I originally wrote this emulation prior to me fully understanding how
the syscall works. So there are two optimizations here.
1) No need to consume the incoming buffer at all.
- Originally I thought the incoming dirent structures were used to
calculate offset.
- This is not the case, the FD's file position is used instead.
- This means we can remove the incoming buffer consuming overhead
entirely.
2) No need to allocate a temporary buffer at all.
- With getdents and getdents64 we are guaranteed to be dealing with
structures that are the same size or smaller than the host
structure.
- This lets us encode the real host dirents in to the provided
buffer.
- After the `getdents64` host syscall, we then iterate forward
through the list, modifying as we go.
- Need to make sure to shift the elements of the structure in order.
- Need to make sure to use memmove on the `d_name` member since the
movement region can overlap.
These two optimizations significantly reduce the amount of time spent in
getdents, which has a noticeable impact on load times.
Side-tangent: I noticed a fun quirk of how NFS operates with getdents.
If the FSCache hasn't populated the metadata for that folder, then it
will early return with "some" data, not fully maxing out the buffer. The
kernel will start prefetching metadata assuming directory iterating is
happening. The next `getdents` happens and it should return a larger
number of elements.
Very neat.
This is not an attempt to clean up the various issues with the pthread
logic, instead just moving the pthread specific logic out of FEXCore in
to FEXLoader.
FEXCore needs to know how to create threads in an agnostic way. Which is
why we obfuscate the details with this inteface.
Initially this was implemented with the pthread handlers in FEXCore and
expected eventually for those to get moved to the frontend. This is the
time when it has been moved.
This is the first step towards compiling with llvm-mingw.
Still a long way to go.
Ryan Houdek