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* Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-02 21:10 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
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From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-09-02 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; +Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Hi,
The attached patchset implements checkpointer write combining -- which
makes immediate checkpoints at least 20% faster in my tests.
Checkpointer achieves higher write throughput and higher write IOPs
with the patch.
Besides the immediate performance gain with the patchset, we will
eventually need all writers to do write combining if we want to use
direct IO. Additionally, I think the general shape I refactored
BufferSync() into will be useful for AIO-ifying checkpointer.
The patch set has preliminary patches (0001-0004) that implement eager
flushing and write combining for bulkwrites (like COPY FROM). The
functions used to flush a batch of writes for bulkwrites (see 0004)
are reused for the checkpointer. The eager flushing component of this
patch set has been discussed elsewhere [1].
0005 implements a fix for XLogNeedsFlush() when called by checkpointer
during an end-of-crash-recovery checkpoint. I've already started
another thread about this [2], but the patch is required for the patch
set to pass tests.
One outstanding action item is to test to see if there are any
benefits to spread checkpoints.
More on how I measured the performance benefit to immediate checkpoints:
I tuned checkpoint_completion_target, checkpoint_timeout, and min and
max_wal_size to ensure no other checkpoints were initiated.
With 16 GB shared buffers and io_combine_limit 128, I created a 15 GB
table. To get consistent results, I used pg_prewarm to read the table
into shared buffers, issued a checkpoint, then used Bilal's patch [3]
to mark all the buffers as dirty again and issue another checkpoint.
On a fast local SSD, this proved to be a consistent 20%+ speed up
(~6.5 seconds to ~5 seconds).
- Melanie
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig@mail.gmail...
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_a1vZRZRWO3_jv_X13RYoqLRVipGO0237g5PKzPa2YX6g%40mail.gma...
[3] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAN55FZ0h_YoSqqutxV6DES1RW8ig6wcA8CR9rJk358YRMxZFmw%40mai...
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v1-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT+-uPzkJ=S3ShZ1GqeAYOw@mail.gmail.com/2-v1-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch)
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From 3b57dbff6412f3864633eecd0d153d862e1737af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 10:01:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1 5/9] Fix XLogNeedsFlush() for checkpointer
XLogNeedsFlush() takes an LSN and compares it to either the flush pointer or the
min recovery point, depending on whether it is in normal operation or recovery.
Even though it is technically recovery, the checkpointer must flush WAL during
an end-of-recovery checkpoint, so in this case, it should compare the provided
LSN to the flush pointer and not the min recovery point.
If it compares the LSN to the min recovery point when the control file's min
recovery point has been updated to an incorrect value, XLogNeedsFlush() can
return an incorrect result of true -- even after just having flushed WAL.
Change this to only compare the LSN to min recovery point -- and, potentially
update the local copy of min recovery point, when xlog inserts are allowed --
which is true for the checkpointer during an end-of-recovery checkpoint, but
false during crash recovery otherwise.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_a1vZRZRWO3_jv_X13RYoqLRVipGO0237g5PKzPa2YX6g%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 7ffb2179151..16ef6d2cd64 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -3115,7 +3115,7 @@ XLogNeedsFlush(XLogRecPtr record)
* instead. So "needs flush" is taken to mean whether minRecoveryPoint
* would need to be updated.
*/
- if (RecoveryInProgress())
+ if (RecoveryInProgress() && !XLogInsertAllowed())
{
/*
* An invalid minRecoveryPoint means that we need to recover all the
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v1-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.2K, ../../CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT+-uPzkJ=S3ShZ1GqeAYOw@mail.gmail.com/3-v1-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From 8d874b737771dbb9b2cb6968d79376a1b1276491 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with a
regular for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 200 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 17 +++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 350cc0402aa..c0f0e052135 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2356,130 +2352,122 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its header
- * spinlock still held!
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
-
- /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
- PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
+ /*
+ * Attempt to claim a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its
+ * header spinlock still held!
+ */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
+
+ /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
+ PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer. Then loop around and try again.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 01909be0272..f695ce43224 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -833,12 +834,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must have the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -848,6 +858,13 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (!XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return true;
+
/*
* Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 52a71b138f7..ed65ed84034 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -428,6 +428,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v1-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (15.8K, ../../CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT+-uPzkJ=S3ShZ1GqeAYOw@mail.gmail.com/4-v1-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From 8cd1a72128e25a9fccc9ed4551498f13e650fc97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:56:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1 4/9] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 ++++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 +++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 1 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a38f1247135..80122abd9aa 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -539,6 +539,8 @@ static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber re
RelFileLocator *rlocator,
bool skip_pinned,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
@@ -4281,10 +4283,73 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (batch->n = 1; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) == InvalidBuffer)
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
- * consider writing out.
+ * consider writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to
+ * write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4316,7 +4381,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4327,19 +4391,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
{
+ uint32 max_batch_size = max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
StartStrategySweep(strategy);
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, &BackendWritebackContext, io_context);
} while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
}
else
@@ -4461,6 +4528,73 @@ except_unlock_header:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT) || !XLogNeedsFlush(lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
* parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
@@ -4606,6 +4740,48 @@ DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index af75c02723d..4ce70de11c9 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -843,6 +843,32 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..fc749dd5a50 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums.
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 49914f8b46f..586e52cd01b 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -425,6 +425,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -438,6 +466,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
@@ -447,8 +476,11 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ IOContext io_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index aeb67c498c5..1020cb3ac78 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -507,5 +507,6 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
Item newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index a13e8162890..9492adeee58 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v1-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (10.6K, ../../CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT+-uPzkJ=S3ShZ1GqeAYOw@mail.gmail.com/5-v1-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From 62b718b0d3adbb95151ebbe8ef6d621f103458e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:43:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1 3/9] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse
them. By eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger batch, we encourage
larger writes at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes
and data file writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple
parallel COPY FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write
throughput and end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock
to flush WAL. Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for
flush operations at the kernel level as well.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which flushing does not require flushing WAL.
This patch also is a stepping stone toward AIO writes.
Earlier version
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 62 ++++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 3 +
3 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a0077a3f662..a38f1247135 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -534,6 +534,11 @@ static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object
IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static BufferDesc *next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator,
+ bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
@@ -4276,6 +4281,31 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
+ * consider writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) != InvalidBuffer)
+ {
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
*/
@@ -4286,6 +4316,7 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4294,11 +4325,140 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
+ {
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ StartStrategySweep(strategy);
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, returns the block -- the pointer to the block data in memory
+ * -- which we will opportunistically flush or NULL if this buffer does not
+ * contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Must do this before taking the buffer header spinlock. */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* We don't include used buffers in batches */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* Get page LSN while holding header lock */
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufdesc);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* If we'll have to flush WAL to flush the block, we're done */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation. */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
+
+except_unlock_header:
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index f695ce43224..af75c02723d 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
*/
int current;
+ /*
+ * If the strategy supports eager flushing, we may initiate a sweep of the
+ * strategy ring, flushing all the dirty buffers we can cheaply flush.
+ * sweep_start and sweep_current keep track of a given sweep so we don't
+ * loop around the ring infinitely.
+ */
+ int sweep_start;
+ int sweep_current;
+
/*
* Array of buffer numbers. InvalidBuffer (that is, zero) indicates we
* have not yet selected a buffer for this ring slot. For allocation
@@ -181,6 +190,31 @@ have_free_buffer(void)
return false;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lean to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers directly before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -357,6 +391,34 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ strategy->sweep_current++;
+ if (strategy->sweep_current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->sweep_current = 0;
+
+ if (strategy->sweep_current == strategy->sweep_start)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[strategy->sweep_current];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Start a sweep of the strategy ring.
+ */
+void
+StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ if (!strategy)
+ return;
+ strategy->sweep_start = strategy->sweep_current = strategy->current;
+}
+
/*
* StrategyFreeBuffer: put a buffer on the freelist
*/
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index ed65ed84034..49914f8b46f 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -446,6 +446,9 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v1-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (5.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT+-uPzkJ=S3ShZ1GqeAYOw@mail.gmail.com/6-v1-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 66804599c04512cf572921cea1af0e4b42a2e6c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:32:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/9] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This provides better symmetry with the
batch flushing code.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index c0f0e052135..a0077a3f662 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -529,8 +529,13 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2426,12 +2431,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4269,20 +4269,81 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &buf_state, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring)
+{
+
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
+
+ Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
+
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
+ return;
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
+ * parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
+ * otherwise.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
/*
* Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
+
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
+ * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ */
+ if (*buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ *buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, *buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
/* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
@@ -4300,18 +4361,6 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
-
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
-
/*
* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
* rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
@@ -4329,8 +4378,8 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
*/
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v1-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT+-uPzkJ=S3ShZ1GqeAYOw@mail.gmail.com/7-v1-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From eda89d4b1491922315222773c739b5b04f44fa4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1 6/9] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 80122abd9aa..ab0b9246759 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3393,6 +3393,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->db_id = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6712,6 +6713,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->db_id < b->db_id)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->db_id > b->db_id)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 586e52cd01b..3383a674c0c 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ UnlockBufHdr(BufferDesc *desc, uint32 buf_state)
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid db_id;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v1-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT+-uPzkJ=S3ShZ1GqeAYOw@mail.gmail.com/8-v1-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From cdb40b2f12663bd687bae416962fdb95ff9252cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:42:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1 7/9] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index ab0b9246759..a1d347b5966 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 checkpointer_max_batch_size(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
@@ -3335,7 +3336,6 @@ UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3347,6 +3347,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
int mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3377,6 +3379,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3517,48 +3520,208 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = checkpointer_max_batch_size();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
-
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
-
- num_processed++;
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
/*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
+ * Each batch will have exactly one start and one max lsn and one
+ * length.
*/
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
+
+ while (batch.n < limit)
{
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
+
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.db_id;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Max(1, limit);
+ limit = Min(limit, max_batch_size);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * becasue we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.db_id != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * It the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false. If
+ * the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in the
+ * batch we are building. We're done with the item, so count it as
+ * processed and break out of the loop to issue the IO we have
+ * built so far.
+ */
+ if (!(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need eviction, we're done with the item,
+ * so count it as processed and break out of the loop to issue the
+ * IO so far.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ processed++;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
* - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, &wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -4284,6 +4447,23 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+checkpointer_max_batch_size(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Max(pin_limit, 1);
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ Assert(result < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-08 23:44 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-09-08 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; +Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The attached patchset implements checkpointer write combining -- which
> makes immediate checkpoints at least 20% faster in my tests.
> Checkpointer achieves higher write throughput and higher write IOPs
> with the patch.
These needed a rebase. Attached v2.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v2-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (5.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bQWv5hJH0ncbGw8BEufAxdwMw4KY0KYuYLaw6KA=fpCA@mail.gmail.com/2-v2-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 7c8e7111f321f3e5f4dd32e865f3612162754981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:32:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/9] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This provides better symmetry with the
batch flushing code.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f3668051574..84ff5e0f1bf 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -529,8 +529,13 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2414,12 +2419,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4246,20 +4246,81 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &buf_state, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring)
+{
+
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
+
+ Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
+
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
+ return;
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
+ * parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
+ * otherwise.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
/*
* Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
+
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
+ * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ */
+ if (*buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ *buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, *buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
/* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
@@ -4277,18 +4338,6 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
-
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
-
/*
* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
* rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
@@ -4306,8 +4355,8 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
*/
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
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From 640c733261dec34686095ffb3ec64b717aacf830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:43:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/9] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse
them. By eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger batch, we encourage
larger writes at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes
and data file writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple
parallel COPY FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write
throughput and end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock
to flush WAL. Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for
flush operations at the kernel level as well.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which flushing does not require flushing WAL.
This patch also is a stepping stone toward AIO writes.
Earlier version
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 63 ++++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 3 +
3 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 84ff5e0f1bf..90f36a04c19 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -534,6 +534,11 @@ static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object
IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static BufferDesc *next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator,
+ bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
@@ -4253,6 +4258,31 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
+ * consider writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) != InvalidBuffer)
+ {
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
*/
@@ -4263,6 +4293,7 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4271,11 +4302,140 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
+ {
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ StartStrategySweep(strategy);
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, returns the block -- the pointer to the block data in memory
+ * -- which we will opportunistically flush or NULL if this buffer does not
+ * contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Must do this before taking the buffer header spinlock. */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* We don't include used buffers in batches */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* Get page LSN while holding header lock */
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufdesc);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* If we'll have to flush WAL to flush the block, we're done */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation. */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
+
+except_unlock_header:
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index ec6e0f86816..dd1d48a88fb 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
*/
int current;
+ /*
+ * If the strategy supports eager flushing, we may initiate a sweep of the
+ * strategy ring, flushing all the dirty buffers we can cheaply flush.
+ * sweep_start and sweep_current keep track of a given sweep so we don't
+ * loop around the ring infinitely.
+ */
+ int sweep_start;
+ int sweep_current;
+
/*
* Array of buffer numbers. InvalidBuffer (that is, zero) indicates we
* have not yet selected a buffer for this ring slot. For allocation
@@ -156,6 +165,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lean to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers directly before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -270,6 +304,35 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ strategy->sweep_current++;
+ if (strategy->sweep_current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->sweep_current = 0;
+
+ if (strategy->sweep_current == strategy->sweep_start)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[strategy->sweep_current];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Start a sweep of the strategy ring.
+ */
+void
+StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ if (!strategy)
+ return;
+ strategy->sweep_start = strategy->sweep_current = strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index b1b81f31419..7963d1189a6 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v2-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (15.8K, ../../CAAKRu_bQWv5hJH0ncbGw8BEufAxdwMw4KY0KYuYLaw6KA=fpCA@mail.gmail.com/4-v2-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From 11a2b7206d483b04d3be1f111469d0384ae75264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:56:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/9] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 ++++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 +++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 1 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 90f36a04c19..ade83adca59 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -539,6 +539,8 @@ static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber re
RelFileLocator *rlocator,
bool skip_pinned,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
@@ -4258,10 +4260,73 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (batch->n = 1; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) == InvalidBuffer)
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
- * consider writing out.
+ * consider writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to
+ * write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4293,7 +4358,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4304,19 +4368,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
{
+ uint32 max_batch_size = max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
StartStrategySweep(strategy);
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, &BackendWritebackContext, io_context);
} while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
}
else
@@ -4438,6 +4505,73 @@ except_unlock_header:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT) || !XLogNeedsFlush(lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
* parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
@@ -4583,6 +4717,48 @@ DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index dd1d48a88fb..c123e3913ca 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -727,6 +727,32 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..fc749dd5a50 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums.
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 7963d1189a6..d1f0ecb7ca4 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -416,6 +416,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -429,6 +457,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
@@ -438,8 +467,11 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ IOContext io_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index aeb67c498c5..1020cb3ac78 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -507,5 +507,6 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
Item newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index a13e8162890..9492adeee58 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v2-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.2K, ../../CAAKRu_bQWv5hJH0ncbGw8BEufAxdwMw4KY0KYuYLaw6KA=fpCA@mail.gmail.com/5-v2-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From 053dd9d15416d76ce4b95044d848f51ba13a2d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with a
regular for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 200 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 17 +++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index fe470de63f2..f3668051574 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2344,130 +2340,122 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its header
- * spinlock still held!
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
-
- /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
- PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
+ /*
+ * Attempt to claim a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its
+ * header spinlock still held!
+ */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
+
+ /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
+ PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer. Then loop around and try again.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7d59a92bd1a..ec6e0f86816 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -716,12 +717,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must have the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -731,6 +741,13 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (!XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return true;
+
/*
* Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index dfd614f7ca4..b1b81f31419 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v2-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_bQWv5hJH0ncbGw8BEufAxdwMw4KY0KYuYLaw6KA=fpCA@mail.gmail.com/6-v2-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch)
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From f11b7be35c56e95efb798242ac0029e6b35d34fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 10:01:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/9] Fix XLogNeedsFlush() for checkpointer
XLogNeedsFlush() takes an LSN and compares it to either the flush pointer or the
min recovery point, depending on whether it is in normal operation or recovery.
Even though it is technically recovery, the checkpointer must flush WAL during
an end-of-recovery checkpoint, so in this case, it should compare the provided
LSN to the flush pointer and not the min recovery point.
If it compares the LSN to the min recovery point when the control file's min
recovery point has been updated to an incorrect value, XLogNeedsFlush() can
return an incorrect result of true -- even after just having flushed WAL.
Change this to only compare the LSN to min recovery point -- and, potentially
update the local copy of min recovery point, when xlog inserts are allowed --
which is true for the checkpointer during an end-of-recovery checkpoint, but
false during crash recovery otherwise.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_a1vZRZRWO3_jv_X13RYoqLRVipGO0237g5PKzPa2YX6g%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 7ffb2179151..16ef6d2cd64 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -3115,7 +3115,7 @@ XLogNeedsFlush(XLogRecPtr record)
* instead. So "needs flush" is taken to mean whether minRecoveryPoint
* would need to be updated.
*/
- if (RecoveryInProgress())
+ if (RecoveryInProgress() && !XLogInsertAllowed())
{
/*
* An invalid minRecoveryPoint means that we need to recover all the
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v2-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bQWv5hJH0ncbGw8BEufAxdwMw4KY0KYuYLaw6KA=fpCA@mail.gmail.com/7-v2-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From 125c0ed4f690ad02ef9421bca45165d853b1de88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/9] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index ade83adca59..5ab40a09960 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3370,6 +3370,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->db_id = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6689,6 +6690,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->db_id < b->db_id)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->db_id > b->db_id)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index d1f0ecb7ca4..291cc31da06 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ UnlockBufHdr(BufferDesc *desc, uint32 buf_state)
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid db_id;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v2-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_bQWv5hJH0ncbGw8BEufAxdwMw4KY0KYuYLaw6KA=fpCA@mail.gmail.com/8-v2-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From bb5b345c997fea0bc5838e78af91b85a603f279b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:42:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 7/9] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 5ab40a09960..8de669a39f3 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 checkpointer_max_batch_size(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
@@ -3312,7 +3313,6 @@ UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3324,6 +3324,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
int mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3354,6 +3356,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3494,48 +3497,208 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = checkpointer_max_batch_size();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
-
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
-
- num_processed++;
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
/*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
+ * Each batch will have exactly one start and one max lsn and one
+ * length.
*/
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
+
+ while (batch.n < limit)
{
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
+
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.db_id;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Max(1, limit);
+ limit = Min(limit, max_batch_size);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * becasue we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.db_id != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * It the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false. If
+ * the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in the
+ * batch we are building. We're done with the item, so count it as
+ * processed and break out of the loop to issue the IO we have
+ * built so far.
+ */
+ if (!(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need eviction, we're done with the item,
+ * so count it as processed and break out of the loop to issue the
+ * IO so far.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ processed++;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
* - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, &wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -4261,6 +4424,23 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+checkpointer_max_batch_size(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Max(pin_limit, 1);
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ Assert(result < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-09 13:27 Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz @ 2025-09-09 13:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Hi,
Thank you for working on this!
On Tue, 9 Sept 2025 at 02:44, Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM Melanie Plageman
> <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The attached patchset implements checkpointer write combining -- which
> > makes immediate checkpoints at least 20% faster in my tests.
> > Checkpointer achieves higher write throughput and higher write IOPs
> > with the patch.
I did the same benchmark you did and I found it is %50 faster (16
seconds to 8 seconds).
From 053dd9d15416d76ce4b95044d848f51ba13a2d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
@@ -731,6 +741,13 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy
strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (!XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return true;
I think this should return false.
I am planning to review the other patches later and this is for the
first patch only.
--
Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-09 13:39 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-09-09 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; +Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
>
Thanks for the review!
> From 053dd9d15416d76ce4b95044d848f51ba13a2d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
>
> @@ -731,6 +741,13 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy
> strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
> strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
> return false;
>
> + buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
> + lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
> + UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
> +
> + if (!XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
> + return true;
>
> I think this should return false.
Oops, you're right. v3 attached with that mistake fixed.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v3-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (10.6K, ../../CAAKRu_Yurj0sabXZB5EVqO3fKgwN1vELe1H4e0s1zXV3MKbZjQ@mail.gmail.com/2-v3-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From d954d754656b9bc05da4c2edc0a4bad8b3118091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:43:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/9] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse
them. By eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger batch, we encourage
larger writes at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes
and data file writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple
parallel COPY FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write
throughput and end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock
to flush WAL. Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for
flush operations at the kernel level as well.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which flushing does not require flushing WAL.
This patch also is a stepping stone toward AIO writes.
Earlier version
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 63 ++++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 3 +
3 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 84ff5e0f1bf..90f36a04c19 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -534,6 +534,11 @@ static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object
IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static BufferDesc *next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator,
+ bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
@@ -4253,6 +4258,31 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
+ * consider writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) != InvalidBuffer)
+ {
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
*/
@@ -4263,6 +4293,7 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4271,11 +4302,140 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
+ {
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ StartStrategySweep(strategy);
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, returns the block -- the pointer to the block data in memory
+ * -- which we will opportunistically flush or NULL if this buffer does not
+ * contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Must do this before taking the buffer header spinlock. */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* We don't include used buffers in batches */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* Get page LSN while holding header lock */
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufdesc);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* If we'll have to flush WAL to flush the block, we're done */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation. */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
+
+except_unlock_header:
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index a90a7ed4e16..e26a546bc99 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
*/
int current;
+ /*
+ * If the strategy supports eager flushing, we may initiate a sweep of the
+ * strategy ring, flushing all the dirty buffers we can cheaply flush.
+ * sweep_start and sweep_current keep track of a given sweep so we don't
+ * loop around the ring infinitely.
+ */
+ int sweep_start;
+ int sweep_current;
+
/*
* Array of buffer numbers. InvalidBuffer (that is, zero) indicates we
* have not yet selected a buffer for this ring slot. For allocation
@@ -156,6 +165,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lean to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers directly before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -270,6 +304,35 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ strategy->sweep_current++;
+ if (strategy->sweep_current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->sweep_current = 0;
+
+ if (strategy->sweep_current == strategy->sweep_start)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[strategy->sweep_current];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Start a sweep of the strategy ring.
+ */
+void
+StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ if (!strategy)
+ return;
+ strategy->sweep_start = strategy->sweep_current = strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index b1b81f31419..7963d1189a6 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
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From 8fd1a6a68d80e3473ce34f86b0ebb38c15641bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with a
regular for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 200 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 17 +++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index fe470de63f2..f3668051574 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2344,130 +2340,122 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its header
- * spinlock still held!
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
-
- /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
- PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
+ /*
+ * Attempt to claim a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its
+ * header spinlock still held!
+ */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
+
+ /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
+ PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer. Then loop around and try again.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7d59a92bd1a..a90a7ed4e16 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -716,12 +717,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must have the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -731,6 +741,13 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return true;
+
/*
* Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index dfd614f7ca4..b1b81f31419 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v3-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (5.7K, ../../CAAKRu_Yurj0sabXZB5EVqO3fKgwN1vELe1H4e0s1zXV3MKbZjQ@mail.gmail.com/4-v3-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 971486560f20be7ef484bd8b63ebb762a59812a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:32:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/9] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This provides better symmetry with the
batch flushing code.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f3668051574..84ff5e0f1bf 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -529,8 +529,13 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2414,12 +2419,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4246,20 +4246,81 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &buf_state, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring)
+{
+
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
+
+ Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
+
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
+ return;
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
+ * parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
+ * otherwise.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
/*
* Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
+
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
+ * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ */
+ if (*buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ *buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, *buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
/* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
@@ -4277,18 +4338,6 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
-
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
-
/*
* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
* rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
@@ -4306,8 +4355,8 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
*/
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v3-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_Yurj0sabXZB5EVqO3fKgwN1vELe1H4e0s1zXV3MKbZjQ@mail.gmail.com/5-v3-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch)
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From b9a2335879f5bd3066bcf6df73ac5e14f631f390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 10:01:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/9] Fix XLogNeedsFlush() for checkpointer
XLogNeedsFlush() takes an LSN and compares it to either the flush pointer or the
min recovery point, depending on whether it is in normal operation or recovery.
Even though it is technically recovery, the checkpointer must flush WAL during
an end-of-recovery checkpoint, so in this case, it should compare the provided
LSN to the flush pointer and not the min recovery point.
If it compares the LSN to the min recovery point when the control file's min
recovery point has been updated to an incorrect value, XLogNeedsFlush() can
return an incorrect result of true -- even after just having flushed WAL.
Change this to only compare the LSN to min recovery point -- and, potentially
update the local copy of min recovery point, when xlog inserts are allowed --
which is true for the checkpointer during an end-of-recovery checkpoint, but
false during crash recovery otherwise.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_a1vZRZRWO3_jv_X13RYoqLRVipGO0237g5PKzPa2YX6g%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 7ffb2179151..16ef6d2cd64 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -3115,7 +3115,7 @@ XLogNeedsFlush(XLogRecPtr record)
* instead. So "needs flush" is taken to mean whether minRecoveryPoint
* would need to be updated.
*/
- if (RecoveryInProgress())
+ if (RecoveryInProgress() && !XLogInsertAllowed())
{
/*
* An invalid minRecoveryPoint means that we need to recover all the
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v3-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (15.8K, ../../CAAKRu_Yurj0sabXZB5EVqO3fKgwN1vELe1H4e0s1zXV3MKbZjQ@mail.gmail.com/6-v3-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From d484f180d0193c77cf6034751fa4e8c81833a605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:56:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/9] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 ++++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 +++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 1 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 90f36a04c19..ade83adca59 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -539,6 +539,8 @@ static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber re
RelFileLocator *rlocator,
bool skip_pinned,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, bool from_ring);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
@@ -4258,10 +4260,73 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (batch->n = 1; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) == InvalidBuffer)
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
- * consider writing out.
+ * consider writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to
+ * write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4293,7 +4358,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
IOContext io_context = IOContextForStrategy(strategy);
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4304,19 +4368,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
{
+ uint32 max_batch_size = max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
StartStrategySweep(strategy);
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, &BackendWritebackContext, io_context);
} while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
}
else
@@ -4438,6 +4505,73 @@ except_unlock_header:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT) || !XLogNeedsFlush(lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
* parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
@@ -4583,6 +4717,48 @@ DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index e26a546bc99..1c94e95bf66 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -727,6 +727,32 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..fc749dd5a50 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums.
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 7963d1189a6..d1f0ecb7ca4 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -416,6 +416,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -429,6 +457,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
@@ -438,8 +467,11 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ IOContext io_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index aeb67c498c5..1020cb3ac78 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -507,5 +507,6 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
Item newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index a13e8162890..9492adeee58 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v3-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_Yurj0sabXZB5EVqO3fKgwN1vELe1H4e0s1zXV3MKbZjQ@mail.gmail.com/7-v3-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From ad6c3c0c01870fc83739daa14197a0359359b079 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:42:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3 7/9] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 5ab40a09960..8de669a39f3 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 checkpointer_max_batch_size(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
@@ -3312,7 +3313,6 @@ UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3324,6 +3324,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
int mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3354,6 +3356,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3494,48 +3497,208 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = checkpointer_max_batch_size();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
-
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
-
- num_processed++;
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
/*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
+ * Each batch will have exactly one start and one max lsn and one
+ * length.
*/
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
+
+ while (batch.n < limit)
{
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
+
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.db_id;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Max(1, limit);
+ limit = Min(limit, max_batch_size);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * becasue we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.db_id != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * It the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false. If
+ * the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in the
+ * batch we are building. We're done with the item, so count it as
+ * processed and break out of the loop to issue the IO we have
+ * built so far.
+ */
+ if (!(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need eviction, we're done with the item,
+ * so count it as processed and break out of the loop to issue the
+ * IO so far.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ processed++;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
* - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, &wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -4261,6 +4424,23 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+checkpointer_max_batch_size(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Max(pin_limit, 1);
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ Assert(result < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v3-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.7K, ../../CAAKRu_Yurj0sabXZB5EVqO3fKgwN1vELe1H4e0s1zXV3MKbZjQ@mail.gmail.com/8-v3-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From b1ba9f17e7f2746fa5a4c2ae86db20384b068632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/9] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index ade83adca59..5ab40a09960 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3370,6 +3370,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->db_id = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6689,6 +6690,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->db_id < b->db_id)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->db_id > b->db_id)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index d1f0ecb7ca4..291cc31da06 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ UnlockBufHdr(BufferDesc *desc, uint32 buf_state)
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid db_id;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-09 15:16 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-09-09 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; +Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oops, you're right. v3 attached with that mistake fixed.
One more fix and a bit more cleanup in attached v4.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v4-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (10.8K, ../../CAAKRu_bv2=_DU-tYFdTQJj7ohKUyFnrJvETyCes3_NpFzvVt4Q@mail.gmail.com/2-v4-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From fef00f5bd61dc0e3cac95fa39a75b3d73ba7d0a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:43:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/9] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse
them. By eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger batch, we encourage
larger writes at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes
and data file writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple
parallel COPY FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write
throughput and end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock
to flush WAL. Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for
flush operations at the kernel level as well.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which flushing does not require flushing WAL.
This patch also is a stepping stone toward AIO writes.
Earlier version
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 63 ++++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 3 +
3 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 27cc418ef61..d6aafddf883 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -534,7 +534,13 @@ static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object
IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+static BufferDesc *next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator,
+ bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
@@ -4253,17 +4259,44 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
+ * consider writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) != InvalidBuffer)
+ {
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
* bufdesc and buf_state may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4271,11 +4304,140 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
+ {
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ StartStrategySweep(strategy);
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, returns the block -- the pointer to the block data in memory
+ * -- which we will opportunistically flush or NULL if this buffer does not
+ * contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Must do this before taking the buffer header spinlock. */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* We don't include used buffers in batches */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* Get page LSN while holding header lock */
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufdesc);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* If we'll have to flush WAL to flush the block, we're done */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation. */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
+
+except_unlock_header:
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index ce95afe2e94..025592778f7 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
*/
int current;
+ /*
+ * If the strategy supports eager flushing, we may initiate a sweep of the
+ * strategy ring, flushing all the dirty buffers we can cheaply flush.
+ * sweep_start and sweep_current keep track of a given sweep so we don't
+ * loop around the ring infinitely.
+ */
+ int sweep_start;
+ int sweep_current;
+
/*
* Array of buffer numbers. InvalidBuffer (that is, zero) indicates we
* have not yet selected a buffer for this ring slot. For allocation
@@ -156,6 +165,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lean to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers directly before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -270,6 +304,35 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ strategy->sweep_current++;
+ if (strategy->sweep_current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->sweep_current = 0;
+
+ if (strategy->sweep_current == strategy->sweep_start)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[strategy->sweep_current];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Start a sweep of the strategy ring.
+ */
+void
+StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ if (!strategy)
+ return;
+ strategy->sweep_start = strategy->sweep_current = strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index b1b81f31419..7963d1189a6 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v4-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_bv2=_DU-tYFdTQJj7ohKUyFnrJvETyCes3_NpFzvVt4Q@mail.gmail.com/3-v4-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch)
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From cb5fd13213b1f66e897243828aae136f93481472 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 10:01:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 5/9] Fix XLogNeedsFlush() for checkpointer
XLogNeedsFlush() takes an LSN and compares it to either the flush pointer or the
min recovery point, depending on whether it is in normal operation or recovery.
Even though it is technically recovery, the checkpointer must flush WAL during
an end-of-recovery checkpoint, so in this case, it should compare the provided
LSN to the flush pointer and not the min recovery point.
If it compares the LSN to the min recovery point when the control file's min
recovery point has been updated to an incorrect value, XLogNeedsFlush() can
return an incorrect result of true -- even after just having flushed WAL.
Change this to only compare the LSN to min recovery point -- and, potentially
update the local copy of min recovery point, when xlog inserts are allowed --
which is true for the checkpointer during an end-of-recovery checkpoint, but
false during crash recovery otherwise.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_a1vZRZRWO3_jv_X13RYoqLRVipGO0237g5PKzPa2YX6g%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 7ffb2179151..16ef6d2cd64 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -3115,7 +3115,7 @@ XLogNeedsFlush(XLogRecPtr record)
* instead. So "needs flush" is taken to mean whether minRecoveryPoint
* would need to be updated.
*/
- if (RecoveryInProgress())
+ if (RecoveryInProgress() && !XLogInsertAllowed())
{
/*
* An invalid minRecoveryPoint means that we need to recover all the
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v4-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (5.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bv2=_DU-tYFdTQJj7ohKUyFnrJvETyCes3_NpFzvVt4Q@mail.gmail.com/4-v4-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 2c8aafe30fb58516654e7d0cfdbfbb15a6a00498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:32:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/9] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This provides better symmetry with the
batch flushing code.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f3668051574..27cc418ef61 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -529,8 +529,13 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2414,12 +2419,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4246,20 +4246,81 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &buf_state, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
+ * bufdesc and buf_state may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
+
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
+ return;
+
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
+ * parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
+ * otherwise. All three parameters may be modified.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
/*
* Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
+
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
+ * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ */
+ if (*buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ *buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, *buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
/* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
@@ -4277,18 +4338,6 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
-
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
-
/*
* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
* rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
@@ -4306,8 +4355,8 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
*/
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v4-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (16.1K, ../../CAAKRu_bv2=_DU-tYFdTQJj7ohKUyFnrJvETyCes3_NpFzvVt4Q@mail.gmail.com/5-v4-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From dac227ef15ec46f5f8d9c918390147f9b00f3e29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:56:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 4/9] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 200 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 ++++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 +++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 1 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index d6aafddf883..98c03ef1b1a 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -539,6 +539,8 @@ static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber re
RelFileLocator *rlocator,
bool skip_pinned,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
@@ -2425,7 +2427,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4259,10 +4261,73 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (batch->n = 1; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) == InvalidBuffer)
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
- * consider writing out.
+ * consider writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to
+ * write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4296,7 +4361,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4306,19 +4370,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
{
+ uint32 max_batch_size = max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
StartStrategySweep(strategy);
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
}
else
@@ -4440,6 +4507,73 @@ except_unlock_header:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT) || !XLogNeedsFlush(lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
* parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
@@ -4585,6 +4719,48 @@ DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 025592778f7..eadf2899a01 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -727,6 +727,32 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..fc749dd5a50 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums.
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 7963d1189a6..c082a50166f 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -416,6 +416,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -429,6 +457,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
@@ -438,8 +467,11 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index aeb67c498c5..1020cb3ac78 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -507,5 +507,6 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
Item newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index a13e8162890..9492adeee58 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v4-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bv2=_DU-tYFdTQJj7ohKUyFnrJvETyCes3_NpFzvVt4Q@mail.gmail.com/6-v4-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From dae7c82146c2d73729fc12a742d84b660e6db2ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with a
regular for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 200 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 32 ++++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index fe470de63f2..f3668051574 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2344,130 +2340,122 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its header
- * spinlock still held!
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
-
- /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
- PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
+ /*
+ * Attempt to claim a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its
+ * header spinlock still held!
+ */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
+
+ /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
+ PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer. Then loop around and try again.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7d59a92bd1a..ce95afe2e94 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -716,12 +717,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must have the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
- * if this buffer should be written and re-used.
+ * if this buffer should be written and reused.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -731,11 +741,19 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
- /*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
- * loop if all ring members are dirty.
- */
- strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
+ * infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
+ */
+ strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
+ return true;
+ }
- return true;
+ return false;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index dfd614f7ca4..b1b81f31419 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
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[text/x-patch] v4-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_bv2=_DU-tYFdTQJj7ohKUyFnrJvETyCes3_NpFzvVt4Q@mail.gmail.com/7-v4-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From 9f242a419d561b6830ea1795b6178d9e0e5ba4e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:42:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 7/9] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 246f675333e..e2a7111a0bb 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 checkpointer_max_batch_size(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
@@ -3313,7 +3314,6 @@ UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3325,6 +3325,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
int mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3355,6 +3357,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3495,48 +3498,208 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = checkpointer_max_batch_size();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
-
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
-
- num_processed++;
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
/*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
+ * Each batch will have exactly one start and one max lsn and one
+ * length.
*/
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
+
+ while (batch.n < limit)
{
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
+
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.db_id;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Max(1, limit);
+ limit = Min(limit, max_batch_size);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * becasue we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.db_id != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * It the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false. If
+ * the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in the
+ * batch we are building. We're done with the item, so count it as
+ * processed and break out of the loop to issue the IO we have
+ * built so far.
+ */
+ if (!(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need eviction, we're done with the item,
+ * so count it as processed and break out of the loop to issue the
+ * IO so far.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ processed++;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
* - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, &wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -4262,6 +4425,23 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+checkpointer_max_batch_size(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Max(pin_limit, 1);
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ Assert(result < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v4-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bv2=_DU-tYFdTQJj7ohKUyFnrJvETyCes3_NpFzvVt4Q@mail.gmail.com/8-v4-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From fed3aa6eb1fcc0cb66b9ed56dbee7506d1ce563f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 6/9] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 98c03ef1b1a..246f675333e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3371,6 +3371,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->db_id = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6691,6 +6692,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->db_id < b->db_id)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->db_id > b->db_id)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c082a50166f..99f17091a40 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ UnlockBufHdr(BufferDesc *desc, uint32 buf_state)
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid db_id;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-09 17:55 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 2 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-09-09 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; +Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One more fix and a bit more cleanup in attached v4.
Okay one more version: I updated the thread on eager flushing the
bulkwrite ring [1], and some updates were needed here.
- Melanie
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mai...
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v5-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (15.8K, ../../CAAKRu_bz=t1FGXhUytPx9SC648-ozb-UxBps4zWUmS2XMg4Z4A@mail.gmail.com/2-v5-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From ab164bbeb8ea4d7718f7f3c2b33893be1e0907dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:56:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v5 4/9] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 ++++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 +++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 1 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index d0f40b6a3ec..98c03ef1b1a 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -539,6 +539,8 @@ static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber re
RelFileLocator *rlocator,
bool skip_pinned,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
@@ -4259,10 +4261,73 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (batch->n = 1; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) == InvalidBuffer)
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
- * consider writing out.
+ * consider writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to
+ * write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4296,7 +4361,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4306,19 +4370,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
{
+ uint32 max_batch_size = max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
StartStrategySweep(strategy);
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
}
else
@@ -4440,6 +4507,73 @@ except_unlock_header:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT) || !XLogNeedsFlush(lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
* parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
@@ -4585,6 +4719,48 @@ DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 025592778f7..eadf2899a01 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -727,6 +727,32 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..fc749dd5a50 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums.
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 7963d1189a6..c082a50166f 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -416,6 +416,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -429,6 +457,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
@@ -438,8 +467,11 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index aeb67c498c5..1020cb3ac78 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -507,5 +507,6 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
Item newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index a13e8162890..9492adeee58 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v5-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.7K, ../../CAAKRu_bz=t1FGXhUytPx9SC648-ozb-UxBps4zWUmS2XMg4Z4A@mail.gmail.com/3-v5-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From dae7c82146c2d73729fc12a742d84b660e6db2ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with a
regular for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 200 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 32 ++++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index fe470de63f2..f3668051574 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2344,130 +2340,122 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its header
- * spinlock still held!
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
-
- /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
- PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
+ /*
+ * Attempt to claim a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its
+ * header spinlock still held!
+ */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
+
+ /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
+ PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer. Then loop around and try again.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7d59a92bd1a..ce95afe2e94 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -716,12 +717,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must have the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
- * if this buffer should be written and re-used.
+ * if this buffer should be written and reused.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -731,11 +741,19 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
- /*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
- * loop if all ring members are dirty.
