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| -rw-r--r-- | apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 3 |
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc index 1d45e70e9..462f4a739 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc @@ -74,6 +74,31 @@ namespace }; } +/* helper function to ionice the given PID + + there is no C header for ionice yet - just the syscall interface + so we use the binary from util-linux +*/ +static bool +ionice(int PID) +{ + if (!FileExists("/usr/bin/ionice")) + return false; + pid_t Process = ExecFork(); + if (Process == 0) + { + char buf[32]; + snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "-p%d", PID); + const char *Args[4]; + Args[0] = "/usr/bin/ionice"; + Args[1] = "-c3"; + Args[2] = buf; + Args[3] = 0; + execv(Args[0], (char **)Args); + } + return ExecWait(Process, "ionice"); +} + // DPkgPM::pkgDPkgPM - Constructor /*{{{*/ // --------------------------------------------------------------------- /* */ @@ -850,7 +875,6 @@ bool pkgDPkgPM::Go(int OutStatusFd) _exit(100); } - /* No Job Control Stop Env is a magic dpkg var that prevents it from using sigstop */ putenv((char *)"DPKG_NO_TSTP=yes"); @@ -859,6 +883,10 @@ bool pkgDPkgPM::Go(int OutStatusFd) _exit(100); } + // apply ionice + if (_config->FindB("DPkg::UseIoNice", false) == true) + ionice(Child); + // clear the Keep-Fd again _config->Clear("APT::Keep-Fds",fd[1]); diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 30e7b7591..a22f78401 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ apt (0.7.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * apt-pkg/acquire.cc: - make the max pipeline depth of the acquire queue configurable via Acquire::Max-Pipeline-Depth + * apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc: + - add Dpkg::UseIoNice boolean option to run dpkg with ionice -c3 + (off by default) -- Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 28 May 2009 17:51:42 +0200 |