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
