sendfile implementation to perform DMA on all platforms
Go stdlib already supports sendfile/splice implementations
for
- Linux
- Windows
- *BSD
- Solaris
Along with this change however O_DIRECT for reads() must be
removed as well since we need to use sendfile() implementation
The main reason to add O_DIRECT for reads was to reduce the
chances of page-cache causing OOMs for MinIO, however it would
seem that avoiding buffer copies from user-space to kernel space
this issue is not a problem anymore.
There is no Go based memory allocation required, and neither
the page-cache is referenced back to MinIO. This page-
cache reference is fully owned by kernel at this point, this
essentially should solve the problem of page-cache build up.
With this now we also support SG - when NIC supports Scatter/Gather
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gather/scatter_(vector_addressing)
With the current asynchronous behaviour in sending notification events
to the targets, we can't provide guaranteed delivery as the systems
might go for restarts.
For such event-driven use-cases, we can provide an option to enable
synchronous events where the APIs wait until the event is successfully
sent or persisted.
This commit adds 'MINIO_API_SYNC_EVENTS' env which when set to 'on'
will enable sending/persisting events to targets synchronously.
repeated reads on single large objects in HPC like
workloads, need the following option to disable
O_DIRECT for a more effective usage of the kernel
page-cache.
However this optional should be used in very specific
situations only, and shouldn't be enabled on all
servers.
NVMe servers benefit always from keeping O_DIRECT on.
This is to ensure that there are no projects
that try to import `minio/minio/pkg` into
their own repo. Any such common packages should
go to `https://github.com/minio/pkg`
Harshavardhana
Praveen raj Mani
Poorna
Sidhartha Mani
David Regla
Krishnan Parthasarathi