Avoid buffered reads of /dev/urandom
authorRafael Espindola <rafael.espindola@gmail.com>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:52:32 +0000 (22:52 +0000)
committerRafael Espindola <rafael.espindola@gmail.com>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:52:32 +0000 (22:52 +0000)
commite09d90de8fb1882fcfae2aa522d9275fc6ee7443
tree27d64ef205d4189d48bc4b37dcc67e2e1c1a5a90
parent70ed0f67e19c0ff9cb9fada845423d5aec581566
Avoid buffered reads of /dev/urandom

I am seeing disappointing clang performance on a large PowerPC64
Linux box. GetRandomNumberSeed() does a buffered read from
/dev/urandom to seed its PRNG. As a result we read an entire page
even though we only need 4 bytes.

With every clang task reading a page worth of /dev/urandom we
end up spending a large amount of time stuck on kernel spinlock.

Patch by Anton Blanchard!

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@255386 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
lib/Support/Unix/Process.inc