In a recent patch to validate that shared memory is actually available for use, Angus used a write call with 64 byte writes at a time to validate the space was available before mmap()ing. This results in alot of write() syscalls which is slowing down ipc connection creation.

This patch uses a page sized write() call.

Regards
-steve
Index: lib/coroipcc.c
===================================================================
--- lib/coroipcc.c      (revision 2985)
+++ lib/coroipcc.c      (working copy)
@@ -288,10 +288,11 @@
        void *addr_orig;
        void *addr;
        int32_t res;
-       char buffer[128];
        int32_t i;
        int32_t written;
-
+       char *buffer;
+       long page_size;
+       
        snprintf (path, PATH_MAX, "/dev/shm/%s", file);
 
        fd = mkstemp (path);
@@ -307,17 +308,25 @@
        if (res == -1) {
                goto error_close_unlink;
        }
-       memset (buffer, 0, sizeof (buffer));
-       for (i = 0; i < (bytes / 64); i++) {
+
+       page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+       buffer = malloc (page_size);
+       if (buffer == NULL) {
+               goto error_close_unlink;
+       }
+       memset (buffer, 0, page_size);
+       for (i = 0; i < (bytes / page_size); i++) {
 retry_write:
-               written = write (fd, buffer, 64);
+               written = write (fd, buffer, page_size);
                if (written == -1 && errno == EINTR) {
                        goto retry_write;
                }
-               if (written != 64) {
+               if (written != page_size) {
+                       free (buffer);
                        goto error_close_unlink;
                }
        }
+       free (buffer);
 
        addr_orig = mmap (NULL, bytes << 1, PROT_NONE,
                MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
@@ -386,9 +395,10 @@
        void *addr_orig;
        void *addr;
        int32_t res;
-       char buffer[128];
+       char *buffer;
        int32_t i;
        int32_t written;
+       long page_size; 
 
        snprintf (path, PATH_MAX, "/dev/shm/%s", file);
 
@@ -405,17 +415,24 @@
        if (res == -1) {
                goto error_close_unlink;
        }
-       memset (buffer, 0, sizeof (buffer));
-       for (i = 0; i < (bytes / 64); i++) {
+       page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+       buffer = malloc (page_size);
+       if (buffer == NULL) {
+               goto error_close_unlink;
+       }
+       memset (buffer, 0, page_size);
+       for (i = 0; i < (bytes / page_size); i++) {
 retry_write:
-               written = write (fd, buffer, 64);
+               written = write (fd, buffer, page_size);
                if (written == -1 && errno == EINTR) {
                        goto retry_write;
                }
-               if (written != 64) {
+               if (written != page_size) {
+                       free (buffer);
                        goto error_close_unlink;
                }
        }
+       free (buffer);
 
        addr_orig = mmap (NULL, bytes, PROT_NONE,
                MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
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