- */
- strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
+ * infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
+ */
+ strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
+ return true;
+ }
- return true;
+ return false;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index dfd614f7ca4..b1b81f31419 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
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From bf4b108cd97f710e89f27be69709c7960764a932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 10:01:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v5 5/9] Fix XLogNeedsFlush() for checkpointer
XLogNeedsFlush() takes an LSN and compares it to either the flush pointer or the
min recovery point, depending on whether it is in normal operation or recovery.
Even though it is technically recovery, the checkpointer must flush WAL during
an end-of-recovery checkpoint, so in this case, it should compare the provided
LSN to the flush pointer and not the min recovery point.
If it compares the LSN to the min recovery point when the control file's min
recovery point has been updated to an incorrect value, XLogNeedsFlush() can
return an incorrect result of true -- even after just having flushed WAL.
Change this to only compare the LSN to min recovery point -- and, potentially
update the local copy of min recovery point, when xlog inserts are allowed --
which is true for the checkpointer during an end-of-recovery checkpoint, but
false during crash recovery otherwise.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_a1vZRZRWO3_jv_X13RYoqLRVipGO0237g5PKzPa2YX6g%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 7ffb2179151..16ef6d2cd64 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -3115,7 +3115,7 @@ XLogNeedsFlush(XLogRecPtr record)
* instead. So "needs flush" is taken to mean whether minRecoveryPoint
* would need to be updated.
*/
- if (RecoveryInProgress())
+ if (RecoveryInProgress() && !XLogInsertAllowed())
{
/*
* An invalid minRecoveryPoint means that we need to recover all the
--
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From 2c8aafe30fb58516654e7d0cfdbfbb15a6a00498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:32:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v5 2/9] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This provides better symmetry with the
batch flushing code.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f3668051574..27cc418ef61 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -529,8 +529,13 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2414,12 +2419,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4246,20 +4246,81 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &buf_state, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
+ * bufdesc and buf_state may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
+
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
+ return;
+
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
+ * parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
+ * otherwise. All three parameters may be modified.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
/*
* Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
+
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
+ * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ */
+ if (*buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ *buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, *buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
/* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
@@ -4277,18 +4338,6 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
-
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
-
/*
* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
* rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
@@ -4306,8 +4355,8 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
*/
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v5-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (11.1K, ../../CAAKRu_bz=t1FGXhUytPx9SC648-ozb-UxBps4zWUmS2XMg4Z4A@mail.gmail.com/6-v5-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From c060a306293fbcecaab4fd8dd9174860c94ce6be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:43:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/9] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse
them. By eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger batch, we encourage
larger writes at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes
and data file writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple
parallel COPY FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write
throughput and end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock
to flush WAL. Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for
flush operations at the kernel level as well.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which flushing does not require flushing WAL.
This patch also is a stepping stone toward AIO writes.
Earlier version
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 174 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 63 ++++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 3 +
3 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 27cc418ef61..d0f40b6a3ec 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -534,7 +534,13 @@ static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object
IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+static BufferDesc *next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator,
+ bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
@@ -2419,7 +2425,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4253,17 +4259,44 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or or NULL when there are no further buffers to
+ * consider writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+next_strat_buf_to_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) != InvalidBuffer)
+ {
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
* bufdesc and buf_state may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4271,11 +4304,140 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
+ {
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ StartStrategySweep(strategy);
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = next_strat_buf_to_flush(strategy, &max_lsn)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, returns the block -- the pointer to the block data in memory
+ * -- which we will opportunistically flush or NULL if this buffer does not
+ * contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Must do this before taking the buffer header spinlock. */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* We don't include used buffers in batches */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* Get page LSN while holding header lock */
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufdesc);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* If we'll have to flush WAL to flush the block, we're done */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation. */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
+
+except_unlock_header:
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index ce95afe2e94..025592778f7 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
*/
int current;
+ /*
+ * If the strategy supports eager flushing, we may initiate a sweep of the
+ * strategy ring, flushing all the dirty buffers we can cheaply flush.
+ * sweep_start and sweep_current keep track of a given sweep so we don't
+ * loop around the ring infinitely.
+ */
+ int sweep_start;
+ int sweep_current;
+
/*
* Array of buffer numbers. InvalidBuffer (that is, zero) indicates we
* have not yet selected a buffer for this ring slot. For allocation
@@ -156,6 +165,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lean to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers directly before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -270,6 +304,35 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ strategy->sweep_current++;
+ if (strategy->sweep_current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->sweep_current = 0;
+
+ if (strategy->sweep_current == strategy->sweep_start)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[strategy->sweep_current];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Start a sweep of the strategy ring.
+ */
+void
+StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ if (!strategy)
+ return;
+ strategy->sweep_start = strategy->sweep_current = strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index b1b81f31419..7963d1189a6 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
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From 7e54f2577dce04615b3082fe518490dbd2fa8ad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v5 6/9] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 98c03ef1b1a..246f675333e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3371,6 +3371,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->db_id = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6691,6 +6692,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->db_id < b->db_id)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->db_id > b->db_id)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c082a50166f..99f17091a40 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ UnlockBufHdr(BufferDesc *desc, uint32 buf_state)
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid db_id;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
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From 5e9ebf1c1cafdb5805671d3c57cfeadab5e8c434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:42:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v5 7/9] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 246f675333e..e7c789dffd7 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 checkpointer_max_batch_size(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
@@ -3313,7 +3314,6 @@ UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3325,6 +3325,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
int mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3355,6 +3357,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3495,48 +3498,208 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = checkpointer_max_batch_size();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
-
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
-
- num_processed++;
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
/*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
+ * Each batch will have exactly one start and one max lsn and one
+ * length.
*/
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
+
+ while (batch.n < limit)
{
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
+
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.db_id;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Max(1, limit);
+ limit = Min(limit, max_batch_size);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * becasue we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.db_id != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * It the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false. If
+ * the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in the
+ * batch we are building. We're done with the item, so count it as
+ * processed and break out of the loop to issue the IO we have
+ * built so far.
+ */
+ if (!(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need eviction, we're done with the item,
+ * so count it as processed and break out of the loop to issue the
+ * IO so far.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ processed++;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
* - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -4262,6 +4425,23 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+checkpointer_max_batch_size(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Max(pin_limit, 1);
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ Assert(result < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-10 01:28 Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Davis @ 2025-09-10 01:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; +Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 13:55 -0400, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM Melanie Plageman
> <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > One more fix and a bit more cleanup in attached v4.
>
> Okay one more version: I updated the thread on eager flushing the
> bulkwrite ring [1], and some updates were needed here.
v5-0005 comments:
* Please update the comment above the code change.
* The last paragraph in the commit message has a typo: "potentially
update the local copy of min recovery point, when xlog inserts are
*not* allowed", right?
* Shouldn't the code be consistent between XLogNeedsFlush() and
XLogFlush()? The latter only checks for !XLogInsertAllowed(), whereas
the former also checks for RecoveryInProgress().
I'm still not sure I understand the problem situation this is fixing,
but that's being discussed in another thread.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-10 08:24 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2025-09-10 08:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Sep 10, 2025, at 01:55, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mai...
> <v5-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v5-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch><v5-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch><v5-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch><v5-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v5-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v5-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch>
1 - 0001
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+ * The buffer must pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
```
“Must pinned” -> “must be pinned"
2 - 0001
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
+ * infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
+ */
+ strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
+ return true;
+ }
- return true;
+ return false;
}
```
We can do:
```
If (!XLogNeedsFlush(lan))
Return false
/* Remove the dirty buffer ….
*/
Return true;
}
```
This way makes less diff.
3 - 0002
```
+ * Prepare to write and write a dirty victim buffer.
```
Prepare to write a dirty victim buffer.
4 - 0002
```
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
```
I saw CleanVictimBuffer() will get content_lock from bufdesc and release it, but it makes the code hard to understand. Readers might be confused that why content_lock is not released after CleanVictimBuffer() without further reading CleanVictimBuffer().
I’d suggest pass content_lock to CleanVictimBuffer() as a parameter, which gives a clear hint that CleanVictimBuffer() will release the lock.
5 - 0002
```
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
*/
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
```
Why this check is changed? Should the comment be updated accordingly as it says “if the buffer isn’t permanent”, which reflects to the old code.
6 - 0003
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers directly before reusing them.
+ */
```
Here “directly” is kind ambiguous. It could mean “immediately before” or “without going through something else”. My understanding is “immediately”, If that is true, please change “directly” to “immediately” or just remove it.
7 - 0003
```
+void
+StartStrategySweep(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ if (!strategy)
+ return;
```
I doubt if this “strategy” null check is needed. Because it is only called when strategy_supports_eager_flush() is true, and strategy_supports_eager_flush() has asserted “strategy”.
And as a pair function, StrategySweepNextBuffer() doesn’t do null check nor assert strategy.
8 - 0003
```
bool
+strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
```
This function is only used in bufmgr.c, can we move it there and make it static?
9 - 0004
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
```
Why don’t assert immediately after batch->start is assigned? So upon error, smgropen() will not be called.
10 - 0004
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
```
Do we need to check max_batch_size should be less than (MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT-1)? Because BufWriteBatch.bufdescs is defined with length of MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT, and the first place has been used to store “start”.
11 - 0004
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+ for (batch->n = 1; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) == InvalidBuffer)
+ break;
```
Is sweep next buffer right next to start? If yes, can we assert that? But my guess is no, if my guess is true, then is it possible that bufnum meets start? If that’s true, then we should check next buffer doesn’t equal to start.
12 - 0004
```
@@ -4306,19 +4370,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
{
+ uint32 max_batch_size = max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(strategy);
```
I think max_batch_size can be attribute of strategy and set it when creating a strategy, so that we don’t need to calculate in every round of clean.
13 - 0004
```
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
```
Should we only increase shared_blks_written only after the loop of write-back is done?
14 - 0004
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+uint32
+max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
```
I think this function can be moved to bufmgr.c and make it static.
15 - 0004
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums.
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
```
We should mark blknos as const to indicate it is readonly: const BlockNumber *blknos, which will also prevent from incidentally change on blknos in within the function.
16 - 0005
```
* instead. So "needs flush" is taken to mean whether minRecoveryPoint
* would need to be updated.
*/
- if (RecoveryInProgress())
+ if (RecoveryInProgress() && !XLogInsertAllowed())
```
As a new check is added, the comment should be updated accordingly.
17 - 0006
```
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ UnlockBufHdr(BufferDesc *desc, uint32 buf_state)
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid db_id;
```
I think “db_id” should be named “dbId” or “dbOid”. Let’s keep the name conversation consistent.
18 - 0007
```
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+ max_batch_size = checkpointer_max_batch_size();
```
Look like we don’t need to calculate max_batch_size in the for loop.
19 - 0007
```
+ * Each batch will have exactly one start and one max lsn and one
+ * length.
*/
```
I don’t get what you want to explain with this comment. It sounds quite unnecessary.
Best regards,
—
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-11 23:11 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-09-11 23:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
Thanks for the review!
For any of your feedback that I simply implemented, I omitted an
inline comment about it. Those changes are included in the attached
v6. My inline replies below are only for feedback requiring more
discussion.
> On Sep 10, 2025, at 01:55, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2 - 0001
> ```
> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
>
> + if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
> + {
> + /*
> + * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
> + * infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
> + */
> + strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
> + return true;
> + }
>
> - return true;
> + return false;
> }
> ```
>
> We can do:
> ```
> If (!XLogNeedsFlush(lan))
> Return false
>
> /* Remove the dirty buffer ….
> */
> Return true;
> }
> ```
This would make the order of evaluation the same as master but I
actually prefer it this way because then we only take the buffer
header spinlock if there is a chance we will reject the buffer (e.g.
we don't need to examine it for strategies except BAS_BULKREAD)
> 4 - 0002
> ```
> - /* OK, do the I/O */
> - FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
> - LWLockRelease(content_lock);
> -
> - ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
> - &buf_hdr->tag);
> + CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
> ```
> I saw CleanVictimBuffer() will get content_lock from bufdesc and release it, but it makes the code hard to understand. Readers might be confused that why content_lock is not released after CleanVictimBuffer() without further reading CleanVictimBuffer().
>
> I’d suggest pass content_lock to CleanVictimBuffer() as a parameter, which gives a clear hint that CleanVictimBuffer() will release the lock.
I think for this specific patch in the set your idea makes sense.
However, in the later patch to do write combining, I release the
content locks for the batch in CompleteWriteBatchIO() and having the
start buffer's lock separate as a parameter would force me to have a
special case handling this.
I've added a comment to both CleanVictimBuffer() and its caller
specifying that the lock must be held and that it will be released
inside CleanVictimBuffer.
> 5 - 0002
> ```
> * disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
> * skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
> */
> - if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
> - XLogFlush(recptr);
> + if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
> + XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
> ```
>
> Why this check is changed? Should the comment be updated accordingly as it says “if the buffer isn’t permanent”, which reflects to the old code.
It's changed because I split the logic for flushing to that LSN and
determining the LSN across the Prepare and Do functions. This is
needed because when we do batches, we want to flush to the max LSN
across all buffers in the batch.
I check if the buffer is BM_PERMANENT in PrepareFlushBuffer(). You
make a good point about my comment, though. I've moved it to
PrepareFlushBuffer() and updated it.
> 8 - 0003
> ```
> bool
> +strategy_supports_eager_flush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> ```
>
> This function is only used in bufmgr.c, can we move it there and make it static?
BufferAccessStrategyData is opaque to bufmgr.c. Only freelist.c can
access it. I agree it is gross that I have these helpers and functions
that would otherwise be static, though.
> 10 - 0004
> ```
> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
>
> + limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
> ```
>
> Do we need to check max_batch_size should be less than (MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT-1)? Because BufWriteBatch.bufdescs is defined with length of MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT, and the first place has been used to store “start”.
I assert that in StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(). io_combine_limit is not
allowed to exceed MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT, so it shouldn't happen anyway,
since we are capping ourselves at io_combine_limit. Or is that your
point?
> 11 - 0004
> ```
> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
>
> + for (batch->n = 1; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
> + {
> + Buffer bufnum;
> +
> + if ((bufnum = StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy)) == InvalidBuffer)
> + break;
> ```
>
> Is sweep next buffer right next to start? If yes, can we assert that? But my guess is no, if my guess is true, then is it possible that bufnum meets start? If that’s true, then we should check next buffer doesn’t equal to start.
Ah, great point. I didn't think about this. Our sweep will always
start right after the start buffer, but then if it goes all the way
around, it will "lap" the start buffer. Because of this and because I
think it is weird to have the sweep variables in the
BufferAccessStrategy object, I've changed my approach in attached v6.
I set sweep_end to be the start block in the batch and then pass
around a sweep cursor variable. Hitting sweep_end is the termination
condition.
> 12 - 0004
> ```
> @@ -4306,19 +4370,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
>
> if (from_ring && strategy_supports_eager_flush(strategy))
> {
> + uint32 max_batch_size = max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(strategy);
> ```
>
> I think max_batch_size can be attribute of strategy and set it when creating a strategy, so that we don’t need to calculate in every round of clean.
Actually, the max pin limit can change quite frequently. See
GetAdditionalPinLimit()'s usage in read stream code. If the query is
pinning other buffers in another part of the query, it can change our
limit.
I'm not sure if I should call GetAdditionalPinLImit() for each batch
or for each run of batches (like in StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize()).
Currently, I call it for each batch (in FindFlushAdjacents()). The
read stream calls it pretty frequently (each
read_stream_start_pending_read()). But, in the batch flush case,
nothing could change between batches in a run of batches. So maybe I
should move it up and out and make it per run of batches...
> 13 - 0004
> ```
> +void
> +CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
> + WritebackContext *wb_context)
> +{
> + ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
> + {
> + .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
> + .previous = error_context_stack,
> + };
> +
> + error_context_stack = &errcallback;
> + pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
> ```
>
> Should we only increase shared_blks_written only after the loop of write-back is done?
On master, FlushBuffer() does it after smgrwrite() (before writeback).
I think pgBufferUsage is mainly used in EXPLAIN (also
pg_stat_statements) which won't be used until the end of the query and
won't be displayed if we error out.
> 14 - 0004
> ```
> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
>
> +uint32
> +max_write_batch_size_for_strategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> ```
>
> I think this function can be moved to bufmgr.c and make it static.
This technically could be moved, but it is a function giving you
information about a strategy which seemed to fit better in freelist.c.
> 18 - 0007
> ```
> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
>
> + max_batch_size = checkpointer_max_batch_size();
> ```
>
> Look like we don’t need to calculate max_batch_size in the for loop.
I don't think it's in the for loop.
- Melanie
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[text/x-patch] v6-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (8.1K, ../../CAAKRu_atZuU3gYY6hVVuvqDW+mfXM+fCWCyYODbZPesxyr=y6g@mail.gmail.com/2-v6-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From c782753a430c1c967125509c6390d4e710fd2a63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:32:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6 2/9] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 141 +++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f3668051574..f40f57e5582 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -529,8 +529,13 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2414,12 +2419,8 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ /* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4246,53 +4247,66 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
- /*
- * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
- * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
- * anything.
- */
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &buf_state, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+/*
+ * Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
+ *
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
+ * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
+ * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc and buf_state may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+ Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
+ return;
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
+ * parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
+ * otherwise. All three parameters may be modified.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
/*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
+ * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
+ * anything.
*/
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4305,9 +4319,50 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ if (*buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ *buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, *buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v6-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (11.1K, ../../CAAKRu_atZuU3gYY6hVVuvqDW+mfXM+fCWCyYODbZPesxyr=y6g@mail.gmail.com/3-v6-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From dbcc430c4b92c2a69f84fe9ab3faa94f61eb3d99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:43:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6 3/9] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes.
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 +++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f40f57e5582..c64268f31ae 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -534,7 +534,16 @@ static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object
IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+static BufferDesc *NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator,
+ bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
@@ -2420,7 +2429,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, &buf_state, from_ring, io_context);
}
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
@@ -4254,6 +4263,40 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
+ * writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum =
+ StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) != sweep_end)
+ {
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
*
@@ -4264,12 +4307,14 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* bufdesc and buf_state may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4277,11 +4322,143 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, buf_state, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ int cursor = StrategySweepStart(strategy);
+
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = NextStratBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
+ &max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the block -- the pointer to the block data in memory
+ * -- which we will opportunistically flush or NULL if this buffer does not
+ * contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Must do this before taking the buffer header spinlock */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* We don't eagerly flush buffers used by others */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ goto except_unlock_header;
+
+ /* Get page LSN while holding header lock */
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufdesc);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* If we'll have to flush WAL to flush the block, we're done */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
+
+except_unlock_header:
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 12bb7e2312e..8716109221b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -156,6 +156,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -270,6 +295,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*sweep_cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *sweep_cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*sweep_cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the starting buffer of a sweep of the strategy ring
+ */
+int
+StrategySweepStart(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index b1b81f31419..03faf80e441 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -437,6 +437,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
+extern int StrategySweepStart(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v6-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch (2.9K, ../../CAAKRu_atZuU3gYY6hVVuvqDW+mfXM+fCWCyYODbZPesxyr=y6g@mail.gmail.com/4-v6-0005-Fix-XLogNeedsFlush-for-checkpointer.patch)
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From 9a3f592e5dc7933decad22747d0a4335429d2170 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 10:01:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6 5/9] Fix XLogNeedsFlush() for checkpointer
In normal operation, XLogNeedsFlush() returns true if the flush ptr has
not been advanced past the provided LSN. During normal recovery on a
standby (not crash recovery), it return true if the minimum recovery
point hasn't been advanced past the provided LSN.
However, during an end-of-recovery checkpoint, the checkpointer flushes
WAL, so XLogNeedsFlush() should compare the provided location with the
flush pointer.
Correct the logic in XLogNeedsFlush() to compare the LSN to the flush
pointer when WAL inserts are allowed and the minimum recovery point
otherwise.
This is not an active bug because no current users of XLogNeedsFlush()
temporarily allowed WAL inserts during recovery.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_a1vZRZRWO3_jv_X13RYoqLRVipGO0237g5PKzPa2YX6g%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 0baf0ac6160..62923d33b79 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -3102,21 +3102,26 @@ XLogBackgroundFlush(void)
}
/*
- * Test whether XLOG data has been flushed up to (at least) the given position.
+ * Test whether XLOG data has been flushed up to (at least) the given position
+ * or whether the minimum recovery point is updated past the given position.
*
- * Returns true if a flush is still needed. (It may be that someone else
- * is already in process of flushing that far, however.)
+ * Returns true if a flush is still needed or if the minimum recovery point
+ * must be updated.
+ *
+ * It is possible that someone else is already in the process of flushing that
+ * far or updating the minimum recovery point that far.
*/
bool
XLogNeedsFlush(XLogRecPtr record)
{
/*
- * During recovery, we don't flush WAL but update minRecoveryPoint
- * instead. So "needs flush" is taken to mean whether minRecoveryPoint
- * would need to be updated.
+ * During recovery, when WAL inserts are forbidden, "needs flush" is taken
+ * to mean whether minRecoveryPoint would need to be updated.
*/
- if (RecoveryInProgress())
+ if (!XLogInsertAllowed())
{
+ Assert(RecoveryInProgress());
+
/*
* An invalid minRecoveryPoint means that we need to recover all the
* WAL, i.e., we're doing crash recovery. We never modify the control
--
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[text/x-patch] v6-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.8K, ../../CAAKRu_atZuU3gYY6hVVuvqDW+mfXM+fCWCyYODbZPesxyr=y6g@mail.gmail.com/5-v6-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From 6c46b33c7a51990f1d2df0fab7dfea2f88e0861e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:00:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6 1/9] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with
standard for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 200 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 32 ++++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index fe470de63f2..f3668051574 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2344,130 +2340,122 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its header
- * spinlock still held!
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
-
- /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
- PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
+ /*
+ * Attempt to claim a victim buffer. The buffer is returned with its
+ * header spinlock still held!
+ */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0);
+
+ /* Pin the buffer and then release the buffer spinlock */
+ PinBuffer_Locked(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer. Then loop around and try again.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7d59a92bd1a..12bb7e2312e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -716,12 +717,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must hold the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
- * if this buffer should be written and re-used.
+ * if this buffer should be written and reused.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -731,11 +741,19 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
- /*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
- * loop if all ring members are dirty.
- */
- strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
+ * infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
+ */
+ strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
+ return true;
+ }
- return true;
+ return false;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index dfd614f7ca4..b1b81f31419 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v6-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (16.7K, ../../CAAKRu_atZuU3gYY6hVVuvqDW+mfXM+fCWCyYODbZPesxyr=y6g@mail.gmail.com/6-v6-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From 78767ad0f17d2b74ad2aafa10ecd828d7e53bf0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:56:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6 4/9] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 218 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 +++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 ++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index c64268f31ae..4cc73bf4363 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -542,6 +542,10 @@ static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber re
RelFileLocator *rlocator,
bool skip_pinned,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size, BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *bufdesc, uint32 *buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
@@ -4263,10 +4267,91 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
- * writing out.
+ * writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4314,7 +4399,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(*buf_state & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4326,19 +4410,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
int cursor = StrategySweepStart(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end, bufdesc, max_batch_size,
+ &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = NextStratBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
&max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
}
@@ -4461,6 +4548,73 @@ except_unlock_header:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT) || !XLogNeedsFlush(lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with budesc for writing. buf_state and lsn are output
* parameters. Returns true if the buffer acutally needs writing and false
@@ -4606,6 +4760,48 @@ DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 8716109221b..317f41cdfa2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -712,6 +712,32 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..12503934502 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 03faf80e441..7c60e5e6f54 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -416,6 +416,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -429,6 +457,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
@@ -438,9 +467,12 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *sweep_cursor);
extern int StrategySweepStart(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index aeb67c498c5..bb4e6af461a 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -507,5 +507,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
Item newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index a13e8162890..9492adeee58 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v6-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_atZuU3gYY6hVVuvqDW+mfXM+fCWCyYODbZPesxyr=y6g@mail.gmail.com/7-v6-0006-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From 9fa36f0a1f489809d7d50798e07d491f4d806ecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6 6/9] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 4cc73bf4363..2ea91e777e2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3377,6 +3377,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6732,6 +6733,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 7c60e5e6f54..03c395903e5 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ UnlockBufHdr(BufferDesc *desc, uint32 buf_state)
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v6-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (11.2K, ../../CAAKRu_atZuU3gYY6hVVuvqDW+mfXM+fCWCyYODbZPesxyr=y6g@mail.gmail.com/8-v6-0007-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From 898db59ca9a02f8eb5481caa66dca6cd02f30082 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:42:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6 7/9] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 236 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 2ea91e777e2..2475b1c85be 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
@@ -3319,7 +3320,6 @@ UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3331,6 +3331,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
int mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3361,6 +3363,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3501,48 +3504,212 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = CheckpointerMaxBatchSize();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Max(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * If we aren't allowed any more pins or there are no more
+ * blocks in the relation, break out of the loop and issue the
+ * IO.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 0)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * becasue we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * It the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false. If
+ * the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in the
+ * batch we are building. We're done with the item, so count it as
+ * processed and break out of the loop to issue the IO we have
+ * built so far.
+ */
+ if (!(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need eviction, we're done with the item,
+ * so count it as processed and break out of the loop to issue the
+ * IO so far.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
* - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -4268,6 +4435,23 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Max(pin_limit, 1);
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ Assert(result < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-09-12 03:33 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2025-09-12 03:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Sep 12, 2025, at 07:11, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
> For any of your feedback that I simply implemented, I omitted an
> inline comment about it. Those changes are included in the attached
> v6. My inline replies below are only for feedback requiring more
> discussion.
>
>> On Sep 10, 2025, at 01:55, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2 - 0001
>> ```
>> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
>> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
>>
>> + if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
>> + {
>> + /*
>> + * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
>> + * infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
>> + */
>> + strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
>> + return true;
>> + }
>>
>> - return true;
>> + return false;
>> }
>> ```
>>
>> We can do:
>> ```
>> If (!XLogNeedsFlush(lan))
>> Return false
>>
>> /* Remove the dirty buffer ….
>> */
>> Return true;
>> }
>> ```
>
> This would make the order of evaluation the same as master but I
> actually prefer it this way because then we only take the buffer
> header spinlock if there is a chance we will reject the buffer (e.g.
> we don't need to examine it for strategies except BAS_BULKREAD)
>
>
I don’t understand why the two versions are different:
if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
{
/*
* Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
* infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
return true;
}
return false;
VS
if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
return false;
/*
* Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
* infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
return true;
>
>> 10 - 0004
>> ```
>> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
>> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
>>
>> + limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
>> ```
>>
>> Do we need to check max_batch_size should be less than (MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT-1)? Because BufWriteBatch.bufdescs is defined with length of MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT, and the first place has been used to store “start”.
>
> I assert that in StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(). io_combine_limit is not
> allowed to exceed MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT, so it shouldn't happen anyway,
> since we are capping ourselves at io_combine_limit. Or is that your
> point?
>
Please ignore comment 10. I think I cross-line it in my original email. I added the comment, then lately I found you have checked MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT in the other function, so tried to delete it by cross-lining the comment.
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-10-15 20:56 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-10-15 20:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don’t understand why the two versions are different:
>
> if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
> {
> /*
> * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an
> * infinite loop if all ring members are dirty.
> */
> strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
> return true;
> }
>
> return false;
>
> VS
>
> if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
> return false;
I think you mean
if (!XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
{
return false;
}
// remove buffer
return true
is the same as
if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
{
//remove dirty buffer
return true
}
return false;
Which is true. I've changed it to be like that.
Attached version 7 is rebased and has some bug fixes.
I also added a bonus batch on the end (0007) that refactors
SyncOneBuffer() to use the CAS loop pattern for pinning the buffer
that Andres introduced in 5e89985928795f243. bgwriter is now the only
user of SyncOneBuffer() and it rejects writing out buffers that are
used, so it seemed like a decent use case for this.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v7-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.3K, ../../CAAKRu_b3k+KbeFhFgDZ26PvJbvL9W5HYwKrn8bBS4CTU13khpw@mail.gmail.com/2-v7-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
download | inline diff:
From ade120635e4d20b36829200f9e6806063ff4eb7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:53:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v7 1/7] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with
standard for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 189 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 20 ++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 6 +
3 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index edf17ce3ea1..453fa16de84 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2331,125 +2327,116 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ /* Attempt to claim a victim buffer. Buffer is returned pinned. */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
+
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7fe34d3ef4c..b76be264eb5 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -779,12 +780,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must hold the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -794,11 +804,17 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
-
return true;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c1206a46aba..7e258383048 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v7-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (7.8K, ../../CAAKRu_b3k+KbeFhFgDZ26PvJbvL9W5HYwKrn8bBS4CTU13khpw@mail.gmail.com/3-v7-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 6dfe3036229f25b9708109c460ce9c1425111650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:54:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v7 2/7] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 453fa16de84..769138a5373 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -533,6 +533,12 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
+ IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
+ XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2394,12 +2400,8 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ /* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4276,53 +4278,67 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
- uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
- /*
- * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
- * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
- * anything.
- */
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+/*
+ * Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
+ *
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
+ * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
+ * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+ Assert(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state) & BM_DIRTY);
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ return;
+
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
+ * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
+ * anything.
*/
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4335,9 +4351,50 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v7-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (12.7K, ../../CAAKRu_b3k+KbeFhFgDZ26PvJbvL9W5HYwKrn8bBS4CTU13khpw@mail.gmail.com/4-v7-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From 75209f0288a5d539168aad7b177e6629f4790569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:15:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v7 3/7] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes.
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 238 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 ++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 769138a5373..7a553b8cdd2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -531,14 +531,25 @@ static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_c
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
+
+static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
- IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2401,7 +2412,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4284,6 +4295,61 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * Caller must not already hold the buffer header spinlock.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * See buffer flushing code for more details on why we condition this on
+ * the relation being logged.
+ */
+ return buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
+ * writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum =
+ StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) != sweep_end)
+ {
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
*
@@ -4294,12 +4360,14 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* bufdesc may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state) & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4307,11 +4375,165 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ int cursor = StrategySweepStart(strategy);
+
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = NextStratBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
+ &max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that
+ * should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that theres a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leake a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, we should use that slot the next
+ * time we try and reserve a spot.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header. We have to lock
+ * the buffer header later if we succeed in pinning the buffer here, but
+ * avoiding locking the buffer header if the buffer is in use is worth it.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* We don't eagerly flush buffers used by others */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufdesc);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufdesc->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index b76be264eb5..4baa0550bb1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -156,6 +156,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -307,6 +332,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*sweep_cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *sweep_cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*sweep_cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the starting buffer of a sweep of the strategy ring
+ */
+int
+StrategySweepStart(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 7e258383048..b48dece3e63 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -442,6 +442,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
+extern int StrategySweepStart(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v7-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (16.5K, ../../CAAKRu_b3k+KbeFhFgDZ26PvJbvL9W5HYwKrn8bBS4CTU13khpw@mail.gmail.com/5-v7-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From f3b1be877ddbd5911f3813a8a0b3cd3877e0d5b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v7 4/7] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 217 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 +++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 ++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 7a553b8cdd2..3c49c8c2ef2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -537,7 +537,11 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
static BufferDesc *NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer sweep_end,
XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
-
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
@@ -4316,10 +4320,91 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategySweepNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
- * writing out.
+ * writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4367,7 +4452,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
Assert(pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state) & BM_DIRTY);
@@ -4379,19 +4463,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
int cursor = StrategySweepStart(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end, bufdesc, max_batch_size,
+ &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = NextStratBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
&max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
}
@@ -4536,6 +4623,70 @@ except_unpin_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], &lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
@@ -4696,6 +4847,48 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf));
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 4baa0550bb1..f73a52c7e56 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -775,6 +775,32 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..12503934502 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index b48dece3e63..337f1427bbc 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -418,6 +418,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -432,6 +460,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
@@ -443,9 +472,12 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *sweep_cursor);
extern int StrategySweepStart(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index aeb67c498c5..bb4e6af461a 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -507,5 +507,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
Item newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 5290b91e83e..c80e1ff4107 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v7-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_b3k+KbeFhFgDZ26PvJbvL9W5HYwKrn8bBS4CTU13khpw@mail.gmail.com/6-v7-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From 7a48e402ebabc76bcead5ffd8db1f62720cc1704 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v7 5/7] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 3c49c8c2ef2..0ee7feba7ba 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3413,6 +3413,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6812,6 +6813,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 337f1427bbc..a0051780a13 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ extern uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v7-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.8K, ../../CAAKRu_b3k+KbeFhFgDZ26PvJbvL9W5HYwKrn8bBS4CTU13khpw@mail.gmail.com/7-v7-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From 69f182fd94768efc2dac8fca3c823e8c2a8cd483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v7 6/7] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 0ee7feba7ba..7a0284973e0 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
@@ -3355,7 +3356,6 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3367,6 +3367,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3397,6 +3399,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3537,48 +3540,196 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = CheckpointerMaxBatchSize();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.rlocator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, false);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -6414,6 +6565,23 @@ IsBufferCleanupOK(Buffer buffer)
return false;
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Max(pin_limit, 1);
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ Assert(result < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Functions for buffer I/O handling
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
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From ab750885bc1816b0e6f01173b62f3296b2ea21a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v7 7/7] WIP: Refactor SyncOneBuffer for bgwriter only
Only bgwriter uses SyncOneBuffer now so we can remove the
skip_recently_used parameter and make it the default.
5e89985928795f243 introduced the pattern of using a CAS loop instead of
locking the buffer header and then calling PinBuffer_Locked(). Do that
in SyncOneBuffer() so we can avoid taking the buffer header spinlock in
the common case that the buffer is recently used.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 7a0284973e0..cf515a4d07a 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -515,8 +515,7 @@ static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -4003,8 +4002,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -4067,8 +4065,8 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/*
* SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
*
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ * We don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor buffers marked recently used,
+ * as these are not replacement candidates.
*
* Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
* BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
@@ -4079,53 +4077,71 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
*/
static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
int result = 0;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
uint32 buf_state;
BufferTag tag;
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
/*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
*/
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ for (;;)
{
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * We can make these check without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Don't write recently-used buffers */
+ return result;
+ }
+
result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
- return result;
- }
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
- return result;
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufHdr->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr));
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ * Share lock and write it out (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the buffer
+ * is clean by the time we've locked it.)
*/
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
tag = bufHdr->tag;
@@ -4133,8 +4149,8 @@ SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
/*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by bgwriter, so IOContext will always be
+ * IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-10-16 04:24 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 2 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2025-10-16 04:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Hi Milanie,
Thanks for updating the patch set. I review 1-6 and got a few more small comments. I didn’t review 0007 as it’s marked as WIP.
>
> - Melanie
> <v7-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch><v7-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch><v7-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v7-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v7-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v7-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch><v7-0007-WIP-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-only.patch>
1 - 0001
```
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
```
Nit: here you added two empty lines, I think we need only 1.
2 - 0002
```
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
```
Nit: the empty line after “{“ should be removed.
3 - 0003
```
+/*
+ * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
+ * over.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*sweep_cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *sweep_cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*sweep_cursor];
+}
```
Feels the function comment is a bit confusing, because the function code doesn’t really perform sweep, the function is just a getter. InvalidBuffer just implies the current sweep is over.
Maybe rephrase to something like: “Return the next buffer in the range. If InvalidBuffer is returned, that implies the current sweep is done."
4 - 0003
```
static BufferDesc *
NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer sweep_end,
XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
``
“Strat” is confusing. I think it’s the short version of “Strategy”. As this is a static function, and other function names all have the whole word of “strategy”, why don’t also use the whole word in this function name as well?
5 - 0004
```
+uint32
+StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size;
+ int strategy_pin_limit;
+
+ max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
+
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
+ Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
```
This implementation is hard to understand. I tried to simplify it:
```
uint32
StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
{
int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(GetPinLimit(), (uint32)strategy_pin_limit);
/* Clamp to io_combine_limit and enforce minimum of 1 */
if (max_write_batch_size > io_combine_limit)
max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
if (max_write_batch_size == 0)
max_write_batch_size = 1;
Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
return max_write_batch_size;
}
```
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-10-28 12:51 BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: BharatDB @ 2025-10-28 12:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Milanie,
>
> Thanks for updating the patch set. I review 1-6 and got a few more small
> comments. I didn’t review 0007 as it’s marked as WIP.
>
> >
> > - Melanie
> >
> <v7-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch><v7-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch><v7-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v7-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v7-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v7-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch><v7-0007-WIP-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-only.patch>
>
> 1 - 0001
> ```
> --- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
> +++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
> @@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner,
> Buffer buffer)
> /*
> * Internal buffer management routines
> */
> +
> +
> +/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
> ```
>
> Nit: here you added two empty lines, I think we need only 1.
>
> 2 - 0002
> ```
> +static void
> +CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
> + bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
> +{
>
> - /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
> - if (reln == NULL)
> - reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag),
> INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
> + XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
> + LWLock *content_lock;
> ```
>
> Nit: the empty line after “{“ should be removed.
>
> 3 - 0003
> ```
> +/*
> + * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current
> sweep is
> + * over.
> + */
> +Buffer
> +StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *sweep_cursor)
> +{
> + if (++(*sweep_cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
> + *sweep_cursor = 0;
> +
> + return strategy->buffers[*sweep_cursor];
> +}
> ```
>
> Feels the function comment is a bit confusing, because the function code
> doesn’t really perform sweep, the function is just a getter. InvalidBuffer
> just implies the current sweep is over.
>
> Maybe rephrase to something like: “Return the next buffer in the range. If
> InvalidBuffer is returned, that implies the current sweep is done."
>
> 4 - 0003
> ```
> static BufferDesc *
> NextStratBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
> Buffer sweep_end,
> XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
> ``
>
> “Strat” is confusing. I think it’s the short version of “Strategy”. As
> this is a static function, and other function names all have the whole word
> of “strategy”, why don’t also use the whole word in this function name as
> well?
>
> 5 - 0004
> ```
> +uint32
> +StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> +{
> + uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
> + uint32 max_write_batch_size;
> + int strategy_pin_limit;
> +
> + max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
> +
> + strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> + max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
> +
> + max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit,
> max_write_batch_size);
> + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit,
> max_write_batch_size);
> + max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
> + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
> + Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> + return max_write_batch_size;
> +}
> ```
>
> This implementation is hard to understand. I tried to simplify it:
> ```
> uint32
> StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> {
> int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(GetPinLimit(),
> (uint32)strategy_pin_limit);
>
> /* Clamp to io_combine_limit and enforce minimum of 1 */
> if (max_write_batch_size > io_combine_limit)
> max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
> if (max_write_batch_size == 0)
> max_write_batch_size = 1;
>
> Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> return max_write_batch_size;
> }
> ```
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Chao Li (Evan)
> HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
> https://www.highgo.com/
>
>
>
> Hello All,
> As per reference to the previous mails, I understood the changes made and
> had tried to replicate the patches into the source code for the bug fix but
> it didn't show any significant bug. Also I ran some verification tests for
> the recent changes related to batched write statistics during checkpoints.
