On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:00:24 +0900 Takashi Yano wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 02:21:11 +0900 > Takashi Yano wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:00:50 -0400 > > Ken Brown wrote: > > > > > On 8/27/2021 7:24 AM, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:18:29 -0400 > > > > Ken Brown wrote: > > > >> On 8/26/2021 11:56 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > > [...] > > > >> In case you want to try out my proposed change, I've just rebased the > > > >> patches to > > > >> the current master and pushed them to a new topic/pipe branch. > > > > > > > > Hi Ken, > > > > > > > > Thanks much! I tested topic/pipe branch. > > > > > > > > [yano@cygwin-PC ~]$ scp test.dat yano@linux-server:. > > > > yano@linux-server's password: > > > > test.dat 100% 100MB 95.9MB/s > > > > 00:01 > > > > [yano@cygwin-PC ~]$ scp yano@linux-server:test.dat . > > > > yano@linux-server's password: > > > > test.dat 100% 100MB 8.0MB/s > > > > 00:12 > > > > > > > > yano@linux-server:~$ scp yano@cygwin-PC:test.dat . > > > > yano@cygwin-PC's password: > > > > test.dat 100% 100MB 109.7MB/s > > > > 00:00 > > > > yano@linux-server:~$ scp test.dat yano@cygwin-PC:. > > > > yano@cygwin-PC's password: > > > > test.dat 100% 100MB 31.4MB/s > > > > 00:03 > > > > > > > > As shown above, outgoing transfer-rate has been improved upto near > > > > theoretical limit. However, incoming transfer-rate is not improved > > > > much. > > > > > > > > I digged further and found the first patch attached solves the issue > > > > as follows. > > > > > > > > [yano@cygwin-PC ~]$ scp yano@linux-server:test.dat . > > > > yano@linux-server's password: > > > > test.dat 100% 100MB 112.8MB/s > > > > 00:00 > > > > > > > > yano@linux-server2:~$ scp test.dat yano@cygwin-PC:. > > > > yano@cygwin-PC's password: > > > > test.dat 100% 100MB 102.5MB/s > > > > 00:00 > > > > > > Great! > > > > > > > I also tested the case: > > > >>>> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-March/247987.html > > > >>>> which seems to be the same issue with > > > >>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10385424/good-alternatives-to-cygwin-cygwin-doesnt-support-natively-support-win32-app > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, topic/pipe does not help. > > > > > > > > I confirmed that applying the second patch attached, which reverts > > > > to create() rather than nt_create(), and setting CYGWIN=pipe_byte > > > > fixes the problem. > > > > > > > > What do you think of this alternative implementation which does > > > > not use nt_create()? > > > > > > Two years ago I thought I needed nt_create to avoid problems when calling > > > set_pipe_non_blocking. Are you saying that's not an issue? Is > > > set_pipe_non_blocking unnecessary? Is that the point of your > > > modification to > > > raw_read? > > > > Yes. Instead of making windows read function itself non-blocking, > > it is possible to check if the pipe can be read before read using > > PeekNamedPipe(). If the pipe cannot be read right now, EAGAIN is > > returned. > > As for writint to pipe, set_pipe_non_blocking seems to take effect > and be necessary.
So, the following patch seems to be appropriate. diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_pipe.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_pipe.cc index b3af4a0a0..82f5de3f4 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_pipe.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_pipe.cc @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ fhandler_pipe::set_pipe_non_blocking (bool nonblocking) IO_STATUS_BLOCK io; FILE_PIPE_INFORMATION fpi; + if ((openflags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY) + return; /* Do nothing for read pipe */ fpi.ReadMode = FILE_PIPE_BYTE_STREAM_MODE; fpi.CompletionMode = nonblocking ? FILE_PIPE_COMPLETE_OPERATION : FILE_PIPE_QUEUE_OPERATION; -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple