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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: wishlist
Playing around with powertop, I noticed a huge amount of wake-ups while
doing some massive apt-get install. Almost 1000 wake-ups reported by
powertop.
These are due to usleep(1000) in apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc. The thing is
that apt sets the pipe from dpkg as non-blocking, and doesn't wait on
read()s, thus running into the loop and through the usleep().
This is useless and adds extra CPU wake-ups where there is no need for
it.
Simply commenting the fcntl(_dpkgin, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK); line makes
things cleaner, and it even seems that the install goes faster, and the
number of i/o interrupts during install gets higher than when the pipe
was non blocking, which would indicate a better throughput, too.
While this comment is enough to keep the code working while improving
things, the waitpid loop could obviously be improved a bit considering
the fd is blocking.
I can't seem to find a reason why the dpkg process would go zombie in
such case, so I think this should be safe, but you can still prove me
wrong.
Cheers,
Mike
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Actually closing, based on messages #10 and #15.
Kamil
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