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This patch fixes BZ #27777 "fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE* are opened". Simply put, the master list of opened (FILE*), namely _IO_list_all, is a singly-linked list. As a consequence, the removal of a single element is in O(N), which cripples the performance of fclose(). The patch switches to a doubly-linked list, yielding O(1) removal. The one padding field in struct _IO_FILE, __pad5, is renamed to _prevchain for a doubly-linked list. Since fields in struct _IO_FILE after the _lock field are internal to glibc and opaque to applications. We can change them as long as the size of struct _IO_FILE is unchanged, which is checked as the part of glibc ABI with sizes of _IO_2_1_stdin_, _IO_2_1_stdout_ and _IO_2_1_stderr_. NB: When _IO_vtable_offset (fp) == 0, copy relocation will cover the whole struct _IO_FILE. Otherwise, only fields up to the _lock field will be copied to applications at run-time. It is used to check if the _prevchain field can be safely accessed. After opening 2 million (FILE*), the fclose() of 100 of them takes quite a few seconds without the patch, and under 2 seconds with it on a loaded machine. No test is added since there are no functional changes. Co-Authored-By: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ferrieux <alexandre.ferrieux@orange.com> Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> |
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