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bpo-38061: subprocess uses closefrom() on FreeBSD #19697
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cc @koobs |
PR created from this FreeBSD downstream patch: |
Optimize the subprocess module on FreeBSD using closefrom(). A single close(fd) syscall is cheap, but when sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is high, the loop calling close(fd) on each file descriptor can take several milliseconds. The workaround on FreeBSD to improve performance was to load and mount the fdescfs kernel module, but this is not enabled by default. Initial patch by Ed Maste (emaste), Conrad Meyer (cem), Kyle Evans (kevans) and Kubilay Kocak (koobs): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242274
I will check with FreeBSD developers if the authors are correct and check that the fix works as expected. |
fdescfs kernel module, but this is not enabled by default. | ||
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Initial patch by Ed Maste (emaste), Conrad Meyer (cem), Kyle Evans (kevans) and | ||
Kubilay Kocak (koobs): |
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Can remove this, full credit to Ed, Conrad & Kyle
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Even if you didn't write the patch directly, you helped to get it packaged. Thanks @koobs, you deserved to be credited ;-)
This change could also add sun to get this supported under Solaris and illumos |
I tested this change functionaly using truss:
It works as expected: closefrom() is called Without this change, there are way more syscalls (+229 274) :-)
... which is very close to the maximum number of file descriptor:
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Sure. But please propose a separated PR. |
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Optimize the subprocess module on FreeBSD using closefrom().
A single close(fd) syscall is cheap, but when sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)
is high, the loop calling close(fd) on each file descriptor can take
several milliseconds.
The workaround on FreeBSD to improve performance was to load and
mount the fdescfs kernel module, but this is not enabled by default.
Initial patch by Kyle Evans with the help of Kubilay Kocak:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242274
https://bugs.python.org/issue38061