> Below are my observations and results:
>
> Test Setup
>
> -
>
> PostgreSQL version: 19devel (custom build)
> -
>
> OS: Ubuntu Linux
> -
>
> Port: 55432
> -
>
> Database: postgres
> -
>
> Test tool: pgbench
> -
>
> Duration: 120 seconds
> -
>
> Command used: pgbench -c 4 -j 4 -T 120 -p 55432 -d postgres
>
> Log Output
After running the workload, I triggered a manual checkpoint and checked the
latest log entry:
2025-10-28 16:53:05.696 IST [11422] LOG: checkpoint complete:
wrote 1383 buffers (8.4%), wrote 3 SLRU buffers;
write=0.023 s, sync=0.017 s, total=0.071 s;
sync files=8, longest=0.004 s, average=0.003 s;
distance=33437 kB, estimate=308790 kB;
Observations:
Metric
Value
Source
Interpretation
Buffers written
1383
From log
Consistent with moderate workload
Checkpoint write time
0.023 s
From log
Realistic for ~11 MB write
Checkpoint sync time
0.017 s
From log
Reasonable
Total checkpoint time
0.071 s
From log
≈ write + sync + small overhead
CHECKPOINT runtime (psql)
-
-
Fast, confirms idle background activity
The total time closely matches the sum of write and sync times, with only a
small overhead (expected for control file updates).
Checkpoint stats in pg_stat_checkpointer also updated correctly, with no
missing or duplicated values.
Expected behavior observed:
-
write + sync ≈ total (no zero, truncation, or aggregation bug)
-
Buffer counts and timing scale realistically with workload
-
No evidence of under- or over-counted times
-
Checkpoint stats properly recorded in log and pg_stat_checkpointer
Math check:
0.023 s + 0.017 s = 0.040 s, total = 0.071 s => difference ≈ 0.03 s
overhead => normal for control file + metadata writes.
Comparison to Prior Reports:
Test
Pre-Patch
Post-Patch
Difference
Checkpoint duration
6.5 s
5.0 s
−23
Heavy workload test
16 s
8 s
−50
Result: It shows consistent and stable timing even under moderate pgbench
load — confirming the patch is integrated and functioning correctly.
Final Status:
Category
Result
Batched Write Stats Accuracy
Verified OK
Timing Aggregation Correctness
Verified OK
pg_stat_checkpointer Consistency
Verified OK
Log Formatting
Normal
Performance Regression
None detected
*Inference:*
-
The reported write, sync, and total timings are consistent and realistic.
-
No anomalies or timing mismatches were seen.
-
Checkpoint performance seems stable and accurate under moderate load.
-
No regression or counter accumulation issues detected.
Also, I have been verifying output using manual queries recording the
observations and find no significant delays. Observations are recorded
below and the screenshots are attached herewith.
Observations:
Metric
Before Activity
After Activity
Notes
Buffers written
27949
27972
Matches wrote 23 buffers from log
Write time
206882
206887
Matches write=0.005 s from log
Sync time
840
877
Matches sync=0.037 s from log
num_done
6
7
Completed successfully
slru_written
8
9
Matches wrote 1 SLRU buffer from log
Stats reset
yes
yes
successful
num_requested
7
8
manual checkpoint recorded
For further review, I have attached the screenshots of my terminal
herewith.
Kindly review the observations and please let me know if any additional
details need to be focused on.
Thanking you.
Regards,
Soumya
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-03 23:34 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 2 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-11-03 23:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Thanks for continuing to review! I've revised the patches to
incorporate all of your feedback except for where I mention below.
There were failures in CI due to issues with max batch size, so
attached v8 also seeks to fix those.
- Melanie
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 3 - 0003
> ```
> +/*
> + * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
> + * over.
> + */
> +Buffer
> +StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *sweep_cursor)
> +{
> + if (++(*sweep_cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
> + *sweep_cursor = 0;
> +
> + return strategy->buffers[*sweep_cursor];
> +}
> ```
>
> Feels the function comment is a bit confusing, because the function code doesn’t really perform sweep, the function is just a getter. InvalidBuffer just implies the current sweep is over.
>
> Maybe rephrase to something like: “Return the next buffer in the range. If InvalidBuffer is returned, that implies the current sweep is done."
Yes, actually I think having these helpers mention the sweep is more
confusing than anything else. I've revised them to be named more
generically and updated the comments accordingly.
> 5 - 0004
> ```
> +uint32
> +StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> +{
> + uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
> + uint32 max_write_batch_size;
> + int strategy_pin_limit;
> +
> + max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
> +
> + strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> + max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
> +
> + max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
> + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
> + max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
> + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
> + Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> + return max_write_batch_size;
> +}
> ```
>
> This implementation is hard to understand. I tried to simplify it:
> ```
> uint32
> StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> {
> int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(GetPinLimit(), (uint32)strategy_pin_limit);
>
> /* Clamp to io_combine_limit and enforce minimum of 1 */
> if (max_write_batch_size > io_combine_limit)
> max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
> if (max_write_batch_size == 0)
> max_write_batch_size = 1;
>
> Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> return max_write_batch_size;
> }
> ```
I agree that the implementation was hard to understand. I've not quite
gone with your version but I have rewritten it like this:
uint32
StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
{
uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit,
MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
/* Identify the minimum of the above */
max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
/* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
return max_write_batch_size;
}
Is this better?
- Melanie
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From 704280b5ce18697b24051f0413b97b48f0fcf1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:53:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v8 1/7] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with
standard for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
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---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 189 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 20 ++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index e8544acb784..1fadeddf505 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2325,125 +2321,116 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ /* Attempt to claim a victim buffer. Buffer is returned pinned. */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr, buf_state);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
+
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7fe34d3ef4c..b76be264eb5 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -779,12 +780,21 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must hold the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -794,11 +804,17 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
-
return true;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c1206a46aba..8cffa0f73fb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -421,6 +421,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v8-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (7.7K, ../../CAAKRu_Z8GtkTPsbScp8QoNF=V1YT3cVT6mPf1sR-NAtSE+jzoQ@mail.gmail.com/3-v8-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From e6c8f6161f70efc9598913096245bd1f95ebb1f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:54:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v8 2/7] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 140 +++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 1fadeddf505..fc63bb50ca4 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -533,6 +533,12 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
+ IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
+ XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2388,12 +2394,8 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ /* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4271,53 +4273,64 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
- uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
- /*
- * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
- * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
- * anything.
- */
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+/*
+ * Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
+ *
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
+ * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
+ * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ return;
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
+ * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
+ * anything.
*/
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
- UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4330,9 +4343,50 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
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From c17abbb030a4ef996508294168941ccaaaea2bfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:15:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v8 3/7] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes.
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 238 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 ++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index fc63bb50ca4..2de68e78b4e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -531,14 +531,25 @@ static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_c
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
+
+static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
- IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2395,7 +2406,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4279,6 +4290,61 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * Caller must not already hold the buffer header spinlock.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * See buffer flushing code for more details on why we condition this on
+ * the relation being logged.
+ */
+ return buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
+ * writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) != sweep_end)
+ {
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
*
@@ -4289,21 +4355,177 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* bufdesc may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
+ &max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that
+ * should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that theres a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leake a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, we should use that slot the next
+ * time we try and reserve a spot.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header. We have to lock
+ * the buffer header later if we succeed in pinning the buffer here, but
+ * avoiding locking the buffer header if the buffer is in use is worth it.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* We don't eagerly flush buffers used by others */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufdesc);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufdesc->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc, buf_state);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index b76be264eb5..c9cf21bdae1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -156,6 +156,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -307,6 +332,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Given a position in the ring, cursor, increment the position, and return
+ * the buffer at this position.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 8cffa0f73fb..409b52b3d48 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -441,6 +441,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v8-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (16.5K, ../../CAAKRu_Z8GtkTPsbScp8QoNF=V1YT3cVT6mPf1sR-NAtSE+jzoQ@mail.gmail.com/5-v8-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From 4640e59ddb4718771219b321f9c269e707f3f707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v8 4/7] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 217 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 23 +++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 34 +++-
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 286 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 2de68e78b4e..a5eff9fa2b6 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -537,7 +537,11 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer sweep_end,
XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
-
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
@@ -4311,10 +4315,91 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a buffer descriptor, start, from a strategy ring, strategy, that
+ * supports eager flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be
+ * combined into a single write batch with this buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to write this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start, buf_state);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
- * writing out.
+ * writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4361,7 +4446,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
@@ -4371,19 +4455,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end, bufdesc, max_batch_size,
+ &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
&max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
}
@@ -4528,6 +4615,70 @@ except_unpin_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], &lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
@@ -4688,6 +4839,48 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf));
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index c9cf21bdae1..b70851e59d7 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -775,6 +775,29 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Identify the minimum of the above */
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index aac6e695954..7c2ec99f939 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 409b52b3d48..799c447f88e 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -418,6 +418,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -431,6 +459,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
@@ -442,9 +471,12 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- int *cursor);
+ int *sweep_cursor);
extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index abc2cf2a020..29a400a71eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -506,5 +506,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 018b5919cf6..e1210029b3e 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v8-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_Z8GtkTPsbScp8QoNF=V1YT3cVT6mPf1sR-NAtSE+jzoQ@mail.gmail.com/6-v8-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From 91c591f6f075ead014360252bbc008ca609af726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v8 5/7] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a5eff9fa2b6..a0f7f686c42 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3408,6 +3408,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6804,6 +6805,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 799c447f88e..a2cdf73ab32 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ extern uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v8-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.8K, ../../CAAKRu_Z8GtkTPsbScp8QoNF=V1YT3cVT6mPf1sR-NAtSE+jzoQ@mail.gmail.com/7-v8-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From c21d6828eb72122313c8f54692592be1d4c6c919 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v8 6/7] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 221 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a0f7f686c42..3273e1c44ec 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
@@ -3350,7 +3351,6 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3362,6 +3362,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3392,6 +3394,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3532,48 +3535,196 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = CheckpointerMaxBatchSize();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.rlocator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, false);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ buf_state &= ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED;
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -6406,6 +6557,22 @@ IsBufferCleanupOK(Buffer buffer)
return false;
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Min(result, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Functions for buffer I/O handling
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
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From 95a2b7a7dcc1d981e1fe5784db25304d5596ec72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v8 7/7] WIP: Refactor SyncOneBuffer for bgwriter only
Only bgwriter uses SyncOneBuffer now so we can remove the
skip_recently_used parameter and make it the default.
5e89985928795f243 introduced the pattern of using a CAS loop instead of
locking the buffer header and then calling PinBuffer_Locked(). Do that
in SyncOneBuffer() so we can avoid taking the buffer header spinlock in
the common case that the buffer is recently used.
ci-os-only: windows
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 3273e1c44ec..726b5dcde28 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -515,8 +515,7 @@ static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -3998,8 +3997,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -4062,8 +4060,8 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/*
* SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
*
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ * We don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor buffers marked recently used,
+ * as these are not replacement candidates.
*
* Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
* BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
@@ -4074,53 +4072,71 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
*/
static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
int result = 0;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
uint32 buf_state;
BufferTag tag;
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
/*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
*/
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ for (;;)
{
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * We can make these check without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Don't write recently-used buffers */
+ return result;
+ }
+
result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
- return result;
- }
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr, buf_state);
- return result;
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufHdr->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr));
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ * Share lock and write it out (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the buffer
+ * is clean by the time we've locked it.)
*/
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
tag = bufHdr->tag;
@@ -4128,8 +4144,8 @@ SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
/*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by bgwriter, so IOContext will always be
+ * IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
--
2.43.0
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-12 11:40 BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: BharatDB @ 2025-11-12 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Hi all,
Considering the CI failures in earlier patch versions around “max batch
size”, upon my observation I found the failures arise either from boundary
conditions when io_combine_limit (GUC) is set larger than the compile-time
MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT or when pin limits return small/zero values due to
which it produce out-of-range batch sizes or assertion failures in CI.
Comparing the approaches suggested in the thread, I think implementing (GUC
+ compile-time cap first, and then pin limits) could be more effective in
avoiding CI failures and also we should consider the following logic
conditions:
1.
Set io_combine_limit == 0 explicitly (fallback to 1 for forward
progress).
2.
Cap early to a conservative compile_cap (MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT - 1) to
avoid array overflow. Otherwise if we confirm all slots are usable,
change to MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT.
3.
Apply per-strategy pin and global pin limits only if they are positive.
4.
Use explicit typed comparisons to avoid signed/unsigned pitfalls and add
a final Assert() to capture assumptions in CI.
*Implementation logic:*
uint32
StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
{
uint32 max_write_batch_size;
uint32 compile_cap = MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT - 1; /*
conservative cap */
int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
max_write_batch_size = (io_combine_limit == 0) ? 1 : io_combine_limit;
if (max_write_batch_size > compile_cap)
max_write_batch_size = compile_cap;
if (strategy_pin_limit > 0 &&
(uint32) strategy_pin_limit < max_write_batch_size)
max_write_batch_size = (uint32) strategy_pin_limit;
if (max_possible_buffer_limit > 0 &&
max_possible_buffer_limit < max_write_batch_size)
max_write_batch_size = max_possible_buffer_limit;
if (max_write_batch_size == 0)
max_write_batch_size = 1;
Assert(max_write_batch_size <= compile_cap);
return max_write_batch_size;
}
I hope this will be helpful for proceeding further. Looking forward to
more feedback.
Thanking you.
Regards,
Soumya
On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks for continuing to review! I've revised the patches to
> incorporate all of your feedback except for where I mention below.
>
> There were failures in CI due to issues with max batch size, so
> attached v8 also seeks to fix those.
>
> - Melanie
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 3 - 0003
> > ```
> > +/*
> > + * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current
> sweep is
> > + * over.
> > + */
> > +Buffer
> > +StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int
> *sweep_cursor)
> > +{
> > + if (++(*sweep_cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
> > + *sweep_cursor = 0;
> > +
> > + return strategy->buffers[*sweep_cursor];
> > +}
> > ```
> >
> > Feels the function comment is a bit confusing, because the function code
> doesn’t really perform sweep, the function is just a getter. InvalidBuffer
> just implies the current sweep is over.
> >
> > Maybe rephrase to something like: “Return the next buffer in the range.
> If InvalidBuffer is returned, that implies the current sweep is done."
>
> Yes, actually I think having these helpers mention the sweep is more
> confusing than anything else. I've revised them to be named more
> generically and updated the comments accordingly.
>
> > 5 - 0004
> > ```
> > +uint32
> > +StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> > +{
> > + uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
> > + uint32 max_write_batch_size;
> > + int strategy_pin_limit;
> > +
> > + max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
> > +
> > + strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> > + max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
> > +
> > + max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit,
> max_write_batch_size);
> > + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit,
> max_write_batch_size);
> > + max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
> > + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size,
> io_combine_limit);
> > + Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> > + return max_write_batch_size;
> > +}
> > ```
> >
> > This implementation is hard to understand. I tried to simplify it:
> > ```
> > uint32
> > StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> > {
> > int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> > uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(GetPinLimit(),
> (uint32)strategy_pin_limit);
> >
> > /* Clamp to io_combine_limit and enforce minimum of 1 */
> > if (max_write_batch_size > io_combine_limit)
> > max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
> > if (max_write_batch_size == 0)
> > max_write_batch_size = 1;
> >
> > Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> > return max_write_batch_size;
> > }
> > ```
>
> I agree that the implementation was hard to understand. I've not quite
> gone with your version but I have rewritten it like this:
>
> uint32
> StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> {
> uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit,
> MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> int strategy_pin_limit =
> GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
>
> /* Identify the minimum of the above */
> max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
> max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit,
> max_write_batch_size);
>
> /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
> max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
>
> return max_write_batch_size;
> }
>
> Is this better?
>
> - Melanie
>
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-13 08:29 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2025-11-13 08:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Nov 4, 2025, at 07:34, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for continuing to review! I've revised the patches to
> incorporate all of your feedback except for where I mention below.
>
> There were failures in CI due to issues with max batch size, so
> attached v8 also seeks to fix those.
>
> - Melanie
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 3 - 0003
>> ```
>> +/*
>> + * Return the next buffer in the ring or InvalidBuffer if the current sweep is
>> + * over.
>> + */
>> +Buffer
>> +StrategySweepNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *sweep_cursor)
>> +{
>> + if (++(*sweep_cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
>> + *sweep_cursor = 0;
>> +
>> + return strategy->buffers[*sweep_cursor];
>> +}
>> ```
>>
>> Feels the function comment is a bit confusing, because the function code doesn’t really perform sweep, the function is just a getter. InvalidBuffer just implies the current sweep is over.
>>
>> Maybe rephrase to something like: “Return the next buffer in the range. If InvalidBuffer is returned, that implies the current sweep is done."
>
> Yes, actually I think having these helpers mention the sweep is more
> confusing than anything else. I've revised them to be named more
> generically and updated the comments accordingly.
>
>> 5 - 0004
>> ```
>> +uint32
>> +StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
>> +{
>> + uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit;
>> + uint32 max_write_batch_size;
>> + int strategy_pin_limit;
>> +
>> + max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
>> +
>> + strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
>> + max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
>> +
>> + max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
>> + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
>> + max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
>> + max_write_batch_size = Min(max_write_batch_size, io_combine_limit);
>> + Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
>> + return max_write_batch_size;
>> +}
>> ```
>>
>> This implementation is hard to understand. I tried to simplify it:
>> ```
>> uint32
>> StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
>> {
>> int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
>> uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(GetPinLimit(), (uint32)strategy_pin_limit);
>>
>> /* Clamp to io_combine_limit and enforce minimum of 1 */
>> if (max_write_batch_size > io_combine_limit)
>> max_write_batch_size = io_combine_limit;
>> if (max_write_batch_size == 0)
>> max_write_batch_size = 1;
>>
>> Assert(max_write_batch_size < MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
>> return max_write_batch_size;
>> }
>> ```
>
> I agree that the implementation was hard to understand. I've not quite
> gone with your version but I have rewritten it like this:
>
> uint32
> StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> {
> uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit,
> MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
>
> /* Identify the minimum of the above */
> max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
> max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
>
> /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
> max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
>
> return max_write_batch_size;
> }
>
> Is this better?
Yes, I think your version is safer because it enforces the max limit at runtime instead of only asserting it in debug builds.
>
> - Melanie
> <v8-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch><v8-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch><v8-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v8-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v8-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v8-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch><v8-0007-WIP-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-only.patch>
I quickly went through 0001-0006, looks good to me now. As 0007 has WIP in the subject, I skipped it.
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-18 18:29 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-11-18 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Considering the CI failures in earlier patch versions around “max batch size”, upon my observation I found the failures arise either from boundary conditions when io_combine_limit (GUC) is set larger than the compile-time MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT
How could io_combine_limit be higher than MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT? The
GUC is capped to MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT -- see guc_parameters.dat.
> or when pin limits return small/zero values due to which it produce out-of-range batch sizes or assertion failures in CI.
This is true. But I think it can be solved with a single comparison to
1 as in the recent version.
> Comparing the approaches suggested in the thread, I think implementing (GUC + compile-time cap first, and then pin limits) could be more effective in avoiding CI failures and also we should consider the following logic conditions:
>
> Set io_combine_limit == 0 explicitly (fallback to 1 for forward progress).
The io_combine_limit GUC has a minimum value of 1 (in guc_parameters.dat)
> Use explicit typed comparisons to avoid signed/unsigned pitfalls and add a final Assert() to capture assumptions in CI.
I think my new version works.
uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit,
MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
/* Identify the minimum of the above */
max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
/* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
return max_write_batch_size;
GetAccessStrategyPinLimit() is the only function returning a signed
value here -- and it should always return a positive value (while I
wish we would use unsigned integers when a value will never be
negative, the strategy->nbuffers struct member was added a long time
ago). Then the Min() macro should work correctly and produce a value
that fits in a uint32 because of integer promotion rules.
- Melanie
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-18 18:49 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-11-18 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 4, 2025, at 07:34, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > uint32
> > StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
> > {
> > uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit,
> > MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> > int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> > uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
> >
> > /* Identify the minimum of the above */
> > max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
> > max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
> >
> > /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
> > max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
> >
> > return max_write_batch_size;
> > }
> >
> > Is this better?
>
> Yes, I think your version is safer because it enforces the max limit at runtime instead of only asserting it in debug builds.
Cool. I've attached a v9 which is rebased over recent bufmgr.c
changes. In the process, I found a bit of cleanup to do.
> I quickly went through 0001-0006, looks good to me now. As 0007 has WIP in the subject, I skipped it.
I no longer remember why I made that patch WIP, so I've removed that
designation.
- Melanie
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[text/x-patch] v9-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.2K, ../../CAAKRu_ZfneK9hEQs-ht2696aJ3ZSJs1c_-rXzBmyKjPDYRnqgA@mail.gmail.com/2-v9-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From 59432c8962cd1d7866493492149963485f6e63e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:53:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v9 1/7] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with
standard for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 189 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 19 ++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 327ddb7adc8..90c24b8d93d 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2331,125 +2327,116 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ /* Attempt to claim a victim buffer. Buffer is returned pinned. */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
+
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 28d952b3534..1465984b141 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -780,12 +781,20 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must hold the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -795,11 +804,17 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf);
+
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
-
return true;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 5400c56a965..04fdea64f83 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -486,6 +486,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v9-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (7.7K, ../../CAAKRu_ZfneK9hEQs-ht2696aJ3ZSJs1c_-rXzBmyKjPDYRnqgA@mail.gmail.com/3-v9-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 8dff2f6ba609909f2820acde080228b799f3fb02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:54:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v9 2/7] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 142 +++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 90c24b8d93d..235e261738b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -533,6 +533,12 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
+ IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
+ XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2394,12 +2400,8 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ /* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4270,54 +4272,64 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
- uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
- /*
- * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
- * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
- * anything.
- */
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+/*
+ * Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
+ *
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
+ * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
+ * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ return;
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
+ * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
+ * anything.
*/
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- UnlockBufHdrExt(buf, buf_state,
- 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
- 0);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4330,9 +4342,51 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state,
+ 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
+ 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v9-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (12.7K, ../../CAAKRu_ZfneK9hEQs-ht2696aJ3ZSJs1c_-rXzBmyKjPDYRnqgA@mail.gmail.com/4-v9-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From d4d815c9ef5a270d8e9c7dde59e2121d3c1586a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:15:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v9 3/7] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes, as it lines up multiple
buffers that can be issued asynchronously once the infrastructure
exists.
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 237 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 ++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 281 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 235e261738b..57a3eae865e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -531,14 +531,25 @@ static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_c
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
+
+static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
- IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2401,7 +2412,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4278,6 +4289,61 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * Caller must not already hold the buffer header spinlock.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * See buffer flushing code for more details on why we condition this on
+ * the relation being logged.
+ */
+ return buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
+ * writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) != sweep_end)
+ {
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
*
@@ -4288,21 +4354,176 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* bufdesc may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
+ &max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that
+ * should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that theres a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leake a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, we should use that slot the next
+ * time we try and reserve a spot.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header. We have to lock
+ * the buffer header later if we succeed in pinning the buffer here, but
+ * avoiding locking the buffer header if the buffer is in use is worth it.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* We don't eagerly flush buffers used by others */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufdesc);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufdesc->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 1465984b141..10301f4aab2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -156,6 +156,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -307,6 +332,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Given a position in the ring, cursor, increment the position, and return
+ * the buffer at this position.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 04fdea64f83..c07e309a288 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -506,6 +506,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
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From 943acb585388f2d7ac6d5f1acc16d2aa7c122a7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v9 4/7] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 23 +++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 ++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 57a3eae865e..8a3a5a04d91 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -537,7 +537,11 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer sweep_end,
XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
-
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
@@ -4310,10 +4314,90 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a starting buffer descriptor from a strategy ring that supports eager
+ * flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
+ * single write batch with the starting buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to issue this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
- * writing out.
+ * writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4360,7 +4444,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
@@ -4370,19 +4453,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end, bufdesc, max_batch_size,
+ &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
&max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
}
@@ -4526,6 +4612,70 @@ except_unpin_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], &lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
@@ -4687,6 +4837,48 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf));
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 10301f4aab2..6eeefccfeca 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -776,6 +776,29 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Identify the minimum of the above */
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index aac6e695954..7c2ec99f939 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c07e309a288..ab502c4f825 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -483,6 +483,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -496,6 +524,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
@@ -507,9 +536,12 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *cursor);
extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index abc2cf2a020..29a400a71eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -506,5 +506,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 23bce72ae64..20e31307c6f 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v9-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZfneK9hEQs-ht2696aJ3ZSJs1c_-rXzBmyKjPDYRnqgA@mail.gmail.com/6-v9-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From f53a2be31f3853db95a56b6f7e9448ca328ff4a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v9 5/7] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 8a3a5a04d91..7ecf201d1ef 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3405,6 +3405,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6810,6 +6811,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index ab502c4f825..feb370175f0 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ extern uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v9-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZfneK9hEQs-ht2696aJ3ZSJs1c_-rXzBmyKjPDYRnqgA@mail.gmail.com/7-v9-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From a410d8ee569b27878c22a1061ef789749c8f8c38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v9 6/7] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 224 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 7ecf201d1ef..bfc07edb40e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
@@ -3346,7 +3347,6 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3358,6 +3358,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3389,6 +3391,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint32 set_bits = 0;
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3531,48 +3534,199 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = CheckpointerMaxBatchSize();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
}
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.rlocator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, false);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Lock buffer header lock before examining LSN because we only
+ * have a shared lock on the buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufHdr, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -6408,6 +6562,22 @@ IsBufferCleanupOK(Buffer buffer)
return false;
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Min(result, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Functions for buffer I/O handling
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v9-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch (5.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZfneK9hEQs-ht2696aJ3ZSJs1c_-rXzBmyKjPDYRnqgA@mail.gmail.com/8-v9-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch)
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From c876c4c0bd2107121aae003ffaf1ed01e8be4097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v9 7/7] Refactor SyncOneBuffer for bgwriter use only
Since xxx, only bgwriter uses SyncOneBuffer, so we can remove the
skip_recently_used parameter and make that behavior the default.
While we are at it, 5e89985928795f243 introduced the pattern of using a
CAS loop instead of locking the buffer header and then calling
PinBuffer_Locked(). Do that in SyncOneBuffer() so we can avoid taking
the buffer header spinlock in the common case that the buffer is
recently used.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index bfc07edb40e..fc4735038bd 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -515,8 +515,7 @@ static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -4000,8 +3999,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -4064,8 +4062,8 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/*
* SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
*
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ * We don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor buffers marked recently used,
+ * as these are not replacement candidates.
*
* Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
* BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
@@ -4076,53 +4074,71 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
*/
static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
int result = 0;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
uint32 buf_state;
BufferTag tag;
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
/*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
*/
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ for (;;)
{
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * We can make these check without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Don't write recently-used buffers */
+ return result;
+ }
+
result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufHdr->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr));
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ * Share lock and write it out (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the buffer
+ * is clean by the time we've locked it.)
*/
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
tag = bufHdr->tag;
@@ -4130,8 +4146,8 @@ SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
/*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by bgwriter, so IOContext will always be
+ * IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-19 02:00 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2025-11-19 02:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Nov 19, 2025, at 02:49, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I no longer remember why I made that patch WIP, so I've removed that
> designation.
I just reviewed 0007. It removes the second parameter "bool skip_recently_used” from SyncOneBuffer. The function is static and is only called in one place with skip_recently_used=true, thus removing the parameter seems reasonable, and without considering pinned buffer, the function is simplified a little bit.
I only got a tiny comment:
```
+ * We can make these check without taking the buffer content lock so
```
As you changed “this” to “these”, “check” should be changed to “checks” accordingly.
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-19 02:09 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2025-11-19 02:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Nov 19, 2025, at 10:00, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Nov 19, 2025, at 02:49, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I no longer remember why I made that patch WIP, so I've removed that
>> designation.
>
> I just reviewed 0007. It removes the second parameter "bool skip_recently_used” from SyncOneBuffer. The function is static and is only called in one place with skip_recently_used=true, thus removing the parameter seems reasonable, and without considering pinned buffer, the function is simplified a little bit.
>
> I only got a tiny comment:
> ```
> + * We can make these check without taking the buffer content lock so
> ```
>
> As you changed “this” to “these”, “check” should be changed to “checks” accordingly.
>
I just got an compile error:
```
bufmgr.c:3580:33: error: no member named 'dbId' in 'struct CkptSortItem'
3580 | batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
| ~~~~ ^
bufmgr.c:3598:13: error: no member named 'dbId' in 'struct CkptSortItem'
3598 | if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
| ~~~~ ^
2 errors generated.
make[4]: *** [bufmgr.o] Error 1
```
I tried “make clean” and “make” again, which didn’t work. I think the error is introduced by 0006.
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-19 11:21 BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: BharatDB @ 2025-11-19 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Hi Melanie,
Thank you for the detailed clarifications which helped me understand
the constraints much more clearly. You are absolutely right regarding
the key points you specified. My initial concern came from trying to
avoid cases where strategy pin limits were unexpectedly small (0 or
negative) or global pin limits temporarily shrink due to memory issue
/ fast cycling of pins.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM BharatDB <bharatdbpg@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Considering the CI failures in earlier patch versions around “max batch size”, upon my observation I found the failures arise either from boundary conditions when io_combine_limit (GUC) is set larger than the compile-time MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT
>
> How could io_combine_limit be higher than MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT? The
> GUC is capped to MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT -- see guc_parameters.dat.
After revisiting guc_parameters.dat, Now I see that the GUC is
strictly capped at MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT, so comparisons against larger
values are unnecessary. Thus my earlier concern came from assuming
some unbounded user-provided values are not applicable here.
> > or when pin limits return small/zero values due to which it produce out-of-range batch sizes or assertion failures in CI.
>
> This is true. But I think it can be solved with a single comparison to
> 1 as in the recent version.
ok
> > Comparing the approaches suggested in the thread, I think implementing (GUC + compile-time cap first, and then pin limits) could be more effective in avoiding CI failures and also we should consider the following logic conditions:
> >
> > Set io_combine_limit == 0 explicitly (fallback to 1 for forward progress).
>
> The io_combine_limit GUC has a minimum value of 1 (in guc_parameters.dat)
Noted.
> > Use explicit typed comparisons to avoid signed/unsigned pitfalls and add a final Assert() to capture assumptions in CI.
>
> I think my new version works.
>
> uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit,
> MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
> int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
> uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
>
> /* Identify the minimum of the above */
> max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
> max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
>
> /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
> max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
>
> return max_write_batch_size;
>
> GetAccessStrategyPinLimit() is the only function returning a signed
> value here -- and it should always return a positive value (while I
> wish we would use unsigned integers when a value will never be
> negative, the strategy->nbuffers struct member was added a long time
> ago). Then the Min() macro should work correctly and produce a value
> that fits in a uint32 because of integer promotion rules.
Th explanation about GetAccessStrategyPinLimit() (despite being int)
makes sense and I agree that with the Min() macro and integer
promotion rules, the outcome is always safe. Therefore, explicit typed
comparisons are indeed redundant. However, after reviewing the
existing code paths and your updated version,
max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
=> It is clear that both GetAccessStrategyPinLimit() and GetPinLimit()
should always return sensible positive values and the fallback fully
covers the forward-progress requirement. And I agree that it is both
correct and sufficient for the CI failures we were seeing earlier.
Thank you for helping me understand the reasoning behind this design.
And this will be kept in mind for further work on implementing write
combining.
I appreciate your patience and the opportunity to refine my
assumptions. Looking forward to more suggestions and feedbacks.
Thanking you.
Regards,
Soumya
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-19 22:12 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-11-19 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Thanks for the review!
On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 19, 2025, at 10:00, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just reviewed 0007. It removes the second parameter "bool skip_recently_used” from SyncOneBuffer. The function is static and is only called in one place with skip_recently_used=true, thus removing the parameter seems reasonable, and without considering pinned buffer, the function is simplified a little bit.
> >
> > I only got a tiny comment:
> > ```
> > + * We can make these check without taking the buffer content lock so
> > ```
> >
> > As you changed “this” to “these”, “check” should be changed to “checks” accordingly.
I've made this change. Attached v10 has this.
> I just got an compile error:
> ```
> bufmgr.c:3580:33: error: no member named 'dbId' in 'struct CkptSortItem'
> 3580 | batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
> | ~~~~ ^
> bufmgr.c:3598:13: error: no member named 'dbId' in 'struct CkptSortItem'
> 3598 | if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
> | ~~~~ ^
> 2 errors generated.
> make[4]: *** [bufmgr.o] Error 1
> ```
>
> I tried “make clean” and “make” again, which didn’t work. I think the error is introduced by 0006.
Are you sure you applied 0005? It is the one that adds dbId to CkptSortItem.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v10-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.2K, ../../CAAKRu_ZBzTp-o4pu1UwmpLWkFmAmP7dyGFo867HxMo-AF+=MDw@mail.gmail.com/2-v10-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From 98b5bf6872b5c8b1e2d4f42c7d8a7e01a1c7858f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:53:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 1/7] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with
standard for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 189 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 19 ++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 327ddb7adc8..90c24b8d93d 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2331,125 +2327,116 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ /* Attempt to claim a victim buffer. Buffer is returned pinned. */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
+
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 28d952b3534..acbabeb3c3b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -780,12 +781,20 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must hold the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -795,11 +804,17 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf);
+
+ if (!XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
-
return true;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 5400c56a965..04fdea64f83 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -486,6 +486,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v10-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (7.7K, ../../CAAKRu_ZBzTp-o4pu1UwmpLWkFmAmP7dyGFo867HxMo-AF+=MDw@mail.gmail.com/3-v10-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 7bf89e41ee440bf7515d49058abdc3c6bc639828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:54:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 2/7] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 142 +++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 90c24b8d93d..235e261738b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -533,6 +533,12 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
+ IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
+ XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2394,12 +2400,8 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ /* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4270,54 +4272,64 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
- uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
- /*
- * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
- * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
- * anything.
- */
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+/*
+ * Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
+ *
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
+ * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
+ * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ return;
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
+ * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
+ * anything.
*/
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- UnlockBufHdrExt(buf, buf_state,
- 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
- 0);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4330,9 +4342,51 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state,
+ 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
+ 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v10-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (12.7K, ../../CAAKRu_ZBzTp-o4pu1UwmpLWkFmAmP7dyGFo867HxMo-AF+=MDw@mail.gmail.com/4-v10-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From cc26976f233bc9bb02915c8dbd6deb5dc28244ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:15:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 3/7] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes, as it lines up multiple
buffers that can be issued asynchronously once the infrastructure
exists.
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 237 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 ++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 281 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 235e261738b..57a3eae865e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -531,14 +531,25 @@ static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_c
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
+
+static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
- IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2401,7 +2412,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4278,6 +4289,61 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * Caller must not already hold the buffer header spinlock.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * See buffer flushing code for more details on why we condition this on
+ * the relation being logged.
+ */
+ return buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
+ * writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) != sweep_end)
+ {
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
*
@@ -4288,21 +4354,176 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* bufdesc may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
return;
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
+ &max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that
+ * should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that theres a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leake a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, we should use that slot the next
+ * time we try and reserve a spot.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header. We have to lock
+ * the buffer header later if we succeed in pinning the buffer here, but
+ * avoiding locking the buffer header if the buffer is in use is worth it.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* We don't eagerly flush buffers used by others */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufdesc);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufdesc->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index acbabeb3c3b..4a3009d190c 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -156,6 +156,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -307,6 +332,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Given a position in the ring, cursor, increment the position, and return
+ * the buffer at this position.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 04fdea64f83..c07e309a288 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -506,6 +506,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v10-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (16.4K, ../../CAAKRu_ZBzTp-o4pu1UwmpLWkFmAmP7dyGFo867HxMo-AF+=MDw@mail.gmail.com/5-v10-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From eb89dfc1488a0410da06cbc5d387c41623b7bc1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 4/7] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 23 +++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 ++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 57a3eae865e..8a3a5a04d91 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -537,7 +537,11 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer sweep_end,
XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
-
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
@@ -4310,10 +4314,90 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a starting buffer descriptor from a strategy ring that supports eager
+ * flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
+ * single write batch with the starting buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to issue this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
- * writing out.
+ * writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4360,7 +4444,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
- bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
@@ -4370,19 +4453,22 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end, bufdesc, max_batch_size,
+ &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
&max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
}
@@ -4526,6 +4612,70 @@ except_unpin_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], &lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
@@ -4687,6 +4837,48 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf));
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 4a3009d190c..189274fc0c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -776,6 +776,29 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Identify the minimum of the above */
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index aac6e695954..7c2ec99f939 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c07e309a288..ab502c4f825 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -483,6 +483,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -496,6 +524,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
@@ -507,9 +536,12 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *cursor);
extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index abc2cf2a020..29a400a71eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -506,5 +506,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 57f2a9ccdc5..7ad60afe702 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v10-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZBzTp-o4pu1UwmpLWkFmAmP7dyGFo867HxMo-AF+=MDw@mail.gmail.com/6-v10-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From 962dbb9e2967a41c20f9bfda0edad551a061094c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 5/7] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 8a3a5a04d91..7ecf201d1ef 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3405,6 +3405,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6810,6 +6811,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index ab502c4f825..feb370175f0 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ extern uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v10-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZBzTp-o4pu1UwmpLWkFmAmP7dyGFo867HxMo-AF+=MDw@mail.gmail.com/7-v10-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From a06ece1b615f3c5ee374818a31f08a6b6ff897c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 6/7] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Soumya <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 224 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 7ecf201d1ef..bfc07edb40e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
@@ -3346,7 +3347,6 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3358,6 +3358,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3389,6 +3391,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint32 set_bits = 0;
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3531,48 +3534,199 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = CheckpointerMaxBatchSize();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
}
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.rlocator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, false);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Lock buffer header lock before examining LSN because we only
+ * have a shared lock on the buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufHdr, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -6408,6 +6562,22 @@ IsBufferCleanupOK(Buffer buffer)
return false;
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Min(result, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Functions for buffer I/O handling
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v10-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch (6.1K, ../../CAAKRu_ZBzTp-o4pu1UwmpLWkFmAmP7dyGFo867HxMo-AF+=MDw@mail.gmail.com/8-v10-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch)
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From 524d031716b61e44d29fed8a1d72b64125eebc1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 7/7] Refactor SyncOneBuffer for bgwriter use only
Since xxx, only bgwriter uses SyncOneBuffer, so we can remove the
skip_recently_used parameter and make that behavior the default.
While we are at it, 5e89985928795f243 introduced the pattern of using a
CAS loop instead of locking the buffer header and then calling
PinBuffer_Locked(). Do that in SyncOneBuffer() so we can avoid taking
the buffer header spinlock in the common case that the buffer is
recently used.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index bfc07edb40e..378ae71a5ee 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -515,8 +515,7 @@ static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -4000,8 +3999,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -4064,8 +4062,8 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/*
* SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
*
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ * We don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor buffers marked recently used,
+ * as these are not replacement candidates.
*
* Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
* BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
@@ -4076,53 +4074,71 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
*/
static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
int result = 0;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
uint32 buf_state;
BufferTag tag;
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
/*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
*/
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ for (;;)
{
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * We can make these checks without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Don't write recently-used buffers */
+ return result;
+ }
+
result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufHdr->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr));
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ * Share lock and write it out (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the buffer
+ * is clean by the time we've locked it.)
*/
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
tag = bufHdr->tag;
@@ -4130,8 +4146,8 @@ SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
/*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by bgwriter, so IOContext will always be
+ * IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
--
2.43.0
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-20 02:31 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2025-11-20 02:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Nov 20, 2025, at 06:12, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Are you sure you applied 0005? It is the one that adds dbId to CkptSortItem.
>
My bad. Yes, I missed to download and apply 0005.
> - Melanie
> <v10-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch><v10-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch><v10-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v10-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v10-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v10-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch><v10-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch>
I went through the whole patch set again, and got a few more comments:
1 - 0002
```
+/*
+ * Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
+ *
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
+ * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
+ * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ return;
```
I believe when PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn) is false, before “return”, we should release “content_lock”.
