//go:build linux // +build linux package local import ( "io" "os" "github.com/rclone/rclone/fs" "golang.org/x/sys/unix" ) // fadvise provides means to automate freeing pages in kernel page cache for // a given file descriptor as the file is sequentially processed (read or // written). // // When copying a file to a remote backend all the file content is read by // kernel and put to page cache to make future reads faster. // This causes memory pressure visible in both memory usage and CPU consumption // and can even cause OOM errors in applications consuming large amounts memory. // // In case of an upload to a remote backend, there is no benefits from caching. // // fadvise would orchestrate calling POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED // // POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED attempts to free cached pages associated // with the specified region. This is useful, for example, while // streaming large files. A program may periodically request the // kernel to free cached data that has already been used, so that // more useful cached pages are not discarded instead. // // Requests to discard partial pages are ignored. It is // preferable to preserve needed data than discard unneeded data. // If the application requires that data be considered for // discarding, then offset and len must be page-aligned. // // The implementation may attempt to write back dirty pages in // the specified region, but this is not guaranteed. Any // unwritten dirty pages will not be freed. If the application // wishes to ensure that dirty pages will be released, it should // call fsync(2) or fdatasync(2) first. type fadvise struct { o *Object fd int lastPos int64 curPos int64 windowSize int64 freePagesCh chan offsetLength doneCh chan struct{} } type offsetLength struct { offset int64 length int64 } const ( defaultAllowPages = 32 defaultWorkerQueueSize = 64 ) func newFadvise(o *Object, fd int, offset int64) *fadvise { f := &fadvise{ o: o, fd: fd, lastPos: offset, curPos: offset, windowSize: int64(os.Getpagesize()) * defaultAllowPages, freePagesCh: make(chan offsetLength, defaultWorkerQueueSize), doneCh: make(chan struct{}), } go f.worker() return f } // sequential configures readahead strategy in Linux kernel. // // Under Linux, POSIX_FADV_NORMAL sets the readahead window to the // default size for the backing device; POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL doubles // this size, and POSIX_FADV_RANDOM disables file readahead entirely. func (f *fadvise) sequential(limit int64) bool { l := int64(0) if limit > 0 { l = limit } if err := unix.Fadvise(f.fd, f.curPos, l, unix.FADV_SEQUENTIAL); err != nil { fs.Debugf(f.o, "fadvise sequential failed on file descriptor %d: %s", f.fd, err) return false } return true } func (f *fadvise) next(n int) { f.curPos += int64(n) f.freePagesIfNeeded() } func (f *fadvise) freePagesIfNeeded() { if f.curPos >= f.lastPos+f.windowSize { f.freePages() } } func (f *fadvise) freePages() { f.freePagesCh <- offsetLength{f.lastPos, f.curPos - f.lastPos} f.lastPos = f.curPos } func (f *fadvise) worker() { for p := range f.freePagesCh { if err := unix.Fadvise(f.fd, p.offset, p.length, unix.FADV_DONTNEED); err != nil { fs.Debugf(f.o, "fadvise dontneed failed on file descriptor %d: %s", f.fd, err) } } close(f.doneCh) } func (f *fadvise) wait() { close(f.freePagesCh) <-f.doneCh } type fadviseReadCloser struct { *fadvise inner io.ReadCloser } // newFadviseReadCloser wraps os.File so that reading from that file would // remove already consumed pages from kernel page cache. // In addition to that it instructs kernel to double the readahead window to // make sequential reads faster. // See also fadvise. func newFadviseReadCloser(o *Object, f *os.File, offset, limit int64) io.ReadCloser { r := fadviseReadCloser{ fadvise: newFadvise(o, int(f.Fd()), offset), inner: f, } // If syscall failed it's likely that the subsequent syscalls to that // file descriptor would also fail. In that case return the provided os.File // pointer. if !r.sequential(limit) { r.wait() return f } return r } func (f fadviseReadCloser) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) { n, err = f.inner.Read(p) f.next(n) return } func (f fadviseReadCloser) Close() error { f.freePages() f.wait() return f.inner.Close() }