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Diffstat (limited to 'wrapper.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | wrapper.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -131,6 +131,14 @@ void *xcalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size) } /* + * Limit size of IO chunks, because huge chunks only cause pain. OS X + * 64-bit is buggy, returning EINVAL if len >= INT_MAX; and even in + * the absense of bugs, large chunks can result in bad latencies when + * you decide to kill the process. + */ +#define MAX_IO_SIZE (8*1024*1024) + +/* * xread() is the same a read(), but it automatically restarts read() * operations with a recoverable error (EAGAIN and EINTR). xread() * DOES NOT GUARANTEE that "len" bytes is read even if the data is available. @@ -138,6 +146,8 @@ void *xcalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size) ssize_t xread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len) { ssize_t nr; + if (len > MAX_IO_SIZE) + len = MAX_IO_SIZE; while (1) { nr = read(fd, buf, len); if ((nr < 0) && (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR)) @@ -154,6 +164,8 @@ ssize_t xread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len) ssize_t xwrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len) { ssize_t nr; + if (len > MAX_IO_SIZE) + len = MAX_IO_SIZE; while (1) { nr = write(fd, buf, len); if ((nr < 0) && (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR)) |