From: "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>
To: edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>
Cc: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>,
"Jordan Justen" <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] OvmfPkg: raise PcdShellFileOperationSize to 128KB
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 16:42:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210104154235.31785-3-lersek@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210104154235.31785-1-lersek@redhat.com>
Some UEFI shell commands read and write files in chunks. The chunk size is
given by "PcdShellFileOperationSize", whose default in
"ShellPkg/ShellPkg.dec" is 4KB (0x1000).
The virtio-fs daemon of QEMU advertizes a 128KB maximum buffer size by
default, for the FUSE_WRITE operation.
By raising PcdShellFileOperationSize 32-fold, the number of FUSE write
requests shrinks proportionately, when writing large files. And when a
Virtio Filesystem is not used, a 128KB chunk size is still not
particularly wasteful.
Some ad-hoc measurements on my laptop, using OVMF:
- The time it takes to copy a ~270MB file from a Virtio Filesystem to the
same Virtio Filesystem improves from ~9 seconds to ~1 second.
- The time it takes to compare two identical ~270MB files on the same
Virtio Filesystem improves from ~11 seconds to ~3 seconds.
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3125
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
---
OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc | 2 ++
OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc | 2 ++
OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc | 2 ++
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc
index 26a013ec353e..cd0acf021459 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc
+++ b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc
@@ -560,6 +560,8 @@ [PcdsFixedAtBuild]
#
!include NetworkPkg/NetworkPcds.dsc.inc
+ gEfiShellPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdShellFileOperationSize|0x20000
+
!if $(SMM_REQUIRE) == TRUE
gUefiCpuPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdCpuSmmStackSize|0x4000
!endif
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc
index 10579fe46c5b..3bf493bdb08f 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc
+++ b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc
@@ -566,6 +566,8 @@ [PcdsFixedAtBuild.X64]
#
!include NetworkPkg/NetworkPcds.dsc.inc
+ gEfiShellPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdShellFileOperationSize|0x20000
+
!if $(SMM_REQUIRE) == TRUE
gUefiCpuPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdCpuSmmStackSize|0x4000
!endif
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc
index c9235e48ad62..cebdbc9faabe 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc
+++ b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc
@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ [PcdsFixedAtBuild]
#
!include NetworkPkg/NetworkPcds.dsc.inc
+ gEfiShellPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdShellFileOperationSize|0x20000
+
!if $(SMM_REQUIRE) == TRUE
gUefiCpuPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdCpuSmmStackSize|0x4000
!endif
--
2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-04 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-04 15:42 [PATCH 0/8] ShellPkg, ArmVirtPkg, OvmfPkg: shell usability improvements Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-04 15:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] ShellPkg/Comp: add file buffering Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-11 1:24 ` Gao, Zhichao
2021-01-04 15:42 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2021-01-04 15:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] ArmVirtPkg: raise PcdShellFileOperationSize to 128KB Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-04 15:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] ShellPkg/ShellCommandLib: add ShellSortFileList() Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-13 3:03 ` Gao, Zhichao
2021-01-04 15:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] ShellPkg/Ls: sort output by FileName in non-SFO mode Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-13 3:04 ` Gao, Zhichao
2021-01-04 15:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] ShellPkg/ShellProtocol: sort files by FullName in RemoveDupInFileList() Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-13 3:04 ` Gao, Zhichao
2021-01-04 15:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] OvmfPkg: disable list length checks in NOOPT and DEBUG builds Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-04 15:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] ArmVirtPkg: " Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-04 16:12 ` [PATCH 0/8] ShellPkg, ArmVirtPkg, OvmfPkg: shell usability improvements Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-08 8:34 ` [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
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