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Re: [Chicken-hackers] mmap


From: Andy Bennett
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] mmap
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:16:27 +0100
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Hi,

> There is no way to do this.  By messing around with Linux-specific
> mmap() flags, you can get Linux to prepage the whole file, paying the
> entire cost at once,

Yes. These methods don't strike me as a very good way forward.

I was thinking more along the lines of executing FFI calls in a (pool
of?) pthreads.
That would solve the issue for mmap callers as well as any APIs which
had underlying blocking calls of any type.






Regards,
@ndy

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