gh-117151: IO performance improvement, increase io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE to 128k, fix open() to use max(st_blksize, io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE)

Author: rmmancom

Lib/_pyio.py

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
     valid_seek_flags.add(os.SEEK_HOLE)
     valid_seek_flags.add(os.SEEK_DATA)
 
-# open() uses st_blksize whenever we can
-DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = 8 * 1024  # bytes
+# open() uses max(st_blksize, io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE) when st_blksize is available
+DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = 128 * 1024  # bytes
 
 # NOTE: Base classes defined here are registered with the "official" ABCs
 # defined in io.py. We don't use real inheritance though, because we don't want
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ def open(file, mode="r", buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None,
                 pass
             else:
                 if bs > 1:
-                    buffering = bs
+                    buffering = max(bs, DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE)
         if buffering < 0:
             raise ValueError("invalid buffering size")
         if buffering == 0:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-04-30-14-03-09.gh-issue-117151.yt2H8c.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Increase ``io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE`` from 4k/8k to 128k. Adapt :func:`open` on Linux to use
+``max(io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE, device block size)`` rather than the device block
+size. Improve I/O performance upto 3 to 5 times. Patch by Romain Morotti.

Modules/_io/_iomodule.h

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ extern Py_ssize_t _PyIO_find_line_ending(
 */
 extern int _PyIO_trap_eintr(void);
 
-#define DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE (8 * 1024)  /* bytes */
+#define DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE (128 * 1024)  /* bytes */
 
 /*
  * Offset type for positioning.