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The private refcount entry for a buffer is often looked up repeatedly for the
same buffer, e.g. to pin and then unpin a buffer. Benchmarking shows that it's
worthwhile to have a one-entry cache for that case. With that cache in place,
it's worth splitting GetPrivateRefCountEntry() into a small inline
portion (for the cache hit case) and an out-of-line helper for the rest.
This is helpful for some workloads today, but becomes more important in an
upcoming patch that will utilize the private refcount infrastructure to also
store whether the buffer is currently locked, as that increases the rate of
lookups substantially.
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6rgb2nvhyvnszz4ul3wfzlf5rheb2kkwrglthnna7qhe24onwr@vw27225tkyar
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This makes lookups faster, due to allowing auto-vectorized lookups. It is also
beneficial for an upcoming patch, independent of auto-vectorization, as the
upcoming patch wants to track more information for each pinned buffer, making
the existing loop, iterating over an array of PrivateRefCountEntry, more
expensive due to increasing its size.
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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Similar to commit 75f49221c22, it is preferable to use
StaticAssertDecl() instead of StaticAssertStmt() when possible.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BhUKGKvr0x_oGmQTUkx%3DODgSksT2EtgCA6LmGx_jQFG%3DsDUpg%40mail.gmail.com
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This is the last batch of changes that have been suggested by the
author, this part covering the non-trivial changes. Some of the changes
suggested have been discarded as they seem to lead to more instructions
generated, leaving the parts that can be qualified as in-place
replacements.
Similar work has been done in 1b105f9472bd, 0c3c5c3b06a3 and
31d3847a37be.
Author: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad0748d4-3080-436e-b0bc-ac8f86a3466a@gmail.com
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The key is the first member of PrivateRefCountEntry, which has type
Buffer. This commit changes the key size from sizeof(int32) to
sizeof(Buffer). This appears to be an oversight in commit
4b4b680c3d, but it's of no consequence because Buffer has been a
signed 32-bit integer for a long time.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aS77DTpl0fOkIKSZ%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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In an upcoming patch more wait events will be added to the wait event
class (for buffer locking), making the current name too
specific. Alternatively we could introduce a dedicated wait event class for
those, but it seems somewhat confusing to have a BUFFERPIN and a BUFFER wait
event class.
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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It seems cleaner to use an enum to tie the different values together. It also
helps to have a more descriptive type in the argument to various functions.
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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This commit introduces new internal bufmgr routines for marking shared
buffers as dirty:
* MarkDirtyUnpinnedBuffer()
* MarkDirtyRelUnpinnedBuffers()
* MarkDirtyAllUnpinnedBuffers()
These functions provide an efficient mechanism to respectively mark one
buffer, all the buffers of a relation, or the entire shared buffer pool
as dirty, something that can be useful to force patterns for the
checkpointer. MarkDirtyUnpinnedBufferInternal(), an extra routine, is
used by these three, to mark as dirty an unpinned buffer.
They are intended as developer tools to manipulate buffer dirtiness in
bulk, and will be used in a follow-up commit.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Aidar Imamov <a.imamov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Koshakow <koshy44@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Yuhang Qiu <iamqyh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ0h_YoSqqutxV6DES1RW8ig6wcA8CR9rJk358YRMxZFmw@mail.gmail.com
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Was added in commit 5e89985928795f243dc287210c2aa016dfd00bfe.
Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Author: Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5tba_biyuMrd_iPVzq-+XvsMdPcEnjQ+d+__V=cjYj8Pg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: master
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The prior commit made it legal to modify BufferDesc.state while the buffer
header spinlock is held. This allows us to replace the CAS loop
inUnpinBufferNoOwner() with an atomic sub. This improves scalability
significantly. See the prior commits for more background.
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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Until now BufferDesc.state was not allowed to be modified while the buffer
header spinlock was held. This meant that operations like unpinning buffers
needed to use a CAS loop, waiting for the buffer header spinlock to be
released before updating.
The benefit of that restriction is that it allowed us to unlock the buffer
header spinlock with just a write barrier and an unlocked write (instead of a
full atomic operation). That was important to avoid regressions in
48354581a49c. However, since then the hottest buffer header spinlock uses have
been replaced with atomic operations (in particular, the most common use of
PinBuffer_Locked(), in GetVictimBuffer() (formerly in BufferAlloc()), has been
removed in 5e899859287).
