Hello.

On 06-05-2014 19:51, Andreas Herrmann wrote:

From: David Daney <[email protected]>

It is a performance enhancement. When running in a simulator, each
system call to write a character takes a lot of time.  Batching them
up decreases the overhead (in the root kernel) of each virtio console
write.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <[email protected]>
---
  tools/kvm/term.c |    7 +++++--
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/kvm/term.c b/tools/kvm/term.c
index 3de410b..b153eed 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/term.c
+++ b/tools/kvm/term.c
@@ -52,11 +52,14 @@ int term_getc(struct kvm *kvm, int term)
  int term_putc(char *addr, int cnt, int term)
  {
        int ret;
+       int num_remaining = cnt;

-       while (cnt--) {
-               ret = write(term_fds[term][TERM_FD_OUT], addr++, 1);
+       while (num_remaining) {
+               ret = write(term_fds[term][TERM_FD_OUT], addr, num_remaining);
                if (ret < 0)
                        return 0;

   Perhaps 'return cnt - num_remaining' instead?

+               num_remaining -= ret;
+               addr += ret;
        }

        return cnt;

WBR, Sergei

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