How does memory mapping a file have significant performance increases over the standard I/O system calls?
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Operating System Concepts says
Consider a sequential read of a ï¬Âle on disk using the standard
system calls open(), read(), and write(). Each ï¬Âle access requires
a system call and disk access.
Alternatively, we can use the virtual memory techniques discussed so
far to treat ï¬Âle I/O as routine memory accesses. This approach, known
as
memory mapping a ï¬Âle, allows a part of the virtual address space to be logically associated with the ï¬Âle. As we shall see, this can
lead to signiï¬Âcant performance increases. Memory mapping a ï¬Âle is
accomplished by mapping a disk block to a page (or pages) in memory.
Initial access to the ï¬Âle proceeds through ordinary demand paging,
resulting in a page fault. However, a page-sized portion of the ï¬Âle is
read from the ï¬Âle system into a physical page (some systems may opt to
read in more than a page-sized chunk of memory at a time). Subsequent
reads and writes to the ï¬Âle are handled as routine memory accesses.
Manipulating ï¬Âles through memory rather than incurring the overhead of
using the read() and write() system calls simpliï¬Âes and speeds up ï¬Âle
access and usage.
If I am correct, memory mapping file works as following. It takes a system call to create a memory mapping.
Then when it accesses the mapped memory, page faults happen. Page faults also have overhead.
How does memory mapping a file have significant performance increases over the standard I/O system calls?
Thanks.
linux io virtual-memory
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Operating System Concepts says
Consider a sequential read of a ï¬Âle on disk using the standard
system calls open(), read(), and write(). Each ï¬Âle access requires
a system call and disk access.
Alternatively, we can use the virtual memory techniques discussed so
far to treat ï¬Âle I/O as routine memory accesses. This approach, known
as
memory mapping a ï¬Âle, allows a part of the virtual address space to be logically associated with the ï¬Âle. As we shall see, this can
lead to signiï¬Âcant performance increases. Memory mapping a ï¬Âle is
accomplished by mapping a disk block to a page (or pages) in memory.
Initial access to the ï¬Âle proceeds through ordinary demand paging,
resulting in a page fault. However, a page-sized portion of the ï¬Âle is
read from the ï¬Âle system into a physical page (some systems may opt to
read in more than a page-sized chunk of memory at a time). Subsequent
reads and writes to the ï¬Âle are handled as routine memory accesses.
Manipulating ï¬Âles through memory rather than incurring the overhead of
using the read() and write() system calls simpliï¬Âes and speeds up ï¬Âle
access and usage.
If I am correct, memory mapping file works as following. It takes a system call to create a memory mapping.
Then when it accesses the mapped memory, page faults happen. Page faults also have overhead.
How does memory mapping a file have significant performance increases over the standard I/O system calls?
Thanks.
linux io virtual-memory
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Operating System Concepts says
Consider a sequential read of a ï¬Âle on disk using the standard
system calls open(), read(), and write(). Each ï¬Âle access requires
a system call and disk access.
Alternatively, we can use the virtual memory techniques discussed so
far to treat ï¬Âle I/O as routine memory accesses. This approach, known
as
memory mapping a ï¬Âle, allows a part of the virtual address space to be logically associated with the ï¬Âle. As we shall see, this can
lead to signiï¬Âcant performance increases. Memory mapping a ï¬Âle is
accomplished by mapping a disk block to a page (or pages) in memory.
Initial access to the ï¬Âle proceeds through ordinary demand paging,
resulting in a page fault. However, a page-sized portion of the ï¬Âle is
read from the ï¬Âle system into a physical page (some systems may opt to
read in more than a page-sized chunk of memory at a time). Subsequent
reads and writes to the ï¬Âle are handled as routine memory accesses.
Manipulating ï¬Âles through memory rather than incurring the overhead of
using the read() and write() system calls simpliï¬Âes and speeds up ï¬Âle
access and usage.
If I am correct, memory mapping file works as following. It takes a system call to create a memory mapping.
Then when it accesses the mapped memory, page faults happen. Page faults also have overhead.
How does memory mapping a file have significant performance increases over the standard I/O system calls?
Thanks.
linux io virtual-memory
Operating System Concepts says
Consider a sequential read of a ï¬Âle on disk using the standard
system calls open(), read(), and write(). Each ï¬Âle access requires
a system call and disk access.
Alternatively, we can use the virtual memory techniques discussed so
far to treat ï¬Âle I/O as routine memory accesses. This approach, known
as
memory mapping a ï¬Âle, allows a part of the virtual address space to be logically associated with the ï¬Âle. As we shall see, this can
lead to signiï¬Âcant performance increases. Memory mapping a ï¬Âle is
accomplished by mapping a disk block to a page (or pages) in memory.
Initial access to the ï¬Âle proceeds through ordinary demand paging,
resulting in a page fault. However, a page-sized portion of the ï¬Âle is
read from the ï¬Âle system into a physical page (some systems may opt to
read in more than a page-sized chunk of memory at a time). Subsequent
reads and writes to the ï¬Âle are handled as routine memory accesses.
Manipulating ï¬Âles through memory rather than incurring the overhead of
using the read() and write() system calls simpliï¬Âes and speeds up ï¬Âle
access and usage.
If I am correct, memory mapping file works as following. It takes a system call to create a memory mapping.
Then when it accesses the mapped memory, page faults happen. Page faults also have overhead.
How does memory mapping a file have significant performance increases over the standard I/O system calls?
Thanks.
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