This change will allow, in a subsequent commit, to release buffer pins with a
single atomic-sub operation. This previously was not possible while such
operations were not allowed while the buffer header spinlock was held, as an
atomic-sub would not have allowed a race-free check for the buffer header lock
being held.
Using atomic-sub to unpin buffers is a nice scalability win, however it is not
the primary motivation for this change (although it would be sufficient). The
primary motivation is that we would like to merge the buffer content lock into
BufferDesc.state, which will result in more frequent changes of the state
variable, which in some situations can cause a performance regression, due to
an increased CAS failure rate when unpinning buffers. The regression entirely
vanishes when using atomic-sub.
Naively implementing this would require putting CAS loops in every place
modifying the buffer state while holding the buffer header lock. To avoid
that, introduce UnlockBufHdrExt(), which can set/add flags as well as the
refcount, together with releasing the lock.
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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Now that commit 06edbed47862 has introduced XLogRecPtrIsValid(), we can
use that instead of:
- XLogRecPtrIsInvalid()
- direct comparisons with InvalidXLogRecPtr
- direct comparisons with literal 0
This makes the code more consistent.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aQB7EvGqrbZXrMlg@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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This commit adds CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS to the shared buffer iteration
loops in EvictRelUnpinnedBuffers and EvictAllUnpinnedBuffers. These
functions, used by pg_buffercache's pg_buffercache_evict_relation and
pg_buffercache_evict_all, can now be interrupted during long-running
operations.
Backpatch to version 18, where these functions and their corresponding
pg_buffercache functions were introduced.
Author: Yuhang Qiu <iamqyh@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8DC280D4-94A2-4E7B-BAB9-C345891D0B78%40gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
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Currently there's no bug, because we have no code path where we
invalidate relcache entries where it'd cause a problem. But it's more
robust to do it this way in case we introduce such a path later, as some
Postgres forks reportedly already have.
Author: Daniil Davydov <3danissimo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stepan Neretin <slpmcf@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJDiXgj3FNzAhV+jjPqxMs3jz=OgPohsoXFj_fh-L+nS+13CKQ@mail.gmail.com
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In 5e899859287 I made StrategyGetBuffer() pin buffers with a single CAS,
instead of using PinBuffer_Locked(). Unfortunately I missed that
PinBuffer_Locked() marked the page as defined for valgrind.
Fix this oversight by centralizing the valgrind initialization into
TrackNewBufferPin(), which also allows us to reduce the number of places doing
VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED.
Per buildfarm animal skink and Amit Langote.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGKJ6nEXEPQW7EpykVsEtzxp5-up_xhtcUAkWFtATVQvQ@mail.gmail.com
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Previously StrategyGetBuffer() acquired the buffer header spinlock for every
buffer, whether it was reusable or not. If reusable, it'd be returned, with
the lock held, to GetVictimBuffer(), which then would pin the buffer with
PinBuffer_Locked(). That's somewhat violating the spirit of the guidelines for
holding spinlocks (i.e. that they are only held for a few lines of consecutive
code) and necessitates using PinBuffer_Locked(), which scales worse than
PinBuffer() due to holding the spinlock. This alone makes it worth changing
the code.
However, the main reason to change this is that a future commit will make
PinBuffer_Locked() slower (due to making UnlockBufHdr() slower), to gain
scalability for the much more common case of pinning a pre-existing buffer. By
pinning the buffer with a single atomic operation, iff the buffer is reusable,
we avoid any potential regression for miss-heavy workloads. There strictly are
fewer atomic operations for each potential buffer after this change.
The price for this improvement is that freelist.c needs two CAS loops and
needs to be able to set up the resource accounting for pinned buffers. The
latter is achieved by exposing a new function for that purpose from bufmgr.c,
that seems better than exposing the entire private refcount infrastructure.
The improvement seems worth the complexity.
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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We're planning to merge buffer content locks into BufferDesc.state. To reduce
the size of that patch, centralize calls to BufferDescriptorGetContentLock().
The biggest part of the change is in assertions, by introducing
BufferIsLockedByMe[InMode]() (and removing BufferIsExclusiveLocked()). This
seems like an improvement even without aforementioned plans.
Additionally replace some direct calls to LWLockAcquire() with calls to
LockBuffer().
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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BM_PERMANENT is defined as 1U<<31, which is a negative number when interpreted
as a signed integer. Unfortunately the mask variable in BufferSync() was
signed. This has been wrong for a long time, but failed to fail, due to
integer conversion rules.
