[PATCH] D39444: [Support] Make the default chunk size of raw_fd_ostream to 1 GiB.

[Kamil Rytarowski via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

krytarowski added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Support/raw_ostream.cpp:581
 
-#ifndef LLVM_ON_WIN32
-#if defined(__linux__)
-  bool ShouldWriteInChunks = true;
-#else
-  bool ShouldWriteInChunks = false;
-#endif
-#else
+  // It is observed that Linux returns EINVAL for a very large write (>2G),
+  // so the default write size is limited to 1 GiB.
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ruiu wrote:
> krytarowski wrote:
> > Am I looking correctly that we enforce Linux behavior to every UNIX?
> Yes. Compared to writing 1 GiB data, the overhead of system call is negligible, so I kept it simple.
Keeping it simple is fine, but I prompt to make this comment more aware of existence of other OSes... or even better just enable it on Linux, it might silently break others like Linux for >2GB.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D39444