[lld] [lld][MachO]Multi-threaded i/o. Twice as fast linking a large project. (PR #147134)

[John Holdsworth via llvm-commits]

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@@ -282,11 +284,87 @@ static void saveThinArchiveToRepro(ArchiveFile const *file) {
           ": Archive::children failed: " + toString(std::move(e)));
 }
 
-static InputFile *addFile(StringRef path, LoadType loadType,
-                          bool isLazy = false, bool isExplicit = true,
-                          bool isBundleLoader = false,
-                          bool isForceHidden = false) {
-  std::optional<MemoryBufferRef> buffer = readFile(path);
+class DeferredFile {
+public:
+  StringRef path;
+  bool isLazy;
+  MemoryBufferRef buffer;
+};
+using DeferredFiles = std::vector<DeferredFile>;
+
+// Most input files have been mapped but not yet paged in.
+// This code forces the page-ins on multiple threads so
+// the process is not stalled waiting on disk buffer i/o.
+void multiThreadedPageInBackground(const DeferredFiles &deferred) {
+  static size_t pageSize = Process::getPageSizeEstimate(), totalBytes;
+  static std::mutex mutex;
+  size_t index = 0;
+
+  parallelFor(0, config->readThreads, [&](size_t I) {
+    while (true) {
+      mutex.lock();
+      if (index >= deferred.size()) {
+        mutex.unlock();
+        return;
+      }
+      const StringRef &buff = deferred[index].buffer.getBuffer();
+      totalBytes += buff.size();
+      index += 1;
+      mutex.unlock();
+
+      // Reference each page to load it into memory.
+      for (const char *page = buff.data(), *end = page + buff.size();
+           page < end; page += pageSize)
+        volatile char t = *page;
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johnno1962 wrote:

signal 11 :(

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/147134