| From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ice-broker scan thread |
| Date: | 2005-11-29 05:25:17 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0511291616390.18662@linuxworld.com.au |
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Qingqing Zhou wrote:
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> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> >
> > MySQL, Oracle and others implement read-ahead threads to simulate async IO
> > 'pre-fetching'.
>
> Due to my tests on Windows (using the attached program and change
> enable_aio=true), seems aio doesn't help as a separate thread - but maybe
> because my usage is wrong ...
Right, I would imagine that it's very close. I intend to use kernel based
async IO so that we can have the prefetch effect of your sample program
without the need for threads.
Thanks,
Gavin
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