libblkid: use mmap() rather than read()
diff between
perf stat -e 'syscalls:sys_enter_*'
for old and new version:
- 35 syscalls:sys_enter_lseek
- 38 syscalls:sys_enter_read
+ 3 syscalls:sys_enter_read
...
- 19 syscalls:sys_enter_mmap
+ 17 syscalls:sys_enter_mmap
- 0.
001083084 seconds time elapsed
+ 0.
000751722 seconds time elapsed
The patch dramatically reduces malloc()+seek()+read() operations in
libblkid. The code mmaps ~2MiB of the begin and the end of the device
and it moves buffers management to kernel.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>