Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:06:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Even databases often use multiple files, and quite frankly, a database
> > that doesn't use mmap and doesn't try very hard to not cause extra system
> > calls is going to be bad performance-wise _regardless_ of any page cache
> > locking.
>
> I've always thought that read(2) and write(2) would in the end wind up
> faster than mmap(2)... Tests in my rewritten cp/rm/mv type utilities
> seem to bear this out.
>
> Is mmap(2) only preferred for large files/databases?
I've tried to make faster md5summing program and programmed several
ways of accessing file - for the very large files the fastest
way seemed to be O_DIRECT with threaded precaching.
For fast mmap access I'd to implement two parallel mmpad areas with
madvise MADV_WILLNEED - then it was almost as fast as read
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