perf(core): cut indexing RSS by 70% and peak by 30% - #859
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change reduces bigram index storage, moves path chunk indices into a shared table, manages mmap caches with atomic ownership, tunes mimalloc during host startup, documents the allocator setting, and adds optional grep time-budget enforcement. ChangesIndex and runtime memory changes
Grep time-budget propagation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The PR reduces indexing memory, but the current implementation still has a release-build mmap failure hazard, incompatible raw-index accessor behavior, and unresolved grep pagination and budget-enforcement issues that can cause crashes or missing results. These issues should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/grep/grep.rs`:
- Around line 615-618: Update the abort and budget-check condition in
perform_grep so it also evaluates when idx == 1, covering the first file after
file 0; retain the existing periodic local_idx % 8 checks and avoid changing the
abort or budget evaluation logic.
In `@crates/fff-core/src/grep/types.rs`:
- Around line 229-230: Update GrepResult::collect so abort_resume is applied
only when the page did not reach page_limit; preserve the cursor based on the
last emitted file when the page is full. Add a regression test covering a small
page limit followed by a later parallel budget abort, verifying subsequent C,
Python, or MCP pagination returns the previously unreturned files and matches.
In `@crates/fff-core/src/types.rs`:
- Around line 257-267: Update remove_all_files_in_dirs_inner so each matched
FileItem is invalidated through the picker’s ContentCacheBudget before it is
marked deleted. Ensure the tombstoning path via tombstone_files_with_arena
releases any mmap cache accounting, including cached_count and cached_bytes,
while preserving the existing deletion behavior.
In `@lua/fff/main.lua`:
- Line 380: Validate the effective enforce_time_budget value with vim.validate
before passing it to grep.search/content_search, covering both
opts.enforce_time_budget and grep_cfg.enforce_time_budget while preserving the
existing precedence logic. Ensure the value is nil or boolean as required by the
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/file_picker.rs`:
- Around line 2388-2390: Shorten the comment above the mimalloc configuration to
no more than two lines while preserving its essential points: avoid 2 MiB huge
pages to limit idle index RSS growth, environment overrides take precedence, and
configuration must occur before the first allocation.
In `@crates/fff-core/src/index/bigram_filter.rs`:
- Around line 25-32: Move the key_slot utility function to the end of the Rust
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| Some(resume_at) => files_consumed = resume_at.min(files_to_search_len), | ||
| None if result_files.is_empty() => files_consumed = files_to_search_len, |
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Preserve the page-limit cursor.
When fuzzy grep reaches page_limit, GrepResult::collect sets files_consumed to the last emitted file. A later parallel abort can overwrite it with a larger abort_resume. The next C, Python, or MCP page then skips unreturned files and matches.
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| max_matches_per_file = opts.max_matches_per_file or grep_cfg.max_matches_per_file, | ||
| smart_case = opts.smart_case == nil and grep_cfg.smart_case or opts.smart_case, | ||
| time_budget_ms = opts.time_budget_ms or grep_cfg.time_budget_ms, | ||
| enforce_time_budget = opts.enforce_time_budget == nil and grep_cfg.enforce_time_budget or opts.enforce_time_budget, |
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Validate enforce_time_budget before grep.search.
Both the per-call option and grep_cfg.enforce_time_budget can be non-boolean. The Rust binding requires Option<bool>, so the conversion fails and content_search returns an empty result. Use vim.validate() on the effective value first.
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covering both opts.enforce_time_budget and grep_cfg.enforce_time_budget while
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/index/bigram_filter.rs`:
- Line 24: Replace the `///` documentation comments at the referenced private
symbols in `bigram_filter.rs` with concise `//` comments or remove them, while
preserving any useful implementation notes and leaving public API documentation
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- Line 679: Update the public index accessors around lookup() and columns_used()
to preserve the existing raw-index contract: u16 keys must remain valid direct
indices, and columns_used() must not report sparse-only columns absent from
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- Around line 378-380: Shorten and correct the comment above the low-density
column restoration logic, fixing the spelling errors and keeping it within two
lines while preserving its explanation of the gap-list representation and byte
threshold.
In `@crates/fff-core/src/index/column_slab.rs`:
- Line 27: In the memory-mapping flags comment within the column slab allocation
code, correct the typo by changing “alocate” to “allocate”; make no other
changes.
