Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:32:45 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: readahead(2) - Linux Message-ID: <47CC6E7D.10707@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <fqgvlb$s11$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <200803022218.32873.cneirabustos@gmail.com> <20080303081021.GC80576@hoeg.nl> <fqgvlb$s11$1@ger.gmane.org>
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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.
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