DSU service: Pipeline the installation task to improve performance
Right now the installation task does roughly this: while (has partition data left) { a. Copy partition data to write buffer. b. Copy write buffer to shared memory. c. Binder call submitFromAshmem() to inform the consumer of the shared memory. } Both task (a) and (c) are I/O intensive and time consuming operations. However (a) and (c) don't have a strong data dependency, and the only consistency condition we need to maintain is "task (b) can only be started once task (c) from the previous iteration is complete." As soon as (b) is complete, (c) and *(a) of the next iteration* can be started, pipelining task (a) & (c). Also enlarge the default shared memory size because there are new improvements after this change. The new default size (512K) is chosen somewhat randomly, it's large enough to optimize the installation time and small enough to not starve most devices' RAM. Speedup: * physical device: 23s -> 18s (14s if shared memory buffer is 512K) * virtual device: 19s -> 15s Bug: 225310919 Test: Install and boot DSU Change-Id: If7093919762861d19d4fecaf997a699cc1b0fe41
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