Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue

From: Shawn Debnath <sdn(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andres Freund" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue
Date: 2019-04-04 04:19:45
Message-ID: 20190404041945.GA16205@f01898859afd.ant.amazon.com
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 02:01:14PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 11:39 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > ... Perhaps
> > that is an argument for putting the sync handler number *inside* the
> > FileTag, since we currently intend to do that with smgr IDs in
> > BufferTag (stealing space from ForkNumber).
>
> Here is a version like that. I like it better this way, and the extra
> space can be clawed back by using 16 bit types to hold the fork number
> and sync handler number.

+typedef struct FileTag
+{
+ int16 handler; /* SyncRequstHandler value, saving space */
+ int16 forknum; /* ForkNumber, saving space */
+ RelFileNode rnode;
+ BlockNumber segno;
+} FileTag;

Definitely makes sense. v16 looks good to me.

Thanks!

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Shawn Debnath
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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