channels should be buffered up to one chunk's size

otherwise we can have some i/o thrashing on simply decoding the input
while reading the responses.  This lets us decode our input up to one
chunk in advance of our redis interactions.

chunk.go

@@ -4,9 +4,15 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 )
 
+var chunk_id struct {
+	sync.Mutex
+	val int
+}
+
 // type chunk represents a grouping of redis statements to be sent to a redis
 // server.
 type chunk struct {
@@ -15,6 +21,15 @@ type chunk struct {
 	t    time.Time
 }
 
+// creates a new chunk of a given size, automatically assigning it a
+// monotomically increasing id.
+func newChunk(size int) *chunk {
+	chunk_id.Lock()
+	defer chunk_id.Unlock()
+	chunk_id.val++
+	return &chunk{id: chunk_id.val, vals: make([]value, 0, size)}
+}
+
 // write out a chunk's statements onto a bufio.Writer.  After sending all
 // statements onto the bufio.Writer, reads from the provided channel of
 // responses N times, where N is the number of statements originally sent.

rsload.go

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"time"
 )
 
-var chunk_size = 1
 var chunk_target = 250 * time.Millisecond
 var chunk_max = 10000
 
@@ -96,16 +95,15 @@ func main() {
 
 	f := infile()
 
-	responses := make(chan maybe)
+	responses := make(chan maybe, chunk_max)
 	go streamValues(conn, responses)
 
-	c := make(chan maybe)
+	c := make(chan maybe, chunk_max)
 	go streamValues(f, c)
 
 	w := bufio.NewWriterSize(conn, 16384)
 
-	id := 1
-	requests := &chunk{id: id, vals: make([]value, 0, chunk_size)}
+	requests := newChunk(1)
 	errors, replies := 0, 0
 	for m := range c {
 		if !m.ok() {
@@ -119,8 +117,7 @@ func main() {
 			errors += stats.errors
 			replies += stats.replies
 			time.Sleep(time.Duration(float64(stats.elapsed) * 0.1))
-			id++
-			requests = &chunk{id: id, vals: make([]value, 0, stats.nextSize())}
+			requests = newChunk(stats.nextSize())
 		}
 	}
 	if len(requests.vals) > 0 {