fd05037e1a changed the allocation batch
size from 256 to 128 under the assumption that an indexEntry is 60 bytes
on amd64, but it's 64: structs are padded out to a multiple of 8 for
alignment reasons. That means we'd waste no space in malloc even without
the batch allocation, at least on 64-bit machines. While that strategy
cuts the overallocation down dramatically for many small indexes, it also
seems to slow allocation down (Go 1.18, Linux, amd64, -benchtime=2s):
name old time/op new time/op delta
DecodeIndex-8 4.67s ± 5% 4.60s ± 1% ~ (p=0.953 n=10+5)
DecodeIndexParallel-8 4.67s ± 3% 4.60s ± 1% ~ (p=0.953 n=10+5)
IndexHasUnknown-8 37.8ns ± 8% 36.5ns ±14% ~ (p=0.841 n=5+5)
IndexHasKnown-8 38.5ns ±12% 37.7ns ±10% ~ (p=0.968 n=5+5)
IndexAlloc-8 615ms ±18% 607ms ± 1% ~ (p=1.000 n=10+5)
IndexAllocParallel-8 245ms ±11% 285ms ± 6% +16.40% (p=0.001 n=10+5)
MasterIndexAlloc-8 286ms ± 9% 275ms ± 2% ~ (p=1.000 n=10+5)
LoadIndex/v1-8 27.0ms ± 4% 26.8ms ± 1% ~ (p=0.690 n=5+5)
LoadIndex/v2-8 22.4ms ± 1% 22.8ms ± 2% +1.48% (p=0.016 n=5+5)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
IndexAlloc-8 446MB ± 0% 446MB ± 0% -0.00% (p=0.000 n=8+4)
IndexAllocParallel-8 446MB ± 0% 446MB ± 0% -0.00% (p=0.008 n=8+5)
MasterIndexAlloc-8 213MB ± 0% 159MB ± 0% -25.47% (p=0.000 n=10+5)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
IndexAlloc-8 913k ± 0% 2632k ± 0% +188.19% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexAllocParallel-8 913k ± 0% 2632k ± 0% +188.21% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
MasterIndexAlloc-8 318k ± 0% 1172k ± 0% +267.86% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
Instead, this patch sets a batch size of 4, which means no space is
wasted by malloc on 64-bit and very little on 32-bit. It still gets very
close to the savings from not allocating in batches, without requiring
special code for bits.UintSize==64. Benchmark results, again for
Linux/amd64:
name old time/op new time/op delta
DecodeIndex-8 4.67s ± 5% 4.83s ± 9% ~ (p=0.315 n=10+10)
DecodeIndexParallel-8 4.67s ± 3% 4.68s ± 4% ~ (p=0.315 n=10+10)
IndexHasUnknown-8 37.8ns ± 8% 44.5ns ±19% ~ (p=0.095 n=5+5)
IndexHasKnown-8 38.5ns ±12% 36.9ns ± 8% ~ (p=0.690 n=5+5)
IndexAlloc-8 615ms ±18% 628ms ±18% ~ (p=0.218 n=10+10)
IndexAllocParallel-8 245ms ±11% 262ms ± 9% +7.02% (p=0.043 n=10+10)
MasterIndexAlloc-8 286ms ± 9% 287ms ±13% ~ (p=1.000 n=10+10)
LoadIndex/v1-8 27.0ms ± 4% 26.8ms ± 0% ~ (p=1.000 n=5+5)
LoadIndex/v2-8 22.4ms ± 1% 22.5ms ± 0% ~ (p=0.056 n=5+5)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
IndexAlloc-8 446MB ± 0% 446MB ± 0% ~ (p=1.000 n=8+10)
IndexAllocParallel-8 446MB ± 0% 446MB ± 0% -0.00% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
MasterIndexAlloc-8 213MB ± 0% 160MB ± 0% -25.02% (p=0.000 n=10+9)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
IndexAlloc-8 913k ± 0% 1333k ± 0% +45.94% (p=0.000 n=8+10)
IndexAllocParallel-8 913k ± 0% 1333k ± 0% +45.94% (p=0.000 n=8+8)
MasterIndexAlloc-8 318k ± 0% 525k ± 0% +64.99% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
The allocation method indexmap.newEntry has also been rewritten in a
form that is a few instructions shorter.
The `stats` command checks inodes to not count hardlinked files multiple
times into the restore size. This check applies across all snapshots and
not only within snapshots. As a result the result size was far too low
when calculating it for multiple snapshots and it would vary depending
on the order in which snapshots were listed.
If no specific Region is mentioned in RESTIC_REPOSITORY, AWS defaults to
us-east-1. For this reason, users that follow the tutorial and create
their S3 bucket in any other region get the following error:
"Fatal: create repository at [...] client.BucketExists"
Explicitly specifying the AWS region name fixes the issue.
The new option allows prune to operate with nearly no scratch space by only removing
no longer necessary pack files and first deleting the index before
rebuilding it. By first deleting the index it becomes safe to just
delete no longer necessary pack files. However, as a downside there's
now the risk that the repository becomes inaccessible if prune fails.
To recover from that problem a user might have to manually delete the
repository index and then run (a full) `rebuild-index` again.
A compressed index is only about one third the size of an uncompressed
one. Thus increase the number of entries in an index to avoid cluttering
the repository with small indexes.
The config file is not compressed as it should remain readable by older
restic versions such that these can return a proper error.
As the old format for unpacked data does not include a version header,
make use of a trick: The old data is always encoded as JSON. Thus it can
only start with '{' or '['. For any other value the first byte indicates
a versioned format. The version is set to 2 for now. Then the zstd
compressed data follows.
