Improve patch listing performance (~3x)

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 unnecessary
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@linux.ibm.com>
[stephenfin: Add missing migration that had been squashed into a later
 migration]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/patchwork/migrations/0027_remove_series_ordering.py b/patchwork/migrations/0027_remove_series_ordering.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6eec3a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patchwork/migrations/0027_remove_series_ordering.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.11.15 on 2018-08-31 23:42
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('patchwork', '0026_add_user_bundles_backref'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterModelOptions(
+            name='series',
+            options={'verbose_name_plural': 'Series'},
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/patchwork/models.py b/patchwork/models.py
index 0409d4b..52e7a69 100644
--- a/patchwork/models.py
+++ b/patchwork/models.py
@@ -740,7 +740,6 @@ 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 a30b3a6..f66963f 100644
--- a/patchwork/views/__init__.py
+++ b/patchwork/views/__init__.py
@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ 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')