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Re: Should io_method=worker remain the default?

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2025-09-08T21:34:30Z
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On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 16:45 -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> I don't think accelerating copying from the pagecache into postgres
> shared
> buffers really is a goal of AIO. It can be a nice side-effect, but
> not more.

Interesting. I thought that was part of the design.

> Afaict you've not explained in what even remotely plausible scenario
> you'd
> have where > 30GB/s of reads from the page cache. I continue to
> maintain that
> the workload presented does not exist in the real world.

For now, let's just consider it a test case that stressed a couple
subsystems and found some interesting effects. I think it will be
helpful context for potential improvements in 19. If I find other
interesting cases, I'll post them.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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