[Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd v3 1/3] copy: Set POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL flag on files.

On Linux this doubles the readahead. Even though we are not strictly speaking going to read or write the file sequentially (only mostly sequentially) it may provide some minor benefit. --- configure.ac | 3 +++ copy/file-ops.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index fea43c8..6cf563a 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([\ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/vm_sockets.h], [], [], [#include <sys/socket.h>]) +dnl posix_fadvise helps to optimise linear reads and writes (optional). +AC_CHECK_FUNCS([posix_fadvise]) + dnl Check for strerrordesc_np (optional, glibc only). dnl Prefer this over sys_errlist. dnl https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/glibc@lists.fedoraproject.o... diff --git a/copy/file-ops.c b/copy/file-ops.c index 1d7e6a6..73cbdcb 100644 --- a/copy/file-ops.c +++ b/copy/file-ops.c @@ -116,6 +116,13 @@ file_create (const char *name, int fd, off_t st_size, bool is_block) rwf->can_fallocate = true; } + /* Set the POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL flag on the file descriptor, but + * don't fail. + */ +#if defined (HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE) && defined (POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL) + posix_fadvise (fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL); +#endif + return &rwf->rw; } -- 2.29.0.rc2