However, in an upcoming patch the width of the state variable will be
increased, with the wrong signedness leading to never flushing permanent
buffers - luckily caught in a test.
It seems better to fix this separately, instead of doing so as part of a
large, otherwise mechanical, patch.
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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There were several copies of code locking a buffer, flushing its contents, and
unlocking the buffer. It seems worth centralizing that into a helper function.
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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While testing a new potential use for ReadRecentBuffer(), Andres
reported that it scales badly when called concurrently for the same
buffer by many backends. Instead of a naive (but wrong) coding with
PinBuffer(), it used the spinlock, so that it could be careful to pin
only if the buffer was valid and holding the expected block, to avoid
breaking invariants in eg GetVictimBuffer(). Unfortunately that made it
less scalable than PinBuffer(), which uses compare-exchange instead.
We can fix that by giving PinBuffer() a new skip_if_not_valid mode that
doesn't pin invalid buffers. It might occasionally skip when it
shouldn't due to the unlocked read of the header flags, but that's
unlikely and perfectly acceptable for an opportunistic optimisation
routine, and it can only succeed when it really should due to the
compare-exchange loop.
Note that this fixes ReadRecentBuffer()'s failure to bump the usage
count. While this could be seen as a bug, there currently aren't cases
affected by this in core, so it doesn't seem worth backpatching that portion.
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230627020546.t6z4tntmj7wmjrfh%40awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
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StrategyInitialize() calls InitBufTable() with maximum number of entries that
the buffer lookup table can ever have. Thus there should not be any need to
allocate more element after initialization. Hence mark the hash table as fixed
sized.
Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5v0jh3F_wj86yC=qBfWk0uiT94qy=Z41uzAHLHh0SerRA@mail.gmail.com
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This set of changes removes the list of available buffers and instead simply
uses the clock-sweep algorithm to find and return an available buffer. This
also removes the have_free_buffer() function and simply caps the
pg_autoprewarm process to at most NBuffers.
While on the surface this appears to be removing an optimization it is in fact
eliminating code that induces overhead in the form of synchronization that is
problematic for multi-core systems.
The main reason for removing the freelist, however, is not the moderate
improvement in scalability, but that having the freelist would require
dedicated complexity in several upcoming patches. As we have not been able to
find a case benefiting from the freelist...
Author: Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/70C6A5B5-2A20-4D0B-BC73-EB09DD62D61C@getmailspring.com
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Minor edits to comments only.
Author: Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/70C6A5B5-2A20-4D0B-BC73-EB09DD62D61C@getmailspring.com
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Mostly adding some quoting.
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Add various missing conversions from and to Datum. The previous code
mostly relied on implicit conversions or its own explicit casts
instead of using the correct DatumGet*() or *GetDatum() functions.
We think these omissions are harmless. Some actual bugs that were
discovered during this process have been committed
separately (80c758a2e1d, fd2ab03fea2).
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8246d7ff-f4b7-4363-913e-827dadfeb145%40eisentraut.org
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Remove a comment about potential for AIO in StartReadBuffersImpl(),
because that change happened.
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Arrange that only the "aligned chunk" part of the allocated space is
included in a Valgrind vchunk. This suppresses complaints about that
vchunk being possibly lost because PG is retaining only pointers to
the aligned chunk. Also make sure that trailing wasted space is
marked NOACCESS.
As a tiny performance improvement, arrange that MCXT_ALLOC_ZERO zeroes
only the returned "aligned chunk", not the wasted padding space.
In passing, fix GetLocalBufferStorage to use MemoryContextAllocAligned
instead of rolling its own implementation, which was equally broken
according to Valgrind.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/285483.1746756246@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Per buildfarm member koel, Nathan Bossart, and David Rowley.
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Commit ffae5cc5a6024b4e25ec920ed5c4dfac649605f8 added this hint in 2006,
but it's now obsolete and doesn't reflect what users should really check
in this situation. We were not able to agree on a new hint, so just delete
the existing one and update the comments to mention one possibility that
is known to cause problems of this kind: something other than PostgreSQL
is modifying files in the PostgreSQL data directory.
