From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmap() better than read() fro streaming, Was: Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and ma
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:21:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-93559158330469@msgid-missing> (raw)
> As you suggested I do basically the following:
> - ptr=mmap() at current offset with lenQ2k
> - memcpy(targetbuffer,ptr,len) (I must use the memcpy since targetbuffer has
> to be mlocked() since the audio-playing thread can't tolerate pagefaults
> because it runs in a low-latency cycle.
> - munmap(ptr,len)
You can do
ptr=mmap(blah)
mlock(ptr, ...)
munmap(ptr, len)
> Does anyone know if there it/will be a way to do unbuffered mmap() ?
> I think streaming apps would benefit quite a bit from this.
mmap requires buffering - you are sharing the page with the system page
cache. If you mean you want an mgoaway() to go with munmap() thats what
madvise() provides on some other systems but not Linux yet
next reply other threads:[~1999-08-25 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-25 14:21 Alan Cox [this message]
1999-08-25 14:33 ` mmap() better than read() fro streaming, Was: Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Benno Senoner
1999-08-25 15:02 ` mmap() better than read() fro streaming, Was: Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and ma Benno Senoner
1999-08-25 15:39 ` mmap() better than read() fro streaming, Was: Re: Streaming disk Andrea Arcangeli
1999-08-25 16:16 ` mmap() better than read() fro streaming, Was: Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and ma Benno Senoner
1999-08-26 16:55 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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