Add madvise() after mmap().

This commit advises the mmapped data file to use MADV_RANDOM to avoid
readahead. This can provide a performance boost to Bolt databases that
are larger than memory by avoiding unnecessary disk i/o.
pull/34/head
Ben Johnson 2015-06-02 13:04:44 -06:00
parent afceb316b9
commit 88f777f332
1 changed files with 14 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ func mmap(db *DB, sz int) error {
return err
}
// Advise the kernel that the mmap is accessed randomly.
if err := madvise(b, syscall.MADV_RANDOM); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("madvise: %s", err)
}
// Save the original byte slice and convert to a byte array pointer.
db.dataref = b
db.data = (*[maxMapSize]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(&b[0]))
@ -84,3 +89,12 @@ func munmap(db *DB) error {
db.datasz = 0
return err
}
// NOTE: This function is copied from stdlib because it is not available on darwin.
func madvise(b []byte, advice int) (err error) {
_, _, e1 := syscall.Syscall(syscall.SYS_MADVISE, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&b[0])), uintptr(len(b)), uintptr(advice))
if e1 != 0 {
err = e1
}
return
}