Add file:advise/4 - a wrapper to the POSIX syscall posix_fadvise

Useful for informing the Operating System about the access pattern
for a file's data, so that it can adapt the caching strategy to
maximize disk IO performance.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c b/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c
index 0cece76221..ea016526ef 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c
@@ -1448,3 +1448,14 @@ efile_symlink(Efile_error* errInfo, char* old, char* new)
     return check_error(symlink(old, new), errInfo);
 #endif
 }
+
+int
+efile_fadvise(Efile_error* errInfo, int fd, Sint64 offset,
+		  Sint64 length, int advise)
+{
+#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
+    return check_error(posix_fadvise(fd, offset, length, advise), errInfo);
+#else
+    return check_error(0, errInfo);
+#endif
+}