Add io_direct setting (developer-only). Provide a way to ask the kernel to use O_DIRECT (or local equivalent) where available for data and WAL files, to avoid or minimize kernel caching. This hurts performance currently and is not intended for end users yet. Later proposed work would introduce our own I/O clustering, read-ahead, etc to replace the facilities the kernel disables with this option.
The only user-visible change, if the developer-only GUC is not used, is that this commit also removes the obscure logic that would activate O_DIRECT for the WAL when wal_sync_method=open_[data]sync and wal_level=minimal (which also requires max_wal_senders=0). Those are non-default and unlikely settings, and this behavior wasn't (correctly) documented. The same effect can be achieved with io_direct=wal. Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> Author: Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostg...@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostg...@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK1X532hYqJ_MzFWt0n1zt8trz980D79WbjwnT-yYLZpg%40mail.gmail.com Branch ------ master Details ------- https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d4e71df6d757fd21c363164a3a4d3b5681462662 Modified Files -------------- doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 33 ++++++++- src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 37 +++++----- src/backend/access/transam/xlogprefetcher.c | 2 +- src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 16 +++-- src/backend/storage/buffer/localbuf.c | 7 +- src/backend/storage/file/fd.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c | 24 +++++-- src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c | 1 + src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c | 12 ++++ src/include/storage/fd.h | 7 ++ src/include/storage/smgr.h | 1 + src/include/utils/guc_hooks.h | 2 + src/test/modules/test_misc/meson.build | 1 + src/test/modules/test_misc/t/004_io_direct.pl | 57 ++++++++++++++++ 14 files changed, 263 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