Because the function comment clearly says “the content lock must be held exclusively”. Also, looking at the code where CleanVictimBuffer() is called:
```
if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
continue;
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
```
In the previous “if” clause, it releases content_lock.
2 - 0002
```
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
+ * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
+ * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
```
The function comment says "the content lock must be held exclusively”, but from the code:
```
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
{
/*
* Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
* back to get another one.
*/
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
continue;
}
/*
* If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
* require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
* ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
* We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
* be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
*/
if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
continue;
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
```
Content_lock is acquired with LW_SHARED.
3 - 0003
In CleanVictimBuffer(), more logic are added, but the content_lock leak problem is still there.
4 - 0003
```
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * Caller must not already hold the buffer header spinlock.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * See buffer flushing code for more details on why we condition this on
+ * the relation being logged.
+ */
+ return buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
```
This is a new function. I am thinking that if we should only update “lsn” when not BM_PERMANENT? Because from the existing code:
```
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
XLogFlush(recptr);
```
XLogFlush should only happen when BM_PERMANENT.
5 - 0004 - I am thinking if that could be a race condition?
PageSetBatchChecksumInplace() is called once after all pages were pinned earlier, but other backends may modify the page contents while the batch is being assembled, because batching only holds content_lock per page temporarily, not across the entire run.
So that:
• Page A pinned + content lock acquired + LSN read → content lock released
• Another backend modifies Page A and sets new LSN, dirties buffer
• Page A is written by this batch using an outdated checksum / outdated page contents
6 - 0006 - Ah, 0006 seems to have solved comment 3 about BM_PERMANENT.
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-20 22:11 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-11-20 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Thanks for continuing to review this!
On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +static void
> +CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
> + bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
> +{
> + XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
> + LWLock *content_lock;
>
> - /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
> - if (reln == NULL)
> - reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
> + /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
> + if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
> + return;
> ```
>
> I believe when PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn) is false, before “return”, we should release “content_lock”.
Oh wow, you are so right. That's a big mistake! I would have thought a
test would fail, but it seems we don't have coverage of this. I've
fixed the code in the attached v11. I'll see how difficult it is to
write a test that covers the case where we try to do IO but someone
else has already done it.
> + * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held exclusively, and the
> + * buffer header spinlock must not be held. The exclusive lock is released and
> + * the buffer is returned pinned but not locked.
>
> The function comment says "the content lock must be held exclusively”, but from the code:
> Content_lock is acquired with LW_SHARED.
Thanks, I've updated the comment.
> +static bool
> +BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
> +{
> + uint32 buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
> +
> + *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
> +
> + UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
> +
> + /*
> + * See buffer flushing code for more details on why we condition this on
> + * the relation being logged.
> + */
> + return buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
> +}
>
> This is a new function. I am thinking that if we should only update “lsn” when not BM_PERMANENT?
That makes sense. I don't use the lsn unless the buffer is logged
(BM_PERMANENT), but I think it is weird for the function to set the
LSN if it is returning false. I've modified the function to set it to
InvalidXLogRecPtr when it would return false. I've also added an
assert before XLogFlush() to make sure the buffer is logged before
flushing the WAL.
> 5 - 0004 - I am thinking if that could be a race condition?
>
> PageSetBatchChecksumInplace() is called once after all pages were pinned earlier, but other backends may modify the page contents while the batch is being assembled, because batching only holds content_lock per page temporarily, not across the entire run.
> So that:
> • Page A pinned + content lock acquired + LSN read → content lock released
> • Another backend modifies Page A and sets new LSN, dirties buffer
> • Page A is written by this batch using an outdated checksum / outdated page contents
So, there is a race condition but it is slightly different from the
scenario you mention. We actually hold the content lock until after
doing the write. That means someone else can't get an exclusive lock
and modify the tuple data in the buffer. However, queries can set hint
bits while only holding a share lock. That can update the LSN (if an
FPI is required), which would cause bad things to happen when we write
out a buffer with an outdated checksum. What we do in master is make a
copy of the buffer, checksum it, and write out the copied buffer (see
PageSetChecksumCopy() and its function comment).
I have an XXX in PageSetBatchChecksumInplace() and in the commit
message for this patch explaining that it isn't committable until some
ongoing work Andres is doing adding a new lock type for setting hint
bits is committed. So, this specific part of this patch is WIP.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v11-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch (12.2K, ../../CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7=P9Y=czQ@mail.gmail.com/2-v11-0001-Refactor-goto-into-for-loop-in-GetVictimBuffer.patch)
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From 171fc1e7c2d4a1d4b8fccf338a1203d7fcff0b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:53:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v11 1/7] Refactor goto into for loop in GetVictimBuffer()
GetVictimBuffer() implemented a loop to optimistically lock a clean
victim buffer using a goto. Future commits will add batch flushing
functionality to GetVictimBuffer. The new logic works better with
standard for loop flow control.
This commit is only a refactor and does not introduce any new
functionality.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 189 ++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 19 ++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 5 +
3 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 327ddb7adc8..90c24b8d93d 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2331,125 +2327,116 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ /* Select a victim buffer using an optimistic locking scheme. */
+ for (;;)
{
- LWLock *content_lock;
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ /* Attempt to claim a victim buffer. Buffer is returned pinned. */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
/*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
/*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released
+ * the buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out
+ * (since our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will
+ * recheck the dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+
+ /*
+ * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out
+ * (else we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is
+ * compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
+ * conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even
+ * though the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not
+ * locked) when StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could
+ * have pinned and exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If
+ * we try to get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for
+ * them; if they later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues.
+ * (This has been observed to happen when two backends are both
+ * trying to split btree index pages, and the second one just
+ * happens to be trying to split the page the first one got from
+ * StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop
+ * back to get another one.
+ */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ /*
+ * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
+ * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go
+ * ahead and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim.
+ * We need the content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't
+ * be done inside StrategyGetBuffer.
+ */
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ continue;
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
+ /*
+ * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from
+ * shared buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding
+ * context (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted
+ * by a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers
+ * for the strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring
+ * buffer because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer.
+ * Previously, we may have been forced to release the buffer due
+ * to concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
+
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it.
+ * This can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied
+ * the buffer.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ break;
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 28d952b3534..acbabeb3c3b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -780,12 +781,20 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held. We must hold the content lock to examine the LSN.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -795,11 +804,17 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ LockBufHdr(buf);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf);
+
+ if (!XLogNeedsFlush(lsn))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
-
return true;
}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 5400c56a965..04fdea64f83 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -486,6 +486,11 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v11-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (7.7K, ../../CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7=P9Y=czQ@mail.gmail.com/3-v11-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From 8d2ec82321118daaabbac64785f4de5f7ef9d298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:54:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v11 2/7] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 99 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 90c24b8d93d..c88ff08493c 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -533,6 +533,12 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
+ IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
+ XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2394,12 +2400,8 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
continue;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ /* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
+ CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4270,54 +4272,65 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
- uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
- /*
- * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
- * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
- * anything.
- */
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+/*
+ * Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
+ *
+ * Buffer must be pinned, the content lock must be held, and the buffer header
+ * spinlock must not be held. The content lock is released and the buffer is
+ * returned pinned but not locked.
+ *
+ * bufdesc may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ /* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc));
+ return;
+ }
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc));
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+}
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
+ * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
+ * anything.
*/
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- UnlockBufHdrExt(buf, buf_state,
- 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
- 0);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4330,9 +4343,51 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state,
+ 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
+ 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(buffer_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v11-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (13.3K, ../../CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7=P9Y=czQ@mail.gmail.com/4-v11-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From ddb6b8e78b56d331707c22c7d37af4087182e83c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:15:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v11 3/7] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes, as it lines up multiple
buffers that can be issued asynchronously once the infrastructure
exists.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 249 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 +++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index c88ff08493c..9b39129da42 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -531,14 +531,25 @@ static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_c
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
+
+static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
-static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
- IOContext io_context);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2401,7 +2412,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
}
/* Content lock is released inside CleanVictimBuffer */
- CleanVictimBuffer(buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
+ CleanVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring, io_context);
}
@@ -4278,6 +4289,69 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * Caller must not already hold the buffer header spinlock. If the buffer is
+ * unlogged, *lsn shouldn't be used by the caller and is set to
+ * InvalidXLogRecPtr.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /*
+ * See buffer flushing code for more details on why we condition this on
+ * the relation being logged.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
+ {
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ return XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
+ * should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
+ * writing out.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+
+ while ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) != sweep_end)
+ {
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ if ((bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ InvalidBlockNumber,
+ NULL,
+ true,
+ lsn)) != NULL)
+ return bufdesc;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare and write out a dirty victim buffer.
*
@@ -4288,10 +4362,12 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* bufdesc may be modified.
*/
static void
-CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
@@ -4300,10 +4376,162 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
return;
}
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc));
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
+ if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+
+ /* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
+ do
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc));
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ } while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
+ &max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc));
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &bufdesc->tag);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that
+ * should be flushed.
+ *
+ * require is the BlockNumber required by the caller. Some callers may require
+ * a specific BlockNumber to be in bufnum because they are assembling a
+ * contiguous run of blocks.
+ *
+ * If the caller needs the block to be from a specific relation, rlocator will
+ * be provided.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BlockNumber blknum;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ return NULL;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /* Block may need to be in a specific relation */
+ if (rlocator &&
+ !RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag),
+ *rlocator))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that theres a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leake a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, we should use that slot the next
+ * time we try and reserve a spot.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header. We have to lock
+ * the buffer header later if we succeed in pinning the buffer here, but
+ * avoiding locking the buffer header if the buffer is in use is worth it.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY) || !(buf_state & BM_VALID))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* We don't eagerly flush buffers used by others */
+ if (skip_pinned &&
+ (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufdesc);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufdesc->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ blknum = BufferGetBlockNumber(bufnum);
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blknum));
+
+ /* We only include contiguous blocks in the run */
+ if (BlockNumberIsValid(require) && blknum != require)
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the content lock, we need to recheck if we need to
+ * flush WAL.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, &lsn))
+ goto except_unpin_buffer;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto except_unlock_content;
+
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+except_unlock_content:
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+
+except_unpin_buffer:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
@@ -4387,7 +4615,10 @@ DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
/* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(buffer_lsn))
+ {
+ Assert(pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf->state) & BM_PERMANENT);
XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
+ }
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index acbabeb3c3b..4a3009d190c 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -156,6 +156,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -307,6 +332,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Given a position in the ring, cursor, increment the position, and return
+ * the buffer at this position.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 04fdea64f83..c07e309a288 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -506,6 +506,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
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From 700a5103cb054c0e3ce4f48265972168a6a47286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v11 4/7] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 23 +++
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 +++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 32 ++++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 285 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 9b39129da42..a10969da77e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -537,7 +537,11 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
static BufferDesc *NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer sweep_end,
XLogRecPtr *lsn, int *sweep_cursor);
-
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BlockNumber require,
RelFileLocator *rlocator, bool skip_pinned,
@@ -4318,10 +4322,90 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a starting buffer descriptor from a strategy ring that supports eager
+ * flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
+ * single write batch with the starting buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to issue this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ batch->start + batch->n,
+ &batch->rlocator,
+ true,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Returns the buffer descriptor of the buffer containing the next block we
* should eagerly flush or NULL when there are no further buffers to consider
- * writing out.
+ * writing out. This will be the start of a new batch of buffers to write out.
*/
static BufferDesc *
NextStrategyBufToFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4367,7 +4451,6 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
- bool first_buffer = true;
/* Set up this victim buffer to be flushed */
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
@@ -4380,18 +4463,23 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
Buffer sweep_end = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin our victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc));
/* Clean victim buffer and find more to flush opportunistically */
do
{
- DoFlushBuffer(bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc));
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end, bufdesc, max_batch_size,
+ &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ /* Content locks released inside CompleteWriteBatchIO */
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
} while ((bufdesc = NextStrategyBufToFlush(strategy, sweep_end,
&max_lsn, &cursor)) != NULL);
}
@@ -4534,6 +4622,70 @@ except_unpin_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], &lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* acutally needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
@@ -4698,6 +4850,48 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf));
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(batch->bufdescs[i]));
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 4a3009d190c..189274fc0c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -776,6 +776,29 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state)
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble from the given strategy ring given
+ * strategy-specific as well as global constraints on the number of pinned
+ * buffers and max IO size.
+ */
+uint32
+StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 max_write_batch_size = Min(io_combine_limit, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ int strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ uint32 max_possible_buffer_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Identify the minimum of the above */
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(strategy_pin_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+ max_write_batch_size = Min(max_possible_buffer_limit, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ /* Must allow at least 1 IO for forward progress */
+ max_write_batch_size = Max(1, max_write_batch_size);
+
+ return max_write_batch_size;
+}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index aac6e695954..7c2ec99f939 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple block's checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e9e413477ba..36dd4f8375b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c07e309a288..ab502c4f825 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -483,6 +483,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -496,6 +524,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
@@ -507,9 +536,12 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern uint32 StrategyMaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *cursor);
extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index abc2cf2a020..29a400a71eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -506,5 +506,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index c751c25a04d..2132a5b4b4b 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v11-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7=P9Y=czQ@mail.gmail.com/6-v11-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From d346ca112b6c676f1a2d5e1f743d2cc89bba7bb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v11 5/7] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is useful for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added
in a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a10969da77e..68f6d4f2f45 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3405,6 +3405,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6823,6 +6824,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index ab502c4f825..feb370175f0 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ extern uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v11-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7=P9Y=czQ@mail.gmail.com/7-v11-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From 9302f6c197275f8d0dd38f491722a293e82105f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v11 6/7] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Soumya <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 224 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 68f6d4f2f45..8cc2fc06646 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
+static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
@@ -3346,7 +3347,6 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3358,6 +3358,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3389,6 +3391,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint32 set_bits = 0;
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3531,48 +3534,199 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = CheckpointerMaxBatchSize();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
}
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber)
+ break;
+
+ if (item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.rlocator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, false);
+
+ /*
+ * There is a race condition here: it's conceivable that between
+ * the time we examine the buffer header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED
+ * above and when we are now acquiring the lock that, someone else
+ * not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another page and
+ * dirtied it. In that improbable case, we will write the buffer
+ * though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding
+ * against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Lock buffer header lock before examining LSN because we only
+ * have a shared lock on the buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufHdr, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -6421,6 +6575,22 @@ IsBufferCleanupOK(Buffer buffer)
return false;
}
+/*
+ * The maximum number of blocks that can be written out in a single batch by
+ * the checkpointer.
+ */
+static uint32
+CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void)
+{
+ uint32 result;
+ uint32 pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ result = Min(pin_limit, io_combine_limit);
+ result = Min(result, MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT);
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+ return result;
+}
+
/*
* Functions for buffer I/O handling
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 36dd4f8375b..d6970731ba9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v11-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch (6.1K, ../../CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7=P9Y=czQ@mail.gmail.com/8-v11-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch)
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From c614f3edcc135cad62bec92939469970389e752f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v11 7/7] Refactor SyncOneBuffer for bgwriter use only
Since xxx, only bgwriter uses SyncOneBuffer, so we can remove the
skip_recently_used parameter and make that behavior the default.
While we are at it, 5e89985928795f243 introduced the pattern of using a
CAS loop instead of locking the buffer header and then calling
PinBuffer_Locked(). Do that in SyncOneBuffer() so we can avoid taking
the buffer header spinlock in the common case that the buffer is
recently used.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 8cc2fc06646..73f2594207f 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -515,8 +515,7 @@ static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static uint32 CheckpointerMaxBatchSize(void);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -4000,8 +3999,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -4064,8 +4062,8 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/*
* SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
*
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ * We don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor buffers marked recently used,
+ * as these are not replacement candidates.
*
* Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
* BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
@@ -4076,53 +4074,71 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
*/
static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
int result = 0;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
uint32 buf_state;
BufferTag tag;
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
/*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
*/
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ for (;;)
{
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * We can make these checks without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Don't write recently-used buffers */
+ return result;
+ }
+
result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufHdr->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr));
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ * Share lock and write it out (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the buffer
+ * is clean by the time we've locked it.)
*/
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
tag = bufHdr->tag;
@@ -4130,8 +4146,8 @@ SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
/*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by bgwriter, so IOContext will always be
+ * IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-11-25 11:28 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Soumya S Murali @ 2025-11-25 11:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: melanieplageman@gmail.com; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Hi all,
I applied the v11 patchset on my 19devel source code without any
modifications and ran some rounds of pgbench for testing. I ran
multiple workloads with different client counts and it executed
successfully without any backend crashes. I am including the
observations herewith for further review.
1. pgbench -c 4 -j 4 -T 10 -p 55432 postgres
pgbench (19devel)
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: <builtin: TPC-B (sort of)>
scaling factor: 50
query mode: simple
number of clients: 4
number of threads: 4
maximum number of tries: 1
duration: 10 s
number of transactions actually processed: 10103
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 3.958 ms
initial connection time = 4.970 ms
tps = 1010.552537 (without initial connection time)
2. pgbench -c 8 -j 8 -T 120 -p 55432 postgres
pgbench (19devel)
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: <builtin: TPC-B (sort of)>
scaling factor: 50
query mode: simple
number of clients: 8
number of threads: 8
maximum number of tries: 1
duration: 120 s
number of transactions actually processed: 193468
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 4.962 ms
initial connection time = 8.135 ms
tps = 1612.271773 (without initial connection time)
3. pgbench -c 16 -j 8 -T 180 -p 55432 postgres
pgbench (19devel)
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: <builtin: TPC-B (sort of)>
scaling factor: 50
query mode: simple
number of clients: 16
number of threads: 8
maximum number of tries: 1
duration: 180 s
number of transactions actually processed: 598737
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 4.810 ms
initial connection time = 13.793 ms
tps = 3326.398071 (without initial connection time)
I will continue testing with more workloads including forced
checkpoints to see if it can trigger any edge cases or WAL flush
decisions. But for now, the v11 series appears stable on my system.
Looking forward to more feedback.
Regards,
Soumya
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-08 07:14 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
parent: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
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From: Soumya S Murali @ 2025-12-08 07:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: melanieplageman@gmail.com; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Hi all,
Based on the ongoing discussions on Checkpointer Write Combining [1] and
the last patch v11 discussed in forum, I have re-implemented the logic for
CleanVictimBuffer() and BufferNeedsWALFlush() with a few changes:
static void
CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
LWLock *content_lock;
content_lock = BufHdrGetContentLock(bufdesc);
LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
return;
}
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
{
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
return;
}
BufferSetStateWriteInProgress(bufdesc);
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
RecordBufferForBatch(bufdesc, max_lsn);
}
Here I added some extra safety checks and early-exit handling, making sure
the function returns cleanly when a buffer no longer needs writing and
ensuring locks are handled correctly.
static bool
BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
{
uint32 buf_state;
buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
*lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
else
*lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
if (!(*lsn != InvalidXLogRecPtr))
return false;
return XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
}
Here I made some changes in the logic of the function that only returns a
real LSN when the buffer actually needs a WAL flush. If the buffer is not
permanent or doesn’t need WAL, it returns false and set the LSN to
InvalidXLogRecPtr, by which it can avoid confusions or unsafe downstream
behaviors.
I am now focusing on the PageSetBatchChecksumInplace() as mentioned in [1]
and the write combining logic. I will update my implementations soon once I
complete it.
I hope these corrected versions of functions will be helpful in further
implementation. Looking forward to more feedback.
Regards,
Soumya
Reference:
Discussion [1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7=P9Y=czQ@mail.gmail...
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-15 09:37 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
parent: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
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From: Soumya S Murali @ 2025-12-15 09:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: melanieplageman@gmail.com; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Hi all,
With reference to the last patches (v11) I received [1] and while reviewing
Melanie’s latest feedback, I understood that PageSetBatchChecksumInplace()
is currently WIP and depends on upcoming changes to hint-bit locking. It
will be contrary to the flow if I propose new functional changes to
checksum batching at this time. So for now I will focus on preparatory or
documentation improvements until I get the updates on dependencies.
Regarding my patch attached, the patch introduces write-combining during
checkpoints by batching contiguous buffers and allowing them to be written
using vectorized I/O. My patch includes write-combining for checkpoint
buffer flushes, contiguous buffer batching, Preserved WAL ordering,
locking, and buffer state invariants. The change is currently limited to
the checkpointer path (BufferSync()). So far I tested my implementation and
found that all the regression (233 tests) and isolation tests (121 tests)
got passed, the manual pgbench validation completed successfully and also
verified pg_stat_bgwriter counters before and after checkpoints. So far the
implementation is stable in my system. And currently, I am focussing on the
implementation of check pointer write combining for bgwriter behavior and
will update it soon after validating my implementation.
I hope my findings and approach will be helpful in further implementations
and I would appreciate feedback on my approach.
Regards,
Soumya
Reference:
[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7%3DP9Y%3DczQ%4...
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From 9aba47eea0f5a856d023fbc32ab61ec62cacf22a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:08:42 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add write-combining to checkpoint buffer writes.
Signed-off-by: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 750 ++++++++++++++++------------
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 19 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 22 +
src/include/storage/bufmgr.h | 4 +-
4 files changed, 485 insertions(+), 310 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f373cead95f..2ea5311aed2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -537,6 +537,12 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(BufferDesc *bufdesc,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
+static int FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2331,34 +2337,35 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
+ /* retry using loop instead of goto */
+ for (;;)
+ {
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ /*
+ * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
+ * this backend.
+ */
+ buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
+ /*
+ * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
+ */
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
- {
- LWLock *content_lock;
+ /*
+ * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
+ * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
+ * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
+ * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
+ * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ {
+ LWLock *content_lock;
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
/*
* We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
@@ -2374,16 +2381,16 @@ again:
* one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
* from StrategyGetBuffer.)
*/
- content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
- if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
- {
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
/*
* Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
* to get another one.
*/
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
/*
* If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
@@ -2392,35 +2399,34 @@ again:
* lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
* StrategyGetBuffer.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
- {
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ if (strategy != NULL)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
+ /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
+ UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
- {
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
+ && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
}
- }
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
&buf_hdr->tag);
- }
-
+ }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
+ if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ {
/*
* When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
* buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
@@ -2437,32 +2443,33 @@ again:
* we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
* pinners or erroring out.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ }
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ /*
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
+ * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
+ * buffer.
+ */
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- /* a final set of sanity checks */
+ /* a final set of sanity checks */
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
- buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf_hdr->state);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf_hdr->state);
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 1);
- Assert(!(buf_state & (BM_TAG_VALID | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)));
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 1);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & (BM_TAG_VALID | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)));
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
#endif
- return buf;
+ return buf;
+ } /* end of for(;;) */
}
/*
@@ -3329,6 +3336,92 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
#define ST_DEFINE
#include "lib/sort_template.h"
+static void
+ResetBufWriteBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ batch->n = 0;
+ batch->max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch->reln = NULL;
+ WritebackContextInit(&batch->wb_context, &checkpoint_flush_after);
+}
+
+/*
+ * SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
+ *
+ * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
+ * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ *
+ * Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
+ * BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
+ * BUF_REUSABLE: buffer is available for replacement, ie, it has
+ * pin count 0 and usage count 0.
+ *
+ * (BUF_WRITTEN could be set in error if FlushBuffer finds the buffer clean
+ * after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
+ */
+static int
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ int result = 0;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ BufferTag tag;
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether buffer needs writing.
+ *
+ * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
+ * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
+ * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
+ * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
+ * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ {
+ result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
+ }
+ else if (skip_recently_used)
+ {
+ /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
+ * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ */
+ PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
+
+ FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ tag = bufHdr->tag;
+
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
+ * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ */
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
+
+ return result | BUF_WRITTEN;
+}
+
/*
* BufferSync -- Write out all dirty buffers in the pool.
*
@@ -3344,144 +3437,81 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
{
uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
- int num_to_scan;
- int num_spaces;
- int num_processed;
- int num_written;
+ int num_to_scan = 0;
+ int num_spaces = 0;
+ int num_processed = 0;
+ int num_written = 0;
CkptTsStatus *per_ts_stat = NULL;
Oid last_tsid;
binaryheap *ts_heap;
- int i;
- uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
+ int i;
- /*
- * Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
- * we write only permanent, dirty buffers. But at shutdown or end of
- * recovery, we write all dirty buffers.
- */
- if (!((flags & (CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN | CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY |
+ /* Determine which buffers must be written */
+ if (!((flags & (CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN |
+ CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY |
CHECKPOINT_FLUSH_UNLOGGED))))
mask |= BM_PERMANENT;
- /*
- * Loop over all buffers, and mark the ones that need to be written with
- * BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED. Count them as we go (num_to_scan), so that we
- * can estimate how much work needs to be done.
- *
- * This allows us to write only those pages that were dirty when the
- * checkpoint began, and not those that get dirtied while it proceeds.
- * Whenever a page with BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED is written out, either by us
- * later in this function, or by normal backends or the bgwriter cleaning
- * scan, the flag is cleared. Any buffer dirtied after this point won't
- * have the flag set.
- *
- * Note that if we fail to write some buffer, we may leave buffers with
- * BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED still set. This is OK since any such buffer would
- * certainly need to be written for the next checkpoint attempt, too.
- */
- num_to_scan = 0;
+ /* identify dirty buffers at checkpoint start */
for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint32 set_bits = 0;
- /*
- * Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
- * SyncOneBuffer.
- */
buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
if ((buf_state & mask) == mask)
{
- CkptSortItem *item;
+ CkptSortItem *item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
set_bits = BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED;
- item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
- item->buf_id = buf_id;
- item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
- item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
- item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
- item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
+ item->buf_id = buf_id;
+ item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->relNumber = bufHdr->tag.relNumber;
+ item->forkNum = bufHdr->tag.forkNum;
+ item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
}
UnlockBufHdrExt(bufHdr, buf_state,
- set_bits, 0,
- 0);
+ set_bits, 0, 0);
- /* Check for barrier events in case NBuffers is large. */
if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
}
if (num_to_scan == 0)
- return; /* nothing to do */
+ return;
WritebackContextInit(&wb_context, &checkpoint_flush_after);
TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_START(NBuffers, num_to_scan);
- /*
- * Sort buffers that need to be written to reduce the likelihood of random
- * IO. The sorting is also important for the implementation of balancing
- * writes between tablespaces. Without balancing writes we'd potentially
- * end up writing to the tablespaces one-by-one; possibly overloading the
- * underlying system.
- */
+ /* Sort by tablespace */
sort_checkpoint_bufferids(CkptBufferIds, num_to_scan);
- num_spaces = 0;
-
- /*
- * Allocate progress status for each tablespace with buffers that need to
- * be flushed. This requires the to-be-flushed array to be sorted.
- */
+ /* Build per-tablespace progress tracking */
last_tsid = InvalidOid;
+
for (i = 0; i < num_to_scan; i++)
{
+ Oid cur_tsid = CkptBufferIds[i].tsId;
CkptTsStatus *s;
- Oid cur_tsid;
-
- cur_tsid = CkptBufferIds[i].tsId;
- /*
- * Grow array of per-tablespace status structs, every time a new
- * tablespace is found.
- */
- if (last_tsid == InvalidOid || last_tsid != cur_tsid)
+ if (last_tsid == InvalidOid || cur_tsid != last_tsid)
{
- Size sz;
-
num_spaces++;
-
- /*
- * Not worth adding grow-by-power-of-2 logic here - even with a
- * few hundred tablespaces this should be fine.
- */
- sz = sizeof(CkptTsStatus) * num_spaces;
-
- if (per_ts_stat == NULL)
- per_ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *) palloc(sz);
- else
- per_ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *) repalloc(per_ts_stat, sz);
+ per_ts_stat = (num_spaces == 1)
+ ? palloc(sizeof(CkptTsStatus))
+ : repalloc(per_ts_stat, sizeof(CkptTsStatus) * num_spaces);
s = &per_ts_stat[num_spaces - 1];
memset(s, 0, sizeof(*s));
- s->tsId = cur_tsid;
-
- /*
- * The first buffer in this tablespace. As CkptBufferIds is sorted
- * by tablespace all (s->num_to_scan) buffers in this tablespace
- * will follow afterwards.
- */
+ s->tsId = cur_tsid;
s->index = i;
- /*
- * progress_slice will be determined once we know how many buffers
- * are in each tablespace, i.e. after this loop.
- */
-
last_tsid = cur_tsid;
}
else
@@ -3491,117 +3521,132 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
s->num_to_scan++;
- /* Check for barrier events. */
if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
}
- Assert(num_spaces > 0);
-
- /*
- * Build a min-heap over the write-progress in the individual tablespaces,
- * and compute how large a portion of the total progress a single
- * processed buffer is.
- */
ts_heap = binaryheap_allocate(num_spaces,
ts_ckpt_progress_comparator,
NULL);
for (i = 0; i < num_spaces; i++)
{
- CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = &per_ts_stat[i];
-
- ts_stat->progress_slice = (float8) num_to_scan / ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ CkptTsStatus *st = &per_ts_stat[i];
- binaryheap_add_unordered(ts_heap, PointerGetDatum(ts_stat));
+ st->progress_slice = (float8) num_to_scan / st->num_to_scan;
+ binaryheap_add_unordered(ts_heap, PointerGetDatum(st));
}
binaryheap_build(ts_heap);
- /*
- * Iterate through to-be-checkpointed buffers and write the ones (still)
- * marked with BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED. The writes are balanced between
- * tablespaces; otherwise the sorting would lead to only one tablespace
- * receiving writes at a time, making inefficient use of the hardware.
- */
- num_processed = 0;
- num_written = 0;
+ /* write combining state */
+ BufWriteBatch batch;
+ ResetBufWriteBatch(&batch);
+
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
- BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
- CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
- DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ CkptTsStatus *ts_stat =
+ (CkptTsStatus *) DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ Assert(buf_id >= 0);
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
num_processed++;
/*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
+ * Write Combining:
+ * We accumulate buffers that still have BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED.
*/
if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
{
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+
+ bool start_new;
+ BufferDesc *buf = bufHdr;
+ BufferTag tag = buf->tag;
+
+ /* Extract locator once */
+ RelFileLocator rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&tag);
+
+ start_new = false;
+
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ {
+ batch.rlocator = rlocator;
+ batch.forkno = tag.forkNum;
+ batch.start = tag.blockNum;
+ }
+ else
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ bool same_rel = RelFileLocatorEquals(batch.rlocator, rlocator);
+ bool same_fork = (batch.forkno == tag.forkNum);
+ bool contiguous = (tag.blockNum == batch.start + batch.n);
+
+ if (!(same_rel && same_fork && contiguous))
+ start_new = true;
+ }
+
+ if (start_new)
+ {
+ /* Flush accumulated boatch */
+ int w = FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ num_written += w;
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += w;
+ ResetBufWriteBatch(&batch);
+
+ /* initialize new batch */
+ batch.rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&tag);
+ batch.forkno = tag.forkNum;
+ batch.start = tag.blockNum;
+ }
+
+ /* Add buffer to batch */
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = buf;
+
+ /* Track max LSN */
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ BufferNeedsWALFlush(buf, &lsn);
+ if (lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ /* If full, flush immediately */
+ if (batch.n == MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT)
+ {
+ int w = FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ num_written += w;
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += w;
+ ResetBufWriteBatch(&batch);
}
}
- /*
- * Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
- */
+ /* Progress accounting */
ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
ts_stat->num_scanned++;
ts_stat->index++;
- /* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
- {
binaryheap_remove_first(ts_heap);
- }
else
- {
- /* update heap with the new progress */
binaryheap_replace_first(ts_heap, PointerGetDatum(ts_stat));
- }
- /*
- * Sleep to throttle our I/O rate.
- *
- * (This will check for barrier events even if it doesn't sleep.)
- */
CheckpointWriteDelay(flags, (double) num_processed / num_to_scan);
}
- /*
- * Issue all pending flushes. Only checkpointer calls BufferSync(), so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
- */
+ /* Flush trailing batch */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ int w = FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ num_written += w;
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += w;
+ ResetBufWriteBatch(&batch);
+ }
+
+ /* Complete writeback */
IssuePendingWritebacks(&wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
pfree(per_ts_stat);
- per_ts_stat = NULL;
binaryheap_free(ts_heap);
- /*
- * Update checkpoint statistics. As noted above, this doesn't include
- * buffers written by other backends or bgwriter scan.
- */
CheckpointStats.ckpt_bufs_written += num_written;
TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_DONE(NBuffers, num_written, num_to_scan);
@@ -3786,6 +3831,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* a true average we want a fast-attack, slow-decline behavior: we
* immediately follow any increase.
*/
+
if (smoothed_alloc <= (float) recent_alloc)
smoothed_alloc = recent_alloc;
else
@@ -3841,8 +3887,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -3902,83 +3947,6 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
return (bufs_to_lap == 0 && recent_alloc == 0);
}
-/*
- * SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
- *
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
- *
- * Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
- * BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
- * BUF_REUSABLE: buffer is available for replacement, ie, it has
- * pin count 0 and usage count 0.
- *
- * (BUF_WRITTEN could be set in error if FlushBuffer finds the buffer clean
- * after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
- */
-static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
-{
- BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
- int result = 0;
- uint32 buf_state;
- BufferTag tag;
-
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- /*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
- */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
- {
- result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- /*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
- */
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
-
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
-
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
-
- /*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
- */
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
-
- return result | BUF_WRITTEN;
-}
-
/*
* AtEOXact_Buffers - clean up at end of transaction.
*
@@ -4412,6 +4380,169 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * BufferNeedsWALFlush
+ *
+ * Returns true if this buffer belongs to a permanent relation AND
+ * page LSN indicates - WAL must be flushed before writing it.
+ *
+ * If no flush is needed, *lsn is set to InvalidXLogRecPtr.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ /* Lock header to read BM_PERMANENT and LSN safely */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /* Extract LSN only if it is a permanent buffer */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ else
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+
+ /* Skip all WAL flush logic if relation is not logged */
+ if (!(*lsn != InvalidXLogRecPtr))
+ return false;
+
+ /* Must flush WAL up to this LSN before writing the page */
+ return XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * CleanVictimBuffer
+ *
+ * Called by checkpointer/bgwriter when selecting a buffer to flush in a
+ * write-combining batch. The buffer must already be pinned.
+ *
+ */
+static void
+CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ /*
+ * Acquire share-lock on buffer contents. We must hold this until either:
+ * - we decide the buffer does not need flushing, OR
+ * - we finish preparing it for a write.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufHdrGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+
+ /*
+ * Now the buffer is a valid flush target.
+ * Switch to exclusive lock for checksum + IO preparation.
+ */
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
+
+ /*
+ * Mark the buffer ready for checksum and write.
+ */
+ PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, &max_lsn);
+
+ /* Release exclusive lock; the batch will write the page later */
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+
+ /*
+ * Add LSN to caller's batch tracking.
+ * Caller handles XLogFlush() using highest LSN.
+ */
+ PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, max_lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * FlushBufferBatch
+ *
+ * Write a batch of contiguous dirty buffers belonging to the same
+ * relation + fork, using a single smgrwritev() call.
+ *
+ * This is the minimal correct version:
+ * - prepare buffers (caller has already selected them)
+ * - flush WAL up to max_lsn
+ * - compute batch checksums
+ * - write using smgrwritev()
+ * - schedule writeback
+ */
+int
+FlushBufferBatch(BufWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ uint32 n = batch->n;
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Page pages[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ int written = 0;
+
+ /* Nothing to do */
+ if (n == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Error context for cleaner messages on I/O failure */
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Flush WAL if required */
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ /* Open smgr relation if needed */
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ /*
+ * Copy buffer pages into local array and prepare block numbers.
+ * (Later patches may eliminate this copying.)
+ */
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *buf = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ pages[i] = (Page) BufHdrGetBlock(buf);
+ }
+
+ /* Compute checksums over the batch */
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(pages, blknums, n);
+
+ /* IO timing */
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ /* Write all pages in one system call */
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln,
+ batch->forkno,
+ batch->start,
+ (const void **) pages,
+ n,
+ false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION,
+ io_context,
+ IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start,
+ n,
+ BLCKSZ);
+
+ /* Schedule writeback for each buffer */
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *buf = batch->bufdescs[i];
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&batch->wb_context,
+ io_context,
+ &buf->tag);
+ written++;
+ }
+
+ /* restore error callback */
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+
+ return written;
+}
+
/*
* Convenience wrapper around FlushBuffer() that locks/unlocks the buffer
* before/after calling FlushBuffer().
@@ -5083,12 +5214,13 @@ FlushRelationsAllBuffers(SMgrRelation *smgrs, int nrels)
}
else
{
- RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ RelFileLocator rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufHdr->tag);
- rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufHdr->tag);
- srelent = bsearch(&rlocator,
- srels, nrels, sizeof(SMgrSortArray),
- rlocator_comparator);
+ srelent = bsearch(&rlocator,
+ srels,
+ nrels,
+ sizeof(SMgrSortArray),
+ rlocator_comparator);
}
/* buffer doesn't belong to any of the given relfilelocators; skip it */
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index aac6e695954..408a4abc444 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,22 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
+
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 5400c56a965..6a75233c1e6 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -482,6 +482,28 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
{
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+* Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+* contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+* same fork of the same relation.
+*/
+typedef struct BufWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ WritebackContext wb_context;
+
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufWriteBatch;
+
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
index 9f6785910e0..f9e23838e48 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
@@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ extern Buffer ReadBufferWithoutRelcache(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum, BlockNumber blockNum,
ReadBufferMode mode, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
bool permanent);
-
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages,
+ const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
extern bool StartReadBuffer(ReadBuffersOperation *operation,
Buffer *buffer,
BlockNumber blocknum,
--
2.34.1
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-15 21:48 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-12-15 21:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM Soumya S Murali
<soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> With reference to the last patches (v11) I received [1] and while reviewing Melanie’s latest feedback, I understood that PageSetBatchChecksumInplace() is currently WIP and depends on upcoming changes to hint-bit locking. It will be contrary to the flow if I propose new functional changes to checksum batching at this time. So for now I will focus on preparatory or documentation improvements until I get the updates on dependencies.
> Regarding my patch attached, the patch introduces write-combining during checkpoints by batching contiguous buffers and allowing them to be written using vectorized I/O. My patch includes write-combining for checkpoint buffer flushes, contiguous buffer batching, Preserved WAL ordering, locking, and buffer state invariants. The change is currently limited to the checkpointer path (BufferSync()). So far I tested my implementation and found that all the regression (233 tests) and isolation tests (121 tests) got passed, the manual pgbench validation completed successfully and also verified pg_stat_bgwriter counters before and after checkpoints. So far the implementation is stable in my system.
Can you explain how your implementation differs from what was posted
in v11 0006 [1]? That implements checkpointer write combining. I'm
open to ideas for improving the code, but I don't understand how your
patch is supposed to fit into the ongoing work on this thread.
- Melanie
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7%3DP9Y%3DczQ%40mail...
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-15 21:50 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-12-15 21:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM Soumya S Murali
<soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here I made some changes in the logic of the function that only returns a real LSN when the buffer actually needs a WAL flush. If the buffer is not permanent or doesn’t need WAL, it returns false and set the LSN to InvalidXLogRecPtr, by which it can avoid confusions or unsafe downstream behaviors.
Thanks for the suggestions. It would be best if you attached a patch
instead of pasting it in the email like this with no formatting (and
no diff). It is very hard to tell what you've changed.
