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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:58:33 +0100
From:      Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r358152 - head/bin/sh
Message-ID:  <CAALwa8kNAb0ME7v6gqdUPCcc%2BnZ9si0VYk0AveEndmTQfxsQ2g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <202002200301.01K31RTk043426@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202002200301.01K31RTk043426@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:01 AM Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Author: hrs
> Date: Thu Feb 20 03:01:27 2020
> New Revision: 358152
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/358152
>
> Log:
>   Improve performance of "read" built-in command when using a seekable
>   fd.
>
>   The read built-in command calls read(2) with a 1-byte buffer because
>   newline characters need to be detected even on a byte stream which
>   comes from a non-seekable file descriptor.  Because of this, the
>   following script calls >6,000 read(2) to show a 6KiB file:
>
>    while read IN; do echo "$IN"; done < /COPYRIGHT
>
>   When the input byte stream is seekable, it is possible to read a data
>   block and then reposition the file pointer to where a newline
>   character found.  This change adds a small buffer to do this and
>   reduces the number of read(2) calls.
>
>   Theoretically, multiple built-in commands reading the same seekable
>   byte stream in a single pipe chain can share the buffer.  However,
>   this change just makes a single invocation of the read built-in
>   allocate a buffer and deallocate it every time for simplicity.
>   Although this causes read(2) to read the same regions multiple times,
>   the performance penalty should be small compared to the reduction of
>   read(2) calls.
>
>   Reviewed by:          jilles
>   MFC after:            1 week
>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23747

This seems to be broken on at least i386.
Please either fix or revert.

Antoine (with hat: portmgr)



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