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Re: AIO v2.5

Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Date: 2025-03-20T08:39:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. aio: Fix assertion, clarify README

  2. aio: Fix reference to outdated name

  3. aio: Fix possible state confusions due to interrupt processing

  4. aio: Improve debug logging around waiting for IOs

  5. aio: Fix crash potential for pg_aios views due to late state update

  6. Increase BAS_BULKREAD based on effective_io_concurrency

  7. localbuf: Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation

  8. aio: Make AIO more compatible with valgrind

  9. aio: Avoid spurious coverity warning

  10. tests: Fix incompatibility of test_aio with *_FORCE_RELEASE

  11. tests: Cope with WARNINGs during failed CREATE DB on windows

  12. aio: Add errcontext for processing I/Os for another backend

  13. aio: Add README.md explaining higher level design

  14. aio: Minor comment improvements

  15. aio: Add test_aio module

  16. aio: Add pg_aios view

  17. docs: Add acronym and glossary entries for I/O and AIO

  18. Enable IO concurrency on all systems

  19. read_stream: Introduce and use optional batchmode support

  20. docs: Reframe track_io_timing related docs as wait time

  21. bufmgr: Use AIO in StartReadBuffers()

  22. bufmgr: Implement AIO read support

  23. aio: Add WARNING result status

  24. Let caller of PageIsVerified() control ignore_checksum_failure

  25. pgstat: Allow checksum errors to be reported in critical sections

  26. Add errhint_internal()

  27. localbuf: Track pincount in BufferDesc as well

  28. aio, bufmgr: Comment fixes/improvements

  29. Fix mis-attribution of checksum failure stats to the wrong database

  30. aio: Implement support for reads in smgr/md/fd

  31. aio: Add io_method=io_uring

  32. aio: Add liburing dependency

  33. aio: Rename pgaio_io_prep_* to pgaio_io_start_*

  34. aio: Pass result of local callbacks to ->report_return

  35. aio: Be more paranoid about interrupts

  36. Redefine max_files_per_process to control additionally opened files

  37. aio: Change prefix of PgAioResultStatus values to PGAIO_RS_

  38. bufmgr: Improve stats when a buffer is read in concurrently

  39. aio: Add io_method=worker

  40. aio: Infrastructure for io_method=worker

  41. aio: Add core asynchronous I/O infrastructure

  42. aio: Basic subsystem initialization

  43. tests: Expand temp table tests to some pin related matters

  44. localbuf: Introduce FlushLocalBuffer()

  45. localbuf: Introduce TerminateLocalBufferIO()

  46. localbuf: Fix dangerous coding pattern in GetLocalVictimBuffer()

  47. localbuf: Introduce StartLocalBufferIO()

  48. localbuf: Introduce InvalidateLocalBuffer()

  49. Allow lwlocks to be disowned

  50. Make jsonb casts to scalar types translate JSON null to SQL NULL.

  51. bufmgr/smgr: Don't cross segment boundaries in StartReadBuffers()

  52. Use aux process resource owner in walsender

  53. bufmgr: Return early in ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback() if fsync=off

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Attached is v2.10, with the following changes:
>
> - committed core AIO infrastructure patch

Hi, yay, It's happening.jpg ;)

Some thoughts about 2.10-0004:
What do you think about putting there into (io_uring patch)  info
about the need to ensure that kernel.io_uring_disabled sysctl is on ?
(some distros might shut it down) E.g. in doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
after io_method = <listitems>... there could be

--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
            <literal>io_uring</literal> (execute asynchronous I/O using
            io_uring, if available)
[..]
and then add something like:
+ "At present io_method=io_uring is supported only on Linux and
requires Linux's sysctl kernel.io_uring_disabled (if present) to be at
value 0 (enabled) or 1 (with kernel.io_uring_group set to PostgreSQL's
GID)."

Rationale: it seems that at least RHEL 9.x will have this knob present
(but e.g. RHEL 8.10 even kernel-ml 6.4.2 doesn't, as this seems to
come with 6.6+ but saw somewhere that somebody had issues with this on
probably backported kernel in Rocky 9.x ). Also further googling for I
have found also that mysql can throw - when executed from
podmap/docker: "mysqld: io_uring_queue_init() failed with ENOSYS:
check seccomp filters, and the kernel version (newer than 5.1
required)"

and this leaves this with two probable follow-up questions when
adjusting this sentence:
a. shouldn't we add some sentence about containers/namespaces/seccomp
allowing this ?
b. and/or shouldn't we reference in docs a minimum kernel version
(this is somewhat wild, liburing could be installed and compiled
against, but runtime kernel would be < 5.1 ?)

-J.