- Melanie
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-17 04:46 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Soumya S Murali @ 2025-12-17 04:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Hi all,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM Soumya S Murali
> <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here I made some changes in the logic of the function that only returns a real LSN when the buffer actually needs a WAL flush. If the buffer is not permanent or doesn’t need WAL, it returns false and set the LSN to InvalidXLogRecPtr, by which it can avoid confusions or unsafe downstream behaviors.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. It would be best if you attached a patch
> instead of pasting it in the email like this with no formatting (and
> no diff). It is very hard to tell what you've changed.
>
> - Melanie
Thank you for the clarification.
I understand the concern, and apologies for the earlier confusion. My
intention is to stay aligned with the direction of your v11 series, so
this patch contains only small, incremental changes intended to be
easy to review and not conflict with ongoing work.
My previous message was only meant to summarize logic I was
experimenting with locally, not to propose it as a final patch. Based
on the feedback, I revisited the implementation, made the necessary
modifications, and verified the updated logic.
I am attaching the patch for review. It has been tested with make
check and make -C src/test/isolation check.
Thank you again for the guidance. I hope this is helpful for the
ongoing work, and I am looking forward to further feedback.
Regards
Soumya
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] 0001-fix-lock-handling-and-LSN-semantics-in-buffer-flush-.patch (2.1K, ../../CAMtXxw_s0qa8xAbf=MXQv2WY+D4_=ect6zLEt6YKj=7nVqDktQ@mail.gmail.com/2-0001-fix-lock-handling-and-LSN-semantics-in-buffer-flush-.patch)
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From 6363dd3a6c96a2d7448532ada70631842b7f5d78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:01:53 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix lock handling and LSN semantics in buffer flush helpers
Signed-off-by: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 2ea5311aed2..4a1a35a75f5 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -4405,7 +4405,7 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/* Skip all WAL flush logic if relation is not logged */
- if (!(*lsn != InvalidXLogRecPtr))
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsValid(*lsn))
return false;
/* Must flush WAL up to this LSN before writing the page */
@@ -4433,6 +4433,12 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
content_lock = BufHdrGetContentLock(bufdesc);
LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
/*
* Now the buffer is a valid flush target.
* Switch to exclusive lock for checksum + IO preparation.
@@ -4440,19 +4446,14 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
- /*
- * Mark the buffer ready for checksum and write.
- */
- PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, &max_lsn);
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ return;
+ }
/* Release exclusive lock; the batch will write the page later */
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- /*
- * Add LSN to caller's batch tracking.
- * Caller handles XLogFlush() using highest LSN.
- */
- PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, max_lsn);
}
/*
--
2.34.1
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-17 05:53 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Soumya S Murali @ 2025-12-17 05:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Hi all,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM Soumya S Murali
> <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > With reference to the last patches (v11) I received [1] and while reviewing Melanie’s latest feedback, I understood that PageSetBatchChecksumInplace() is currently WIP and depends on upcoming changes to hint-bit locking. It will be contrary to the flow if I propose new functional changes to checksum batching at this time. So for now I will focus on preparatory or documentation improvements until I get the updates on dependencies.
> > Regarding my patch attached, the patch introduces write-combining during checkpoints by batching contiguous buffers and allowing them to be written using vectorized I/O. My patch includes write-combining for checkpoint buffer flushes, contiguous buffer batching, Preserved WAL ordering, locking, and buffer state invariants. The change is currently limited to the checkpointer path (BufferSync()). So far I tested my implementation and found that all the regression (233 tests) and isolation tests (121 tests) got passed, the manual pgbench validation completed successfully and also verified pg_stat_bgwriter counters before and after checkpoints. So far the implementation is stable in my system.
>
> Can you explain how your implementation differs from what was posted
> in v11 0006 [1]? That implements checkpointer write combining. I'm
> open to ideas for improving the code, but I don't understand how your
> patch is supposed to fit into the ongoing work on this thread.
>
> - Melanie
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_ZiEpE_EHww3S3-E3iznybdnX8mXSO7Wsuru7%3DP9Y%3DczQ%40mail...
Thank you for the question.
My patch is not intended to replace or redesign v11-0006. I am fully
aligned with that patch and treated it as the baseline for my work.
The work I sent is intentionally incremental, rather than introducing
a new batching logic.
v11-0006 already implements the core checkpointer write-combining
logic (batch formation, contiguity checks, WAL ordering, pin limits,
and IO issuance). I did not change that structure.
My changes focus on correctness around existing CleanVictimBuffer()
ensuring content locks are always released on early exit paths and
making the shared exclusive lock transitions explicit. This directly
addresses the lock-handling issue you pointed out earlier in the
thread. And the BufferNeedsWALFlush() clarifying semantics so that an
LSN is only returned when the buffer is logged (BM_PERMANENT),
otherwise explicitly setting it to InvalidXLogRecPtr. This matches the
direction you mentioned about avoiding confusing or unsafe LSN
propagation.
I intentionally did not modify PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(), since it
is clearly marked WIP and depended on the hint-bit locking work as you
mentioned.
I just validated the v11-0006 design on a fresh tree, done a few small
correctness cleanups that do not alter behavior and done the testing
like make check, isolation tests and manual checkpoint validation for
confirmation. I hope you find this useful.
Thank you for the guidance and patience. Looking forward to more feedback.
Regards,
Soumya
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-17 15:39 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2025-12-17 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM Soumya S Murali
<soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the clarification.
> I understand the concern, and apologies for the earlier confusion. My
> intention is to stay aligned with the direction of your v11 series, so
> this patch contains only small, incremental changes intended to be
> easy to review and not conflict with ongoing work.
> My previous message was only meant to summarize logic I was
> experimenting with locally, not to propose it as a final patch. Based
> on the feedback, I revisited the implementation, made the necessary
> modifications, and verified the updated logic.
> I am attaching the patch for review. It has been tested with make
> check and make -C src/test/isolation check.
> Thank you again for the guidance. I hope this is helpful for the
> ongoing work, and I am looking forward to further feedback.
I took a look at your patch and the first two parts were already fixed
in a previous version
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -4405,7 +4405,7 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/* Skip all WAL flush logic if relation is not logged */
- if (!(*lsn != InvalidXLogRecPtr))
+ if (!XLogRecPtrIsValid(*lsn))
return false;
@@ -4433,6 +4433,12 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool
from_ring, IOContext io_context)
content_lock = BufHdrGetContentLock(bufdesc);
LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
And I don't understand the last parts of the diff.
@@ -4440,19 +4446,14 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool
from_ring, IOContext io_context)
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
- /*
- * Mark the buffer ready for checksum and write.
- */
- PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, &max_lsn);
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ return;
+ }
/* Release exclusive lock; the batch will write the page later */
LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- /*
- * Add LSN to caller's batch tracking.
- * Caller handles XLogFlush() using highest LSN.
- */
- PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, max_lsn);
}
AFAIK, there has never been a function called
PrepareBufferForCheckpoint() and my current patchset doesn't have it
either.
- Melanie
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2025-12-29 10:07 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Soumya S Murali @ 2025-12-29 10:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: li.evan.chao@gmail.com <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; byavuz81@gmail.com <byavuz81@gmail.com>; andres@anarazel.de <andres@anarazel.de>; pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Hi all,
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM Soumya S Murali
> <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for the clarification.
> > I understand the concern, and apologies for the earlier confusion. My
> > intention is to stay aligned with the direction of your v11 series, so
> > this patch contains only small, incremental changes intended to be
> > easy to review and not conflict with ongoing work.
> > My previous message was only meant to summarize logic I was
> > experimenting with locally, not to propose it as a final patch. Based
> > on the feedback, I revisited the implementation, made the necessary
> > modifications, and verified the updated logic.
> > I am attaching the patch for review. It has been tested with make
> > check and make -C src/test/isolation check.
> > Thank you again for the guidance. I hope this is helpful for the
> > ongoing work, and I am looking forward to further feedback.
>
> I took a look at your patch and the first two parts were already fixed
> in a previous version
>
> --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
> +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
> @@ -4405,7 +4405,7 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
> UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
>
> /* Skip all WAL flush logic if relation is not logged */
> - if (!(*lsn != InvalidXLogRecPtr))
> + if (!XLogRecPtrIsValid(*lsn))
> return false;
>
>
> @@ -4433,6 +4433,12 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool
> from_ring, IOContext io_context)
> content_lock = BufHdrGetContentLock(bufdesc);
> LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
>
> + if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
> + {
> + LWLockRelease(content_lock);
> + return;
> + }
> +
>
> And I don't understand the last parts of the diff.
>
> @@ -4440,19 +4446,14 @@ CleanVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool
> from_ring, IOContext io_context)
> LWLockRelease(content_lock);
> LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
>
> - /*
> - * Mark the buffer ready for checksum and write.
> - */
> - PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, &max_lsn);
> + if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(bufdesc, &max_lsn))
> + {
> + LWLockRelease(content_lock);
> + return;
> + }
>
> /* Release exclusive lock; the batch will write the page later */
> LWLockRelease(content_lock);
> -
> - /*
> - * Add LSN to caller's batch tracking.
> - * Caller handles XLogFlush() using highest LSN.
> - */
> - PrepareBufferForCheckpoint(bufdesc, max_lsn);
> }
>
> AFAIK, there has never been a function called
> PrepareBufferForCheckpoint() and my current patchset doesn't have it
> either.
>
> - Melanie
Thank you for reviewing the patch and for the clarification.
It seems I was working on the v11 patch version that I had received
from November, and I did not have the newer fixes that already
addressed the XLogRecPtrIsValid() check and the shared-lock early
return case in CleanVictimBuffer(). That's why the first part of my
changes duplicated the work that has already been fixed.
Regarding the latter part of the diff, the reason I attempted that
change was that in my local tree the code was still performing both
WAL–LSN read + dirty check inside the exclusive lock followed by
marking/queuing the buffer for write. And I initially interpreted that
section as functionally similar to the description of
PrepareBufferForCheckpoint() from the early discussion in the thread.
Because I didn't have the newer version of the patchset where this
function was removed or renamed, I refactored it into a second
PrepareFlushBuffer() call to ensure correctness on re-checking after
lock upgrade and to keep failure paths symmetrical (especially unlock
and early return). I now understand that this was based on an outdated
context and why it conflicts with the current patch flow. So I will
rebase my work on the latest version of the patch and will drop that
section to avoid misalignment.
If there are any specific areas where I can help align with the
ongoing work, please let me know I’m happy to continue contributing in
the direction you are taking the patchset.
Regards,
Soumya
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-01-13 22:24 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2026-01-13 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Attached v12 fixes a variety of buglets I found throughout the patch set.
I've also done quite a bit of refactoring. The scope of the
refactoring varies from inlining some helpers to introducing new input
argument structs.
0001 is independently valuable as it optimizes StrategyRejectBuffer()
a bit and makes GetVictimBuffer() cleaner
0002-0007 were largely present in older versions of the patch set
0008 is new -- it is an early version of batching for normal backends
flushing a buffer to obtain a clean one. Right now, it checks if the
two blocks succeeding the target block are in shared buffers and
dirty, and, if so, writes them out with the target buffer. I haven't
started testing or benchmarking it because I need to convert bgwriter
to use write combining to be able to benchmark it effectively. But I
thought I would get the code out there sooner rather than later.
It's a lot harder with my current code structure to add the target
block's predecessor if it is dirty and read to write out. I wonder how
important this is vs just the two succeeding blocks.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v12-0001-Streamline-buffer-rejection-for-bulkreads-of-unl.patch (5.6K, ../../CAAKRu_bO0AopZhdpYVec+x8GsNrRxE4rq22AiOouViVVyOHU=w@mail.gmail.com/2-v12-0001-Streamline-buffer-rejection-for-bulkreads-of-unl.patch)
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From 07af817d3a9ebe4cf01a4652a5300821181d504b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 13:32:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v12 1/8] Streamline buffer rejection for bulkreads of unlogged
tables
Bulk-read buffer access strategies reject reusing a buffer from the
buffer access strategy ring if reusing it would require flushing WAL.
Unlogged relations never require WAL flushes, so this check can be
skipped. This avoids taking the buffer header lock unnecessarily.
Refactor this into StrategyRejectBuffer() itself, which also avoids LSN
checking for non-bulkread buffer access strategies.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 13 ++++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 2 +
3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a036c2aa275..29c11d2d357 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2482,26 +2482,15 @@ again:
/*
* If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
* require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
+ * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need the
+ * content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
* StrategyGetBuffer.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
-
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
-
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
- {
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ goto again;
}
/* OK, do the I/O */
@@ -3416,6 +3405,52 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
BLCKSZ);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * *lsn is set to the current page LSN.
+ *
+ * If the result is required to be correct, the caller must hold a buffer
+ * content lock. If they only hold a shared content lock, we'll need to
+ * acquire the buffer header spinlock, so they must not already hold it.
+ *
+ * If the buffer is unlogged, *lsn shouldn't be used by the caller and is set
+ * to InvalidXLogRecPtr.
+ */
+bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+ char *page;
+ Buffer buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See FlushBuffer() for more
+ * details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
+ {
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
+
+ Assert(BufferIsValid(buffer));
+
+ if (!XLogHintBitIsNeeded() || BufferIsLocal(buffer) || exclusive)
+ *lsn = PageGetLSN(page);
+ else
+ {
+ LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ *lsn = PageGetLSN(page);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ }
+
+ return XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn);
+}
+
+
#define ST_SORT sort_checkpoint_bufferids
#define ST_ELEMENT_TYPE CkptSortItem
#define ST_COMPARE(a, b) ckpt_buforder_comparator(a, b)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 9a93fb335fc..6a4452e2da0 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -780,12 +780,20 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -795,8 +803,11 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ if (!BufferNeedsWALFlush(buf, false, &lsn))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index fa43cf4458d..3c774d7a1d2 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#ifndef BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
#define BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
+#include "access/xlogdefs.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/aio_types.h"
@@ -493,6 +494,7 @@ extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
+extern bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v12-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (7.6K, ../../CAAKRu_bO0AopZhdpYVec+x8GsNrRxE4rq22AiOouViVVyOHU=w@mail.gmail.com/3-v12-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
download | inline diff:
From 4795ec99e25e347ff4b3437423d276d9769123ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:54:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v12 2/8] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 133 ++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 29c11d2d357..2c706682eb3 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -631,6 +631,10 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
+ IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
+ XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2450,6 +2454,7 @@ again:
if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
LWLock *content_lock;
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
@@ -2493,12 +2498,18 @@ again:
goto again;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, &max_lsn))
+ {
+ /* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
}
@@ -3424,8 +3435,8 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
Buffer buffer;
/*
- * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See FlushBuffer() for more
- * details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
+ * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See PrepareFlushBuffer() for
+ * more details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
*/
if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
{
@@ -4413,11 +4424,20 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
uint32 buf_state;
/*
@@ -4425,42 +4445,16 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
-
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
-
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
-
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
-
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- UnlockBufHdrExt(buf, buf_state,
- 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
- 0);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4473,9 +4467,54 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state,
+ 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
+ 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(buffer_lsn))
+ {
+ Assert(pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf->state) & BM_PERMANENT);
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
+ }
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
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From bc956edc684384ed1815dbfeb72bca43268fd88b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:56:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v12 3/8] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes, as it lines up multiple
buffers that can be issued asynchronously once the infrastructure
exists.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 212 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 2c706682eb3..d31b6243354 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -631,6 +631,10 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer bufnum,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
@@ -2503,6 +2507,59 @@ again:
/* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
}
+ else if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = buf;
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ bool first_buffer = true;
+ BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
+
+ /*
+ * Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one
+ * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers.
+ */
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ Buffer next_buf;
+
+ if (next_bufdesc)
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(next_bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(next_bufdesc));
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &next_bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(next_bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ }
+
+ next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
+
+ /* Completed one sweep of the ring buffer */
+ if (next_buf == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For strategies currently supporting eager flush
+ * (BAS_BULKWRITE, eventually BAS_VACUUM), once you hit an
+ * InvalidBuffer, the remaining buffers in the ring will be
+ * invalid. If BAS_BULKREAD is someday supported, this logic
+ * will have to change.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(next_buf))
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * Check buffer eager flush eligibility. If the buffer is
+ * ineligible, we'll keep looking until we complete one full
+ * sweep around the ring.
+ */
+ next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
+ next_buf,
+ &max_lsn);
+ }
+ }
else
{
DoFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
@@ -4430,6 +4487,109 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
+ * does not contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
+ * LSN.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer bufnum,
+ XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
+ * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Quick check to see if the buffer is pinned, in which case it is more
+ * likely to be dirtied again soon, and we don't want to eagerly flush it.
+ * We don't care if it has a non-zero usage count because we don't need to
+ * reuse it right away and a non-zero usage count doesn't necessarily mean
+ * it will be dirtied again soon.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0)
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush. We must check this
+ * again later while holding the buffer content lock for correctness.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false, &lsn))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that there's a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leak a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, that slot will be reused.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /* There is no need to flush the buffer if it is not BM_VALID */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufdesc, strategy, /* skip_if_not_valid */ true))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false, &lsn))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ /*
+ * Because we don't eagerly flush buffers that need WAL flushed first,
+ * this buffer's LSN should only be greater than the victim buffer LSN if
+ * the victim doesn't need WAL flushing either -- in which case, we don't
+ * really need to update max_lsn. But, it seems better to keep the max_lsn
+ * honest -- especially since doing so is cheap.
+ */
+ if (lsn > *max_lsn)
+ *max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+reject_buffer_unlock:
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+
+reject_buffer_unpin:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+
+reject_buffer:
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 6a4452e2da0..dfa6b27a4af 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -155,6 +155,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -306,6 +331,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Returns the next buffer in the ring after the one at cursor and increments
+ * cursor.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 3c774d7a1d2..09521af4bdc 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -503,6 +503,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v12-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (21.4K, ../../CAAKRu_bO0AopZhdpYVec+x8GsNrRxE4rq22AiOouViVVyOHU=w@mail.gmail.com/5-v12-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From 8887bd812fe245169d8e890e0ed2f6709238a594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v12 4/8] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 325 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 ++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 31 +++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 2 +
6 files changed, 367 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index d31b6243354..04026cbff5e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -162,6 +162,19 @@ typedef struct SMgrSortArray
SMgrRelation srel;
} SMgrSortArray;
+/*
+ * All blocks in a given BufferWriteBatch have to be a continuous range in the
+ * same fork in the same relation. This convenience struct specifies the
+ * requirements for the next block in the batch, used when deciding whether or
+ * not to include or reject a given block.
+ */
+typedef struct BatchBlockRequirements
+{
+ RelFileLocator *rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ BlockNumber block;
+} BatchBlockRequirements;
+
/* GUC variables */
bool zero_damaged_pages = false;
int bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 100;
@@ -626,15 +639,23 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
bool *foundPtr, IOContext io_context);
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
+static uint32 MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool BufferHasRequiredBlock(BatchBlockRequirements *require, BufferDesc *bufdesc);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
+ BatchBlockRequirements *require,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
@@ -2418,6 +2439,34 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble given strategy-specific and global
+ * constraints on the number of pinned buffers and max IO size. Currently only
+ * a single write is inflight at a time, so the batch can consume all the
+ * pinned buffers this backend is allowed. Only for batches of shared
+ * (non-local) relations.
+ */
+static uint32
+MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 result = io_combine_limit;
+ uint32 strategy_pin_limit;
+ uint32 max_pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Apply pin limits */
+ result = Min(result, max_pin_limit);
+ if (strategy)
+ {
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ result = Min(result, strategy_pin_limit);
+ }
+
+ /* Ensure forward progress */
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+
+ return result;
+}
+
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
@@ -2511,12 +2560,19 @@ again:
{
Buffer sweep_end = buf;
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
- bool first_buffer = true;
+ uint32 max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+
/*
* Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one
- * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers.
+ * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers. IO
+ * concurrency only needs to be taken into account if AIO writes
+ * are added in the future.
*/
for (;;)
{
@@ -2524,14 +2580,22 @@ again:
if (next_bufdesc)
{
- DoFlushBuffer(next_bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(next_bufdesc));
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &next_bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(next_bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+
+ /*
+ * After finding one eligible buffer, identify any of the
+ * buffers following it which are also eligibile and
+ * combine them into a batch. The cursor will be advanced
+ * through the ring such that the next write batch will
+ * start at the next eligible buffer after the current
+ * batch ends.
+ */
+ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end,
+ next_bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch,
+ &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ /* Pins and locks released inside CompleteWriteBatchIO */
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
@@ -2557,6 +2621,7 @@ again:
*/
next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
next_buf,
+ NULL,
&max_lsn);
}
}
@@ -4487,6 +4552,29 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Quick check to see if the buffer contains the required block from the right
+ * fork of the right relation. If you don't hold the buffer header spinlock,
+ * you can't guarantee that these won't change out from under you.
+ */
+static bool
+BufferHasRequiredBlock(BatchBlockRequirements *require, BufferDesc *bufdesc)
+{
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(require->block));
+ if (bufdesc->tag.blockNum != require->block)
+ return false;
+
+ Assert(require->rlocator);
+ if (!RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufdesc->tag), *require->rlocator))
+ return false;
+
+ Assert(require->forkno != InvalidForkNumber);
+ if (BufTagGetForkNum(&bufdesc->tag) != require->forkno)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
*
@@ -4494,12 +4582,17 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
* does not contain a block that should be flushed.
*
+ * If the caller requires a particular block to be in the buffer in order to
+ * accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
+ * RelFileLocator and fork.
+ *
* max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
* LSN.
*/
static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
+ BatchBlockRequirements *require,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
{
BufferDesc *bufdesc;
@@ -4513,11 +4606,19 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick, unsafe checks to see if buffer even possibly contains a block
+ * meeting our requirements. We'll recheck it all again after getting a
+ * pin.
+ */
+ if (require && !BufferHasRequiredBlock(require, bufdesc))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
/*
- * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
- * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * We'll recheck if it is dirty later, when we have a pin and lock, before
* actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
*/
if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
@@ -4554,10 +4655,15 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+ /* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
+ if (require && !BufferHasRequiredBlock(require, bufdesc))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+ /* Now that we have the lock, recheck if it needs WAL flush */
if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false, &lsn))
goto reject_buffer_unlock;
@@ -4566,9 +4672,9 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
goto reject_buffer_unlock;
/*
- * Because we don't eagerly flush buffers that need WAL flushed first,
- * this buffer's LSN should only be greater than the victim buffer LSN if
- * the victim doesn't need WAL flushing either -- in which case, we don't
+ * Because we don't eagerly flush buffers that need WAL flushed, this
+ * buffer's LSN should only be greater than the victim buffer LSN if the
+ * victim doesn't need WAL flushing either -- in which case, we don't
* really need to update max_lsn. But, it seems better to keep the max_lsn
* honest -- especially since doing so is cheap.
*/
@@ -4590,6 +4696,154 @@ reject_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a starting buffer descriptor from a strategy ring that supports eager
+ * flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
+ * single write batch with the starting buffer.
+ *
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to issue this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ BatchBlockRequirements require;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 1)
+ return;
+
+ require.rlocator = &batch->rlocator;
+ require.forkno = batch->forkno;
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ require.block = batch->start + batch->n;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy, bufnum,
+ &require,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ if (batch->reln == NULL)
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], false, &lsn));
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
@@ -4754,6 +5008,47 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf));
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index de85911e3ac..4d0f1883a26 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple blocks' checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 1929521c6a5..e0f48c6d2d9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 09521af4bdc..29d7e1d7184 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -484,6 +484,34 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufferWriteBatch
+{
+ RelFileLocator rlocator;
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufferWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -492,6 +520,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
extern bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
@@ -507,6 +536,8 @@ extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *cursor);
extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index ae3725b3b81..baadfc6c313 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -506,5 +506,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 14dec2d49c1..f1606d50532 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ Barrier
BaseBackupCmd
BaseBackupTargetHandle
BaseBackupTargetType
+BatchBlockRequirements
BatchMVCCState
BeginDirectModify_function
BeginForeignInsert_function
@@ -359,6 +360,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufferWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
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From ac13cf966330b7f018479ae8828544e3fe522158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v12 5/8] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is an oversight that currently isn't causing harm. However, it is
required for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added in
a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 04026cbff5e..e1f3d45b522 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3663,6 +3663,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6998,6 +6999,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 29d7e1d7184..5717b44f2f0 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ extern uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
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From 735bb47365c181c78586092fada1756c5d13dd93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v12 6/8] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Soumya <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index e1f3d45b522..83cc4018d28 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3604,7 +3604,6 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
@@ -3616,6 +3615,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3647,6 +3648,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint32 set_bits = 0;
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3789,48 +3791,217 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(NULL);
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+ Buffer buffer;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ buf_id = item.buf_id;
+ Assert(buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.rlocator.spcOid = item.tsId;
+ batch.rlocator.dbOid = item.dbId;
+ batch.rlocator.relNumber = item.relNumber;
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(batch.rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
}
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.rlocator.dbOid ||
+ item.relNumber != batch.rlocator.relNumber ||
+ item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.rlocator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* If the buffer is not BM_VALID, nothing to do on this buffer */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have a pin, we must recheck that the buffer
+ * contains the specified block. Someone may have replaced the
+ * block in the buffer with a different block. In that case, count
+ * it as processed and issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ if (!RelFileLocatorEquals(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&bufHdr->tag),
+ batch.rlocator) ||
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag) != batch.forkno ||
+ item.blockNum != BufferGetBlockNumber(buffer))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * It's conceivable that between the time we examine the buffer
+ * header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED above and when we are now
+ * acquiring the lock that someone else wrote the buffer out. In
+ * that improbable case, we will write the buffer though we didn't
+ * need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Lock buffer header lock before examining LSN because we only
+ * have a shared lock on the buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufHdr, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e0f48c6d2d9..90169c92c26 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
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[text/x-patch] v12-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch (6.1K, ../../CAAKRu_bO0AopZhdpYVec+x8GsNrRxE4rq22AiOouViVVyOHU=w@mail.gmail.com/8-v12-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch)
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From 3b9727f5f4d7cddbb1dcc09b669ef34f2371a341 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v12 7/8] Refactor SyncOneBuffer for bgwriter use only
Since xxx, only bgwriter uses SyncOneBuffer, so we can remove the
skip_recently_used parameter and make that behavior the default.
While we are at it, 5e89985928795f243 introduced the pattern of using a
CAS loop instead of locking the buffer header and then calling
PinBuffer_Locked(). Do that in SyncOneBuffer() so we can avoid taking
the buffer header spinlock in the common case that the buffer is
recently used.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 83cc4018d28..4ae70915089 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -625,8 +625,7 @@ static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -4275,8 +4274,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -4339,8 +4337,8 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/*
* SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
*
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ * We don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor buffers marked recently used,
+ * as these are not replacement candidates.
*
* Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
* BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
@@ -4351,53 +4349,71 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
*/
static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
int result = 0;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
uint32 buf_state;
BufferTag tag;
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
/*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
*/
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ for (;;)
{
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * We can make these checks without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Don't write recently-used buffers */
+ return result;
+ }
+
result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufHdr->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr));
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ * Share lock and write it out (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the buffer
+ * is clean by the time we've locked it.)
*/
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
tag = bufHdr->tag;
@@ -4405,8 +4421,8 @@ SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
/*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by bgwriter, so IOContext will always be
+ * IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v12-0008-Eagerly-flush-buffer-successors.patch (7.5K, ../../CAAKRu_bO0AopZhdpYVec+x8GsNrRxE4rq22AiOouViVVyOHU=w@mail.gmail.com/9-v12-0008-Eagerly-flush-buffer-successors.patch)
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From f533b4bb5e2de11db6c1bdbff03c6232ec7321ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:49:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v12 8/8] Eagerly flush buffer successors
When flushing a dirty buffer, check if it the two blocks following it
are in shared buffers and whether or not they are dirty. If they are,
flush them together with the victim buffer.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 122 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 4ae70915089..4dc13c7d972 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -649,7 +649,10 @@ static bool BufferHasRequiredBlock(BatchBlockRequirements *require, BufferDesc *
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
BatchBlockRequirements *require,
+ LWLock *buftable_lock,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
BufferDesc *batch_start,
uint32 max_batch_size,
@@ -2621,15 +2624,22 @@ again:
next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
next_buf,
NULL,
+ NULL,
&max_lsn);
}
}
else
{
- DoFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, max_lsn);
- LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, buf_hdr, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
}
@@ -4740,6 +4750,35 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+
+static BlockNumber
+WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->n = 1;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ return limit;
+}
+
+
/*
* Quick check to see if the buffer contains the required block from the right
* fork of the right relation. If you don't hold the buffer header spinlock,
@@ -4774,6 +4813,9 @@ BufferHasRequiredBlock(BatchBlockRequirements *require, BufferDesc *bufdesc)
* accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
* RelFileLocator and fork.
*
+ * If the caller is holding the buftable_lock, it will be released after
+ * acquiring a pin on the buffer.
+ *
* max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
* LSN.
*/
@@ -4781,6 +4823,7 @@ static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
BatchBlockRequirements *require,
+ LWLock *buftable_lock,
XLogRecPtr *max_lsn)
{
BufferDesc *bufdesc;
@@ -4841,6 +4884,12 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (!PinBuffer(bufdesc, strategy, /* skip_if_not_valid */ true))
goto reject_buffer;
+ if (buftable_lock)
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(buftable_lock);
+ buftable_lock = NULL;
+ }
+
CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
/* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
@@ -4881,6 +4930,8 @@ reject_buffer_unpin:
UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
reject_buffer:
+ if (buftable_lock)
+ LWLockRelease(buftable_lock);
return NULL;
}
@@ -4909,26 +4960,8 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferWriteBatch *batch,
int *sweep_cursor)
{
- BlockNumber limit;
BatchBlockRequirements require;
-
- Assert(batch_start);
- batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
-
- LockBufHdr(batch_start);
- batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
- UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
-
- batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
- Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
- batch->n = 1;
- batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
- batch->rlocator = BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
- batch->reln = smgropen(batch->rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
-
- limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
- limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
- limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ BlockNumber limit = WriteBatchInit(batch_start, max_batch_size, batch);
/*
* It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
@@ -4963,6 +4996,72 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy, bufnum,
&require,
+ NULL,
+ &batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Check if the blocks after my block are in shared buffers and dirty and if
+ * it is, write them out too
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BufferTag newTag; /* identity of requested block */
+ uint32 newHash; /* hash value for newTag */
+ LWLock *newPartitionLock; /* buffer partition lock for it */
+ int buf_id;
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ BlockNumber max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
+ BatchBlockRequirements require;
+
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(batch_start, max_batch_size, batch);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible we're not allowed any more pins or there aren't more
+ * blocks in the target relation. In this case, just return. Our batch
+ * will have only one buffer.
+ */
+ if (limit <= 1)
+ return;
+
+ require.rlocator = &batch->rlocator;
+ require.forkno = batch->forkno;
+
+ for (; batch->n < limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ require.block = batch->start + batch->n;
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(require.block));
+
+ /* create a tag so we can lookup the buffer */
+ InitBufferTag(&newTag, &batch->rlocator, batch->forkno,
+ require.block);
+
+ /* determine its hash code and partition lock ID */
+ newHash = BufTableHashCode(&newTag);
+ newPartitionLock = BufMappingPartitionLock(newHash);
+
+ /* see if the block is in the buffer pool already */
+ LWLockAcquire(newPartitionLock, LW_SHARED);
+ buf_id = BufTableLookup(&newTag, newHash);
+
+ /* The block may not even be in shared buffers. */
+ if (buf_id < 0)
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if ((batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
+ buf_id + 1,
+ &require,
+ newPartitionLock,
&batch->max_lsn)) == NULL)
break;
}
--
2.43.0
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-01-14 07:49 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2026-01-14 07:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Jan 14, 2026, at 06:24, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Attached v12 fixes a variety of buglets I found throughout the patch set.
>
> I've also done quite a bit of refactoring. The scope of the
> refactoring varies from inlining some helpers to introducing new input
> argument structs.
>
> 0001 is independently valuable as it optimizes StrategyRejectBuffer()
> a bit and makes GetVictimBuffer() cleaner
>
> 0002-0007 were largely present in older versions of the patch set
>
> 0008 is new -- it is an early version of batching for normal backends
> flushing a buffer to obtain a clean one. Right now, it checks if the
> two blocks succeeding the target block are in shared buffers and
> dirty, and, if so, writes them out with the target buffer. I haven't
> started testing or benchmarking it because I need to convert bgwriter
> to use write combining to be able to benchmark it effectively. But I
> thought I would get the code out there sooner rather than later.
>
> It's a lot harder with my current code structure to add the target
> block's predecessor if it is dirty and read to write out. I wonder how
> important this is vs just the two succeeding blocks.
>
> - Melanie
> <v12-0001-Streamline-buffer-rejection-for-bulkreads-of-unl.patch><v12-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch><v12-0003-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v12-0004-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v12-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v12-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch><v12-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch><v12-0008-Eagerly-flush-buffer-successors.patch>
Hi Melanie,
I went through the patch set again today, and paid special attention to 0001 and 0008 that I seemed to not review before. Here are comments I got today:
1 - 0001
```
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#ifndef BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
#define BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
+#include "access/xlogdefs.h"
```
I tried to build without adding this include, build still passed. I think that’s because there is a include path: storage/bufmgr.h -> storage/bufpage.h -> access/xlogger.h.
So, maybe we can remove this include.
2 - 0001
```
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
```
As the new comment stated, the buffer must be pinned, maybe we can add an assert to ensure that:
```
Assert(BufferIsPinned(buffer));
```
Similarly, maybe we can also assert the locks are not held:
```
Assert(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buffer));
Assert(!pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED);
```
3 - 0001 - bufmgr.c - BufferNeedsWALFlush()
```
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
+
+ Assert(BufferIsValid(buffer));
```
I think the Assert should be moved to before "page = BufferGetPage(buffer);”.
4 - 0001 - bufmgr.c
```
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ * *lsn is set to the current page LSN.
+ *
+ * If the result is required to be correct, the caller must hold a buffer
+ * content lock. If they only hold a shared content lock, we'll need to
+ * acquire the buffer header spinlock, so they must not already hold it.
+ *
+ * If the buffer is unlogged, *lsn shouldn't be used by the caller and is set
+ * to InvalidXLogRecPtr.
+ */
+bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
```
I think the “exclusive" parameter is a bit subtle. The parameter is not explicitly explained in the header comment, though there is a paragraph that explains different behaviors when the caller hold and not hold content lock. Maybe we can rename to a more direct name: hold_exclusive_content_lock, or a shorter one hold_content_lock.
5 - 0002 - commit message
```
actual buffer flushing step. This separation procides symmetry with
```
Typo: procides -> provides
6 - 0002
```
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
```
Looks like it’s better to add “we” between “since” and “don’t” => since we don’t have ...
7 - 0002
```
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
uint32 buf_state;
/*
@@ -4425,42 +4445,16 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
-
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
-
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
-
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
-
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- UnlockBufHdrExt(buf, buf_state,
- 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
- 0);
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
```
The header comment says “lsn returns the buffer's LSN if the table is logged”, which looks inaccurate, because if StartBufferIO() is true, the function returns early without setting *lsn.
8 - 0008 - comment message
```
When flushing a dirty buffer, check if it the two blocks following it
```
Nit: “if it the” -> “if the"
9 - 0008
```
+ * Check if the blocks after my block are in shared buffers and dirty and if
+ * it is, write them out too
```
Nit: “if it is” -> “if they are”
10 - 0008
```
+ BlockNumber max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
```
Using type BlockNumber for batch size seems odd. I would suggest change to uint32.
11 - 0008 - WriteBatchInit()
```
+ LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
```
Should we check unlogged buffer before assigning max_lsn? In previous commits, we have done that in many places.
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-01-14 23:35 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 2 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2026-01-14 23:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 2:49 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I went through the patch set again today, and paid special attention to 0001 and 0008 that I seemed to not review before. Here are comments I got today:
Thanks! v13 attached.
> --- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
> +++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
> #ifndef BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
> #define BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
>
> +#include "access/xlogdefs.h"
>
> I tried to build without adding this include, build still passed. I think that’s because there is a include path: storage/bufmgr.h -> storage/bufpage.h -> access/xlogger.h.
>
> So, maybe we can remove this include.
Generally, at least for new code, we try to avoid transitive includes.
> + * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
> + * must not be held.
> + *
> * Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
> * if this buffer should be written and re-used.
> */
> bool
> StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
> {
> + XLogRecPtr lsn;
> +
> + if (!strategy)
> + return false;
> ```
>
> As the new comment stated, the buffer must be pinned, maybe we can add an assert to ensure that:
> ```
> Assert(BufferIsPinned(buffer));
> ```
>
> Similarly, maybe we can also assert the locks are not held:
> ```
> Assert(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buffer));
> Assert(!pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED);
I've added something like this.
>
> 3 - 0001 - bufmgr.c - BufferNeedsWALFlush()
> ```
> + buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
> + page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
> +
> + Assert(BufferIsValid(buffer));
> ```
>
> I think the Assert should be moved to before "page = BufferGetPage(buffer);”.
I just deleted the assert -- BufferGetPage() already does it.
> +bool
> +BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
> ```
>
> I think the “exclusive" parameter is a bit subtle. The parameter is not explicitly explained in the header comment, though there is a paragraph that explains different behaviors when the caller hold and not hold content lock. Maybe we can rename to a more direct name: hold_exclusive_content_lock, or a shorter one hold_content_lock.
I've done this.
I've also gone and fixed the various typos in code and commit messages
you mentioned.
> +/*
> + * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
> + * actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
> + * the table is logged.
> + */
> +static bool
> +PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
> +{
> uint32 buf_state;
>
> /*
> @@ -4425,42 +4445,16 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
> * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
> * anything.
> */
> - if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
> - return;
>
> The header comment says “lsn returns the buffer's LSN if the table is logged”, which looks inaccurate, because if StartBufferIO() is true, the function returns early without setting *lsn.
Yes, good point. I should initialize it to InvalidXLogRecPtr before
calling StartBufferIO() and document it appropriately. I've done that.
While looking at this, I realized that PrepareFlushBuffer() becomes
useless once I make normal (non-strategy) buffer flushes do write
combining. This inspired a refactor whichI think simplifies the code.
Unfortunately, it means this patch set introduces PrepareFlushBuffer()
in 0001 and then deletes it in 0008. I'm not really sure what to do
about that, but maybe it will come to me later.
> + BlockNumber max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
> ```
>
> Using type BlockNumber for batch size seems odd. I would suggest change to uint32.
Right, at the least, I wasn't consistent with which one to use. I've changed it.
> 11 - 0008 - WriteBatchInit()
> ```
> + LockBufHdr(batch_start);
> + batch->max_lsn = BufferGetLSN(batch_start);
> + UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
> ```
>
> Should we check unlogged buffer before assigning max_lsn? In previous commits, we have done that in many places.
Good point, when fixing this, I realized that I was getting the page
LSN more times than I needed to for the victim buffer. I restructured
it in a way that I think is more clear.
On a separate note, I've made some other changes -- like getting rid
of the BufferBlockRequirements struct I added, because I realized that
was just a BufferTag.
And I found a few places where I hadn't documented my expectations
around the buffer header spinlock. Because I'm checking fields in the
buffer header for a heuristic, I'm bending the rules about concurrency
control. Each time I look at the patch, I find a new mistake in how
I'm handling access to the buffer header.
Speaking of which, periodically I see a test failure related to a
block having invalid contents (in 027_stream_regress). It's not
reproducible, so I haven't investigated much yet. There's at least one
bug in this patch set that needs shaking out, but I think that will
have to wait for another day. I'll probably want to add some tests.
