Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:29:23 +0000 From: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: readahead(2) - Linux Message-ID: <47CC7BC3.3020504@urgle.com> In-Reply-To: <47CC6E7D.10707@elischer.org> References: <200803022218.32873.cneirabustos@gmail.com> <20080303081021.GC80576@hoeg.nl> <fqgvlb$s11$1@ger.gmane.org> <47CC6E7D.10707@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Ed Schouten wrote: >>> * carlos neira <cneirabustos@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> is there an equivalent of readahead syscall in linux , for freebsd ?. >>>> i was looking at http://preload.sourceforge.net/ , and it needs >>>> this . >>> Maybe a mmap(), followed by a madvise()? >> >> Or an open() followed by a read() loop? :) If the goal is to preload the >> files, this one is certainly going to do it :) >> >> > > the aim is to load it into system memory but not copy anything into > user memory. sendfile(2) to /dev/null, perhaps.
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