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Add smgrzeroextend(), FileZero(), FileFallocate()

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smgrzeroextend() uses FileFallocate() to efficiently extend files by multiple
blocks. When extending by a small number of blocks, use FileZero() instead, as
using posix_fallocate() for small numbers of blocks is inefficient for some
file systems / operating systems. FileZero() is also used as the fallback for
FileFallocate() on platforms / filesystems that don't support fallocate.

A big advantage of using posix_fallocate() is that it typically won't cause
dirty buffers in the kernel pagecache. So far the most common pattern in our
code is that we smgrextend() a page full of zeroes and put the corresponding
page into shared buffers, from where we later write out the actual contents of
the page. If the kernel, e.g. due to memory pressure or elapsed time, already
wrote back the all-zeroes page, this can lead to doubling the amount of writes
reaching storage.

There are no users of smgrzeroextend() as of this commit. That will follow in
future commits.

Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
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Andres Freund
2023-04-05 10:06:39 -07:00
parent 4766eef317
commit 4d330a61bb
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@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ extern int FilePrefetch(File file, off_t offset, off_t amount, uint32 wait_event
extern int FileRead(File file, void *buffer, size_t amount, off_t offset, uint32 wait_event_info);
extern int FileWrite(File file, const void *buffer, size_t amount, off_t offset, uint32 wait_event_info);
extern int FileSync(File file, uint32 wait_event_info);
extern int FileZero(File file, off_t offset, off_t amount, uint32 wait_event_info);
extern int FileFallocate(File file, off_t offset, off_t amount, uint32 wait_event_info);
extern off_t FileSize(File file);
extern int FileTruncate(File file, off_t offset, uint32 wait_event_info);
extern void FileWriteback(File file, off_t offset, off_t nbytes, uint32 wait_event_info);