This speed-up is intended for faster startup times
for almost all MinIO operations. Changes here are
- Drives are not re-read for 'format.json' on a regular
basis once read during init is remembered and refreshed
at 5 second intervals.
- Do not do O_DIRECT tests on drives with existing 'format.json'
only fresh setups need this check.
- Parallelize initializing erasureSets for multiple sets.
- Avoid re-reading format.json when migrating 'format.json'
from really old V1->V2->V3
- Keep a copy of local drives for any given server in memory
for a quick lookup.
This PR brings two optimizations mainly
for page-cache build-up and how to avoid
getting OOM killed in the process. Although
these memories are reclaimable Linux is not
fast enough to reclaim them as needed on a
very busy system. fadvise is a system call
implemented in Linux to advise page-cache to
avoid overload as we get significant amount
of requests on the server.
- FADV_SEQUENTIAL tells that all I/O from now
is going to be sequential, allowing for more
resposive throughput.
- FADV_NOREUSE tells kernel to start removing
things for this 'fd' from page-cache.
Use a single allocation for reading the file, not the growing buffer of `io.ReadAll`.
Reuse the write buffer if we can when writing metadata in RenameData.
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`
Klaus Post
Harshavardhana