[RFC PATCH] 3x improvement in patch listing

[Stewart Smith]

There's two main bits that are really expensive when composing the list
of patches for a project: the query getting the list, and the query
finding the series for each patch.

If we look at the query getting the list, it gets a lot of unnesseccary
fields such as 'headers' and 'content', even though we tell Django not
to. It turns out that Django seems to ignore the Submission relationship
and I have no idea how to force it to ignore that thing (defer doesn't
work) but if we go only, then it works okay.

>From my import of ~8000 messages for a few projects, my laptop query
time (MySQL, as setup by whatever the docker-compose things do) goes
from:

http://localhost:8000/project/linux-kernel/list/
FROM:
342ms SQL queries cold cache, 268ms warm cache
TO:
118ms SQL queries cold cache, 88ms warm cache

Which is... non trivial to say the least.

The big jump is the patches.only change, and the removal of ordering
on the patchseries takes a further 10ms off. For some strange reason, it
seems rather hard to tell Django that you don't care what order the
results come back in for that query (if we do, then the db server has to
do a sort rather than just return each row)

Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.ibm.com>
---
 patchwork/models.py         | 1 -
 patchwork/views/__init__.py | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/patchwork/models.py b/patchwork/models.py
index 6268f5b72e3c..d2b88fc48c91 100644
--- a/patchwork/models.py
+++ b/patchwork/models.py
@@ -747,7 +747,6 @@ class Series(FilenameMixin, models.Model):
         return self.name if self.name else 'Untitled series #%d' % self.id
 
     class Meta:
-        ordering = ('date',)
         verbose_name_plural = 'Series'
 
 
diff --git a/patchwork/views/__init__.py b/patchwork/views/__init__.py
index f8d23a388ac7..96fd0798af5a 100644
--- a/patchwork/views/__init__.py
+++ b/patchwork/views/__init__.py
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ def generic_list(request, project, view, view_args=None, filter_settings=None,
     # rendering the list template
     patches = patches.select_related('state', 'submitter', 'delegate')
 
+    patches = patches.only('state','submitter','delegate','project','name','date')
+
     # we also need checks and series
     patches = patches.prefetch_related('check_set', 'series')
 
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2.17.1