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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-07-20 18:51:01 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-07-22 01:04:47 +0100
commit47076e3c7c22fc7557f388ad3d47228b922da71e (patch)
tree94f785d628a11e6c786f5aa85daa88d2a672b2fe /src/cat.c
parentfadvise: new module providing a simpler interface to posix_fadvise (diff)
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provide POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL hint to appropriate utils
Following on from commit dae35bac, 01-03-2010, "sort: inform the system about our input access pattern" apply the same hint to all appropriate utils. This currently gives around a 5% speedup for reading large files from fast flash devices on GNU/Linux. * src/base64.c: Call fadvise (..., FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL); * src/cat.c: Likewise. * src/cksum.c: Likewise. * src/comm.c: Likewise. * src/cut.c: Likewise. * src/expand.c: Likewise. * src/fmt.c: Likewise. * src/fold.c: Likewise. * src/join.c: Likewise. * src/md5sum.c: Likewise. * src/nl.c: Likewise. * src/paste.c: Likewise. * src/pr.c: Likewise. * src/ptx.c: Likewise. * src/shuf.c: Likewise. * src/sum.c: Likewise. * src/tee.c: Likewise. * src/tr.c: Likewise. * src/tsort.c: Likewise. * src/unexpand.c: Likewise. * src/uniq.c: Likewise. * src/wc.c: Likewise, unless we don't actually read().
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diff --git a/src/cat.c b/src/cat.c
index c4a2a9e3c..47b505352 100644
--- a/src/cat.c
+++ b/src/cat.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include "system.h"
#include "error.h"
+#include "fadvise.h"
#include "full-write.h"
#include "quote.h"
#include "safe-read.h"
@@ -700,6 +701,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
}
insize = io_blksize (stat_buf);
+ fdadvise (input_desc, 0, 0, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL);
+
/* Compare the device and i-node numbers of this input file with
the corresponding values of the (output file associated with)
stdout, and skip this input file if they coincide. Input