yes: Add zero copy fast-path

Author: oech3

.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/workspace.wordlist.txt

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ advapi32-sys
 aho-corasick
 backtrace
 blake2b_simd
+rustix
 
 # * uutils project
 uutils

Cargo.lock

@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ rlimit = "0.11.0"
 rstest = "0.26.0"
 rustc-hash = "2.1.1"
 rust-ini = "0.21.0"
+rustix = { version = "1.1.4", features = ["fs", "param", "pipe"] }
 same-file = "1.0.6"
 self_cell = "1.0.4"
 selinux = "=0.6.0"

Cargo.toml

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ path = "src/yes.rs"
 clap = { workspace = true }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
+rustix = { workspace = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["pipes", "signals"] }

src/uu/yes/Cargo.toml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-// cSpell:ignore strs
+// cSpell:ignore strs setpipe
 
 use clap::{Arg, ArgAction, Command, builder::ValueParser};
 use std::error::Error;
@@ -13,17 +13,45 @@ use uucore::error::{UResult, USimpleError};
 use uucore::format_usage;
 use uucore::translate;
 
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+use rustix::{
+    fd::{AsRawFd, BorrowedFd},
+    param::page_size,
+    pipe::{IoSliceRaw, SpliceFlags, fcntl_setpipe_size, vmsplice},
+};
 // it's possible that using a smaller or larger buffer might provide better performance on some
 // systems, but honestly this is good enough
 const BUF_SIZE: usize = 16 * 1024;
 
 #[uucore::main]
 pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
     let matches = uucore::clap_localization::handle_clap_result(uu_app(), args)?;
+    // use larger pipe if zero-copy is possible
+    // todo: deduplicate logic
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    let buf_size = {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::FileTypeExt;
+        // todo: detect pipe under masked /dev. This is really bad detection.
+        if let Ok(m) = std::fs::metadata("/dev/stdout")
+            && m.file_type().is_fifo()
+        {
+            const ROOTLESS_MAX_PIPE_SIZE: usize = 1024 * 1024;
+            let fd_raw = io::stdout().as_raw_fd();
+            fcntl_setpipe_size(
+                unsafe { BorrowedFd::borrow_raw(fd_raw) },
+                ROOTLESS_MAX_PIPE_SIZE,
+            )
+            .unwrap_or(BUF_SIZE)
+        } else {
+            BUF_SIZE
+        }
+    };
+    #[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
+    let buf_size = BUF_SIZE;
 
-    let mut buffer = Vec::with_capacity(BUF_SIZE);
+    let mut buffer = Vec::with_capacity(buf_size);
     args_into_buffer(&mut buffer, matches.get_many::<OsString>("STRING")).unwrap();
-    prepare_buffer(&mut buffer);
+    prepare_buffer(&mut buffer, buf_size);
 
     match exec(&buffer) {
         Ok(()) => Ok(()),
@@ -94,15 +122,15 @@ fn args_into_buffer<'a>(
 
 /// Assumes buf holds a single output line forged from the command line arguments, copies it
 /// repeatedly until the buffer holds as many copies as it can under [`BUF_SIZE`].
-fn prepare_buffer(buf: &mut Vec<u8>) {
-    if buf.len() * 2 > BUF_SIZE {
+fn prepare_buffer(buf: &mut Vec<u8>, buf_size: usize) {
+    if buf.len() * 2 > buf_size {
         return;
     }
 
     assert!(!buf.is_empty());
 
     let line_len = buf.len();
-    let target_size = line_len * (BUF_SIZE / line_len);
+    let target_size = line_len * (buf_size / line_len);
 
     while buf.len() < target_size {
         let to_copy = std::cmp::min(target_size - buf.len(), buf.len());
@@ -111,6 +139,7 @@ fn prepare_buffer(buf: &mut Vec<u8>) {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
 pub fn exec(bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
     let stdout = io::stdout();
     let mut stdout = stdout.lock();
@@ -120,6 +149,24 @@ pub fn exec(bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+pub fn exec(bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+    let stdout = io::stdout();
+    //zero copy fast-path
+    //todo: we should align instead of giving up fast-path
+    let aligned = bytes.len().is_multiple_of(page_size());
+    if aligned {
+        let fd_raw = stdout.as_raw_fd();
+        let fd = unsafe { BorrowedFd::borrow_raw(fd_raw) };
+        let iovec = [IoSliceRaw::from_slice(bytes)];
+        while unsafe { vmsplice(fd, &iovec, SpliceFlags::empty()) }.is_ok() {}
+    }
+    let mut stdout = stdout.lock();
+    loop {
+        stdout.write_all(bytes)?;
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
@@ -146,7 +193,7 @@ mod tests {
 
         for (line, final_len) in tests {
             let mut v = std::iter::repeat_n(b'a', line).collect::<Vec<_>>();
-            prepare_buffer(&mut v);
+            prepare_buffer(&mut v, BUF_SIZE);
             assert_eq!(v.len(), final_len);
         }
     }