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author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-07-20 18:51:01 +0100 |
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committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-07-22 01:04:47 +0100 |
commit | 47076e3c7c22fc7557f388ad3d47228b922da71e (patch) | |
tree | 94f785d628a11e6c786f5aa85daa88d2a672b2fe /src/uniq.c | |
parent | 63b5e8164847285f5d3c1dbc9f7c41ad8c17ccc6 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-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().
Diffstat (limited to 'src/uniq.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/uniq.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/uniq.c b/src/uniq.c index df59b1234..86ca8c957 100644 --- a/src/uniq.c +++ b/src/uniq.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include "argmatch.h" #include "linebuffer.h" #include "error.h" +#include "fadvise.h" #include "hard-locale.h" #include "posixver.h" #include "quote.h" @@ -286,6 +287,8 @@ check_file (const char *infile, const char *outfile, char delimiter) if (! (STREQ (outfile, "-") || freopen (outfile, "w", stdout))) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", outfile); + fadvise (stdin, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL); + thisline = &lb1; prevline = &lb2; |