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READAHEAD(2)                        Linux Programmer's Manual                        READAHEAD(2)



NAME
       readahead - initiate file readahead into page cache

SYNOPSIS
       #define _GNU_SOURCE             /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
       #include <fcntl.h>

       ssize_t readahead(int fd, off64_t offset, size_t count);

DESCRIPTION
       readahead()  initiates readahead on a file so that subsequent reads from that file will be
       satisfied from the cache, and not block on disk I/O (assuming the readahead was  initiated
       early  enough  and  that  other activity on the system did not in the meantime flush pages
       from the cache).

       The fd argument is a file descriptor identifying the file which is to be read.  The offset
       argument  specifies  the  starting point from which data is to be read and count specifies
       the number of bytes to be read.  I/O is performed in whole pages, so that offset is effec‐
       tively  rounded  down  to  a page boundary and bytes are read up to the next page boundary
       greater than or equal to (offset+count).  readahead() does not read beyond the end of  the
       file.  The current file offset of the open file referred to by fd is left unchanged.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success, readahead() returns 0; on failure, -1 is returned, with errno set to indicate
       the cause of the error.

ERRORS
       EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor or is not open for reading.

       EINVAL fd does not refer to a file type to which readahead() can be applied.

VERSIONS
       The readahead() system call appeared in Linux 2.4.13;  glibc  support  has  been  provided
       since version 2.3.

CONFORMING TO
       The  readahead()  system call is Linux-specific, and its use should be avoided in portable
       applications.

NOTES
       On some 32-bit architectures, the calling signature for this system call differs, for  the
       reasons described in syscall(2).

BUGS
       readahead() attempts to schedule the reads in the background and return immediately.  How‐
       ever, it may block while it reads the filesystem metadata needed to locate  the  requested
       blocks.  This occurs frequently with ext[234] on large files using indirect blocks instead
       of extents, giving the appearance that the call blocks until the requested data  has  been
       read.

SEE ALSO
       lseek(2), madvise(2), mmap(2), posix_fadvise(2), read(2)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.74 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the
       project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of  this  page,  can  be
       found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



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