/* Declare an access pattern hint for files. Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include #include #include #include /* There are a few hints one can provide, which have the following characteristics on Linux 2.6.31 at least. POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL Doubles the size of read ahead done for file POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED _synchronously_ prepopulate the buffer cache with the file POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE Could lower priority of data in buffer caches, but currently does nothing. POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED Drop the file from cache. Note this is automatically done when files are unlinked. We use this enum "type" both to make it explicit that these options are mutually exclusive, and to discourage the passing of the possibly undefined POSIX_FADV_... values. Note we could #undef the POSIX_FADV_ values, but that would preclude using the posix_fadvise() function with its standard constants. Using posix_fadvise() might be required if the return value is needed, but it must be guarded by appropriate #ifdefs. */ #if HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE typedef enum { FADVISE_NORMAL = POSIX_FADV_NORMAL, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL = POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL, FADVISE_NOREUSE = POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE, FADVISE_DONTNEED = POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, FADVISE_WILLNEED = POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED, FADVISE_RANDOM = POSIX_FADV_RANDOM } fadvice_t; #else typedef enum { FADVISE_NORMAL, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL, FADVISE_NOREUSE, FADVISE_DONTNEED, FADVISE_WILLNEED, FADVISE_RANDOM } fadvice_t; #endif /* We ignore any errors as these hints are only advisory. There is the chance one can pass invalid ADVICE, which will not be indicated, but given the simplicity of the interface this is unlikely. Also not returning errors allows the unconditional passing of descriptors to non standard files, which will just be ignored if unsupported. */ void fdadvise (int fd, off_t offset, off_t len, fadvice_t advice); void fadvise (FILE *fp, fadvice_t advice);