- Around line 32-35: Update ColumnSlab::zeroed to use a non-debug check for mmap
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| /// Bigram keys only ever pair printable bytes (32..=126) which is 95 ^ 2 | ||
| pub const BIGRAM_KEY_SLOTS: usize = 95 * 95; | ||
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| // now to prevent ram overhead we restore the low density colums as a gap list | ||
| // which stores only the gaps between the set bits, but only if we have less than | ||
| // specific amount of bytes when the results becomes acutally visible |
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The comment contains colums and acutally. It also exceeds the two-line guideline.
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- // now to prevent ram overhead we restore the low density colums as a gap list
- // which stores only the gaps between the set bits, but only if we have less than
- // specific amount of bytes when the results becomes acutally visible
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+ // is smaller than the dense representation.As per coding guidelines, “NO COMMENT LONGER THAN 2 LINES UNLESS ASKED EXPLICITLY.”
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| // now to prevent ram overhead we restore the low density colums as a gap list | |
| // which stores only the gaps between the set bits, but only if we have less than | |
| // specific amount of bytes when the results becomes acutally visible | |
| // Store low-density columns as gap lists when their encoded size | |
| // is smaller than the dense representation. |
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Preserve the public raw-index contract.
lookup() no longer uses u16 keys as direct indices. Also, columns_used() now includes sparse columns that are absent from dense_data().
Existing callers can panic, read the wrong column, or slice beyond dense_data(). Preserve the old accessor semantics, or replace these public representation accessors through an explicit breaking API change. The PR objective requires public Rust API compatibility.
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/index/bigram_filter.rs` at line 679, Update the public
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| std::ptr::null_mut(), | ||
| mapped_bytes, | ||
| libc::PROT_READ | libc::PROT_WRITE, | ||
| libc::MAP_PRIVATE | libc::MAP_ANONYMOUS, // just alocate memory |
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Fix the pipeline-blocking typo.
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- debug_assert!(
- ptr != libc::MAP_FAILED,
- "mmap of {mapped_bytes} bytes failed"
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Post-scan RSS on the linux tree (93K files, content indexing on) goes 172 -> 55 MB, peak 255 -> 175 MB, and the index build gets ~15% faster. Public Rust/Lua/C/bun APIs are unchanged.
Where the memory actually was
The index structures themselves were only ~45 MB. Everything above that was allocator residue:
pie title Post-scan RSS before (linux, ~172 MB) "bigram index" : 35 "files + paths" : 10 "per-thread READ_BUF/NORM_BUF pinned forever" : 56 "mimalloc THP half-empty 2MiB pages" : 60 "misc" : 11Changes
READ_BUFnow grows on demand and both are dropped via a pool broadcast once file reading is done.ColumnSlab). The two ~58 MB bigram builder slabs bypass the allocator,compress()compacts dense columns in place andmunmaps the tail. No 35 MB copy into a freshVec, and the final index reuses the builder mapping.ChunkedStringis now(u32 offset, u16 len, u16 filename_offset)into one sharedVec<u32>instead of a 24-byteSmallVec<[u32; 4]>per item; paths over 64 bytes no longer spill to a heap block each.FileItem.contentis anAtomicPtr<Mmap>(+Drop) instead of a 24-byteOnceLock<Mmap>.FileItem96 → 56 B,DirItem40 → 16 B.u16tables (filter, skip filter, both builders) are 95×95 slots.MADV_HUGEPAGEon its arena, so freed 64 KiB slices leave half-empty 2 MiB pages resident. A load-time.init_arrayhook infff-nvim/fff-mcpsetsallow_large_os_pages=0unlessMIMALLOC_ALLOW_LARGE_OS_PAGESis set by the user (documented in README troubleshooting).Numbers
Linux kernel tree, 92,926 files, content indexing on, medians of 6–8 runs (
./target/release/index_memory ./big-repo).FileItem/DirItemReal git checkout of the same tree (libgit2 status running concurrently): 492–540 MB → 420 MB, of which anon 97 MB; the remaining ~320 MB is transient file-backed pack mappings from libgit2.
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crates/fff-nvim/src/bin/index_memory.rsprints RSS / anon /AnonHugePagesper stage, struct sizes, bigram column stats and fuzzy/grep timings;FFF_BENCH_SMAPS=1dumps the largest mappings.Summary by CodeRabbit
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