Re: [PATCH v3 03/16] index-helper: new daemon for caching index and related stuff
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David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
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- Apr 13, 2016, 00:32 UTC
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On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:05 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > > - access is slow (unless cached, but we can't be sure) > > > > We could solve this (and the other problem) with mlock. > > Probably you meant madvise(2)? > > For something of a size comparable to the index file held by > index-helper-daemon in-core, I'd expect we wouldn't page too > badly.
No, I meant mlock -- but I guess that's not portable. madvise with MADV_WILLNEED will probably do the job.