zfs/module/os/linux
Finix1979 320f0c6022
Add Linux posix_fadvise support
The purpose of this PR is to accepts fadvise ioctl from userland
to do read-ahead by demand.

It could dramatically improve sequential read performance especially
when primarycache is set to metadata or zfs_prefetch_disable is 1.

If the file is mmaped, generic_fadvise is also called for page cache
read-ahead besides dmu_prefetch.

Only POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED and POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL are supported in
this PR currently.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Finix Yan <yancw@info2soft.com>
Closes #13694
2022-09-08 10:29:41 -07:00
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spl Linux SPL module init: Handle memory allocation failures correctly 2022-09-08 10:28:20 -07:00
zfs Add Linux posix_fadvise support 2022-09-08 10:29:41 -07:00