Re: Use fadvise in wal replay

From: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
To: Jakub Wartak <jakub(dot)wartak(at)tomtom(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kirill Reshke <reshke(at)double(dot)cloud>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Use fadvise in wal replay
Date: 2022-06-21 17:24:21
Message-ID: F06FB8F4-CDBC-4407-8248-36685212BB1F@yandex-team.ru
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> On 21 Jun 2022, at 16:59, Jakub Wartak <jakub(dot)wartak(at)tomtom(dot)com> wrote:
Oh, wow, your benchmarks show really impressive improvement.

> I think that 1 additional syscall is not going to be cheap just for non-standard OS configurations
Also we can reduce number of syscalls by something like

#if defined(USE_POSIX_FADVISE) && defined(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED)
if ((readOff % (8 * XLOG_BLCKSZ)) == 0)
posix_fadvise(readFile, readOff + XLOG_BLCKSZ, XLOG_BLCKSZ * 8, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED);
#endif

and maybe define\reuse the some GUC to control number of prefetched pages at once.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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