/* I/O block size definitions for coreutils Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Include this file _after_ system headers if possible. */ /* sys/stat.h will already have been included by system.h. */ #include "stat-size.h" /* As of Mar 2009, 32KiB is determined to be the minimium blksize to best minimize system call overhead. This can be tested with this script with the results shown for a 1.7GHz pentium-m with 2GB of 400MHz DDR2 RAM: for i in $(seq 0 10); do size=$((8*1024**3)) #ensure this is big enough bs=$((1024*2**$i)) printf "%7s=" $bs dd bs=$bs if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=$(($size/$bs)) 2>&1 | sed -n 's/.* \([0-9.]* [GM]B\/s\)/\1/p' done 1024=734 MB/s 2048=1.3 GB/s 4096=2.4 GB/s 8192=3.5 GB/s 16384=3.9 GB/s 32768=5.2 GB/s 65536=5.3 GB/s 131072=5.5 GB/s 262144=5.7 GB/s 524288=5.7 GB/s 1048576=5.8 GB/s Note that this is to minimize system call overhead. Other values may be appropriate to minimize file system or disk overhead. For example on my current GNU/Linux system the readahead setting is 128KiB which was read using: file="." device=$(df -P --local "$file" | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1) echo $(( $(blockdev --getra $device) * 512 )) However there isn't a portable way to get the above. In the future we could use the above method if available and default to io_blksize() if not. */ enum { IO_BUFSIZE = 32*1024 }; static inline size_t io_blksize (struct stat sb) { return MAX (IO_BUFSIZE, ST_BLKSIZE (sb)); }