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+#ifndef UTIL_PARALLEL_READ__
+#define UTIL_PARALLEL_READ__
+
+/* Read pieces of a file in parallel.  This has a very specific use case:
+ * reading files from Lustre is CPU bound so multiple threads actually
+ * increases throughput.  Speed matters when an LM takes a terabyte.
+ */
+
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+namespace util {
+void ParallelRead(int fd, void *to, std::size_t amount, uint64_t offset);
+} // namespace util
+
+#endif // UTIL_PARALLEL_READ__