Author: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmxNbcaL76x=09Sxf7aUmrRQJBf8drzDdUHo+j9_eM+VMg@mail.gmail.com
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The new name more accurately reflects the effects of this flag on a
requested checkpoint. Checkpoint-related log messages (i.e., those
controlled by the log_checkpoints configuration parameter) will now
say "fast" instead of "immediate", too. Likewise, references to
"immediate" checkpoints in the documentation have been updated to
say "fast". This is preparatory work for a follow-up commit that
will add a MODE option to the CHECKPOINT command.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aDnaKTEf-0dLiEfz%40msg.df7cb.de
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The new name more accurately relects the effects of this flag on a
requested checkpoint. Checkpoint-related log messages (i.e., those
controlled by the log_checkpoints configuration parameter) will now
say "flush-unlogged" instead of "flush-all", too. This is
preparatory work for a follow-up commit that will add a
FLUSH_UNLOGGED option to the CHECKPOINT command.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aDnaKTEf-0dLiEfz%40msg.df7cb.de
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Previously, truncating a temporary relation required scanning the entire
local buffer pool once per relation fork to invalidate buffers. This could
be slow, especially with a large local buffers, as the scan was repeated
multiple times.
A similar issue with regular tables (shared buffers) was addressed in
commit 6d05086c0a7 by scanning the buffer pool only once for all forks.
This commit applies the same optimization to temporary relations,
improving truncation performance.
Author: Daniil Davydov <3danissimo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJDiXggNqsJOH7C5co4jA8nDk8vw-=sokyh5s1_TENWnC6Ofcg@mail.gmail.com
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Commit f4ece891fc2f3f96f0571720a1ae30db8030681b added the assertion in
an attempt to catch some defects even after VACUUM FULL or REINDEX.
However, IsCatalogTextUniqueIndexOid(tag.relNumber) always returns false
after a relfilenode change, provoking unintended assertion failures.
Reported-by: Adam Guo <adamguo@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Bug: #18912
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18912-a41c9bd0e0ad19b1@postgresql.org
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This cleans up some loose ends left by commit e8ca9ed1d. I hadn't
looked closely enough at these places before, but now I have.
The use of double-quoted #includes for Perl headers in plperl_system.h
seems to be simply a mistake introduced in 6c944bf3c and faithfully
copied forward since then. (I had thought possibly it was required
by some weird Windows build setup, but there's no evidence of that in
our history.)
The occurrences in SectionMemoryManager.h and SectionMemoryManager.cpp
evidently stem from those files' origin as LLVM code. It's
understandable that LLVM would treat their own files as needing
double-quoted #includes; but they're still system headers to us.
I also applied the same check to *.c files, and found a few other
random incorrect usages in both directions.
Our ECPG headers and test files routinely use angle brackets to refer
to ECPG headers. I left those usages alone, since it seems reasonable
for an ECPG user to regard those headers as system headers.
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Similar to 84fd3bc14 but these ones were found using a regex that can span
multiple lines.
Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrMcr8XD107H3NV=WHgyBcu=sx5+7=WArr-n_cWUqdFXQ@mail.gmail.com
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The large majority of these have been introduced by recent commits done
in the v18 development cycle.
Author: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a7763ab-5252-429d-a943-b28941e0e28b@gmail.com
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Commit 0bada39c83a150079567a6e97b1a25a198f30ea3 fixed a bug of this kind,
which existed in all branches for six days before detection. While the
probability of reaching the trouble was low, the disruption was extreme. No
new backends could start, and service restoration needed an immediate
shutdown. Hence, add this to catch the next bug like it.
The new check in RelationIdGetRelation() suffices to make autovacuum detect
the bug in commit 243e9b40f1b2dd09d6e5bf91ebf6e822a2cd3704 that led to commit
0bada39. This also checks in a number of similar places. It replaces each
Assert(IsTransactionState()) that pertained to a conditional catalog read.
No back-patch for now, but a back-patch of commit 243e9b4 should back-patch
this, too. A back-patch could omit the src/test/regress changes, since back
branches won't gain new index columns.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250410191830.0e.nmisch@google.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10ec0bc3-5933-1189-6bb8-5dec4114558e@gmail.com
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Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in a few places. These
inconsistencies were all introduced during Postgres 18 development.
This commit was written with help from clang-tidy, by mechanically
applying the same rules as similar clean-up commits (the earliest such
commit was commit 035ce1fe).
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Before, BAS_BULKREAD was always of size 256kB. With the default
io_combine_limit of 16, that only allowed 1-2 IOs to be in flight -
insufficient even on very low latency storage.
