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authorglebius <glebius@FreeBSD.org>2012-06-04 12:49:21 +0000
committerglebius <glebius@FreeBSD.org>2012-06-04 12:49:21 +0000
commitdf2b290f0d9df8886ee3832df87616c18dbf2abb (patch)
tree1b6b4e6f0ba12585743bd02d4a6ef5187f212ed0 /sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c
parent511c0436a1ec049b8f3992edbb3bb4c2cd0fdddc (diff)
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Optimise kern_sendfile(): skip cycling through the entire mbuf chain in
m_cat(), storing pointer to last mbuf in chain in local variable and attaching new mbuf to the end of chain. Submitter reports that CPU load dropped for > 10% on a web server serving large files with this optimisation. Submitted by: Sergey Budnevitch <sb nginx.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c')
-rw-r--r--sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c b/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c
index 4502e43..16933fe 100644
--- a/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c
+++ b/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c
@@ -1962,6 +1962,7 @@ kern_sendfile(struct thread *td, struct sendfile_args *uap,
* and takes care of the overall progress.
*/
for (off = uap->offset, rem = uap->nbytes; ; ) {
+ struct mbuf *mtail = NULL;
int loopbytes = 0;
int space = 0;
int done = 0;
@@ -2181,10 +2182,15 @@ retry_space:
m0->m_len = xfsize;
/* Append to mbuf chain. */
- if (m != NULL)
- m_cat(m, m0);
- else
- m = m0;
+ if (mtail != NULL) {
+ mtail->m_next = m0;
+ } else {
+ if (m != NULL)
+ m_cat(m, m0);
+ else
+ m = m0;
+ }
+ mtail = m0;
/* Keep track of bits processed. */
loopbytes += xfsize;
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