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Re: AIO v2.5

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
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>, Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Date: 2025-07-22T13:04:10Z
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 aio: Fix reference to outdated name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

Hi,

On 2025-07-10 21:00:21 +0200, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 at 16:59, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > On 2025-07-09 13:26:09 +0200, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> > > I've been going through the new AIO code as an effort to rebase and
> > > adapt Neon to PG18. In doing so, I found the following
> > > items/curiosities:
> > >
> > > 1. In aio/README.md, the following code snippet is found:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > pgaio_io_set_handle_data_32(ioh, (uint32 *) buffer, 1);
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > I believe it would be clearer if it took a reference to the buffer:
> > >
> > > pgaio_io_set_handle_data_32(ioh, (uint32 *) &buffer, 1);
> > >
> > > The main reason here is that common practice is to have a `Buffer
> > > buffer;` whereas a Buffer * is more commonly plural.
> >
> > It's also just simply wrong as-is :/. Interpreting the buffer id as a pointer
> > obviously makes no sense...
> 
> Given that the snippet didn't contain type indications for buffer upto
> that point, technically the buffer variable could've been defined as
> `Buffer* buffer;` which would've been type-correct. That would be very
> confusing however, hence the suggested change.
> 
> After your mail, I also noticed the later snippet which should be updated, too:
> 
> ```
> -smgrstartreadv(ioh, operation->smgr, forknum, blkno,
> -               BufferGetBlock(buffer), 1);
> +void *page = BufferGetBlock(buffer);
> +smgrstartreadv(ioh, operation->smgr, forknum, blkno,
> +               &page, 1);
> ```

I now pushed your change, with that squashed in.

Thanks!

Andres