svn commit: r284928 - head/usr.bin/ar
Ed Maste
emaste at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 29 13:48:45 UTC 2015
Author: emaste
Date: Mon Jun 29 13:48:44 2015
New Revision: 284928
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284928
Log:
speed up ar(1) on UFS file systems
Fault in the buffer prior to writing to workaround poor performance due
to interaction with kernel fs deadlock avoidance code. See the comment
prior to vn_io_fault_doio() in sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c for details of the
issue.
On my stable/10 desktop with a 16MB obj.o and "ar r out.a obj.o" I see
the following run times (seconds):
x ar.r284891
+ ar.patched
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|+ |
|+ x|
|+ xx|
|A |A|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 3 1.307 1.321 1.315 1.3143333 0.0070237692
+ 3 0.020 0.023 0.022 0.021666667 0.0015275252
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-1.29267 +/- 0.0115203
-98.3515% +/- 0.876513%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.00508265)
Thanks to kib for diagnosing and explaining the issue and suggesting
the workaround.
Reviewed by: eadler, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2933
Modified:
head/usr.bin/ar/write.c
Modified: head/usr.bin/ar/write.c
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/ar/write.c Mon Jun 29 13:06:24 2015 (r284927)
+++ head/usr.bin/ar/write.c Mon Jun 29 13:48:44 2015 (r284928)
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sysexits.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
#include "ar.h"
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ static void create_symtab_entry(struct b
static void free_obj(struct bsdar *bsdar, struct ar_obj *obj);
static void insert_obj(struct bsdar *bsdar, struct ar_obj *obj,
struct ar_obj *pos);
+static void prefault_buffer(const char *buf, size_t s);
static void read_objs(struct bsdar *bsdar, const char *archive,
int checkargv);
static void write_archive(struct bsdar *bsdar, char mode);
@@ -551,11 +553,35 @@ write_cleanup(struct bsdar *bsdar)
}
/*
+ * Fault in the buffer prior to writing as a workaround for poor performance
+ * due to interaction with kernel fs deadlock avoidance code. See the comment
+ * above vn_io_fault_doio() in sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c for details of the issue.
+ */
+static void
+prefault_buffer(const char *buf, size_t s)
+{
+ volatile const char *p;
+ size_t page_size;
+
+ if (s == 0)
+ return;
+ page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+ for (p = buf; p < buf + s; p += page_size)
+ *p;
+ /*
+ * Ensure we touch the last page as well, in case the buffer is not
+ * page-aligned.
+ */
+ *(volatile const char *)(buf + s - 1);
+}
+
+/*
* Wrapper for archive_write_data().
*/
static void
write_data(struct bsdar *bsdar, struct archive *a, const void *buf, size_t s)
{
+ prefault_buffer(buf, s);
if (archive_write_data(a, buf, s) != (ssize_t)s)
bsdar_errc(bsdar, EX_SOFTWARE, 0, "%s",
archive_error_string(a));
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