- Melanie
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From 5b216371de7d37f88d51fdb330775f2ece1d021f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 13:32:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v13 1/8] Streamline buffer rejection for bulkreads of unlogged
tables
Bulk-read buffer access strategies reject reusing a buffer from the
buffer access strategy ring if reusing it would require flushing WAL.
Unlogged relations never require WAL flushes, so this check can be
skipped. This avoids taking the buffer header lock unnecessarily.
Refactor this into StrategyRejectBuffer() itself, which also avoids LSN
checking for non-bulkread buffer access strategies.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/0198DBB9-4A76-49E4-87F8-43D46DD0FD76%40gmail.com#1d8677fc75dc8b39f0eb5dd6bbafb65d
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 14 ++++++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 2 +
3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a036c2aa275..67f9a210872 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2483,25 +2483,14 @@ again:
* If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
* require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
* and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
+ * content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
* StrategyGetBuffer.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
-
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
-
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
- {
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ goto again;
}
/* OK, do the I/O */
@@ -3416,6 +3405,45 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
BLCKSZ);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ *
+ * If the result is required to be correct, the caller must hold a buffer
+ * content lock. If they only hold a shared content lock, we'll need to
+ * acquire the buffer header spinlock, so they must not already hold it.
+ */
+bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+ Buffer buffer;
+ char *page;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ /*
+ * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See FlushBuffer() for more
+ * details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
+ return false;
+
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
+
+ if (!XLogHintBitIsNeeded() || BufferIsLocal(buffer) || exclusive_locked)
+ lsn = PageGetLSN(page);
+ else
+ {
+ /* Buffer is either share locked or not locked */
+ LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = PageGetLSN(page);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ }
+
+ return XLogNeedsFlush(lsn);
+}
+
+
#define ST_SORT sort_checkpoint_bufferids
#define ST_ELEMENT_TYPE CkptSortItem
#define ST_COMPARE(a, b) ckpt_buforder_comparator(a, b)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 9a93fb335fc..570b933ddb3 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -780,12 +780,18 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ if (!strategy)
+ return false;
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -795,8 +801,14 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf)));
+ Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
+
+ if (!BufferNeedsWALFlush(buf, false))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 2f607ea2ac5..916be941a41 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#ifndef BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
#define BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H
+#include "access/xlogdefs.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/aio_types.h"
@@ -522,6 +523,7 @@ extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
+extern bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v13-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch (7.6K, ../../CAAKRu_b_e96kWChReBPNjsD7GJuGKoM+exdyodP+8Oa=-T=pZA@mail.gmail.com/3-v13-0002-Split-FlushBuffer-into-two-parts.patch)
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From fdfa439c26493493c0e8c2cb0df1a82bf9920e34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:54:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v13 2/8] Split FlushBuffer() into two parts
Before adding write combining to write a batch of blocks when flushing
dirty buffers, refactor FlushBuffer() into the preparatory step and
actual buffer flushing step. This separation provides symmetry with
future code for batch flushing which necessarily separates these steps,
as it must prepare multiple buffers before flushing them together.
These steps are moved into a new FlushBuffer() helper function,
CleanVictimBuffer() which will contain both the batch flushing and
single flush code in future commits.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 134 ++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 87 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 67f9a210872..0d90b56ec9b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -631,6 +631,10 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
+ IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
+ XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2450,6 +2454,7 @@ again:
if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
LWLock *content_lock;
+ XLogRecPtr victim_lsn;
Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
@@ -2493,12 +2498,18 @@ again:
goto again;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LWLockRelease(content_lock);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, &victim_lsn))
+ {
+ /* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, victim_lsn);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
}
@@ -3421,8 +3432,8 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked)
XLogRecPtr lsn;
/*
- * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See FlushBuffer() for more
- * details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
+ * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See PrepareFlushBuffer() for
+ * more details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
*/
if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
return false;
@@ -4406,54 +4417,38 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr recptr;
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
+ DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
+ * actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
+ * the table is logged and still needs flushing.
+ */
+static bool
+PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
uint32 buf_state;
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
/*
* Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
* someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
* anything.
*/
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
- return;
-
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
-
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
-
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
-
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
-
- /*
- * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
- * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
- */
- recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
+ return false;
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- UnlockBufHdrExt(buf, buf_state,
- 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
- 0);
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
/*
- * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
- * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
- * they describe do.
+ * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
+ * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
+ * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
*
* However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
* lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
@@ -4466,9 +4461,54 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
* disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
* skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ *
+ * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
+ * we don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
*/
if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- XLogFlush(recptr);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state,
+ 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
+ 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
+ */
+static void
+DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
+ IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(buffer_lsn))
+ {
+ Assert(pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf->state) & BM_PERMANENT);
+ XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
+ }
/*
* Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
--
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From 3f2845d0bcbc48234f99583b4e2ff1c5220a6fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:56:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v13 3/8] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes, as it lines up multiple
buffers that can be issued asynchronously once the infrastructure
exists.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 205 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 0d90b56ec9b..cab552bbc56 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -631,6 +631,10 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer bufnum,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
@@ -2503,6 +2507,59 @@ again:
/* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
}
+ else if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ Buffer sweep_end = buf;
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ bool first_buffer = true;
+ BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
+
+ /*
+ * Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one
+ * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers.
+ */
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ Buffer next_buf;
+
+ if (next_bufdesc)
+ {
+ DoFlushBuffer(next_bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, victim_lsn);
+ LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(next_bufdesc));
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &next_bufdesc->tag);
+ /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
+ if (!first_buffer)
+ UnpinBuffer(next_bufdesc);
+ first_buffer = false;
+ }
+
+ next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
+
+ /* Completed one sweep of the strategy ring */
+ if (next_buf == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For strategies currently supporting eager flush
+ * (BAS_BULKWRITE, eventually BAS_VACUUM), once you hit an
+ * InvalidBuffer, the remaining buffers in the ring will be
+ * invalid. If BAS_BULKREAD is someday supported, this logic
+ * will have to change.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(next_buf))
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * Check buffer eager flush eligibility. If the buffer is
+ * ineligible, we'll keep looking until we complete one full
+ * sweep around the ring.
+ */
+ next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
+ next_buf,
+ &victim_lsn);
+ }
+ }
else
{
DoFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, victim_lsn);
@@ -4423,6 +4480,102 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
+ * does not contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer bufnum,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
+ * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Quick check to see if the buffer is pinned, in which case it is more
+ * likely to be dirtied again soon, and we don't want to eagerly flush it.
+ * We don't care if it has a non-zero usage count because we don't need to
+ * reuse it right away and a non-zero usage count doesn't necessarily mean
+ * it will be dirtied again soon.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0)
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush. We must check this
+ * again later while holding the buffer content lock for correctness.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that there's a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leak a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, that slot will be reused.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /* There is no need to flush the buffer if it is not BM_VALID */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufdesc, strategy, /* skip_if_not_valid */ true))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
+ if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
+ /* Now that we have the lock, recheck if it needs WAL flush */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ /* Need the buffer header spinlock to read the page LSN */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+reject_buffer_unlock:
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+
+reject_buffer_unpin:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+
+reject_buffer:
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 570b933ddb3..cb804fc43ce 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -155,6 +155,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -306,6 +331,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Returns the next buffer in the ring after the one at cursor and increments
+ * cursor.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 916be941a41..fef5bc5382b 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -532,6 +532,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
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From 622f55505ed2eac23cfa3ce4ece0dc5936fc880b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v13 4/8] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 315 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 ++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 30 +++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
6 files changed, 354 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index cab552bbc56..8a1a1b92739 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -626,15 +626,24 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
bool *foundPtr, IOContext io_context);
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
+static uint32 MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static BlockNumber WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
@@ -2418,6 +2427,34 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble given strategy-specific and global
+ * constraints on the number of pinned buffers and max IO size. Currently only
+ * a single write is inflight at a time, so the batch can consume all the
+ * pinned buffers this backend is allowed. Only for batches of shared
+ * (non-local) relations.
+ */
+static uint32
+MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 result = io_combine_limit;
+ uint32 strategy_pin_limit;
+ uint32 max_pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Apply pin limits */
+ result = Min(result, max_pin_limit);
+ if (strategy)
+ {
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ result = Min(result, strategy_pin_limit);
+ }
+
+ /* Ensure forward progress */
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+
+ return result;
+}
+
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
@@ -2511,27 +2548,48 @@ again:
{
Buffer sweep_end = buf;
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
- bool first_buffer = true;
+ uint32 max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+
/*
* Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one
- * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers.
+ * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers. IO
+ * concurrency only needs to be taken into account if AIO writes
+ * are added in the future.
*/
for (;;)
{
Buffer next_buf;
+ XLogRecPtr next_buf_lsn; /* unused */
if (next_bufdesc)
{
- DoFlushBuffer(next_bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, victim_lsn);
- LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(next_bufdesc));
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &next_bufdesc->tag);
- /* We leave the first buffer pinned for the caller */
- if (!first_buffer)
- UnpinBuffer(next_bufdesc);
- first_buffer = false;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ BlockNumber limit;
+
+ /*
+ * After finding an eligible buffer, if we are allowed
+ * more pins and there are more blocks in the relation,
+ * identify any of the buffers following it which are also
+ * eligible and combine them into a batch.
+ *
+ * The cursor will be advanced through the ring such that
+ * the next write batch will start at the next eligible
+ * buffer after the current batch ends.
+ */
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(next_bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ if (limit > 1)
+ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end,
+ next_bufdesc,
+ limit, &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ /* Pins and locks released inside CompleteWriteBatchIO */
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
@@ -2551,13 +2609,14 @@ again:
break;
/*
- * Check buffer eager flush eligibility. If the buffer is
- * ineligible, we'll keep looking until we complete one full
- * sweep around the ring.
+ * If the buffer is eligible for eager flushing, it will be
+ * the start of a new batch. Otherwise, we'll keep looking
+ * until we complete one full sweep around the ring.
*/
next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
next_buf,
- &victim_lsn);
+ NULL,
+ &next_buf_lsn);
}
}
else
@@ -4480,6 +4539,41 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
}
+/*
+ * Given the starting buffer of a batch, initialize the batch structure. The
+ * starting buffer must be ready to flush.
+ */
+static BlockNumber
+WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch_start)));
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = buf_state & BM_PERMANENT ?
+ BufferGetLSN(batch_start) : InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag),
+ INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ batch->n = 1;
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ return limit;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
*
@@ -4487,11 +4581,16 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
* does not contain a block that should be flushed.
*
+ * If the caller requires a particular block to be in the buffer in order to
+ * accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
+ * RelFileLocator and fork.
+ *
* If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
*/
static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
XLogRecPtr *lsn)
{
BufferDesc *bufdesc;
@@ -4506,11 +4605,19 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick, unsafe checks to see if buffer even possibly contains a block
+ * meeting our requirements. We'll recheck it all again after getting a
+ * pin.
+ */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufdesc->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufdesc->state);
/*
- * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
- * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * We'll recheck if it is dirty later, when we have a pin and lock, before
* actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
*/
if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
@@ -4547,6 +4654,10 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+ /* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufdesc->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufdesc);
if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
goto reject_buffer_unpin;
@@ -4576,6 +4687,137 @@ reject_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a starting buffer descriptor from a strategy ring that supports eager
+ * flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
+ * single write batch with the starting buffer.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ *
+ * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given the
+ * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
+ * current configuration.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to issue this IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BufferTag require;
+
+ Assert(batch_limit > 1);
+
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < batch_limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ require.blockNum = batch->start + batch->n;
+
+ batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy, bufnum,
+ &require,
+ &lsn);
+
+ /*
+ * Because we don't eagerly flush buffers that need WAL flushed, this
+ * buffer's LSN should only be greater than the victim buffer LSN if
+ * the victim doesn't need WAL flushing either -- in which case, we
+ * don't really need to update max_lsn. But, it seems better to keep
+ * the max_lsn honest -- especially since doing so is cheap.
+ */
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ /* Should have been opened when initializing the batch */
+ Assert(batch->reln);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], false));
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, batch->n, BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
* actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
@@ -4741,6 +4983,47 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf));
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, io_context,
+ &batch->bufdescs[i]->tag);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index de85911e3ac..4d0f1883a26 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple blocks' checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 1929521c6a5..e0f48c6d2d9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index fef5bc5382b..e9d8f3e6810 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -513,6 +513,33 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufferWriteBatch
+{
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufferWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -521,6 +548,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+extern void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
extern bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked);
@@ -536,6 +564,8 @@ extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *cursor);
extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint32 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index ae3725b3b81..baadfc6c313 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -506,5 +506,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 14dec2d49c1..bfdc6689fbf 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufferWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v13-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_b_e96kWChReBPNjsD7GJuGKoM+exdyodP+8Oa=-T=pZA@mail.gmail.com/6-v13-0005-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From a1ca838809821283240e2ba574a7a02b7150b8d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v13 5/8] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is an oversight that currently isn't causing harm. However, it is
required for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added in
a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 8a1a1b92739..fc8c9b366a2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3650,6 +3650,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -6973,6 +6974,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index e9d8f3e6810..90281258518 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ extern uint32 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v13-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (11.0K, ../../CAAKRu_b_e96kWChReBPNjsD7GJuGKoM+exdyodP+8Oa=-T=pZA@mail.gmail.com/7-v13-0006-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From beb4f90881d3d05f3c1d8c1fbde6a03aa46cb9e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v13 6/8] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Soumya <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index fc8c9b366a2..a08a0afe2c1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3591,8 +3591,6 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint32 buf_state;
- int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
int num_processed;
@@ -3603,6 +3601,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint32 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3630,10 +3630,11 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
* certainly need to be written for the next checkpoint attempt, too.
*/
num_to_scan = 0;
- for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
+ for (int buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint32 set_bits = 0;
+ uint32 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3776,48 +3777,221 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(NULL);
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint32 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ LWLock *content_lock;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+ Buffer buffer;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ Assert(item.buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(item.buf_id);
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ RelFileLocator rlocator = {
+ .spcOid = item.tsId,
+ .dbOid = item.dbId,
+ .relNumber = item.relNumber
+ };
+
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid ||
+ item.relNumber != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber ||
+ item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* If the buffer is not BM_VALID, nothing to do on this buffer */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have a pin, we must recheck that the buffer
+ * contains the specified block. Someone may have replaced the
+ * block in the buffer with a different block. In that case, count
+ * it as processed and issue the IO so far. These fields won't
+ * change as long as we hold a pin, so we don't need a spinlock to
+ * read them.
+ */
+ if (!BufTagMatchesRelFileLocator(&bufHdr->tag,
+ &batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator) ||
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag) != batch.forkno ||
+ BufferGetBlockNumber(buffer) != batch.start + batch.n)
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
}
+
+ /*
+ * It's conceivable that between the time we examine the buffer
+ * header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED above and when we are now
+ * acquiring the lock that someone else wrote the buffer out. In
+ * that improbable case, we will write the buffer though we didn't
+ * need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding against this, though.
+ */
+ content_lock = BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ LWLockAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ else if (!LWLockConditionalAcquire(content_lock, LW_SHARED))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(content_lock);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Lock buffer header lock before examining LSN because we only
+ * have a shared lock on the buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufHdr, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
+ */
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e0f48c6d2d9..90169c92c26 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v13-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch (6.1K, ../../CAAKRu_b_e96kWChReBPNjsD7GJuGKoM+exdyodP+8Oa=-T=pZA@mail.gmail.com/8-v13-0007-Refactor-SyncOneBuffer-for-bgwriter-use-only.patch)
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From 974fff42b4ad9860e673e593d03dc1b971ecd615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v13 7/8] Refactor SyncOneBuffer for bgwriter use only
Since xxx, only bgwriter uses SyncOneBuffer, so we can remove the
skip_recently_used parameter and make that behavior the default.
While we are at it, 5e89985928795f243 introduced the pattern of using a
CAS loop instead of locking the buffer header and then calling
PinBuffer_Locked(). Do that in SyncOneBuffer() so we can avoid taking
the buffer header spinlock in the common case that the buffer is
recently used.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index a08a0afe2c1..dd75deb13c1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -612,8 +612,7 @@ static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -4265,8 +4264,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/* Execute the LRU scan */
while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, wb_context);
if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
@@ -4329,8 +4327,8 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
/*
* SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
*
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
+ * We don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor buffers marked recently used,
+ * as these are not replacement candidates.
*
* Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
* BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
@@ -4341,53 +4339,71 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
* after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
*/
static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
+SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
int result = 0;
+ uint32 old_buf_state;
uint32 buf_state;
BufferTag tag;
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
/*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
+ * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
*/
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u32(&bufHdr->state);
+ for (;;)
{
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * We can make these checks without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Don't write recently-used buffers */
+ return result;
+ }
+
result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32(&bufHdr->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr));
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
+ * Share lock and write it out (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the buffer
+ * is clean by the time we've locked it.)
*/
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
tag = bufHdr->tag;
@@ -4395,8 +4411,8 @@ SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
/*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by bgwriter, so IOContext will always be
+ * IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v13-0008-Eagerly-flush-buffer-successors.patch (19.2K, ../../CAAKRu_b_e96kWChReBPNjsD7GJuGKoM+exdyodP+8Oa=-T=pZA@mail.gmail.com/9-v13-0008-Eagerly-flush-buffer-successors.patch)
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From a41017e3d44ffe0aca3562a6ff729b2ea8ea9220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:49:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v13 8/8] Eagerly flush buffer successors
When flushing a dirty buffer, check if the two blocks following it are
in shared buffers and whether or not they are dirty. If they are, flush
them together with the victim buffer.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/0198DBB9-4A76-49E4-87F8-43D46DD0FD76%40gmail.com#1d8677fc75dc8b39f0eb5dd6bbafb65d
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 412 ++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 238 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index dd75deb13c1..c185928cb39 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -637,16 +637,16 @@ static BlockNumber WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
+ LWLock *buftable_lock,
XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
BufferDesc *batch_start,
uint32 max_batch_size,
BufferWriteBatch *batch,
int *sweep_cursor);
-static bool PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn);
-static void DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
- IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context,
- XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2494,7 +2494,6 @@ again:
if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
LWLock *content_lock;
- XLogRecPtr victim_lsn;
Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
@@ -2538,7 +2537,7 @@ again:
goto again;
}
- if (!PrepareFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, &victim_lsn))
+ if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
{
/* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
@@ -2571,6 +2570,9 @@ again:
BufferWriteBatch batch;
BlockNumber limit;
+ /* So we can detect block content changes while flushing */
+ pg_atomic_fetch_and_u32(&next_bufdesc->state, ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED);
+
/*
* After finding an eligible buffer, if we are allowed
* more pins and there are more blocks in the relation,
@@ -2615,15 +2617,34 @@ again:
next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
next_buf,
NULL,
+ NULL,
&next_buf_lsn);
}
}
else
{
- DoFlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, victim_lsn);
- LWLockRelease(BufferDescriptorGetContentLock(buf_hdr));
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
+
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+
+ /* So we can detect block content changes while flushing */
+ pg_atomic_fetch_and_u32(&buf_hdr->state, ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED);
+
+ /*
+ * If we are allowed more pins and there are more blocks in the
+ * relation and the victim buffer's block's successors are
+ * eligible for eager flushing, combine them into a batch.
+ */
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(buf_hdr, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ if (limit > 1)
+ FindFlushAdjacents(strategy, buf_hdr, limit, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
}
@@ -3547,8 +3568,8 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked)
XLogRecPtr lsn;
/*
- * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See PrepareFlushBuffer() for
- * more details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
+ * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See FlushBuffer() for more
+ * details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
*/
if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
return false;
@@ -4724,10 +4745,133 @@ static void
FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context)
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ XLogRecPtr recptr;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
+ instr_time io_start;
+ Block bufBlock;
+ char *bufToWrite;
+ uint32 buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
+ * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
+ * anything.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(buf, false, false))
+ return;
+
+ /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
+ errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
+ errcallback.arg = buf;
+ errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
+ if (reln == NULL)
+ reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf);
+
+ /*
+ * Run PageGetLSN while holding header lock, since we don't have the
+ * buffer locked exclusively in all cases.
+ */
+ recptr = BufferGetLSN(buf);
+
+ /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(buf, buf_state,
+ 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
+ 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN. This implements the basic WAL
+ * rule that log updates must hit disk before any of the data-file changes
+ * they describe do.
+ *
+ * However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
+ * lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
+ * LSNs since we never emit WAL records for them, and therefore flushing
+ * up through the buffer LSN would be useless, but harmless. However,
+ * GiST indexes use LSNs internally to track page-splits, and therefore
+ * unlogged GiST pages bear "fake" LSNs generated by
+ * GetFakeLSNForUnloggedRel. It is unlikely but possible that the fake
+ * LSN counter could advance past the WAL insertion point; and if it did
+ * happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
+ * disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
+ * skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ XLogFlush(recptr);
+
+ /*
+ * Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
+ * have been able to write it, while we were busy with log flushing,
+ * because we got the exclusive right to perform I/O by setting the
+ * BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS bit.
+ */
+ bufBlock = BufHdrGetBlock(buf);
+
+ /*
+ * Update page checksum if desired. Since we have only shared lock on the
+ * buffer, other processes might be updating hint bits in it, so we must
+ * copy the page to private storage if we do checksumming.
+ */
+ bufToWrite = PageSetChecksumCopy((Page) bufBlock, buf->tag.blockNum);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ /*
+ * bufToWrite is either the shared buffer or a copy, as appropriate.
+ */
+ smgrwrite(reln,
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ bufToWrite,
+ false);
+
+ /*
+ * When a strategy is in use, only flushes of dirty buffers already in the
+ * strategy ring are counted as strategy writes (IOCONTEXT
+ * [BULKREAD|BULKWRITE|VACUUM] IOOP_WRITE) for the purpose of IO
+ * statistics tracking.
+ *
+ * If a shared buffer initially added to the ring must be flushed before
+ * being used, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE.
+ *
+ * If a shared buffer which was added to the ring later because the
+ * current strategy buffer is pinned or in use or because all strategy
+ * buffers were dirty and rejected (for BAS_BULKREAD operations only)
+ * requires flushing, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE
+ * (from_ring will be false).
+ *
+ * When a strategy is not in use, the write can only be a "regular" write
+ * of a dirty shared buffer (IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE).
+ */
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ IOOP_WRITE, io_start, 1, BLCKSZ);
+
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written++;
+
+ /*
+ * Mark the buffer as clean (unless BM_JUST_DIRTIED has become set) and
+ * end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state.
+ */
+ TerminateBufferIO(buf, true, 0, true, false);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_DONE(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
+ buf->tag.blockNum,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
- if (PrepareFlushBuffer(buf, &lsn))
- DoFlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context, lsn);
+ /* Pop the error context stack */
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
/*
@@ -4776,12 +4920,17 @@ WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
* accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
* RelFileLocator and fork.
*
- * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
+ * If the caller is holding the buftable_lock, it will be released after
+ * acquiring a pin on the buffer.
+ *
+ * max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
+ * LSN.
*/
static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
+ LWLock *buftable_lock,
XLogRecPtr *lsn)
{
BufferDesc *bufdesc;
@@ -4843,6 +4992,12 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (!PinBuffer(bufdesc, strategy, /* skip_if_not_valid */ true))
goto reject_buffer;
+ if (buftable_lock)
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(buftable_lock);
+ buftable_lock = NULL;
+ }
+
CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
/* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
@@ -4875,6 +5030,8 @@ reject_buffer_unpin:
UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
reject_buffer:
+ if (buftable_lock)
+ LWLockRelease(buftable_lock);
return NULL;
}
@@ -4883,15 +5040,17 @@ reject_buffer:
* flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
* single write batch with the starting buffer.
*
- * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
- * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
- *
- * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given the
- * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
- * current configuration.
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
*
* batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
* information to issue this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
*/
static void
FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -4930,6 +5089,7 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy, bufnum,
&require,
+ NULL,
&lsn);
/*
@@ -4945,7 +5105,63 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
/* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
break;
+ }
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Check if the blocks after my block are in shared buffers and dirty and if
+ * they are, write them out too.
+ */
+static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BufferTag newTag; /* identity of requested block */
+ uint32 newHash; /* hash value for newTag */
+ LWLock *newPartitionLock; /* buffer partition lock for it */
+ int buf_id;
+ BufferTag require;
+
+ /* create a tag so we can lookup the buffers */
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ for (; batch->n < batch_limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ require.blockNum = batch->start + batch->n;
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(require.blockNum));
+
+ /* determine its hash code and partition lock ID */
+ newHash = BufTableHashCode(&newTag);
+ newPartitionLock = BufMappingPartitionLock(newHash);
+
+ /* see if the block is in the buffer pool already */
+ LWLockAcquire(newPartitionLock, LW_SHARED);
+ buf_id = BufTableLookup(&newTag, newHash);
+
+ /* The block may not even be in shared buffers. */
+ if (buf_id < 0)
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
+ break;
+ }
+ batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(strategy,
+ buf_id + 1,
+ &require,
+ newPartitionLock,
+ &lsn);
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
+ break;
}
}
@@ -5009,158 +5225,6 @@ FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
-/*
- * Prepare the buffer with bufdesc for writing. Returns true if the buffer
- * actually needs writing and false otherwise. lsn returns the buffer's LSN if
- * the table is logged and still needs flushing.
- */
-static bool
-PrepareFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *bufdesc, XLogRecPtr *lsn)
-{
- uint32 buf_state;
-
- *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
-
- /*
- * Try to start an I/O operation. If StartBufferIO returns false, then
- * someone else flushed the buffer before we could, so we need not do
- * anything.
- */
- if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, false))
- return false;
-
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
-
- /*
- * Record the buffer's LSN. We will force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN.
- * This implements the basic WAL rule that log updates must hit disk
- * before any of the data-file changes they describe do.
- *
- * However, this rule does not apply to unlogged relations, which will be
- * lost after a crash anyway. Most unlogged relation pages do not bear
- * LSNs since we never emit WAL records for them, and therefore flushing
- * up through the buffer LSN would be useless, but harmless. However,
- * GiST indexes use LSNs internally to track page-splits, and therefore
- * unlogged GiST pages bear "fake" LSNs generated by
- * GetFakeLSNForUnloggedRel. It is unlikely but possible that the fake
- * LSN counter could advance past the WAL insertion point; and if it did
- * happen, attempting to flush WAL through that location would fail, with
- * disastrous system-wide consequences. To make sure that can't happen,
- * skip the flush if the buffer isn't permanent.
- *
- * We must hold the buffer header lock when examining the page LSN since
- * we don't have buffer exclusively locked in all cases.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
- *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
-
- /* To check if block content changes while flushing. - vadim 01/17/97 */
- UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state,
- 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED,
- 0);
- return true;
-}
-
-/*
- * Actually do the write I/O to clean a buffer. buf and reln may be modified.
- */
-static void
-DoFlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
- IOContext io_context, XLogRecPtr buffer_lsn)
-{
- ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
- instr_time io_start;
- Block bufBlock;
- char *bufToWrite;
-
- /* Setup error traceback support for ereport() */
- errcallback.callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback;
- errcallback.arg = buf;
- errcallback.previous = error_context_stack;
- error_context_stack = &errcallback;
-
- /* Find smgr relation for buffer */
- if (reln == NULL)
- reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&buf->tag), INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
-
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_START(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
-
- /* Force XLOG flush up to buffer's LSN */
- if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(buffer_lsn))
- {
- Assert(pg_atomic_read_u32(&buf->state) & BM_PERMANENT);
- XLogFlush(buffer_lsn);
- }
-
- /*
- * Now it's safe to write the buffer to disk. Note that no one else should
- * have been able to write it, while we were busy with log flushing,
- * because we got the exclusive right to perform I/O by setting the
- * BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS bit.
- */
- bufBlock = BufHdrGetBlock(buf);
-
- /*
- * Update page checksum if desired. Since we have only shared lock on the
- * buffer, other processes might be updating hint bits in it, so we must
- * copy the page to private storage if we do checksumming.
- */
- bufToWrite = PageSetChecksumCopy((Page) bufBlock, buf->tag.blockNum);
-
- io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
-
- /*
- * bufToWrite is either the shared buffer or a copy, as appropriate.
- */
- smgrwrite(reln,
- BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- bufToWrite,
- false);
-
- /*
- * When a strategy is in use, only flushes of dirty buffers already in the
- * strategy ring are counted as strategy writes (IOCONTEXT
- * [BULKREAD|BULKWRITE|VACUUM] IOOP_WRITE) for the purpose of IO
- * statistics tracking.
- *
- * If a shared buffer initially added to the ring must be flushed before
- * being used, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE.
- *
- * If a shared buffer which was added to the ring later because the
- * current strategy buffer is pinned or in use or because all strategy
- * buffers were dirty and rejected (for BAS_BULKREAD operations only)
- * requires flushing, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE
- * (from_ring will be false).
- *
- * When a strategy is not in use, the write can only be a "regular" write
- * of a dirty shared buffer (IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE).
- */
- pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- IOOP_WRITE, io_start, 1, BLCKSZ);
-
- pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written++;
-
- /*
- * Mark the buffer as clean (unless BM_JUST_DIRTIED has become set) and
- * end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state.
- */
- TerminateBufferIO(buf, true, 0, true, false);
-
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_FLUSH_DONE(BufTagGetForkNum(&buf->tag),
- buf->tag.blockNum,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
- reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber);
-
- /* Pop the error context stack */
- error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
-}
-
/*
* Convenience wrapper around FlushBuffer() that locks/unlocks the buffer
* before/after calling FlushBuffer().
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-01-23 07:03 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Soumya S Murali @ 2026-01-23 07:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Hi all,
Thank you all for the patches.
I am keeping this as a single patch because the refactoring, batching
behavior and instrumentation are tightly coupled and all serve one
purpose to reduce checkpoint writeback overhead while making the
effect observable. Due to version and context differences, the patches
did not apply cleanly in my development environment. Instead, I
studied the patches and went through the logic in detail and then
implemented the same ideas directly in my current tree adapting them
wherever needed. The implementation was then validated with
instrumentation and measurements.
Before batching:
2026-01-22 17:27:26.969 IST [148738] LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote
15419 buffers (94.1%), wrote 1 SLRU buffers; 0 WAL file(s) added, 0
removed, 25 recycled; write=0.325 s, sync=0.284 s, total=0.754 s; sync
files=30, longest=0.227 s, average=0.010 s; distance=407573 kB,
estimate=407573 kB; lsn=0/1A5B8E30, redo lsn=0/1A5B8DD8
After batching:
2026-01-22 17:31:36.165 IST [148738] LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote
13537 buffers (82.6%), wrote 1 SLRU buffers; 0 WAL file(s) added, 0
removed, 25 recycled; write=0.260 s, sync=0.211 s, total=0.625 s; sync
files=3, longest=0.205 s, average=0.070 s; distance=404310 kB,
estimate=407247 kB; lsn=0/3308E738, redo lsn=0/3308E6E0
Debug instrumentation with (batch size = 16) confirms the batching
behavior itself,
buffers_written = 6196
writeback_calls = 389
On average: I am getting 15.9 i.e approx 16 buffers per writeback
This shows that writebacks are issued per batch rather than per
buffer, while WAL ordering and durability semantics remain unchanged.
The change remains localized to BufferSync() and is intended to be a
conservative and measurable improvement to checkpoint I/O behavior. I
am attaching the patches herewith for review.
I am happy to adjust the approach if there are concerns or
suggestions. Looking forward to more feedback.
Regards,
Soumya
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] 0001-Batch-buffer-writebacks-during-checkpoints.patch (3.6K, ../../CAMtXxw-2xFGrFzQ7O_9_a0zSJytkh6v-se5JvroCCQXtXUt=VA@mail.gmail.com/2-0001-Batch-buffer-writebacks-during-checkpoints.patch)
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From 99354adda53d07d28940810b429648a855eeaf12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Soumya <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:24:11 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Batch buffer writebacks during checkpoints
Signed-off-by: Soumya <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 6f935648ae9..c92d638f804 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3467,6 +3467,15 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint64 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint64 ckpt_write_count = 0;
+ uint64 ckpt_issue_writeback_calls = 0;
+
+ /* --- checkpoint write batching --- */
+ #define CHECKPOINT_WRITE_BATCH 16
+
+ int batch_bufs[CHECKPOINT_WRITE_BATCH];
+ int batch_count = 0;
+ /* --- checkpoint write batching --- */
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3666,12 +3675,37 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
if (pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
{
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
- {
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
- }
+ /*
+ * Collect buffer into a small local batch.
+ * Phase 1: batch size is 1, so this is behavior-neutral.
+ */
+ batch_bufs[batch_count++] = buf_id;
+
+ /*
+ * Flush batch if full.
+ */
+ if (batch_count == CHECKPOINT_WRITE_BATCH)
+ {
+ int j;
+
+ for (j = 0; j < batch_count; j++)
+ {
+ if (SyncOneBuffer(batch_bufs[j], false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ {
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch_bufs[j]);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
+ num_written++;
+ ckpt_write_count++;
+ }
+ }
+ /*
+ * Issue writeback for this batch to amortize syscall cost.
+ * This does NOT change durability semantics.
+ */
+ ckpt_issue_writeback_calls++;
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(&wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ batch_count = 0;
+ }
}
/*
@@ -3701,6 +3735,31 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
CheckpointWriteDelay(flags, (double) num_processed / num_to_scan);
}
+ /*
+ * Flush any remaining buffers in the batch.
+ */
+ if (batch_count > 0)
+ {
+ int j;
+
+ for (j = 0; j < batch_count; j++)
+ {
+ if (SyncOneBuffer(batch_bufs[j], false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ {
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch_bufs[j]);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
+ num_written++;
+ ckpt_write_count++;
+ }
+ }
+ ckpt_issue_writeback_calls++;
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(&wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ batch_count = 0;
+ }
+
+ /* --- checkpoint instrumentation --- */
+ ckpt_issue_writeback_calls++;
+
/*
* Issue all pending flushes. Only checkpointer calls BufferSync(), so
* IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
@@ -3717,6 +3776,12 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
CheckpointStats.ckpt_bufs_written += num_written;
+ ereport(DEBUG1,
+ (errmsg("checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=%lu, "
+ "writeback_calls=%lu",
+ ckpt_write_count,
+ ckpt_issue_writeback_calls)));
+
TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_DONE(NBuffers, num_written, num_to_scan);
}
--
2.34.1
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-01-23 12:17 Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
parent: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Soumya S Murali @ 2026-01-23 12:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Hi all,
> Thank you all for the patches.
> I am keeping this as a single patch because the refactoring, batching
> behavior and instrumentation are tightly coupled and all serve one
> purpose to reduce checkpoint writeback overhead while making the
> effect observable. Due to version and context differences, the patches
> did not apply cleanly in my development environment. Instead, I
> studied the patches and went through the logic in detail and then
> implemented the same ideas directly in my current tree adapting them
> wherever needed. The implementation was then validated with
> instrumentation and measurements.
>
> Before batching:
> 2026-01-22 17:27:26.969 IST [148738] LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote
> 15419 buffers (94.1%), wrote 1 SLRU buffers; 0 WAL file(s) added, 0
> removed, 25 recycled; write=0.325 s, sync=0.284 s, total=0.754 s; sync
> files=30, longest=0.227 s, average=0.010 s; distance=407573 kB,
> estimate=407573 kB; lsn=0/1A5B8E30, redo lsn=0/1A5B8DD8
>
> After batching:
> 2026-01-22 17:31:36.165 IST [148738] LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote
> 13537 buffers (82.6%), wrote 1 SLRU buffers; 0 WAL file(s) added, 0
> removed, 25 recycled; write=0.260 s, sync=0.211 s, total=0.625 s; sync
> files=3, longest=0.205 s, average=0.070 s; distance=404310 kB,
> estimate=407247 kB; lsn=0/3308E738, redo lsn=0/3308E6E0
>
> Debug instrumentation with (batch size = 16) confirms the batching
> behavior itself,
> buffers_written = 6196
> writeback_calls = 389
> On average: I am getting 15.9 i.e approx 16 buffers per writeback
> This shows that writebacks are issued per batch rather than per
> buffer, while WAL ordering and durability semantics remain unchanged.
> The change remains localized to BufferSync() and is intended to be a
> conservative and measurable improvement to checkpoint I/O behavior. I
> am attaching the patches herewith for review.
> I am happy to adjust the approach if there are concerns or
> suggestions. Looking forward to more feedback.
>
With reference to my previous patch related to the batching behavior,
I evaluated batch sizes 8, 16, and 32 under identical workloads. I am
attaching the log for 8, 16 and 32. All conclusions are based on
actual checkpoint logs and DEBUG BufferSync statistics:
Batch size = 8
LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 12622 buffers (77.0%); write=0.113 s,
sync=0.195 s, total=0.485 s; sync files=37
DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=9923, writeback_calls=1242
Avg: 7.989 approx 8 buffers per writeback.
Batch size = 16
LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 13537 buffers (82.6%); write=0.260 s,
sync=0.211 s, total=0.625 s; sync files=3
DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=6196, writeback_calls=389
Avg: 15.9 approx 16 buffers per writeback.
Batch size = 32
LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 12914 buffers (78.8%); write=0.116 s,
sync=0.136 s, total=0.442 s; sync files=5
DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=12914, writeback_calls=1616
Avg: 7.99 approx 8 buffers per writeback.
Batch 16 significantly reduces sync fan-out (as low as 3 files per
checkpoint), but this comes at the cost of longer individual sync
operations, resulting in higher total checkpoint time (≈0.625 s).
Batch 32 provides a better balance, maintaining low sync fragmentation
while avoiding long sync stalls, yielding the lowest overall
checkpoint time (≈0.442 s). I am attaching the patch with batch size
fixed as 32 for now for further review.
Please let me know if further workloads or instrumentation would be useful.
Regards
Soumya
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] 0001-Checkpointer-batch-data-writeback-during-BufferSync.patch (868B, ../../CAMtXxw9cqxgNH6=8NDAA2o11GoF=4P4JO=7-FCkhr=vJCmQiJA@mail.gmail.com/2-0001-Checkpointer-batch-data-writeback-during-BufferSync.patch)
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From 981ac0d2bca8cf24e31b1c0410e4ac1b6e3e5850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Soumya <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:14:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Checkpointer batch data writeback during BufferSync
Signed-off-by: Soumya <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index c92d638f804..b095df4f802 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3471,7 +3471,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
uint64 ckpt_issue_writeback_calls = 0;
/* --- checkpoint write batching --- */
- #define CHECKPOINT_WRITE_BATCH 16
+ #define CHECKPOINT_WRITE_BATCH 32
int batch_bufs[CHECKPOINT_WRITE_BATCH];
int batch_count = 0;
--
2.34.1
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-02-19 23:41 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2026-02-19 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 6:35 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks! v13 attached.
I've added background writer write combining and then spent some time
refactoring and benchmarking this over the last few weeks, and I've
realized I won't be able to get it in shape for Postgres 19. I've
attached version 14 here with my WIP code so I can come back to it in
the next release.
0012 is an invasive refactor of GetVictimBuffer() and all the
functions it calls that needs to be split apart into smaller commits
and redistributed throughout the other patches in the set. Other than
that, there are a number of todos both in the code and from a
benchmarking perspective:
- Probe for preceding as well as following blocks when looking for
blocks to combine
- Experiment with different batch sizes
- Enable and test bulkread and vacuum write combining
I also periodically get this troubling warning: "WARNING: invalid
page in block 2 of relation "base/16384/2608_fsm"; zeroing out page".
