minio/internal/ioutil/read_file.go
Harshavardhana 38027c8f52
use fadvise to control Linux page-cache (#13312)
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.
2021-09-28 10:02:56 -07:00

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// Copyright (c) 2015-2021 MinIO, Inc.
//
// This file is part of MinIO Object Storage stack
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
// along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
package ioutil
import (
"io"
"os"
"github.com/minio/minio/internal/disk"
)
// ReadFile reads the named file and returns the contents.
// A successful call returns err == nil, not err == EOF.
// Because ReadFile reads the whole file, it does not treat an EOF from Read
// as an error to be reported.
//
// passes NOATIME flag for reads on Unix systems to avoid atime updates.
func ReadFile(name string) ([]byte, error) {
f, err := os.OpenFile(name, readMode, 0)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if err := disk.Fadvise(f, disk.FadvSequential); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer disk.Fadvise(f, disk.FadvNoReuse)
defer f.Close()
st, err := f.Stat()
if err != nil {
return io.ReadAll(f)
}
dst := make([]byte, st.Size())
_, err = io.ReadFull(f, dst)
return dst, err
}