Cache change /meta ref SHA1 for each REST API request

Some Gerrit REST APIs may cause multiple lookups of change /meta
ref name to SHA1 during the same request, which could be as slow
as 400 ms per lookup for a 500k refs repository on a shared
NFS volume.

Make sure that a lookup of a /meta ref happens only once per GET/HEAD
API request by caching the result in a PerThreadCache scoped to the
execution of the RestApiServlet.

The measured improvement for a change reindex API (repo with 500k
refs stored on an external NFS volume with trustfolderstat=false)
is from 5s down to 500ms (10 times faster).
For other APIs or local storage with trustfolderstat=true,
the benefits are much more limited.

NOTE: The improvement on all other APIs (PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH)
is outside the scope of this change, because it would imply a more
complex eviction mechanism due to the mutation of the /meta ref
during the potential NoteDb manipulation performed.

Bug: Issue 15798
Release-Notes: cache the resolution of change /meta ref on REST API
Change-Id: If41377b78cb0bbbde0fb22489a47f7634248e6f6
6 files changed
tree: 704b0be091a86899cfe04efeb3ab1a844d68a663
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README.md

Gerrit Code Review

Gerrit is a code review and project management tool for Git based projects.

Build Status

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Gerrit makes reviews easier by showing changes in a side-by-side display, and allowing inline comments to be added by any reviewer.

Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository, rather than requiring all approved changes to be merged in by hand by the project maintainer.

Documentation

For information about how to install and use Gerrit, refer to the documentation.

Source

Our canonical Git repository is located on googlesource.com. There is a mirror of the repository on Github.

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs on the issue tracker.

Contribute

Gerrit is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!

Please read the contribution guidelines.

Note that we do not accept Pull Requests via the Github mirror.

Getting in contact

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License

Gerrit is provided under the Apache License 2.0.

Build

Install Bazel and run the following:

    git clone --recurse-submodules https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
    cd gerrit && bazel build release

Install binary packages (Deb/Rpm)

The instruction how to configure GerritForge/BinTray repositories is here

On Debian/Ubuntu run:

    apt-get update & apt-get install gerrit=<version>-<release>

NOTE: release is a counter that starts with 1 and indicates the number of packages that have been released with the same version of the software.

On CentOS/RedHat run:

    yum clean all && yum install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

On Fedora run:

    dnf clean all && dnf install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

Use pre-built Gerrit images on Docker

Docker images of Gerrit are available on DockerHub

To run a CentOS 7 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritforge/gerrit-centos7[:version]

To run a Ubuntu 15.04 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritforge/gerrit-ubuntu15.04[:version]

NOTE: release is optional. Last released package of the version is installed if the release number is omitted.