So clearly there's at least one bug somewhere.
FWIW benchmarks showed a large improvement from backend and bgwriter
write combining, but I'll provide more detailed output from benchmarks
when I post a more reviewable patch set.
0001 and 0002 are completely independent cleanup that should be pushed
anyway, so I might do that, but I didn't want to do so without having
posted on the list at least once.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v14-0001-Make-FlushUnlockedBuffer-use-its-parameters.patch (1.1K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/2-v14-0001-Make-FlushUnlockedBuffer-use-its-parameters.patch)
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From b177a14a375c53fe95819e1820058dc2bc69e0cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 13:27:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 01/12] Make FlushUnlockedBuffer use its parameters
No current callers were passing other values for io_context and
io_object, so it is not an active bug. But it is best to make it use the
parameters in case future callers do pass other IOContexts or IOObjects.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index d1babaff023..1f26eda9fe4 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -4557,7 +4557,7 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
BufferLockAcquire(buffer, buf, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE);
- FlushBuffer(buf, reln, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ FlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context);
BufferLockUnlock(buffer, buf);
}
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v14-0002-Make-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback-static.patch (2.1K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/3-v14-0002-Make-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback-static.patch)
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From 365dc7f2cfad002acb5e0a3f36000a8738f093da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:39:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 02/12] Make ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback static
Its only users are in bufmgr.c, so there's no need to declare it in
buf_internals.h.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 4 +++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 2 --
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 1f26eda9fe4..286742e6968 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -644,6 +644,8 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -7276,7 +7278,7 @@ WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending)
/*
* Add buffer to list of pending writeback requests.
*/
-void
+static void
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context,
BufferTag *tag)
{
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 27f12502d19..215f2dea95c 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -550,8 +550,6 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
-extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
- IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v14-0003-Streamline-buffer-rejection-for-bulkreads-of-unl.patch (5.5K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/4-v14-0003-Streamline-buffer-rejection-for-bulkreads-of-unl.patch)
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From dfe62e39b2d482ff5309f57645a9e2d711cb86a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 13:32:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 03/12] Streamline buffer rejection for bulkreads of
unlogged tables
Bulk-read buffer access strategies reject reusing a buffer from the
buffer access strategy ring if doing so would require flushing WAL.
Unlogged relations never require WAL flushes, so this check can be
skipped. It can also be skipped for buffer access strategies other than
bulkread. This avoids taking the buffer header lock unnecessarily.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/0198DBB9-4A76-49E4-87F8-43D46DD0FD76%40gmail.com#1d8677fc75dc8b39f0eb5dd6bbafb65d
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 13 +++++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 286742e6968..0b5adc9e4a6 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2520,25 +2520,14 @@ again:
* If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
* require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
* and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
+ * content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
* StrategyGetBuffer.
*/
- if (strategy != NULL)
+ if (strategy && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
{
- XLogRecPtr lsn;
-
- /* Read the LSN while holding buffer header lock */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
- lsn = BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr);
- UnlockBufHdr(buf_hdr);
-
- if (XLogNeedsFlush(lsn)
- && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
- {
- LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ goto again;
}
/* OK, do the I/O */
@@ -3438,6 +3427,45 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
BLCKSZ);
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if the buffer needs WAL flushed before it can be written out.
+ *
+ * If the result is required to be correct, the caller must hold a buffer
+ * content lock. If they only hold a shared content lock, we'll need to
+ * acquire the buffer header spinlock, so they must not already hold it.
+ */
+bool
+BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked)
+{
+ uint32 buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufdesc->state);
+ Buffer buffer;
+ char *page;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ /*
+ * Unlogged buffers can't need WAL flush. See FlushBuffer() for more
+ * details on unlogged relations with LSNs.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
+ return false;
+
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufdesc);
+ page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
+
+ if (!XLogHintBitIsNeeded() || BufferIsLocal(buffer) || exclusive_locked)
+ lsn = PageGetLSN(page);
+ else
+ {
+ /* Buffer is either share locked or not locked */
+ LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ lsn = PageGetLSN(page);
+ UnlockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ }
+
+ return XLogNeedsFlush(lsn);
+}
+
+
#define ST_SORT sort_checkpoint_bufferids
#define ST_ELEMENT_TYPE CkptSortItem
#define ST_COMPARE(a, b) ckpt_buforder_comparator(a, b)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index b7687836188..37398865d19 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -780,12 +780,17 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
* a chance to choose a different victim.
*
+ * The buffer must be pinned and content locked and the buffer header spinlock
+ * must not be held.
+ *
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -795,8 +800,14 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf)));
+ Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
+
+ if (!BufferNeedsWALFlush(buf, false))
+ return false;
+
/*
- * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent infinite
+ * Remove the dirty buffer from the ring; necessary to prevent an infinite
* loop if all ring members are dirty.
*/
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = InvalidBuffer;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 215f2dea95c..0899be8da48 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
+extern bool BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked);
/* solely to make it easier to write tests */
extern bool StartBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, bool nowait);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v14-0004-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch (5.2K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/5-v14-0004-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch)
download | inline diff:
From 7b65e934b0b18f1e6ccd7f5cf8906c9c4326b7c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:29:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 04/12] Allow PinBuffer to skip increasing usage count
A future commit will use PinBuffer() in background writer code. Since
background writer does not increase the usage count for a buffer, we
needed a way to indicate that to PinBuffer(). Add BufferUsageCountChange
which allows increasing the usage count by either zero, a maximum of one
(in case we don't want to increase it beyond one), or one
unconditionally. This commit only introduces this but doesn't usage the
zero option.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 0b5adc9e4a6..902b91ab6c2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@ typedef struct SMgrSortArray
SMgrRelation srel;
} SMgrSortArray;
+typedef enum BufferUsageCountChange
+{
+ BUC_ZERO,
+ BUC_MAX_ONE,
+ BUC_ONE,
+} BufferUsageCountChange;
+
/* GUC variables */
bool zero_damaged_pages = false;
int bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 100;
@@ -619,7 +626,7 @@ static BlockNumber ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr,
BlockNumber extend_upto,
Buffer *buffers,
uint32 *extended_by);
-static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change,
bool skip_if_not_valid);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
@@ -845,7 +852,7 @@ ReadRecentBuffer(RelFileLocator rlocator, ForkNumber forkNum, BlockNumber blockN
* pin.
*/
if (BufferTagsEqual(&tag, &bufHdr->tag) &&
- PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, true))
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ONE, true))
{
if (BufferTagsEqual(&tag, &bufHdr->tag))
{
@@ -2140,7 +2147,9 @@ BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr, char relpersistence, ForkNumber forkNum,
*/
buf = GetBufferDescriptor(existing_buf_id);
- valid = PinBuffer(buf, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(buf,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
/* Can release the mapping lock as soon as we've pinned it */
LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
@@ -2202,7 +2211,9 @@ BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr, char relpersistence, ForkNumber forkNum,
existing_buf_hdr = GetBufferDescriptor(existing_buf_id);
- valid = PinBuffer(existing_buf_hdr, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(existing_buf_hdr,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
/* Can release the mapping lock as soon as we've pinned it */
LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
@@ -2839,7 +2850,9 @@ ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr,
* Pin the existing buffer before releasing the partition lock,
* preventing it from being evicted.
*/
- valid = PinBuffer(existing_hdr, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(existing_hdr,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
LWLockRelease(partition_lock);
UnpinBuffer(victim_buf_hdr);
@@ -3147,6 +3160,7 @@ ReleaseAndReadBuffer(Buffer buffer,
/*
* PinBuffer -- make buffer unavailable for replacement.
*
+ * Most callers will want to bump the usage count to at least one.
* For the default access strategy, the buffer's usage_count is incremented
* when we first pin it; for other strategies we just make sure the usage_count
* isn't zero. (The idea of the latter is that we don't want synchronized
@@ -3170,7 +3184,7 @@ ReleaseAndReadBuffer(Buffer buffer,
* (recently) invalid and has not been pinned.
*/
static bool
-PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change,
bool skip_if_not_valid)
{
Buffer b = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
@@ -3205,13 +3219,13 @@ PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
/* increase refcount */
buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
- if (strategy == NULL)
+ if (usage_count_change == BUC_ONE)
{
/* Default case: increase usagecount unless already max. */
if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) < BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT)
buf_state += BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
}
- else
+ else if (usage_count_change == BUC_MAX_ONE)
{
/*
* Ring buffers shouldn't evict others from pool. Thus we
@@ -3220,6 +3234,11 @@ PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
buf_state += BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
}
+ else
+ {
+ /* Don't increase usage count */
+ Assert(usage_count_change == BUC_ZERO);
+ }
if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
buf_state))
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 241945734ec..1645adc1d81 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufferUsageCountChange
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v14-0005-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (8.7K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/6-v14-0005-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From e5c31a39c1be0e6d4d04be54ea83d9a640dd7a8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:56:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 05/12] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes, as it lines up multiple
buffers that can be issued asynchronously once the infrastructure
exists.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 48 ++++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 902b91ab6c2..9cb84328d89 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -653,6 +653,7 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2547,8 +2548,54 @@ again:
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
&buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ {
+ BufferDesc *next_bufdesc;
+ Buffer next_buf;
+ Buffer sweep_end = buf;
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+
+ /*
+ * Loop around strategy ring one time eagerly flushing all of the
+ * eligible buffers.
+ */
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
+
+ /* Completed one sweep of the strategy ring */
+ if (next_buf == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For strategies currently supporting eager flush
+ * (BAS_BULKWRITE, eventually BAS_VACUUM), once you hit an
+ * InvalidBuffer, the remaining buffers in the ring will be
+ * invalid. If BAS_BULKREAD is someday supported, this logic
+ * will have to change.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(next_buf))
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * Check buffer eager flush eligibility. If the buffer is
+ * ineligible, we'll keep looking until we complete one full
+ * sweep around the ring.
+ */
+ next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf);
+
+ if (next_bufdesc)
+ {
+ FlushBuffer(next_bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ BufferLockUnlock(next_buf, next_bufdesc);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &next_bufdesc->tag);
+ UnpinBuffer(next_bufdesc);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
{
@@ -4595,6 +4642,87 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
+ * does not contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufdesc;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufdesc->state);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
+ * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Quick check to see if the buffer is pinned, in which case it is more
+ * likely to be dirtied again soon, and we don't want to eagerly flush it.
+ * We don't care if it has a non-zero usage count because we don't need to
+ * reuse it right away and a non-zero usage count doesn't necessarily mean
+ * it will be dirtied again soon.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0)
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush. We must check this
+ * again later while holding the buffer content lock for correctness.
+ */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that there's a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leak a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, that slot will be reused.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /* There is no need to flush the buffer if it is not BM_VALID */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufdesc, BUC_ZERO, true /* skip_if_not_valid */ ))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, bufdesc, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
+ /* Now that we have the lock, recheck if it needs WAL flush */
+ if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ return bufdesc;
+
+reject_buffer_unlock:
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, bufdesc);
+
+reject_buffer_unpin:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
+
+reject_buffer:
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Convenience wrapper around FlushBuffer() that locks/unlocks the buffer
* before/after calling FlushBuffer().
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 37398865d19..9623f04b7e4 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -155,6 +155,31 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
return victim;
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* StrategyGetBuffer
*
@@ -306,6 +331,29 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_r
}
}
+/*
+ * Returns the next buffer in the ring after the one at cursor and increments
+ * cursor.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 0899be8da48..088f2fbdde4 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -561,6 +561,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v14-0006-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (22.4K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/7-v14-0006-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From eabd03af990cb7fa4983a72dbb7931c35f707c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v14 06/12] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: Because this sets in-place checksums for batches, it is not
committable until additional infrastructure goes in place.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 423 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 20 ++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 27 ++
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
6 files changed, 447 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 9cb84328d89..9482aba6311 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -646,14 +646,30 @@ static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
bool *foundPtr, IOContext io_context);
static bool AsyncReadBuffers(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, int *nblocks_progress);
static void CheckReadBuffersOperation(ReadBuffersOperation *operation, bool is_complete);
+static uint32 MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+static BlockNumber WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
+static void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
-static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum);
+static void ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ BufferTag *tag, uint32 batch_size,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2462,6 +2478,34 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble given strategy-specific and global
+ * constraints on the number of pinned buffers and max IO size. Currently only
+ * a single write is inflight at a time, so the batch can consume all the
+ * pinned buffers this backend is allowed. Only for batches of shared
+ * (non-local) relations.
+ */
+static uint32
+MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 result = io_combine_limit;
+ uint32 strategy_pin_limit;
+ uint32 max_pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Apply pin limits */
+ result = Min(result, max_pin_limit);
+ if (strategy)
+ {
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ result = Min(result, strategy_pin_limit);
+ }
+
+ /* Ensure forward progress */
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+
+ return result;
+}
+
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
@@ -2542,26 +2586,58 @@ again:
goto again;
}
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
-
if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
{
- BufferDesc *next_bufdesc;
- Buffer next_buf;
+ BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
Buffer sweep_end = buf;
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ /* Start IO on the first buffer */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
+ goto clean;
+
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
/*
- * Loop around strategy ring one time eagerly flushing all of the
- * eligible buffers.
+ * Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one
+ * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers. IO
+ * concurrency only needs to be taken into account if AIO writes
+ * are added in the future.
*/
for (;;)
{
+ Buffer next_buf;
+ XLogRecPtr next_buf_lsn; /* unused */
+
+ if (next_bufdesc)
+ {
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ BlockNumber limit;
+
+ /*
+ * After finding an eligible buffer, if we are allowed
+ * more pins and there are more blocks in the relation,
+ * identify any of the buffers following it which are also
+ * eligible and combine them into a batch.
+ *
+ * The cursor will be advanced through the ring such that
+ * the next write batch will start at the next eligible
+ * buffer after the current batch ends.
+ */
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(next_bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ if (limit > 1)
+ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end,
+ next_bufdesc,
+ limit, &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ /* Pins and locks released inside CompleteWriteBatchIO */
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
+ }
+
next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
/* Completed one sweep of the strategy ring */
@@ -2579,24 +2655,27 @@ again:
break;
/*
- * Check buffer eager flush eligibility. If the buffer is
- * ineligible, we'll keep looking until we complete one full
- * sweep around the ring.
+ * If the buffer is eligible for eager flushing, it will be
+ * the start of a new batch. Otherwise, we'll keep looking
+ * until we complete one full sweep around the ring.
*/
- next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf);
-
- if (next_bufdesc)
- {
- FlushBuffer(next_bufdesc, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- BufferLockUnlock(next_buf, next_bufdesc);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &next_bufdesc->tag);
- UnpinBuffer(next_bufdesc);
- }
+ next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf,
+ NULL,
+ &next_buf_lsn);
}
}
+ else
+ {
+ /* OK, do the I/O */
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
}
+clean:
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
{
/*
@@ -4642,6 +4721,41 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given the starting buffer of a batch, initialize the batch structure. The
+ * starting buffer must be ready to flush.
+ */
+static BlockNumber
+WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+
+ Assert(batch_start);
+ batch->bufdescs[0] = batch_start;
+
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch_start)));
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(batch_start);
+ batch->max_lsn = buf_state & BM_PERMANENT ?
+ BufferGetLSN(batch_start) : InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ UnlockBufHdr(batch_start);
+
+ batch->start = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(batch->start));
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&batch->bufdescs[0]->tag),
+ INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ batch->n = 1;
+
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno, batch->start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ return limit;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
*
@@ -4649,25 +4763,41 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
* does not contain a block that should be flushed.
*
+ * If the caller requires a particular block to be in the buffer in order to
+ * accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
+ * RelFileLocator and fork.
+ *
* If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
*/
static BufferDesc *
-PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
{
BufferDesc *bufdesc;
uint64 buf_state;
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
goto reject_buffer;
Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
bufdesc = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick, unsafe checks to see if buffer even possibly contains a block
+ * meeting our requirements. We'll recheck it all again after getting a
+ * pin.
+ */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufdesc->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufdesc->state);
/*
- * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
- * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * We'll recheck if it is dirty later, when we have a pin and lock, before
* actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
*/
if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
@@ -4704,6 +4834,10 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+ /* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufdesc->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, bufdesc, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE))
goto reject_buffer_unpin;
@@ -4711,6 +4845,15 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
if (BufferNeedsWALFlush(bufdesc, false))
goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufdesc, false, true))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ /* Need the buffer header spinlock to read the page LSN */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
return bufdesc;
reject_buffer_unlock:
@@ -4723,6 +4866,138 @@ reject_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a starting buffer descriptor from a strategy ring that supports eager
+ * flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
+ * single write batch with the starting buffer.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ *
+ * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given the
+ * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
+ * current configuration.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to issue this IO.
+ */
+static void
+FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BufferTag require;
+
+ Assert(batch_limit > 1);
+
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ /* Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. */
+ for (; batch->n < batch_limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ if ((bufnum =
+ StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, sweep_cursor)) == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ require.blockNum = batch->start + batch->n;
+
+ batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
+ &require,
+ &lsn);
+
+ /*
+ * Because we don't eagerly flush buffers that need WAL flushed, this
+ * buffer's LSN should only be greater than the victim buffer LSN if
+ * the victim doesn't need WAL flushing either -- in which case, we
+ * don't really need to update max_lsn. But, it seems better to keep
+ * the max_lsn honest -- especially since doing so is cheap.
+ */
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ /* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run */
+ if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+static void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ /* Should have been opened when initializing the batch */
+ Assert(batch->reln);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], false));
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: All blocks should be copied and then checksummed but doing so
+ * takes a lot of extra memory and a future patch will eliminate this
+ * requirement.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch->start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+ /* So we can detect block content changes while flushing */
+ pg_atomic_fetch_and_u64(&batch->bufdescs[i]->state, ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksumInplace((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch->start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, 1, batch->n * BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Convenience wrapper around FlushBuffer() that locks/unlocks the buffer
* before/after calling FlushBuffer().
@@ -4738,6 +5013,49 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
BufferLockUnlock(buffer, buf);
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+static void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ BufferTag tag = batch->bufdescs[0]->tag;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufdescs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufdescs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufdescs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n, batch->start);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(wb_context, &tag, batch->n, io_context);
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
@@ -7489,6 +7807,55 @@ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context
IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
}
+/*
+ * Don't call while holding buffer locks and pins
+ */
+static void
+ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ BufferTag *tag, uint32 batch_size,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ /*
+ * As pg_flush_data() doesn't do anything with fsync disabled, there's no
+ * point in tracking in that case.
+ */
+ if (io_direct_flags & IO_DIRECT_DATA ||
+ !enableFsync)
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Drain the queue to make room if needed. We do thiseven if writeback
+ * control is disabled because it may have been previously enabled.
+ */
+ if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
+
+ /* If writeback control is disabled, leave */
+ if (*wb_context->max_pending <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* It is okay if n is > max_pending because we flush as we go */
+ Assert(*wb_context->max_pending <= WRITEBACK_MAX_PENDING_FLUSHES);
+
+ /*
+ * Add buffer to the pending writeback array. All must be from same
+ * relation.
+ */
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch_size; i++)
+ {
+ PendingWriteback *pending;
+
+ pending = &wb_context->pending_writebacks[wb_context->nr_pending++];
+ pending->tag = *tag;
+
+ tag->blockNum++;
+
+ /* Perform pending flushes if writeback limit exceeded */
+ if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
+ }
+}
+
#define ST_SORT sort_pending_writebacks
#define ST_ELEMENT_TYPE PendingWriteback
#define ST_COMPARE(a, b) buffertag_comparator(&a->tag, &b->tag)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index de85911e3ac..4d0f1883a26 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1546,3 +1546,23 @@ PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple blocks' checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsEnabled())
+ return;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 1929521c6a5..e0f48c6d2d9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 088f2fbdde4..04c24ab89e5 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -544,6 +544,33 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufdescs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufferWriteBatch
+{
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * The BlockNumber of the first block in the run of contiguous blocks to
+ * be written out as a single IO.
+ */
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufdescs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufdescs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufferWriteBatch;
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index ae3725b3b81..baadfc6c313 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -506,5 +506,7 @@ extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern char *PageSetChecksumCopy(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
extern void PageSetChecksumInplace(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksumInplace(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 1645adc1d81..93bd5fe08ba 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
BufferUsageCountChange
+BufferWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
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[text/x-patch] v14-0007-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/8-v14-0007-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From e2d5edc43b21400a54172fb40fd7c8591fbedb29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v14 07/12] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is an oversight that currently isn't causing harm. However, it is
required for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added in
a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 9482aba6311..eb005bf2465 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3690,6 +3690,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -7713,6 +7714,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 04c24ab89e5..ef5a48e7fb1 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -510,6 +510,7 @@ extern uint64 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
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[text/x-patch] v14-0008-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch (10.9K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/9-v14-0008-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch)
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From 57f978fa460f7e138b0c84b61194c739885a6d04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v14 08/12] Implement checkpointer data write combining
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Soumya <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index eb005bf2465..9eb7b917bd1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3631,8 +3631,6 @@ BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked)
static void
BufferSync(int flags)
{
- uint64 buf_state;
- int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
int num_processed;
@@ -3643,6 +3641,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
int i;
uint64 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3670,10 +3670,11 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
* certainly need to be written for the next checkpoint attempt, too.
*/
num_to_scan = 0;
- for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
+ for (int buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint64 set_bits = 0;
+ uint64 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3816,48 +3817,217 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(NULL);
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
+ BlockNumber limit = max_batch_size;
BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.start = InvalidBlockNumber;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < limit)
+ {
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+ Buffer buffer;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ Assert(item.buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(item.buf_id);
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch.start))
+ {
+ RelFileLocator rlocator = {
+ .spcOid = item.tsId,
+ .dbOid = item.dbId,
+ .relNumber = item.relNumber
+ };
+
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch.start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch.start);
+ limit = Min(max_batch_size, limit);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress */
+ limit = Max(limit, 1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid ||
+ item.relNumber != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber ||
+ item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch.start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ processed++;
+ break;
}
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* If the buffer is not BM_VALID, nothing to do on this buffer */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have a pin, we must recheck that the buffer
+ * contains the specified block. Someone may have replaced the
+ * block in the buffer with a different block. In that case, count
+ * it as processed and issue the IO so far. These fields won't
+ * change as long as we hold a pin, so we don't need a spinlock to
+ * read them.
+ */
+ if (!BufTagMatchesRelFileLocator(&bufHdr->tag,
+ &batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator) ||
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag) != batch.forkno ||
+ BufferGetBlockNumber(buffer) != batch.start + batch.n)
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * It's conceivable that between the time we examine the buffer
+ * header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED above and when we are now
+ * acquiring the lock that someone else wrote the buffer out. In
+ * that improbable case, we will write the buffer though we didn't
+ * need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding against this, though.
+ *
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ BufferLockAcquire(buffer, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE);
+ else if (!BufferLockConditional(buffer, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, true))
+ {
+ BufferLockUnlock(buffer, bufHdr);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Lock buffer header lock before examining LSN because we only
+ * have a shared lock on the buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
+ lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+ UnlockBufHdrExt(bufHdr, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT && lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch.bufdescs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
+ */
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e0f48c6d2d9..90169c92c26 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
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[text/x-patch] v14-0009-Remove-SyncOneBuffer-and-refactor-BgBufferSync.patch (9.4K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/10-v14-0009-Remove-SyncOneBuffer-and-refactor-BgBufferSync.patch)
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From e2a820189b6c56bc93a1e3fe66e6a63596cf42eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:58:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 09/12] Remove SyncOneBuffer() and refactor BgBufferSync()
Since xxx, only bgwriter used SyncOneBuffer() and it can be easily
inlined, so do so. Since xxx PinBuffer() can skip incrementing the usage
count of the buffer, so we'll use it as it is cheaper than
PinBuffer_Locked().
---
src/backend/access/transam/README | 4 +-
src/backend/commands/sequence.c | 16 ++--
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 143 +++++++++-------------------
src/include/storage/proc.h | 2 +-
4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/README b/src/backend/access/transam/README
index 231106270fd..8ca94e0575b 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/README
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/README
@@ -448,7 +448,9 @@ critical section.)
3. Apply the required changes to the shared buffer(s).
4. Mark the shared buffer(s) as dirty with MarkBufferDirty(). (This must
-happen before the WAL record is inserted; see notes in SyncOneBuffer().)
+happen before the WAL record is inserted; otherwise a checkpoint could
+write the buffer without the change and its WAL record before the redo
+point, making the change unrecoverable.)
Note that marking a buffer dirty with MarkBufferDirty() should only
happen iff you write a WAL record; see Writing Hints below.
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
index e1b808bbb60..7caf2ade964 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
@@ -809,13 +809,15 @@ nextval_internal(Oid relid, bool check_permissions)
START_CRIT_SECTION();
/*
- * We must mark the buffer dirty before doing XLogInsert(); see notes in
- * SyncOneBuffer(). However, we don't apply the desired changes just yet.
- * This looks like a violation of the buffer update protocol, but it is in
- * fact safe because we hold exclusive lock on the buffer. Any other
- * process, including a checkpoint, that tries to examine the buffer
- * contents will block until we release the lock, and then will see the
- * final state that we install below.
+ * We must mark the buffer dirty before doing XLogInsert(); otherwise a
+ * checkpoint could write the buffer without the change and its WAL record
+ * before the redo point, making the change unrecoverable. However, we
+ * don't apply the desired changes just yet. This looks like a violation
+ * of the buffer update protocol, but it is in fact safe because we hold
+ * exclusive lock on the buffer. Any other process, including a
+ * checkpoint, that tries to examine the buffer contents will block until
+ * we release the lock, and then will see the final state that we install
+ * below.
*/
MarkBufferDirty(buf);
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 9eb7b917bd1..5466aa431ed 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -78,10 +78,6 @@
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
-/* Bits in SyncOneBuffer's return value */
-#define BUF_WRITTEN 0x01
-#define BUF_REUSABLE 0x02
-
#define RELS_BSEARCH_THRESHOLD 20
/*
@@ -632,8 +628,6 @@ static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
static void BufferSync(int flags);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -3677,8 +3671,12 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
uint64 buf_state;
/*
- * Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
- * SyncOneBuffer.
+ * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
*/
buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
@@ -4299,29 +4297,53 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
reusable_buffers = reusable_buffers_est;
/* Execute the LRU scan */
- while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
+ for (; num_to_scan > 0; num_to_scan--, next_to_clean++)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr;
+
+ if (reusable_buffers >= upcoming_alloc_est)
+ break;
- if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
+ if (next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
next_to_clean = 0;
next_passes++;
}
- num_to_scan--;
- if (sync_state & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(next_to_clean);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ continue;
+
+ reusable_buffers++;
+
+ /*
+ * Racy check is fine: bgwriter writes are opportunistic. If we miss a
+ * buffer that just became dirty, it will be written by a future
+ * bgwriter pass or by checkpointer.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ continue;
+
+ FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &bufHdr->tag);
+
+ if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
{
- reusable_buffers++;
- if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
- {
- PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
- break;
- }
+ PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
+ break;
}
- else if (sync_state & BUF_REUSABLE)
- reusable_buffers++;
}
PendingBgWriterStats.buf_written_clean += num_written;
@@ -4362,83 +4384,6 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
return (bufs_to_lap == 0 && recent_alloc == 0);
}
-/*
- * SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
- *
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
- *
- * Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
- * BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
- * BUF_REUSABLE: buffer is available for replacement, ie, it has
- * pin count 0 and usage count 0.
- *
- * (BUF_WRITTEN could be set in error if FlushBuffer finds the buffer clean
- * after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
- */
-static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
-{
- BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
- int result = 0;
- uint64 buf_state;
- BufferTag tag;
-
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- /*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
- */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
- {
- result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- /*
- * Pin it, share-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do nothing if the
- * buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
- */
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
-
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
-
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
-
- /*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
- */
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
-
- return result | BUF_WRITTEN;
-}
-
/*
* AtEOXact_Buffers - clean up at end of transaction.
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/proc.h b/src/include/storage/proc.h
index 23e5cd98161..69482278e46 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/proc.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/proc.h
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int FastPathLockGroupsPerBackend;
* and we acquire an exclusive content lock and MarkBufferDirty() on the
* relevant buffers before writing WAL, this mechanism is not needed, because
* phase 2 will block until we release the content lock and then flush the
- * modified data to disk. See transam/README and SyncOneBuffer().)
+ * modified data to disk. See transam/README.)
*
* Setting DELAY_CHKPT_COMPLETE prevents the system from moving from phase 2
* to phase 3. This is useful if we are performing a WAL-logged operation that
--
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[text/x-patch] v14-0010-Normal-backend-write-combining.patch (8.2K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/11-v14-0010-Normal-backend-write-combining.patch)
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From 3661f9a76a2d2bdec52982c0cb876306a94668b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:49:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 10/12] Normal backend write combining
When flushing a dirty buffer, check if the two blocks following it are
in shared buffers and whether or not they are dirty. If they are, flush
them together with the victim buffer.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/0198DBB9-4A76-49E4-87F8-43D46DD0FD76%40gmail.com#1d8677fc75dc8b39f0eb5dd6bbafb65d
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 129 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 109 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 5466aa431ed..c406a3d5987 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -651,7 +651,11 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
static void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
+ LWLock *buftable_lock,
XLogRecPtr *lsn);
+static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
BufferDesc *batch_start,
uint32 max_batch_size,
@@ -2580,17 +2584,18 @@ again:
goto again;
}
- if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
+ {
+ /* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ }
+ else if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
{
BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
Buffer sweep_end = buf;
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
uint32 max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
- /* Start IO on the first buffer */
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
- goto clean;
-
/* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
@@ -2654,22 +2659,35 @@ again:
* until we complete one full sweep around the ring.
*/
next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf,
+ NULL,
NULL,
&next_buf_lsn);
}
}
else
{
- /* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
+
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ /*
+ * If we are allowed more pins and there are more blocks in the
+ * relation and the victim buffer's block's successors are
+ * eligible for eager flushing, combine them into a batch.
+ */
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(buf_hdr, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ if (limit > 1)
+ FindFlushAdjacents(buf_hdr, limit, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
}
-clean:
if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
{
/*
@@ -3576,7 +3594,7 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
bool
BufferNeedsWALFlush(BufferDesc *bufdesc, bool exclusive_locked)
{
- uint32 buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufdesc->state);
+ uint64 buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufdesc->state);
Buffer buffer;
char *page;
XLogRecPtr lsn;
@@ -4883,11 +4901,16 @@ WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
* accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
* RelFileLocator and fork.
*
- * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
+ * If the caller is holding the buftable_lock, it will be released after
+ * acquiring a pin on the buffer.
+ *
+ * max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
+ * LSN.
*/
static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
+ LWLock *buftable_lock,
XLogRecPtr *lsn)
{
BufferDesc *bufdesc;
@@ -4948,6 +4971,12 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
if (!PinBuffer(bufdesc, BUC_ZERO, true /* skip_if_not_valid */ ))
goto reject_buffer;
+ if (buftable_lock)
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(buftable_lock);
+ buftable_lock = NULL;
+ }
+
CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
/* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
@@ -4979,6 +5008,8 @@ reject_buffer_unpin:
UnpinBuffer(bufdesc);
reject_buffer:
+ if (buftable_lock)
+ LWLockRelease(buftable_lock);
return NULL;
}
@@ -4987,15 +5018,17 @@ reject_buffer:
* flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
* single write batch with the starting buffer.
*
- * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
- * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
- *
- * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given the
- * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
- * current configuration.
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
*
* batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
* information to issue this IO.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
*/
static void
FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -5034,6 +5067,7 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
&require,
+ NULL,
&lsn);
/*
@@ -5052,10 +5086,65 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
}
}
+
/*
- * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ * Check if the blocks after my block are in shared buffers and dirty and if
+ * they are, write them out too.
*/
static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BufferTag require; /* requested block's buffer tag */
+ uint32 newHash; /* hash value for require */
+ LWLock *newPartitionLock; /* buffer partition lock for it */
+ int buf_id;
+
+ /* create a tag so we can lookup the buffers */
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ for (; batch->n < batch_limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ require.blockNum = batch->start + batch->n;
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(require.blockNum));
+
+ /* determine its hash code and partition lock ID */
+ newHash = BufTableHashCode(&require);
+ newPartitionLock = BufMappingPartitionLock(newHash);
+
+ /* see if the block is in the buffer pool already */
+ LWLockAcquire(newPartitionLock, LW_SHARED);
+ buf_id = BufTableLookup(&require, newHash);
+
+ /* The block may not even be in shared buffers. */
+ if (buf_id < 0)
+ {
+ LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(buf_id + 1,
+ &require,
+ newPartitionLock,
+ &lsn);
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+void
FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch,
IOContext io_context)
{
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v14-0011-Add-write-combining-for-background-writer.patch (8.7K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/12-v14-0011-Add-write-combining-for-background-writer.patch)
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From e024f71057d47a1ca81729a1faf299efc6d18a67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 12:28:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 11/12] Add write combining for background writer
Using a similar strategy to that of normal backend eager buffer flushes,
bgwriter now looks for adjacent blocks when cleaning a buffer and
attempts to combine it into a larger write.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 119 ++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index c406a3d5987..77bbe901f2b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -652,10 +652,11 @@ static void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
LWLock *buftable_lock,
- XLogRecPtr *lsn);
-static void FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
- uint32 batch_limit,
- BufferWriteBatch *batch);
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn,
+ bool *usage_count_zero);
+static uint32 FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
BufferDesc *batch_start,
uint32 max_batch_size,
@@ -663,8 +664,6 @@ static void FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer swe
int *sweep_cursor);
static void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
-static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
- IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
static void ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
BufferTag *tag, uint32 batch_size,
IOContext io_context);
@@ -2609,6 +2608,7 @@ again:
*/
for (;;)
{
+ bool usage_count_zero;
Buffer next_buf;
XLogRecPtr next_buf_lsn; /* unused */
@@ -2658,10 +2658,12 @@ again:
* the start of a new batch. Otherwise, we'll keep looking
* until we complete one full sweep around the ring.
*/
- next_bufdesc = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf,
- NULL,
- NULL,
- &next_buf_lsn);
+ next_bufdesc =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf,
+ NULL,
+ NULL,
+ &next_buf_lsn,
+ &usage_count_zero);
}
}
else
@@ -4319,6 +4321,10 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
uint64 buf_state;
BufferDesc *bufHdr;
+ Buffer buffer;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
if (reusable_buffers >= upcoming_alloc_est)
break;
@@ -4352,12 +4358,26 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
continue;
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+ BufferLockAcquire(buffer, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &bufHdr->tag);
+ if (!StartBufferIO(bufHdr, false, false))
+ {
+ LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ continue;
+ }
- if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
+ /* So we can detect block content changes while flushing */
+ pg_atomic_fetch_and_u64(&bufHdr->state, ~BM_JUST_DIRTIED);
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(bufHdr, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ if (limit > 1)
+ reusable_buffers += FindFlushAdjacents(bufHdr, limit, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, wb_context);
+ num_written += batch.n;
+
+ if (num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
{
PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
break;
@@ -4901,22 +4921,31 @@ WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
* accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
* RelFileLocator and fork.
*
+ * Callers specify if and by how much they want to bump the buffer's usage
+ * count.
+ *
* If the caller is holding the buftable_lock, it will be released after
* acquiring a pin on the buffer.
*
* max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
* LSN.
+ *
+ * usage_count_zero is set to true if the buffer that is selected has a zero
+ * usage count. It is set to false if either the buffer is rejected or it has
+ * a non-zero usage count.
*/
static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
LWLock *buftable_lock,
- XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn,
+ bool *usage_count_zero)
{
BufferDesc *bufdesc;
uint64 buf_state;
*lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *usage_count_zero = false;
if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
goto reject_buffer;
@@ -4997,6 +5026,7 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
/* Need the buffer header spinlock to read the page LSN */
buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufdesc);
*lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufdesc);
+ *usage_count_zero = BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0;
UnlockBufHdrExt(bufdesc, buf_state, 0, BM_JUST_DIRTIED, 0);
return bufdesc;
@@ -5039,6 +5069,7 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *sweep_cursor)
{
BufferTag require;
+ bool usage_count_zero;
Assert(batch_limit > 1);
@@ -5068,7 +5099,8 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum,
&require,
NULL,
- &lsn);
+ &lsn,
+ &usage_count_zero);
/*
* Because we don't eagerly flush buffers that need WAL flushed, this
@@ -5090,8 +5122,11 @@ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
/*
* Check if the blocks after my block are in shared buffers and dirty and if
* they are, write them out too.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of buffers in the batch of adjacents that have zero
+ * usage counts. These will be reusable once their contents have been flushed.
*/
-static void
+static uint32
FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
uint32 batch_limit,
BufferWriteBatch *batch)
@@ -5100,6 +5135,8 @@ FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
uint32 newHash; /* hash value for require */
LWLock *newPartitionLock; /* buffer partition lock for it */
int buf_id;
+ bool usage_count_zero;
+ uint32 zero_usage_count_buffers = 0;
/* create a tag so we can lookup the buffers */
InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
@@ -5132,13 +5169,18 @@ FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(buf_id + 1,
&require,
newPartitionLock,
- &lsn);
+ &lsn, &usage_count_zero);
+ if (usage_count_zero)
+ zero_usage_count_buffers++;
+
if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
batch->max_lsn = lsn;
if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
break;
}
+
+ return zero_usage_count_buffers;
}
/*
@@ -7980,45 +8022,6 @@ WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending)
context->nr_pending = 0;
}
-/*
- * Add buffer to list of pending writeback requests.
- */
-static void
-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context,
- BufferTag *tag)
-{
- PendingWriteback *pending;
-
- /*
- * As pg_flush_data() doesn't do anything with fsync disabled, there's no
- * point in tracking in that case.
- */
- if (io_direct_flags & IO_DIRECT_DATA ||
- !enableFsync)
- return;
-
- /*
- * Add buffer to the pending writeback array, unless writeback control is
- * disabled.
- */
- if (*wb_context->max_pending > 0)
- {
- Assert(*wb_context->max_pending <= WRITEBACK_MAX_PENDING_FLUSHES);
-
- pending = &wb_context->pending_writebacks[wb_context->nr_pending++];
-
- pending->tag = *tag;
- }
-
- /*
- * Perform pending flushes if the writeback limit is exceeded. This
- * includes the case where previously an item has been added, but control
- * is now disabled.
- */
- if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
- IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
-}
-
/*
* Don't call while holding buffer locks and pins
*/
@@ -8077,7 +8080,7 @@ ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
/*
* Issue all pending writeback requests, previously scheduled with
- * ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback, to the OS.
+ * ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback, to the OS.
*
* Because this is only used to improve the OSs IO scheduling we try to never
* error out - it's just a hint.
