The COMP shell command compares two files byte for byte. In order to
retrieve the bytes to compare, it currently invokes
gEfiShellProtocol->ReadFile() on both files, using a single-byte buffer
every time. This is very inefficient; the underlying
EFI_FILE_PROTOCOL.Read() function may be costly.
Read both file operands in chunks of "PcdShellFileOperationSize" bytes.
Draw bytes for comparison from the internal read-ahead buffers.
Some ad-hoc measurements on my laptop, using OVMF, and the 4KB default of
"PcdShellFileOperationSize":
- When comparing two identical 1MB files that are served by EnhancedFatDxe
on top of VirtioScsiDxe, this patch brings no noticeable improvement;
the comparison completes in <1s both before and after.
- When comparing two identical 1MB files served by VirtioFsDxe, the
comparison time improves from 2 minutes 25 seconds to <1s.
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com>
Cc: Zhichao Gao <zhichao.gao@intel.com>
Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3123
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhichao Gao <zhichao.gao@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20210113085453.10168-2-lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
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