Re: Direct I/O

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-04-10T07:40:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 7:27 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Debian's 6.0.10-2 kernel (Debian 12 on a random laptop).

Realising I hadn't updated for a bit, I did so and it still reproduces on:

$ uname -a
Linux x1 6.1.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.20-1
(2023-03-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux



Commits

  1. Rename hook functions for debug_io_direct to match variable name.

  2. Rename io_direct to debug_io_direct.

  3. Skip the 004_io_direct.pl test if a pre-flight check fails.

  4. Use higher wal_level for 004_io_direct.pl.

  5. Skip \password TAP test on old IPC::Run versions

  6. Add io_direct setting (developer-only).

  7. Introduce PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE and align all I/O buffers.

  8. Add palloc_aligned() to allow aligned memory allocations

  9. initdb: When running CREATE DATABASE, use STRATEGY = WAL_COPY.