[gst-devel] [PATCH] Reduce the number of stat calls for each plugin from 3 to 1.

[Edward Hervey]

Hi Simon,

  Just tried the patch on linux. Seems to work fine. One remark though,
we don't track patches on the mailing-list, could you open a bug on the
gstreamer bugtracker so we can properly track this ?

    Edward

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 19:02 +0000, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> This looks like a good idea. I think it'll need some more work to remain
> portable to Windows. I don't think the S_ISDIR and S_ISREG macros exist
> there.
> 
> J.
> 
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 21:42 +0100, Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote:
> > The code already called stat directly in one place. By moving this code
> > further up we avoid doing a stat with g_file_test twice by replacing the
> > g_file_test calls with similar code that uses the cached stat.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie at cs.aau.dk>
> > ---
> >  gst/gstregistry.c |   21 ++++++++++-----------
> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/gst/gstregistry.c b/gst/gstregistry.c
> > index 1c1d27a..6850b91 100644
> > --- a/gst/gstregistry.c
> > +++ b/gst/gstregistry.c
> > @@ -808,9 +808,17 @@ gst_registry_scan_path_level (GstRegistry * registry, const gchar * path,
> >      return FALSE;
> >  
> >    while ((dirent = g_dir_read_name (dir))) {
> > +    struct stat file_status;
> > +
> >      filename = g_strjoin ("/", path, dirent, NULL);
> > +    if (stat(filename, &file_status) < 0) {
> > +        /* Plugin will be removed from cache after the scan completes if it
> > +         * is still marked 'cached' */
> > +        g_free (filename);
> > +        continue;
> > +    }
> >  
> > -    if (g_file_test (filename, G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR)) {
> > +    if (S_ISDIR(file_status.st_mode)) {
> >        /* skip the .debug directory, these contain elf files that are not
> >         * useful or worse, can crash dlopen () */
> >        if (g_str_equal (dirent, ".debug")) {
> > @@ -831,7 +839,7 @@ gst_registry_scan_path_level (GstRegistry * registry, const gchar * path,
> >        g_free (filename);
> >        continue;
> >      }
> > -    if (!g_file_test (filename, G_FILE_TEST_IS_REGULAR)) {
> > +    if (!S_ISREG(file_status.st_mode)) {
> >        GST_LOG_OBJECT (registry, "%s is not a regular file, ignoring", filename);
> >        g_free (filename);
> >        continue;
> > @@ -853,15 +861,6 @@ gst_registry_scan_path_level (GstRegistry * registry, const gchar * path,
> >       * was already seen by the registry, we ignore it */
> >      plugin = gst_registry_lookup (registry, filename);
> >      if (plugin) {
> > -      struct stat file_status;
> > -
> > -      if (stat (filename, &file_status)) {
> > -        /* Plugin will be removed from cache after the scan completes if it
> > -         * is still marked 'cached' */
> > -        g_free (filename);
> > -        gst_object_unref (plugin);
> > -        continue;
> > -      }
> >        if (plugin->registered) {
> >          GST_DEBUG_OBJECT (registry,
> >              "plugin already registered from path \"%s\"",