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perf(indexing): reduce scan contention and content filter allocations - #954
Reduce startup indexing work in file discovery, content filtering, and watch registration. Exclude .git metadata files from native scans. Add an opt-in setting that runs indexing on the search thread pool.
Stage
Before
After
zlob result collection
One shared lock
One lock per worker
File partition
Second sort
Stable linear partition
Bigram scratch bitmap
8 KiB
2 KiB
Indexed-file counters
Atomic updates per file
Atomic updates per chunk
Watch registration
One directory per call under the picker read lock
Paths collected under the lock, then registered sorted in batches of 1,024 (inotify still adds one watch per directory)
Opt-in full parallel indexing
fff::set_full_parallel_indexing(true) or fff-mcp --full-parallel-indexing (FFF_FULL_PARALLEL_INDEXING=1) moves the walk, sorts, frecency pass and content index build from the background pool (half the cores) to the search pool (all cores, performance cores on macOS). The default does not change.
Chromium (499,502 files), 16-core Mac (12 performance + 4 efficiency cores), AI mode, median of 3 runs:
Grep started when the scan ends
Index ready (default → opt-in)
Grep time (default → opt-in)
Kernel CPU (default → opt-in)
None
9.2 s → 7.5 s
–
26 s → 35 s
WebContentsImpl
24.2 s → 12.1 s
19.4 s → 10.3 s
296 s → 66 s
No matches
34.1 s → 14.5 s
30.1 s → 12.9 s
423 s → 84 s
Note
With the opt-in, a grep that starts during indexing finishes when the content index is ready, because both use one pool. After the index is ready, the same grep takes about 5 ms in both modes.
Validation: 437 ripgrep tests and 438 zlob tests passed (1 skipped per backend). Formatting and production Clippy passed for both backends with mimalloc-collect. Test-target Clippy also fails on unchanged main because of existing lint errors. After adding the option, make test-rust passed 651 tests and make lint-rust passed.
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The changes add selectable pool use for indexing, shard filesystem walk results, revise bigram index construction, update picker ordering, and batch non-recursive Linux directory-watch registration.
Changes: Indexing and filesystem pipeline
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Summary
Select the indexing pool crates/fff-core/src/parallelism.rs, crates/fff-core/src/lib.rs, crates/fff-mcp/src/main.rs, crates/fff-core/src/scan.rs
A public setter and MCP option select the pool used by indexing. run_post_scan passes that pool to index construction and cleanup helpers.
Shard filesystem walk results crates/fff-core/src/walk/zlob.rs, crates/fff-core/src/walk/mod.rs
The walker stores files and directories in per-worker shards, skips .git files, and merges results after a successful walk. Tests compare results across worker counts and verify .git exclusion.
Build and validate the parallel bigram index crates/fff-core/src/index/bigram_filter.rs, crates/fff-core/src/types.rs
Bigram scratch keys use packed normalized bytes. Index building classifies binary content, counts successful insertions, uses the supplied pool for building and compression, and reserves sparse output capacity. Tests compare parallel results with a reference index.
Order files and collect allocator crates/fff-core/src/file_picker.rs
The picker uses the indexing pool for filesystem grouping, sorting, and frecency updates. It retains parent-directory and filename order while moving unindexable files after indexable files. Allocator collection uses the selected pool.
Register directory watches in batches crates/fff-core/src/watcher/background_watcher.rs
Non-recursive Linux watch setup sorts path operations and registers batches of up to 1,024. It tracks applied operations, retries failures, and stops after 16 consecutive failures.
dmtrKovalenko/fff#873 — Changes the same Linux watch registration and overlaps with filesystem-walk internals.
dmtrKovalenko/fff#958 — Depends on this PR and changes the same pool-parameterized bigram builder.
dmtrKovalenko/fff#914 — Also changes indexable-first file ordering and indexing pool selection.
Suggested reviewers:kevin9327
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 95444
A concurrent rescan can leave newly discovered directories unwatched, so later file changes there may be missed. Resolve the watcher initialization race before merging unless this risk is explicitly accepted.
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Review comments at @crates/fff-core/src/watcher/background_watcher.rs:
- Line 276: Update the watcher registration flow around indexing_pool().install
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crates/fff-core/src/file_picker.rs
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crates/fff-core/src/parallelism.rs
crates/fff-core/src/scan.rs
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echo '--- rescan calls ---'
rg -n -C 8 -F 'ScanJob::new_rescan' crates/fff-core/src
echo '--- watcher event and owner logic ---'
nl -ba crates/fff-core/src/watcher/background_watcher.rs | sed -n '125,235p;255,280p;325,375p'
echo '--- base watcher registration and publication ---'
git show 5d21e4bbdf33a09f58975636208e30747bc8d918:crates/fff-core/src/watcher/background_watcher.rs | nl -ba | sed -n '250,320p'
git show 5d21e4bbdf33a09f58975636208e30747bc8d918:crates/fff-core/src/scan.rs | nl -ba | sed -n '215,290p;405,430p'
echo '--- event directory handling binding ---'
rg -n -F -e 'handle_debounced_events' -e 'new_dirs.push' -e 'new_dirs.insert' -- crates/fff-core/src/watcher
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Reconcile directories after publishing the watcher.
On Linux, a rescan can commit during off-lock registration and find no published watcher. Directories absent from the snapshot can then miss future updates. Publish the watcher and queue the current directories under the picker lock.
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Update the watcher registration flow around indexing_pool().install to publish
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Ensure a rescan cannot commit between off-lock registration and publication
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Drop the Linux-only all-CPU pool for AI mode. Indexing chromium (500k files)
on a 16-core Mac, 16 threads made the walk 1.9x slower, the content index 31%
slower and used 3.9x the CPU of the default 8-thread background pool.
Add `fff::set_full_parallel_indexing` and the fff-mcp `--full-parallel-indexing` flag (`FFF_FULL_PARALLEL_INDEXING=1`). When enabled, the walk, sorts, frecency pass and content index build use the search pool (all cores, performance cores on macOS) instead of the background pool (half the cores). The default does not change.
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Reduce startup indexing work in file discovery, content filtering, and watch registration. Exclude
.gitmetadata files from native scans. Add an opt-in setting that runs indexing on the search thread pool.Opt-in full parallel indexing
fff::set_full_parallel_indexing(true)orfff-mcp --full-parallel-indexing(FFF_FULL_PARALLEL_INDEXING=1) moves the walk, sorts, frecency pass and content index build from the background pool (half the cores) to the search pool (all cores, performance cores on macOS). The default does not change.Chromium (499,502 files), 16-core Mac (12 performance + 4 efficiency cores), AI mode, median of 3 runs:
WebContentsImplNote
With the opt-in, a grep that starts during indexing finishes when the content index is ready, because both use one pool. After the index is ready, the same grep takes about 5 ms in both modes.
Validation: 437 ripgrep tests and 438 zlob tests passed (1 skipped per backend). Formatting and production Clippy passed for both backends with
mimalloc-collect. Test-target Clippy also fails on unchanged main because of existing lint errors. After adding the option,make test-rustpassed 651 tests andmake lint-rustpassed.Review order
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.gitmetadata files, including those in nested directories.