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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/tsort.c
parent63b5e8164847285f5d3c1dbc9f7c41ad8c17ccc6 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-47076e3c7c22fc7557f388ad3d47228b922da71e.tar.xz
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/tsort.c b/src/tsort.c
index b5c187b30..4f51f3074 100644
--- a/src/tsort.c
+++ b/src/tsort.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include "system.h"
#include "long-options.h"
#include "error.h"
+#include "fadvise.h"
#include "quote.h"
#include "readtokens.h"
#include "stdio--.h"
@@ -444,6 +445,8 @@ tsort (const char *file)
if (!is_stdin && ! freopen (file, "r", stdin))
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", file);
+ fadvise (stdin, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL);
+
init_tokenbuffer (&tokenbuffer);
while (1)