Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Basically, I think we need free-behind rather than O_DIRECT. > > There are two separate issues here --- one is what's happening in our > own cache, and one is what's happening in the kernel disk cache. > Implementing our own free-behind code would help in our own cache but > does nothing for the kernel cache.
Right. > My thought on this is that for large seqscans we could think about > doing reads through a file descriptor that's opened with O_DIRECT. > But writes should never go through O_DIRECT. In some scenarios this > would mean having two FDs open for the same relation file. This'd > require moderately extensive changes to the smgr-related APIs, but > it doesn't seem totally out of the question. I'd kinda like to see > some experimental evidence that it's worth doing though. Anyone > care to make a quick-hack prototype and do some measurements? True, it is a cost/benefit issue. My assumption was that once we have free-behind in the PostgreSQL shared buffer cache, the kernel cache issues would be minimal, but I am willing to be found wrong. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