We don't just want to increase the size to a much larger hardcoded value, as
very large rings (10s of MBs of of buffers), appear to have negative
performance effects when reading in data that the OS has cached (but not when
actually needing to do IO).
To address this, increase the size of BAS_BULKREAD to allow for
io_combine_limit * effective_io_concurrency buffers getting read in. To
prevent the ring being much larger than useful, limit the increased size with
GetPinLimit().
The formula outlined above keeps the ring size to sizes for which we have not
observed performance regressions, unless very large effective_io_concurrency
values are used together with large shared_buffers setting.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/lqwghabtu2ak4wknzycufqjm5ijnxhb4k73vzphlt2a3wsemcd@gtftg44kdim6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah@brqs62irg4dt
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In addition to the added functions, the pg_buffercache_evict() function now
shows whether the buffer was flushed.
pg_buffercache_evict_relation(): Evicts all shared buffers in a
relation at once.
pg_buffercache_evict_all(): Evicts all shared buffers at once.
Both functions provide mechanism to evict multiple shared buffers at
once. They are designed to address the inefficiency of repeatedly calling
pg_buffercache_evict() for each individual buffer, which can be time-consuming
when dealing with large shared buffer pools. (e.g., ~477ms vs. ~2576ms for
16GB of fully populated shared buffers).
These functions are intended for developer testing and debugging
purposes and are available to superusers only.
Minimal tests for the new functions are included. Also, there was no test for
pg_buffercache_evict(), test for this added too.
No new extension version is needed, as it was already increased this release
by ba2a3c2302f.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Aidar Imamov <a.imamov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Koshakow <koshy44@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ0h_YoSqqutxV6DES1RW8ig6wcA8CR9rJk358YRMxZFmw%40mail.gmail.com
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In some edge cases valgrind flags issues with the memory referenced by
IOs. All of the cases addressed in this change are false positives.
Most of the false positives are caused by UnpinBuffer[NoOwner] marking buffer
data as inaccessible. This happens even though the AIO subsystem still holds a
pin. That's good, there shouldn't be accesses to the buffer outside of AIO
related code until it is pinned by "user" code again. But it requires some
explicit work - if the buffer is not pinned by the current backend, we need to
explicitly mark the buffer data accessible/inaccessible while executing
completion callbacks.
That however causes a cascading issue in IO workers: After the completion
callbacks for a buffer is executed, the page is marked as inaccessible. If
subsequently the same worker is executing IO targeting the same buffer, we
would get an error, as the memory is still marked inaccessible. To avoid that,
we need to explicitly mark the memory as accessible in IO workers.
Another issue is that IO executed in workers or via io_uring will not mark
memory as DEFINED. In the case of workers that is because valgrind does not
track memory definedness across processes. For io_uring that is because
valgrind does not understand io_uring, and therefore its IOs never mark memory
as defined, whether the completions are processed in the defining process or
in another context. It's not entirely clear how to best solve that. The
current user of AIO is not affected, as it explicitly marks buffers as DEFINED
& NOACCESS anyway. Defer solving this issue until we have a user with
different needs.
Per buildfarm animal skink.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3pd4322mogfmdd5nln3zphdwhtmq3rzdldqjwb2sfqzcgs22lf@ok2gletdaoe6
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This mirrors 1e0dfd166b3 (+ 46ef520b9566), for temporary table buffers. This
is mainly interesting right now because the AIO work currently triggers
spurious valgrind errors, and the fix for that is cleaner if temp buffers
behave the same as shared buffers.
This requires one change beyond the annotations themselves, namely to pin
local buffers while writing them out in FlushRelationBuffers().
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3pd4322mogfmdd5nln3zphdwhtmq3rzdldqjwb2sfqzcgs22lf@ok2gletdaoe6
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PgAioResult.result is never accessed in the relevant path, but coverity
complains about an uninitialized access anyway. So just zero-initialize the
whole thing. While at it, reduce the scope of the variable.
Reported-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQApsKqd-s+fsUQ0OmxJAMHmBSXxrAz3dCs+uvqb3iRtjSw@mail.gmail.com
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To make the tests possible, a few functions from bufmgr.c/localbuf.c had to be
exported, via buf_internals.h.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Co-authored-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
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Submitting IO in larger batches can be more efficient than doing so
one-by-one, particularly for many small reads. It does, however, require
the ReadStreamBlockNumberCB callback to abide by the restrictions of AIO
batching (c.f. pgaio_enter_batchmode()). Basically, the callback may not:
a) block without first calling pgaio_submit_staged(), unless a
to-be-waited-on lock cannot be part of a deadlock, e.g. because it is
never held while waiting for IO.
b) directly or indirectly start another batch pgaio_enter_batchmode()
As this requires care and is nontrivial in some cases, batching is only
used with explicit opt-in.
