cycles),searchHashesvs byte-wise search, walk visits every commit once / propagates errors / visits concurrently, first-seen pair table, repeated text and binary pairs and saturated fail-open against the serial dedup reference, first-parent resolution through the loaded graph.Left on the table
At 64 cores the dedup sequencer mutex (
takeOrdered) is the dominant wait: 43 s of waiting across 64 workers in a 1.55 s rails scan. A hierarchical (commit, pair) hand-out would remove it; a batch queue in front of the mutex measured neutral at 16 cores.Summary by CodeRabbit