Re: mmap() better than read() fro streaming, Was: Re: Streaming diskI/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:

>will mlock() automatically cause all pages to be read from the file ?

Yes.

>But since I already do an mlockall() at the beginnig, there is no need of
>additional mlock()s

Yes (if you use MCL_FUTURE).

Andrea