repository: store oversized blobs in separate pack files

Store oversized blobs in separate pack files as the blobs is large
enough to warrant its own pack file. This simplifies the garbage
collection of such blobs and keeps the cache smaller, as oversize (tree)
blobs only have to be downloaded if they are actually used.

internal/repository/packer_manager.go

@@ -70,14 +70,19 @@ func (r *packerManager) SaveBlob(ctx context.Context, t restic.BlobType, id rest
 
 	var err error
 	packer := r.packer
-	if r.packer == nil {
+	// use separate packer if compressed length is larger than the packsize
+	// this speeds up the garbage collection of oversized blobs and reduces the cache size
+	// as the oversize blobs are only downloaded if necessary
+	if len(ciphertext) >= int(r.packSize) || r.packer == nil {
 		packer, err = r.newPacker()
 		if err != nil {
 			return 0, err
 		}
+		// don't store packer for oversized blob
+		if r.packer == nil {
+			r.packer = packer
+		}
 	}
-	// remember packer
-	r.packer = packer
 
 	// save ciphertext
 	// Add only appends bytes in memory to avoid being a scaling bottleneck
@@ -91,8 +96,10 @@ func (r *packerManager) SaveBlob(ctx context.Context, t restic.BlobType, id rest
 		debug.Log("pack is not full enough (%d bytes)", packer.Size())
 		return size, nil
 	}
-	// forget full packer
+	if packer == r.packer {
-	r.packer = nil
+		// forget full packer
+		r.packer = nil
+	}
 
 	// call while holding lock to prevent findPacker from creating new packers if the uploaders are busy
 	// else write the pack to the backend

internal/repository/packer_manager_test.go

@@ -89,6 +89,24 @@ func testPackerManager(t testing.TB) int64 {
 	return int64(bytes)
 }
 
+func TestPackerManagerWithOversizeBlob(t *testing.T) {
+	packFiles := int(0)
+	sizeLimit := uint(512 * 1024)
+	pm := newPackerManager(crypto.NewRandomKey(), restic.DataBlob, sizeLimit, func(ctx context.Context, tp restic.BlobType, p *Packer) error {
+		packFiles++
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	for _, i := range []uint{sizeLimit / 2, sizeLimit, sizeLimit / 3} {
+		_, err := pm.SaveBlob(context.TODO(), restic.DataBlob, restic.ID{}, make([]byte, i), 0)
+		test.OK(t, err)
+	}
+	test.OK(t, pm.Flush(context.TODO()))
+
+	// oversized blob must be stored in a separate packfile
+	test.Equals(t, packFiles, 2)
+}
+
 func BenchmarkPackerManager(t *testing.B) {
 	// Run testPackerManager if it hasn't run already, to set totalSize.
 	once.Do(func() {