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Add patch to fix crash non-disk device Add patch to avoid superfluous seek calls Add patches to increase reading speed Add patch for LVM2 and btrfs to list of supported modules Signed-off-by: Nathan Owens <ndowens04@gmail.com>
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1.3 KiB
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42 lines
1.3 KiB
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From b01b124b36f81a76d38eb0169e6d279a777646c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:24:43 +0100
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Subject: [PATCH 3/5] gpart: use posix_fadvise to increase reading speed
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Use fadvise to tell the OS to try readahead.
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---
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configure.ac | 2 +-
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src/gpart.c | 4 ++++
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2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git configure.ac configure.ac
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index 6eca1de..21dfc00 100644
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--- configure.ac
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+++ configure.ac
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ AC_TYPE_UINT8_T
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# Checks for library functions.
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AC_FUNC_MALLOC
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-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([getpagesize memset strchr strdup strerror strtoul])
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+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([getpagesize memset strchr strdup strerror strtoul posix_fadvise])
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# Configure system services.
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AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
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diff --git src/gpart.c src/gpart.c
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index bd3806a..63b36a5 100644
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--- src/gpart.c
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+++ src/gpart.c
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@@ -949,6 +949,10 @@ static void do_guess_loop(disk_desc *d)
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if ((d->d_fd = open(d->d_dev,O_RDONLY)) == -1)
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pr(FATAL,EM_OPENFAIL,d->d_dev,strerror(errno));
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+#if HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
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+ posix_fadvise(d->d_fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
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+ posix_fadvise(d->d_fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED);
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+#endif /* HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE */
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/*
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* initialize modules. Each should return the minimum
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* size in bytes it wants to receive for a test.
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--
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2.24.0
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