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Thomas Munro faeedbcefd Introduce PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE and align all I/O buffers. 
In order to have the option to use O_DIRECT/FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING in a
later commit, we need the addresses of user space buffers to be well
aligned.  The exact requirements vary by OS and file system (typically
sectors and/or memory pages).  The address alignment size is set to
4096, which is enough for currently known systems: it matches modern
sectors and common memory page size.  There is no standard governing
O_DIRECT's requirements so we might eventually have to reconsider this
with more information from the field or future systems.

Aligning I/O buffers on memory pages is also known to improve regular
buffered I/O performance.

Three classes of I/O buffers for regular data pages are adjusted:
(1) Heap buffers are now allocated with the new palloc_aligned() or
MemoryContextAllocAligned() functions introduced by commit 439f6175.
(2) Stack buffers now use a new struct PGIOAlignedBlock to respect
PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, if possible with this compiler.  (3) The buffer
pool is also aligned in shared memory.

WAL buffers were already aligned on XLOG_BLCKSZ.  It's possible for
XLOG_BLCKSZ to be configured smaller than PG_IO_ALIGNED_SIZE and thus
for O_DIRECT WAL writes to fail to be well aligned, but that's a
pre-existing condition and will be addressed by a later commit.

BufFiles are not yet addressed (there's no current plan to use O_DIRECT
for those, but they could potentially get some incidental speedup even
in plain buffered I/O operations through better alignment).

If we can't align stack objects suitably using the compiler extensions
we know about, we disable the use of O_DIRECT by setting PG_O_DIRECT to
0.  This avoids the need to consider systems that have O_DIRECT but
can't align stack objects the way we want; such systems could in theory
be supported with more work but we don't currently know of any such
machines, so it's easier to pretend there is no O_DIRECT support
instead.  That's an existing and tested class of system.

Add assertions that all buffers passed into smgrread(), smgrwrite() and
smgrextend() are correctly aligned, unless PG_O_DIRECT is 0 (= stack
alignment tricks may be unavailable) or the block size has been set too
small to allow arrays of buffers to be all aligned.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGK1X532hYqJ_MzFWt0n1zt8trz980D79WbjwnT-yYLZpg@mail.gmail.com
 		2023-04-08 16:34:50 +12:00
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t Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
.gitignore Add a regression test for contrib/pg_prewarm. 2022-08-01 17:59:44 -04:00
Makefile Add a regression test for contrib/pg_prewarm. 2022-08-01 17:59:44 -04:00
autoprewarm.c Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
meson.build Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
pg_prewarm--1.0--1.1.sql Update pg_prewarm extension for parallel query. 2016-06-09 17:18:18 -04:00
pg_prewarm--1.1--1.2.sql pg_prewarm: Add automatic prewarm feature. 2017-08-21 14:17:39 -04:00
pg_prewarm--1.1.sql Update pg_prewarm extension for parallel query. 2016-06-09 17:18:18 -04:00
pg_prewarm.c Introduce PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE and align all I/O buffers. 2023-04-08 16:34:50 +12:00
pg_prewarm.control pg_prewarm: Add automatic prewarm feature. 2017-08-21 14:17:39 -04:00