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Set POOL_FLAG_ADDFILEPROVIDESFILTERED only when not loading filelists #1741

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@kontura kontura commented Oct 1, 2024

When filelists are loaded and file provides are used it is much faster not to set POOL_FLAG_ADDFILEPROVIDESFILTERED because libsolv goes through all the files just once during pool_addfileprovides_queue.

This is based on: rpm-software-management/libdnf#1674

Specifically this is an improvement for users that use repos with file provides outside of primary.xml and download filelsits.xml.

When filelists are loaded and file provides are used it is much faster
not to set `POOL_FLAG_ADDFILEPROVIDESFILTERED` because libsolv goes
through all the files just once during `pool_addfileprovides_queue`.
@m-blaha m-blaha self-assigned this Oct 1, 2024
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kontura commented Oct 2, 2024

While working on the backport to dnf4 I noticed some differences in performance, it turns out dnf5 is probably storing the filelists solv cache twice.

When metadata are downloaded with filelists the primary solv file also contains filelists. This can be visible when comparing dnf4 and dnf5 solv file sizes from the same metadata. For example:

$ ls -lah /var/cache/libdnf5/fedora-845d89688cb28f31/solv/fedora.solv /var/cache/libdnf5/fedora-845d89688cb28f31/solv/fedora-filelists.solvx
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 61M Oct  2 03:19 /var/cache/libdnf5/fedora-845d89688cb28f31/solv/fedora-filelists.solvx
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 87M Oct  2 03:19 /var/cache/libdnf5/fedora-845d89688cb28f31/solv/fedora.solv

vs

$ ls -lah /var/cache/dnf/fedora.solv /var/cache/dnf/fedora-filenames.solvx
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 61M Oct  2 02:30 /var/cache/dnf/fedora-filenames.solvx
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27M Oct  2 02:30 /var/cache/dnf/fedora.solv

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m-blaha commented Oct 2, 2024

I did some tests and with this patch, the performance issue with POOL_FLAG_ADDFILEPROVIDESFILTERED is gone. Good work!

I suggest to track the primary solv file problem as a separate issue, since it's not caused by this patch, and the fix may turn out to be difficult. What do you think?

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kontura commented Oct 2, 2024

I did some tests and with this patch, the performance issue with POOL_FLAG_ADDFILEPROVIDESFILTERED is gone. Good work!

I suggest to track the primary solv file problem as a separate issue, since it's not caused by this patch, and the fix may turn out to be difficult. What do you think?

Ok, that is a good suggestion.

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Thank you!

@m-blaha m-blaha added this pull request to the merge queue Oct 2, 2024
Merged via the queue into rpm-software-management:main with commit 68eaef5 Oct 2, 2024
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