This patch adds an explicit flag (READ_STREAM_USE_BATCHING) to read_stream and
uses it where appropriate.
There are two cases where batching would likely be beneficial, but where we
aren't using it yet:
1) bitmap heap scans, because the callback reads the VM
This should soon be solved, because we are planning to remove the use of
the VM, due to that not being sound.
2) The first phase of heap vacuum
This could be made to support batchmode, but would require some care.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
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This finally introduces the first actual use of AIO. StartReadBuffers() now
uses the AIO routines to issue IO.
As the implementation of StartReadBuffers() is also used by the functions for
reading individual blocks (StartReadBuffer() and through that
ReadBufferExtended()) this means all buffered read IO passes through the AIO
paths. However, as those are synchronous reads, actually performing the IO
asynchronously would be rarely beneficial. Instead such IOs are flagged to
always be executed synchronously. This way we don't have to duplicate a fair
bit of code.
When io_method=sync is used, the IO patterns generated after this change are
the same as before, i.e. actual reads are only issued in WaitReadBuffers() and
StartReadBuffers() may issue prefetch requests. This allows to bypass most of
the actual asynchronicity, which is important to make a change as big as this
less risky.
One thing worth calling out is that, if IO is actually executed
asynchronously, the precise meaning of what track_io_timing is measuring has
changed. Previously it tracked the time for each IO, but that does not make
sense when multiple IOs are executed concurrently. Now it only measures the
time actually spent waiting for IO. A subsequent commit will adjust the docs
for this.
While AIO is now actually used, the logic in read_stream.c will often prevent
using sufficiently many concurrent IOs. That will be addressed in the next
commit.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
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This commit implements the infrastructure to perform asynchronous reads into
the buffer pool.
To do so, it:
- Adds readv AIO callbacks for shared and local buffers
It may be worth calling out that shared buffer completions may be run in a
different backend than where the IO started.
- Adds an AIO wait reference to BufferDesc, to allow backends to wait for
in-progress asynchronous IOs
- Adapts StartBufferIO(), WaitIO(), TerminateBufferIO(), and their localbuf.c
equivalents, to be able to deal with AIO
- Moves the code to handle BM_PIN_COUNT_WAITER into a helper function, as it
now also needs to be called on IO completion
As of this commit, nothing issues AIO on shared/local buffers. A future commit
will update StartReadBuffers() to do so.
Buffer reads executed through this infrastructure will report invalid page /
checksum errors / warnings differently than before:
In the error case the error message will cover all the blocks that were
included in the read, rather than just the reporting the first invalid
block. If more than one block is invalid, the error will include information
about the range of the read, the first invalid block and the number of invalid
pages, with a HINT towards the server log for per-block details.
For the warning case (i.e. zero_damaged_buffers) we would previously emit one
warning message for each buffer in a multi-block read. Now there is only a
single warning message for the entire read, again referring to the server log
for more details in case of multiple checksum failures within a single larger
read.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
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For AIO the completion of a read into shared buffers (i.e. verifying the page
including the checksum, updating the BufferDesc to reflect the IO) can happen
in a different backend than the backend that started the IO. As
ignore_checksum_failure can differ between backends, we need to allow the
caller of PageIsVerified() control whether to ignore checksum failures.
The commit leaves a gap in the PIV_* values, as an upcoming commit, which
depends on this commit, will add PIV_LOG_LOG, which better fits just after
PIV_LOG_WARNING.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250329212929.a6.nmisch@google.com
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For AIO we execute completion callbacks in critical sections (to ensure that
AIO can in the future be used for WAL, which in turn requires that we can call
completion callbacks in critical sections, to get the resources for WAL
io). To report checksum errors a backend now has to call
pgstat_prepare_report_checksum_failure(), before entering a critical section,
which guarantees the relevant pgstats entry is in shared memory, the relevant
DSM segment is mapped into the backend's memory and the address is known via a
PgStat_EntryRef.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/wkjj4p2rmkevutkwc6tewoovdqznj6c6nvjmvii4oo5wmbh5sr@retq7d6uqs4j
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