Tom Lane wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thinking about this whole idea a bit more, it occured to me that the
current approach to write all, then fsync all is really a historical
artifact of the fact that we used to use the system-wide sync call
instead of fsyncs to flush the pages to disk. That might not be the best
way to do things in the new load-distributed-checkpoint world.
How about interleaving the writes with the fsyncs?
I don't think it's a historical artifact at all: it's a valid reflection
of the fact that we don't know enough about disk layout to do low-level
I/O scheduling. Issuing more fsyncs than necessary will do little
except guarantee a less-than-optimal scheduling of the writes.
I'm not proposing to issue any more fsyncs. I'm proposing to change the
ordering so that instead of first writing all dirty buffers and then
fsyncing all files, we'd write all buffers belonging to a file, fsync
that file only, then write all buffers belonging to next file, fsync,
and so forth.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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