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Re: [PATCH 5.1] zread: read files in 4k chunks
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [PATCH 5.1] zread: read files in 4k chunks |
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Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:35:10 -0400 |
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On 6/22/20 1:53 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Currently a static sized buffer is used for reading files. At the moment
> it is extremely small, making parsing of large files extremely slow.
> Increase this to 4k for improved performance.
I bumped it up to 1024 initially for testing.
> This also allows reading
> files like /dev/kmsg on Linux, which will error if the read buffer is
> too small.
What is the minimum size for those reads?
Chet
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