2.2.x cpu bootup typo

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:41:45 -0500 (EST)


Hello!
Hacking around with V2.2.2, I find that `make -j 8 bzImage` completes
a compile in 185 seconds. This may be slightly better than 2.2.1.

However, name-server lookups are a quite a bit slower than usual.
With 2.2.1, I can do nearly 1,000 lookups per second.
This is tested by reading a local hosts file into memory, then using
those names to query the local-domain name-server over and over again.

The difference is too remarkable to be a testing problem. It's down
to 100 per second. It seems as though the kernel will now only
allow one per HZ, artifically attenuated. Just a feeling.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <time.h>

#define BUF_LEN 0x100

int num=0;

void quit(int unused)
{
int tens;
tens = num/10;
num -= (tens * 10);
printf("Lookups = %d.%d\n", tens, num );
fflush(stdout);
exit(0);
}

typedef struct lnk {
char buf[0x100];
struct lnk *next;
} LNK;

main(int a, char *b[])
{
char buffer[BUF_LEN];
char name[BUF_LEN];
FILE *file;
LNK *link;
LNK *start;

link = (LNK *) malloc(sizeof(LNK));
link->next = NULL;
start = link;

file = fopen ("/etc/hosts", "r");
if(file == NULL) exit(1);
(void)signal(SIGALRM, quit);
while((fgets(buffer, BUF_LEN, file)) != NULL)
{
if((sscanf(buffer, "%*d.%*d.%*d.%*d %s", link->buf)) == 1)
{
link->next = (LNK *) malloc(sizeof(LNK));
link = link->next;
link->next = NULL;
}
}
fclose(file);

alarm(10);
for(;;)
{
link = start;
do {
num++;
if(a > 1)
printf(link->buf);
if(gethostbyname(link->buf) != NULL)
if(a > 1)
puts(" Okay");
else
if (a > 1)
puts(" Failed");
link = link->next;
} while(link != NULL);
}
return 0;
}

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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