Hi, Luke,
Luke Lonergan wrote:
>> I thought that posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED was exactly
>> meant for this purpose?
>
> This is a good idea - I wasn't aware that this was possible.
This possibility was the reason for me to propose it. :-)
> We'll do some testing and see if it works as advertised on Linux and
> Solaris.
Fine, I'm looking forward to the results.
According to my small test, it works at least on linux 2.6.17.4.
Btw, posix_fadvise() could even give a small improvement for
multi-threaded backends, given that the I/O subsystem is smart enough to
cope intelligently to cope with large bunches of outstanding requests.
HTH,
Markus
