preload-index: avoid lstat for skip-worktree items

Teach preload-index to avoid lstat() calls for index-entries
with skip-worktree bit set.  This is a performance optimization.

During a sparse-checkout, the skip-worktree bit is set on items
that were not populated and therefore are not present in the
worktree.  The per-thread preload-index loop performs a series
of tests on each index-entry as it attempts to compare the
worktree version with the index and mark them up-to-date.
This patch short-cuts that work.

On a Windows 10 system with a very large repo (450MB index)
and various levels of sparseness, performance was improved
in the {preloadindex=true, fscache=false} case by 80% and
in the {preloadindex=true, fscache=true} case by 20% for various
commands.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>

Author: jeffhostetler

preload-index.c

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ static void *preload_thread(void *_data)
 			continue;
 		if (ce_uptodate(ce))
 			continue;
+		if (ce_skip_worktree(ce))
+			continue;
 		if (!ce_path_match(ce, &p->pathspec, NULL))
 			continue;
 		if (threaded_has_symlink_leading_path(&cache, ce->name, ce_namelen(ce)))