On 06/15/2018 08:01 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
On 2018-06-14 10:13:44 +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
On 14.06.2018 09:52, Thomas Munro wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 1:09 AM, Konstantin Knizhnik
<k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
pg_wal_prefetch function will infinitely traverse WAL and prefetch block
references in WAL records
using posix_fadvise(WILLNEED) system call.
Hi Konstantin,
Why stop at the page cache... what about shared buffers?
It is good question. I thought a lot about prefetching directly to shared
buffers.
I think that's definitely how this should work. I'm pretty strongly
opposed to a prefetching implementation that doesn't read into s_b.
Could you elaborate why prefetching into s_b is so much better (I'm sure
it has advantages, but I suppose prefetching into page cache would be
much easier to implement).
regards
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