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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2019-01-01 13:03:08 +0000
committerRory& <root@rory.gay>2026-02-06 14:09:56 +0100
commit96328c6b1060dc2bbb5d3cc1cb4f2ff8c4521c3a (patch)
tree248c45ebc6014af87a72ca11bef90e4b6ef0bc8d
parentImprove button spacing for browsers w/o CSS (diff)
downloadcgit-magenta-96328c6b1060dc2bbb5d3cc1cb4f2ff8c4521c3a.tar.xz
Use buffered stdio
Our generation of HTML triggers many small write(2) syscalls
which is inefficient.

Time output on a horrible query against my git.git mirror
shows significant performance improvement:

QUERY_STRING='id=2b93bfac0f5bcabbf60f174f4e7bfa9e318e64d5&id2=d6da71a9d16b8cf27f9d8f90692d3625c849cbc8'
PATH_INFO=/mirrors/git.git/diff
export QUERY_STRING PATH_INFO
time ./cgit >/dev/null

Before:
real    0m1.585s
user    0m0.904s
sys     0m0.658s

After:
real    0m0.750s
user    0m0.666s
sys     0m0.076s
-rw-r--r--cache.c7
-rw-r--r--cgit.c2
-rw-r--r--filter.c22
-rw-r--r--html.c2
-rw-r--r--ui-snapshot.c3
5 files changed, 33 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/cache.c b/cache.c

index 1c843ba..5937254 100644 --- a/cache.c +++ b/cache.c
@@ -270,6 +270,13 @@ static int process_slot(struct cache_slot *slot) { int err; + /* + * Make sure any buffered data is flushed before we redirect, + * do sendfile(2) or write(2) + */ + if (fflush(stdout)) + return errno; + err = open_slot(slot); if (!err && slot->match) { if (is_expired(slot)) { diff --git a/cgit.c b/cgit.c
index 579db64..b8e64b7 100644 --- a/cgit.c +++ b/cgit.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ static inline void authenticate_post(void) len = MAX_AUTHENTICATION_POST_BYTES; if ((len = read(STDIN_FILENO, buffer, len)) < 0) die_errno("Could not read POST from stdin"); - if (write(STDOUT_FILENO, buffer, len) < 0) + if (fwrite(buffer, 1, len, stdout) < len) die_errno("Could not write POST to stdout"); cgit_close_filter(ctx.cfg.auth_filter); exit(0); diff --git a/filter.c b/filter.c
index 22b4970..abdd4b0 100644 --- a/filter.c +++ b/filter.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static int open_exec_filter(struct cgit_filter *base, va_list ap) for (i = 0; i < filter->base.argument_count; i++) filter->argv[i + 1] = va_arg(ap, char *); + chk_zero(fflush(stdout), "unable to flush STDOUT"); filter->old_stdout = chk_positive(dup(STDOUT_FILENO), "Unable to duplicate STDOUT"); chk_zero(pipe(pipe_fh), "Unable to create pipe to subprocess"); @@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ static int close_exec_filter(struct cgit_filter *base) struct cgit_exec_filter *filter = (struct cgit_exec_filter *)base; int i, exit_status = 0; + chk_zero(fflush(stdout), "unable to flush STDOUT"); chk_non_negative(dup2(filter->old_stdout, STDOUT_FILENO), "Unable to restore STDOUT"); close(filter->old_stdout); @@ -143,17 +145,32 @@ void cgit_init_filters(void) #endif #ifndef NO_LUA -static ssize_t (*libc_write)(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count); +static size_t (*libc_fwrite)(const void *buf, size_t size, size_t n, FILE *); +static ssize_t (*libc_write)(int fd, const void *buf, size_t size); static ssize_t (*filter_write)(struct cgit_filter *base, const void *buf, size_t count) = NULL; static struct cgit_filter *current_write_filter = NULL; void cgit_init_filters(void) { + /* + * we need to wrap both functions since the Lua filter may + * have code which calls write(2) directly, bypassing fwrite(3) + */ + libc_fwrite = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "fwrite"); + if (!libc_fwrite) + die("Could not locate libc's write function"); libc_write = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "write"); if (!libc_write) die("Could not locate libc's write function"); } +size_t fwrite(const void *buf, size_t size, size_t n, FILE *f) +{ + if (f != stdout || !filter_write) + return libc_fwrite(buf, size, n, f); + return filter_write(current_write_filter, buf, size * n); +} + ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count) { if (fd != STDOUT_FILENO || !filter_write) @@ -305,6 +322,9 @@ static int open_lua_filter(struct cgit_filter *base, va_list ap) struct lua_filter *filter = (struct lua_filter *)base; int i; + if (fflush(stdout)) + return 1; + if (init_lua_filter(filter)) return 1; diff --git a/html.c b/html.c
index 0bac34b..ced781a 100644 --- a/html.c +++ b/html.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ char *fmtalloc(const char *format, ...) void html_raw(const char *data, size_t size) { - if (write(STDOUT_FILENO, data, size) != size) + if (fwrite(data, 1, size, stdout) != size) die_errno("write error on html output"); } diff --git a/ui-snapshot.c b/ui-snapshot.c
index d157222..b3039d9 100644 --- a/ui-snapshot.c +++ b/ui-snapshot.c
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ static int write_archive_type(const char *format, const char *hex, const char *p /* strvec guarantees a trailing NULL entry. */ memcpy(nargv, argv.v, sizeof(char *) * (argv.nr + 1)); + if (fflush(stdout)) + return errno; + result = write_archive(argv.nr, nargv, NULL, the_repository, NULL, 0); strvec_clear(&argv); free(nargv);