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v14-0012-WIP-refactor.patch (29.4K, ../../CAAKRu_Ygia_e2aVJcnkSksy85wuYwk_WattzwKJSJvcVj72Tuw@mail.gmail.com/13-v14-0012-WIP-refactor.patch)
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From 46f198a2861e4f12636659afe7503835b768f37b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:19:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v14 12/12] WIP refactor
needs to be split apart and merged into previous commits.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 374 +++++++++++++-------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 374 ++++++++++++--------------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 9 +-
src/include/storage/bufmgr.h | 2 +
4 files changed, 360 insertions(+), 399 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 77bbe901f2b..76066f1d611 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -644,6 +644,11 @@ static uint32 MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
static BlockNumber WriteBatchInit(BufferDesc *batch_start, uint32 max_batch_size,
BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+
+
+static void EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context);
+
+static void EagerCleanBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
@@ -2503,13 +2508,47 @@ MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
return result;
}
+static BufferDesc *
+SelectVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ IOContext io_context,
+ uint64 *buf_state,
+ void (**CleanBuffer) (BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr,
+ IOContext io_context))
+{
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr = NULL;
+
+ if (strategy)
+ {
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, buf_state, io_context);
+ if (buf_hdr)
+ {
+ if (StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ *CleanBuffer = &EagerCleanStrategyBuffer;
+ else
+ *CleanBuffer = &EagerCleanBuffer;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* If no strategy or didn't find a strategy buffer, get one from SB */
+ if (!buf_hdr)
+ {
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferFromClocksweep(buf_state, io_context);
+ if (strategy)
+ AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf_hdr);
+ *CleanBuffer = &EagerCleanBuffer;
+ }
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+ return buf_hdr;
+}
+
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
BufferDesc *buf_hdr;
- Buffer buf;
uint64 buf_state;
- bool from_ring;
+ Buffer buffer;
/*
* Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
@@ -2518,222 +2557,159 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
- /*
- * We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
- */
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-
- /*
- * If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
- * condition here, in that someone might dirty it after we released the
- * buffer header lock above, or even while we are writing it out (since
- * our share-lock won't prevent hint-bit updates). We will recheck the
- * dirty bit after re-locking the buffer header.
- */
- if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ for (;;)
{
- Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
- Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
+ void (*CleanBuffer) (BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr,
+ IOContext io_context);
- /*
- * We need a share-lock on the buffer contents to write it out (else
- * we might write invalid data, eg because someone else is compacting
- * the page contents while we write). We must use a conditional lock
- * acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though the buffer was not
- * pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when StrategyGetBuffer
- * returned it, someone else could have pinned and exclusive-locked it
- * by the time we get here. If we try to get the lock unconditionally,
- * we'd block waiting for them; if they later block waiting for us,
- * deadlock ensues. (This has been observed to happen when two
- * backends are both trying to split btree index pages, and the second
- * one just happens to be trying to split the page the first one got
- * from StrategyGetBuffer.)
- */
- if (!BufferLockConditional(buf, buf_hdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE))
- {
- /*
- * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
- * to get another one.
- */
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ buf_hdr = SelectVictimBuffer(strategy, io_context, &buf_state, &CleanBuffer);
- /*
- * If using a nondefault strategy, and writing the buffer would
- * require a WAL flush, let the strategy decide whether to go ahead
- * and write/reuse the buffer or to choose another victim. We need a
- * content lock to inspect the page LSN, so this can't be done inside
- * StrategyGetBuffer.
- */
- if (strategy && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ if (buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
{
- LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID);
+ Assert(buf_state & BM_VALID);
- if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
- {
- /* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
- LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ CleanBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, io_context);
}
- else if (from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
- {
- BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
- Buffer sweep_end = buf;
- int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
- uint32 max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
- /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+ /* Once we have a clean buffer, we're done */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) || InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ break;
- /*
- * Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one
- * time eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers. IO
- * concurrency only needs to be taken into account if AIO writes
- * are added in the future.
- */
- for (;;)
- {
- bool usage_count_zero;
- Buffer next_buf;
- XLogRecPtr next_buf_lsn; /* unused */
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ }
- if (next_bufdesc)
- {
- BufferWriteBatch batch;
- BlockNumber limit;
-
- /*
- * After finding an eligible buffer, if we are allowed
- * more pins and there are more blocks in the relation,
- * identify any of the buffers following it which are also
- * eligible and combine them into a batch.
- *
- * The cursor will be advanced through the ring such that
- * the next write batch will start at the next eligible
- * buffer after the current batch ends.
- */
- limit = WriteBatchInit(next_bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
- if (limit > 1)
- FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end,
- next_bufdesc,
- limit, &batch, &cursor);
- FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
- /* Pins and locks released inside CompleteWriteBatchIO */
- CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
- }
+ buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
+
+ /* a final set of sanity checks */
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf_hdr->state);
- next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
+ Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 1);
+ Assert(!(buf_state & (BM_TAG_VALID | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)));
- /* Completed one sweep of the strategy ring */
- if (next_buf == sweep_end)
- break;
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buffer);
+#endif
- /*
- * For strategies currently supporting eager flush
- * (BAS_BULKWRITE, eventually BAS_VACUUM), once you hit an
- * InvalidBuffer, the remaining buffers in the ring will be
- * invalid. If BAS_BULKREAD is someday supported, this logic
- * will have to change.
- */
- if (!BufferIsValid(next_buf))
- break;
+ return buffer;
+}
- /*
- * If the buffer is eligible for eager flushing, it will be
- * the start of a new batch. Otherwise, we'll keep looking
- * until we complete one full sweep around the ring.
- */
- next_bufdesc =
- PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf,
- NULL,
- NULL,
- &next_buf_lsn,
- &usage_count_zero);
- }
- }
- else
+static void
+EagerCleanBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ BlockNumber limit;
+ uint32 max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
+ Buffer buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
+
+ if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
+ {
+ /* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+
+ /*
+ * If we are allowed more pins and there are more blocks in the relation
+ * and the victim buffer's block's successors are eligible for eager
+ * flushing, combine them into a batch.
+ */
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(buf_hdr, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ if (limit > 1)
+ FindFlushAdjacents(buf_hdr, limit, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
+}
+
+static void
+EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf_hdr,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BufferDesc *next_bufdesc = buf_hdr;
+ Buffer buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ Buffer sweep_end = buf;
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+ uint32 max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(strategy);
+
+ if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
+ {
+ /* May be nothing to do if buffer was cleaned */
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
+
+ /*
+ * Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one time
+ * eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers. IO concurrency only needs
+ * to be taken into account if AIO writes are added in the future.
+ */
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ bool usage_count_zero;
+ Buffer next_buf;
+ XLogRecPtr next_buf_lsn; /* unused */
+
+ if (next_bufdesc)
{
BufferWriteBatch batch;
BlockNumber limit;
- uint32 max_batch_size = 3; /* we only look for two successors */
-
- /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- IncrBufferRefCount(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr));
/*
- * If we are allowed more pins and there are more blocks in the
- * relation and the victim buffer's block's successors are
- * eligible for eager flushing, combine them into a batch.
+ * After finding an eligible buffer, if we are allowed more pins
+ * and there are more blocks in the relation, identify any of the
+ * buffers following it which are also eligible and combine them
+ * into a batch.
+ *
+ * The cursor will be advanced through the ring such that the next
+ * write batch will start at the next eligible buffer after the
+ * current batch ends.
*/
- limit = WriteBatchInit(buf_hdr, max_batch_size, &batch);
+ limit = WriteBatchInit(next_bufdesc, max_batch_size, &batch);
if (limit > 1)
- FindFlushAdjacents(buf_hdr, limit, &batch);
+ FindStrategyFlushAdjacents(strategy, sweep_end,
+ next_bufdesc,
+ limit, &batch, &cursor);
FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ /* Pins and locks released inside CompleteWriteBatchIO */
CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
- }
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
- {
+ next_buf = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
+
+ /* Completed one sweep of the strategy ring */
+ if (next_buf == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
/*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * For strategies currently supporting eager flush (BAS_BULKWRITE,
+ * eventually BAS_VACUUM), once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the
+ * remaining buffers in the ring will be invalid. If BAS_BULKREAD is
+ * someday supported, this logic will have to change.
*/
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ if (!BufferIsValid(next_buf))
+ break;
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ /*
+ * If the buffer is eligible for eager flushing, it will be the start
+ * of a new batch. Otherwise, we'll keep looking until we complete
+ * one full sweep around the ring.
+ */
+ next_bufdesc =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_buf,
+ NULL,
+ NULL,
+ &next_buf_lsn,
+ &usage_count_zero);
}
-
- /* a final set of sanity checks */
-#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
- buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf_hdr->state);
-
- Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 1);
- Assert(!(buf_state & (BM_TAG_VALID | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)));
-
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
-#endif
-
- return buf;
}
/*
@@ -5209,7 +5185,11 @@ FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch,
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
Assert(!BufferNeedsWALFlush(batch->bufdescs[i], false));
+ Assert(BufTagGetForkNum(&batch->bufdescs[i]->tag) == batch->forkno);
+ Assert(batch->bufdescs[i]->tag.blockNum == batch->start + i);
+ }
#endif
TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
@@ -7227,6 +7207,20 @@ ConditionalLockBuffer(Buffer buffer)
return BufferLockConditional(buffer, buf, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE);
}
+bool
+ConditionalShareLockBuffer(Buffer buffer)
+{
+ BufferDesc *buf;
+
+ Assert(BufferIsPinned(buffer));
+ if (BufferIsLocal(buffer))
+ return true; /* act as though we got it */
+
+ buf = GetBufferDescriptor(buffer - 1);
+
+ return BufferLockConditional(buffer, buf, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE);
+}
+
/*
* Verify that this backend is pinning the buffer exactly once.
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 9623f04b7e4..04da6b2d0fa 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -85,10 +85,6 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
/* Prototypes for internal functions */
-static BufferDesc *GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- uint64 *buf_state);
-static void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- BufferDesc *buf);
/*
* ClockSweepTick - Helper routine for StrategyGetBuffer()
@@ -180,156 +176,6 @@ StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
}
}
-/*
- * StrategyGetBuffer
- *
- * Called by the bufmgr to get the next candidate buffer to use in
- * GetVictimBuffer(). The only hard requirement GetVictimBuffer() has is that
- * the selected buffer must not currently be pinned by anyone.
- *
- * strategy is a BufferAccessStrategy object, or NULL for default strategy.
- *
- * It is the callers responsibility to ensure the buffer ownership can be
- * tracked via TrackNewBufferPin().
- *
- * The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(),
- * before returning.
- */
-BufferDesc *
-StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring)
-{
- BufferDesc *buf;
- int bgwprocno;
- int trycounter;
-
- *from_ring = false;
-
- /*
- * If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a buffer. We
- * assume strategy objects don't need buffer_strategy_lock.
- */
- if (strategy != NULL)
- {
- buf = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, buf_state);
- if (buf != NULL)
- {
- *from_ring = true;
- return buf;
- }
- }
-
- /*
- * If asked, we need to waken the bgwriter. Since we don't want to rely on
- * a spinlock for this we force a read from shared memory once, and then
- * set the latch based on that value. We need to go through that length
- * because otherwise bgwprocno might be reset while/after we check because
- * the compiler might just reread from memory.
- *
- * This can possibly set the latch of the wrong process if the bgwriter
- * dies in the wrong moment. But since PGPROC->procLatch is never
- * deallocated the worst consequence of that is that we set the latch of
- * some arbitrary process.
- */
- bgwprocno = INT_ACCESS_ONCE(StrategyControl->bgwprocno);
- if (bgwprocno != -1)
- {
- /* reset bgwprocno first, before setting the latch */
- StrategyControl->bgwprocno = -1;
-
- /*
- * Not acquiring ProcArrayLock here which is slightly icky. It's
- * actually fine because procLatch isn't ever freed, so we just can
- * potentially set the wrong process' (or no process') latch.
- */
- SetLatch(&GetPGProcByNumber(bgwprocno)->procLatch);
- }
-
- /*
- * We count buffer allocation requests so that the bgwriter can estimate
- * the rate of buffer consumption. Note that buffers recycled by a
- * strategy object are intentionally not counted here.
- */
- pg_atomic_fetch_add_u32(&StrategyControl->numBufferAllocs, 1);
-
- /* Use the "clock sweep" algorithm to find a free buffer */
- trycounter = NBuffers;
- for (;;)
- {
- uint64 old_buf_state;
- uint64 local_buf_state;
-
- buf = GetBufferDescriptor(ClockSweepTick());
-
- /*
- * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this
- * using a CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
- */
- old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
- for (;;)
- {
- local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
-
- /*
- * If the buffer is pinned or has a nonzero usage_count, we cannot
- * use it; decrement the usage_count (unless pinned) and keep
- * scanning.
- */
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
- {
- if (--trycounter == 0)
- {
- /*
- * We've scanned all the buffers without making any state
- * changes, so all the buffers are pinned (or were when we
- * looked at them). We could hope that someone will free
- * one eventually, but it's probably better to fail than
- * to risk getting stuck in an infinite loop.
- */
- elog(ERROR, "no unpinned buffers available");
- }
- break;
- }
-
- /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
- if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
- {
- old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
- continue;
- }
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
- {
- local_buf_state -= BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
-
- if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
- {
- trycounter = NBuffers;
- break;
- }
- }
- else
- {
- /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
- local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
-
- if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
- {
- /* Found a usable buffer */
- if (strategy != NULL)
- AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf);
- *buf_state = local_buf_state;
-
- TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
-
- return buf;
- }
- }
- }
- }
-}
/*
* Returns the next buffer in the ring after the one at cursor and increments
@@ -695,6 +541,99 @@ FreeAccessStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
pfree(strategy);
}
+BufferDesc *
+GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BufferDesc *buf;
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ int bgwprocno;
+ int trycounter;
+
+ bgwprocno = INT_ACCESS_ONCE(StrategyControl->bgwprocno);
+ if (bgwprocno != -1)
+ {
+ /* reset bgwprocno first, before setting the latch */
+ StrategyControl->bgwprocno = -1;
+ SetLatch(&GetPGProcByNumber(bgwprocno)->procLatch);
+ }
+
+ pg_atomic_fetch_add_u32(&StrategyControl->numBufferAllocs, 1);
+
+ /* Use the "clock sweep" algorithm to find a free buffer */
+ trycounter = NBuffers;
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ uint64 old_buf_state;
+ uint64 local_buf_state;
+
+ buf = GetBufferDescriptor(ClockSweepTick());
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
+
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ if (--trycounter == 0)
+ elog(ERROR, "no unpinned buffers available");
+ goto next_buffer;
+ }
+
+ /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
+ if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ local_buf_state -= BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
+ local_buf_state))
+ {
+ trycounter = NBuffers;
+ goto next_buffer;
+ }
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
+ local_buf_state))
+ {
+ *buf_state = local_buf_state;
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
+ if (*buf_state & BM_DIRTY && !ConditionalShareLockBuffer(bufnum))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
+ * to get another one.
+ */
+ ReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (*buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ return buf;
+
+next_buffer:;
+ }
+}
+
+
/*
* GetBufferFromRing -- returns a buffer from the ring, or NULL if the
* ring is empty / not usable.
@@ -702,86 +641,107 @@ FreeAccessStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(), before
* returning.
*/
-static BufferDesc *
-GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state)
+BufferDesc *
+GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, IOContext io_context)
{
BufferDesc *buf;
Buffer bufnum;
uint64 old_buf_state;
uint64 local_buf_state; /* to avoid repeated (de-)referencing */
+ Assert(strategy);
- /* Advance to next ring slot */
- if (++strategy->current >= strategy->nbuffers)
- strategy->current = 0;
-
- /*
- * If the slot hasn't been filled yet, tell the caller to allocate a new
- * buffer with the normal allocation strategy. He will then fill this
- * slot by calling AddBufferToRing with the new buffer.
- */
- bufnum = strategy->buffers[strategy->current];
- if (bufnum == InvalidBuffer)
- return NULL;
-
- buf = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
-
- /*
- * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
- * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
- */
- old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
for (;;)
{
- local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
+ /* Advance to next ring slot */
+ if (++strategy->current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->current = 0;
/*
- * If the buffer is pinned we cannot use it under any circumstances.
- *
- * If usage_count is 0 or 1 then the buffer is fair game (we expect 1,
- * since our own previous usage of the ring element would have left it
- * there, but it might've been decremented by clock-sweep since then).
- * A higher usage_count indicates someone else has touched the buffer,
- * so we shouldn't re-use it.
+ * If the slot hasn't been filled yet, tell the caller to allocate a
+ * new buffer with the normal allocation strategy. He will then fill
+ * this slot by calling AddBufferToRing with the new buffer.
*/
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0
- || BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) > 1)
- break;
+ bufnum = strategy->buffers[strategy->current];
+ if (bufnum == InvalidBuffer)
+ return NULL;
+
+ buf = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
- /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
- if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this
+ * using a CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
+ for (;;)
{
- old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
- continue;
- }
+ local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
- /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
- local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+ /*
+ * If the buffer is pinned we cannot use it under any
+ * circumstances.
+ *
+ * If usage_count is 0 or 1 then the buffer is fair game (we
+ * expect 1, since our own previous usage of the ring element
+ * would have left it there, but it might've been decremented by
+ * clock-sweep since then). A higher usage_count indicates someone
+ * else has touched the buffer, so we shouldn't re-use it.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0
+ || BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) > 1)
+ return NULL;
- if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
- {
- *buf_state = local_buf_state;
+ /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
+ if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
+ continue;
+ }
- TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
- return buf;
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ /* if we can't change state, keep trying */
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
+ local_buf_state))
+ {
+ /* got a pin */
+ *buf_state = local_buf_state;
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
+ break;
+ }
}
- }
- /*
- * Tell caller to allocate a new buffer with the normal allocation
- * strategy. He'll then replace this ring element via AddBufferToRing.
- */
- return NULL;
+ if (*buf_state & BM_DIRTY)
+ {
+ if (!ConditionalShareLockBuffer(bufnum))
+ {
+ ReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf, true))
+ {
+ LockBuffer(bufnum, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ ReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ continue;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (*buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ IOOP_REUSE, 1, 0);
+ return buf;
+ }
}
+
/*
* AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
*
* Caller must hold the buffer header spinlock on the buffer. Since this
* is called with the spinlock held, it had better be quite cheap.
*/
-static void
+void
AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf)
{
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index ef5a48e7fb1..2203ce18fff 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -594,8 +594,6 @@ extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
int *cursor);
extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
-extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring);
@@ -641,4 +639,11 @@ extern void DropRelationLocalBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
extern void DropRelationAllLocalBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator);
extern void AtEOXact_LocalBuffers(bool isCommit);
+extern void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf);
+extern BufferDesc *GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state, IOContext io_context);
+
+
+extern BufferDesc *GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ uint64 *buf_state, IOContext io_context);
+
#endif /* BUFMGR_INTERNALS_H */
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
index a40adf6b2a8..4fb68cf4266 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
@@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ LockBuffer(Buffer buffer, BufferLockMode mode)
}
extern bool ConditionalLockBuffer(Buffer buffer);
+
+extern bool ConditionalShareLockBuffer(Buffer buffer);
extern void LockBufferForCleanup(Buffer buffer);
extern bool ConditionalLockBufferForCleanup(Buffer buffer);
extern bool IsBufferCleanupOK(Buffer buffer);
--
2.43.0
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-02-25 06:52 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2026-02-25 06:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Feb 20, 2026, at 07:41, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 6:35 PM Melanie Plageman
> <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks! v13 attached.
>
> I've added background writer write combining and then spent some time
> refactoring and benchmarking this over the last few weeks, and I've
> realized I won't be able to get it in shape for Postgres 19. I've
> attached version 14 here with my WIP code so I can come back to it in
> the next release.
>
> 0012 is an invasive refactor of GetVictimBuffer() and all the
> functions it calls that needs to be split apart into smaller commits
> and redistributed throughout the other patches in the set. Other than
> that, there are a number of todos both in the code and from a
> benchmarking perspective:
>
> - Probe for preceding as well as following blocks when looking for
> blocks to combine
> - Experiment with different batch sizes
> - Enable and test bulkread and vacuum write combining
>
> I also periodically get this troubling warning: "WARNING: invalid
> page in block 2 of relation "base/16384/2608_fsm"; zeroing out page".
> So clearly there's at least one bug somewhere.
>
> FWIW benchmarks showed a large improvement from backend and bgwriter
> write combining, but I'll provide more detailed output from benchmarks
> when I post a more reviewable patch set.
>
> 0001 and 0002 are completely independent cleanup that should be pushed
> anyway, so I might do that, but I didn't want to do so without having
> posted on the list at least once.
>
> - Melanie
> <v14-0001-Make-FlushUnlockedBuffer-use-its-parameters.patch><v14-0002-Make-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback-static.patch><v14-0003-Streamline-buffer-rejection-for-bulkreads-of-unl.patch><v14-0004-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch><v14-0005-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v14-0006-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v14-0007-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v14-0008-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch><v14-0009-Remove-SyncOneBuffer-and-refactor-BgBufferSync.patch><v14-0010-Normal-backend-write-combining.patch><v14-0011-Add-write-combining-for-background-writer.patch><v14-0012-WIP-refactor.patch>
A few comments for v14:
1 - 0001
```
- FlushBuffer(buf, reln, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ FlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context);
```
This changes the hardcode IOOBJECT_RELATION to io_object when calling FlushBuffer(). But FlushBuffer() itself still uses IOOBJECT_RELATION instead of io_object, so the change will actually not take effective:
```
pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
IOOP_WRITE, io_start, 1, BLCKSZ);
```
So, an update in FlushBuffer() is also needed.
2 - 0003 - freelist.c
```
bool
StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
@@ -795,8 +800,14 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
return false;
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf)));
+ Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
```
I don’t quite understand Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
The comment says “the buffer header spinlock must not be held,” but I doubt this Assert actually ensures that. Since BM_LOCKED is just a bit in a shared state, isn't it possible for a concurrent backend to grab the lock right when we’re checking it?
If a concurrent process locks the header a split-second before the Assert, we’ll get a false-positive crash in a dev environment even though the code is fine. If they lock it a split-second after, then the Assert didn't really catch anything. It feels like a race condition either way.
I think the only way to truly ensure a spinlock is "not held" is to actually acquire it. If we’re just checking the bit like this, it’s just a snapshot that might be stale by the time the instruction finishes. What was the specific worry here—a self-deadlock, or something else?
3 - 0004
```
+typedef enum BufferUsageCountChange
+{
+ BUC_ZERO,
+ BUC_MAX_ONE,
+ BUC_ONE,
+} BufferUsageCountChange;
```
Can we add some brief comments to explain every enum item? I feel hard to guess the meaning from the names without further reading the code.
4 - 0005 - bufmgr.c
```
+/*
+ * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
+ * pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
+ * does not contain a block that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
```
This header comment looks stale.
* It says “and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set”, but I don’t see where BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS is set in this function.
* It says “also return its LSN”, but I don’t see LSN is returned.
5 - 0006
```
+ /* Start IO on the first buffer */
+ if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
+ goto clean;
```
This failure branch feels like leaking the content lock. The buffer was already share-locked via BufferLockConditional() earlier, and I don’t see the “clean" path unlock that content lock before returning.
6 - 0009
```
+ FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &bufHdr->tag);
```
bufHdr is unlocked and unpinned, it might be unsafe to still use bufHdr->tag. I think we can copy bufHdr->tag to a local variable before unlock the buffer.
~~ My brain is stuck, I will continue 0010 tomorrow ~~
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-02-26 04:23 Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Chao Li @ 2026-02-26 04:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On Feb 25, 2026, at 14:52, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Feb 20, 2026, at 07:41, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 6:35 PM Melanie Plageman
>> <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks! v13 attached.
>>
>> I've added background writer write combining and then spent some time
>> refactoring and benchmarking this over the last few weeks, and I've
>> realized I won't be able to get it in shape for Postgres 19. I've
>> attached version 14 here with my WIP code so I can come back to it in
>> the next release.
>>
>> 0012 is an invasive refactor of GetVictimBuffer() and all the
>> functions it calls that needs to be split apart into smaller commits
>> and redistributed throughout the other patches in the set. Other than
>> that, there are a number of todos both in the code and from a
>> benchmarking perspective:
>>
>> - Probe for preceding as well as following blocks when looking for
>> blocks to combine
>> - Experiment with different batch sizes
>> - Enable and test bulkread and vacuum write combining
>>
>> I also periodically get this troubling warning: "WARNING: invalid
>> page in block 2 of relation "base/16384/2608_fsm"; zeroing out page".
>> So clearly there's at least one bug somewhere.
>>
>> FWIW benchmarks showed a large improvement from backend and bgwriter
>> write combining, but I'll provide more detailed output from benchmarks
>> when I post a more reviewable patch set.
>>
>> 0001 and 0002 are completely independent cleanup that should be pushed
>> anyway, so I might do that, but I didn't want to do so without having
>> posted on the list at least once.
>>
>> - Melanie
>> <v14-0001-Make-FlushUnlockedBuffer-use-its-parameters.patch><v14-0002-Make-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback-static.patch><v14-0003-Streamline-buffer-rejection-for-bulkreads-of-unl.patch><v14-0004-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch><v14-0005-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch><v14-0006-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch><v14-0007-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch><v14-0008-Implement-checkpointer-data-write-combining.patch><v14-0009-Remove-SyncOneBuffer-and-refactor-BgBufferSync.patch><v14-0010-Normal-backend-write-combining.patch><v14-0011-Add-write-combining-for-background-writer.patch><v14-0012-WIP-refactor.patch>
>
> A few comments for v14:
>
> 1 - 0001
> ```
> - FlushBuffer(buf, reln, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
> + FlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context);
> ```
>
> This changes the hardcode IOOBJECT_RELATION to io_object when calling FlushBuffer(). But FlushBuffer() itself still uses IOOBJECT_RELATION instead of io_object, so the change will actually not take effective:
> ```
> pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
> IOOP_WRITE, io_start, 1, BLCKSZ);
> ```
>
> So, an update in FlushBuffer() is also needed.
>
> 2 - 0003 - freelist.c
> ```
> bool
> StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
> {
> + Assert(strategy);
> +
> /* We only do this in bulkread mode */
> if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
> return false;
> @@ -795,8 +800,14 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
> strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
> return false;
>
> + Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf)));
> + Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
> ```
>
> I don’t quite understand Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
>
> The comment says “the buffer header spinlock must not be held,” but I doubt this Assert actually ensures that. Since BM_LOCKED is just a bit in a shared state, isn't it possible for a concurrent backend to grab the lock right when we’re checking it?
>
> If a concurrent process locks the header a split-second before the Assert, we’ll get a false-positive crash in a dev environment even though the code is fine. If they lock it a split-second after, then the Assert didn't really catch anything. It feels like a race condition either way.
>
> I think the only way to truly ensure a spinlock is "not held" is to actually acquire it. If we’re just checking the bit like this, it’s just a snapshot that might be stale by the time the instruction finishes. What was the specific worry here—a self-deadlock, or something else?
>
> 3 - 0004
> ```
> +typedef enum BufferUsageCountChange
> +{
> + BUC_ZERO,
> + BUC_MAX_ONE,
> + BUC_ONE,
> +} BufferUsageCountChange;
> ```
>
> Can we add some brief comments to explain every enum item? I feel hard to guess the meaning from the names without further reading the code.
>
> 4 - 0005 - bufmgr.c
> ```
> +/*
> + * Prepare bufdesc for eager flushing.
> + *
> + * Given bufnum, return the buffer descriptor of the buffer to eagerly flush,
> + * pinned and locked and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer
> + * does not contain a block that should be flushed.
> + *
> + * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
> + */
> +static BufferDesc *
> +PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
> ```
>
> This header comment looks stale.
>
> * It says “and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set”, but I don’t see where BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS is set in this function.
> * It says “also return its LSN”, but I don’t see LSN is returned.
>
> 5 - 0006
> ```
> + /* Start IO on the first buffer */
> + if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
> + goto clean;
> ```
>
> This failure branch feels like leaking the content lock. The buffer was already share-locked via BufferLockConditional() earlier, and I don’t see the “clean" path unlock that content lock before returning.
>
> 6 - 0009
> ```
> + FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
> + UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
> +
> + ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &bufHdr->tag);
> ```
>
> bufHdr is unlocked and unpinned, it might be unsafe to still use bufHdr->tag. I think we can copy bufHdr->tag to a local variable before unlock the buffer.
>
> ~~ My brain is stuck, I will continue 0010 tomorrow ~~
>
7 - 0010
```
- * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given the
- * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
- * current configuration.
+ * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
+ * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
+ * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
+ * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
+ * have to be recalculated for each write.
```
I don’t see the function FindStrategyFlushAdjacents() has a parameter named max_batch_size, but batch_limit is still there.
8 - 0010
```
static void
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BufferTag require; /* requested block's buffer tag */
+ uint32 newHash; /* hash value for require */
+ LWLock *newPartitionLock; /* buffer partition lock for it */
+ int buf_id;
+
+ /* create a tag so we can lookup the buffers */
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ for (; batch->n < batch_limit; batch->n++)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+
+ require.blockNum = batch->start + batch->n;
+
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(require.blockNum));
```
When I first time read the Assert, I was confused how it can assume the block to be valid, then I realized that WriteBatchInit() ensures a safe “limit”. Maybe add a brief comment for the Assert.
9 - 0010
```
+ batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
+ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(buf_id + 1,
+ &require,
+ newPartitionLock,
+ &lsn);
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
+ break;
```
I think we can move if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL) to before if (lsn > batch->max_lsn).
This is a correctness issue, because PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer will set lsn to InvalidXLogRecPtr when returns NULL, but doing the NULL check early just feels more reasonable.
10 - 0010
```
+ * max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
+ * LSN.
*/
static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
+ LWLock *buftable_lock,
XLogRecPtr *lsn)
```
The function doesn’t have a parameter named max_lsn, is it “lsn”?
11 - 0010
```
+FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
```
Looks like batch_start is not used at all in this function.
12 - 0011
```
+ * Callers specify if and by how much they want to bump the buffer's usage
+ * count.
```
I don’t get what this comment means.
~~ As 0012 is WIP, I didn't review it. ~~
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-06-19 22:13 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 2 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2026-06-19 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; +Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Attached is v15. I've done substantial work since my last post.
The biggest difference is that regular backends and background writer
write combining try to combine up to io_combine_limit sized write IOs
by looking for preceding and following blocks to their target block
that are in shared buffers and are dirty. I've found this to
substantially improve performance.
For a regular pgbench scale 500 with 8 clients and 4GB SB on a machine
with IOPS limited to 7500, pgbench TPS improves by 30% (I tuned
backend_flush_after to 512kB). I think in an environment where buffers
and IOPS are scarce, those extra buffers getting cleaned each time is
very helpful. It also improves the p99 latency by 75%. If you turn off
synchronous commit, it is actually almost a 70% increase in TPS
(because over 50% of the IO is WAL with sync commit on). In the stats
I collect, you see that with my patch backends and bgwriter are doing
larger writes and this is the source of the improvement.
I did several more realistic (than tpc-b) benchmarks -- including
multiple clients inserting 1000 rows at a time and saw similar
speedups. I isolated the different combining types and it seems that
the biggest benefit is coming from backends doing their own combining.
If you tune everything so the bgwriter is doing most of the cleaning
of buffers, there is still a benefit, but it is hard to get the
bgwriter sufficiently aggressive. checkpointer has little effect here
because the kernel was already combining those writes.
I did see some benefit in workloads with a fast, local SSD, but the
biggest benefit was in an IOPs constrained environment (which makes
sense). I'll note that I've lost the ability to reproduce the
performance gain with parallel COPY FROMs.
v15 also adds TAP tests of the write combining behavior.
I haven't enabled and started testing write combining for vacuum and bulkread.
The patchset still needs review and some polish. There are a number of
outstanding questions mostly around different function APIs and a bit
around some of the control flow.
I substantially refactored GetVictimBuffer() in
v15-0004-Simplify-victim-buffer-selection and
v15-0005-Refactor-victim-buffer-selection-and-add-helpers. I have
questions about some of the control flow changes I made including
whether or not we should keep looking in the strategy ring once we
find a buffer that has a usagecount > 1 (the current behavior in
master that I've preserved in my patch).
Another question is if EagerCleanStrategyBuffer() should change how it
advances the cursor to avoid calling PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer()
twice for a buffer that was rejected for reasons other than being
non-contiguous. I think that requirement worsens
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer()'s API and potentially eliminate some
buffers we want to revisit, however without it, we may end up having
to reject the same buffers twice.
I've also incorporated Chao's review feedback. Here are my inline replies:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A few comments for v14:
Thanks for continuing to review!
> 1 - 0001
> ```
> - FlushBuffer(buf, reln, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
> + FlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context);
> ```
>
> This changes the hardcode IOOBJECT_RELATION to io_object when calling FlushBuffer(). But FlushBuffer() itself still uses IOOBJECT_RELATION instead of io_object, so the change will actually not take effective:
> ```
> pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
> IOOP_WRITE, io_start, 1, BLCKSZ);
> ```
>
> So, an update in FlushBuffer() is also needed.
I believe we did already fix this. However, because FlushLocalBuffer()
exists, FlushBuffer() doesn't need to take an IOObject. And definitely
FlushUnlockedBuffer() does not need to -- since it takes an lock and
thus wouldn't be used for local buffers. I wonder if it is worth the
code churn to change these to avoid any confusion.
FlushRelationBuffers(), FlushRelationAllBuffers(),
FlushDatabaseBuffers(), and FlushOneBuffer(),
EvictUnpinnedBufferInternal() could stand to take an IOContext, though
they don't need it for their current callers, so I won't add the extra
code churn.
> 2 - 0003 - freelist.c
> ```
> bool
> StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
> {
> + Assert(strategy);
> +
> /* We only do this in bulkread mode */
> if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
> return false;
> @@ -795,8 +800,14 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
> strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
> return false;
>
> + Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf)));
> + Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
> ```
>
> I don’t quite understand Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
>
> The comment says “the buffer header spinlock must not be held,” but I doubt this Assert actually ensures that. Since BM_LOCKED is just a bit in a shared state, isn't it possible for a concurrent backend to grab the lock right when we’re checking it?
>
> If a concurrent process locks the header a split-second before the Assert, we’ll get a false-positive crash in a dev environment even though the code is fine. If they lock it a split-second after, then the Assert didn't really catch anything. It feels like a race condition either way.
>
> I think the only way to truly ensure a spinlock is "not held" is to actually acquire it. If we’re just checking the bit like this, it’s just a snapshot that might be stale by the time the instruction finishes. What was the specific worry here—a self-deadlock, or something else?
I ended up changing StrategyRejectBuffer() substantially since then
and it no longer has this assert. However, this assert is more of a
sanity check. It is present for example in UnlockBufHdr().
> +typedef enum BufferUsageCountChange
> +{
> + BUC_ZERO,
> + BUC_MAX_ONE,
> + BUC_ONE,
> +} BufferUsageCountChange;
> ```
>
> Can we add some brief comments to explain every enum item? I feel hard to guess the meaning from the names without further reading the code.
Done
> +static BufferDesc *
> +PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
> ```
>
> This header comment looks stale.
>
> * It says “and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set”, but I don’t see where BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS is set in this function.
> * It says “also return its LSN”, but I don’t see LSN is returned.
Fixed
> + /* Start IO on the first buffer */
> + if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
> + goto clean;
> ```
>
> This failure branch feels like leaking the content lock. The buffer was already share-locked via BufferLockConditional() earlier, and I don’t see the “clean" path unlock that content lock before returning.
I think I've found and fixed anything like this.
> + FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
> + UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
> +
> + ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &bufHdr->tag);
> ```
>
> bufHdr is unlocked and unpinned, it might be unsafe to still use bufHdr->tag. I think we can copy bufHdr->tag to a local variable before unlock the buffer.
Fixed.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> - * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given the
> - * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
> - * current configuration.
> + * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined into a
> + * single write in general. This function, based on the block number of start,
> + * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given how much
> + * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it doesn't
> + * have to be recalculated for each write.
> ```
>
> I don’t see the function FindStrategyFlushAdjacents() has a parameter named max_batch_size, but batch_limit is still there.
Fixed.
> static void
> +FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
> + uint32 batch_limit,
> + BufferWriteBatch *batch)
> +{
> + BufferTag require; /* requested block's buffer tag */
> + uint32 newHash; /* hash value for require */
> + LWLock *newPartitionLock; /* buffer partition lock for it */
> + int buf_id;
> +
> + /* create a tag so we can lookup the buffers */
> + InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
> + batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
> +
> + for (; batch->n < batch_limit; batch->n++)
> + {
> + XLogRecPtr lsn;
> +
> + require.blockNum = batch->start + batch->n;
> +
> + Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(require.blockNum));
> ```
>
> When I first time read the Assert, I was confused how it can assume the block to be valid, then I realized that WriteBatchInit() ensures a safe “limit”. Maybe add a brief comment for the Assert.
Added comment.
> + batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
> + PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(buf_id + 1,
> + &require,
> + newPartitionLock,
> + &lsn);
> + if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
> + batch->max_lsn = lsn;
> +
> + if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
> + break;
> ```
>
> I think we can move if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL) to before if (lsn > batch->max_lsn).
>
> This is a correctness issue, because PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer will set lsn to InvalidXLogRecPtr when returns NULL, but doing the NULL check early just feels more reasonable.
Fixed.
> + * max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the current max
> + * LSN.
> */
> static BufferDesc *
> PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
> BufferTag *require,
> + LWLock *buftable_lock,
> XLogRecPtr *lsn)
> ```
>
> The function doesn’t have a parameter named max_lsn, is it “lsn”?
Fixed.
> +FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
> + uint32 batch_limit,
> + BufferWriteBatch *batch)
> ```
>
> Looks like batch_start is not used at all in this function.
>
> 12 - 0011
> ```
> + * Callers specify if and by how much they want to bump the buffer's usage
> + * count.
> ```
>
> I don’t get what this comment means.
I removed it.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 7:17 AM Soumya S Murali
<soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Batch size = 8
> LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 12622 buffers (77.0%); write=0.113 s,
> sync=0.195 s, total=0.485 s; sync files=37
> DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=9923, writeback_calls=1242
> Avg: 7.989 approx 8 buffers per writeback.
>
> Batch size = 16
> LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 13537 buffers (82.6%); write=0.260 s,
> sync=0.211 s, total=0.625 s; sync files=3
> DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=6196, writeback_calls=389
> Avg: 15.9 approx 16 buffers per writeback.
>
> Batch size = 32
> LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 12914 buffers (78.8%); write=0.116 s,
> sync=0.136 s, total=0.442 s; sync files=5
> DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=12914, writeback_calls=1616
> Avg: 7.99 approx 8 buffers per writeback.
>
> Batch 16 significantly reduces sync fan-out (as low as 3 files per
> checkpoint), but this comes at the cost of longer individual sync
> operations, resulting in higher total checkpoint time (≈0.625 s).
> Batch 32 provides a better balance, maintaining low sync fragmentation
> while avoiding long sync stalls, yielding the lowest overall
> checkpoint time (≈0.442 s). I am attaching the patch with batch size
> fixed as 32 for now for further review.
> Please let me know if further workloads or instrumentation would be useful.
FWIW, I found batch size 16 to be optimal in experimenting with my own
patchset as well.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v15-0001-Make-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback-static.patch (2.1K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/2-v15-0001-Make-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback-static.patch)
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From 9d8a039e2b734832e056016c2662746e445c2780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:39:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v15 01/19] Make ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback static
Its only users are in bufmgr.c, so there's no need to declare it in
buf_internals.h.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 4 +++-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 2 --
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index d6c0cc1f6d4..28ce5ff7436 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -658,6 +658,8 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -7695,7 +7697,7 @@ WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending)
/*
* Add buffer to list of pending writeback requests.
*/
-void
+static void
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context,
BufferTag *tag)
{
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 89615a254a3..2e0ae8720cc 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -549,8 +549,6 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
-extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
- IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0002-pg_stat_io-Count-buffer-eviction-after-invalidat.patch (2.7K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/3-v15-0002-pg_stat_io-Count-buffer-eviction-after-invalidat.patch)
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From 2dd15fa9d913c4e643cf70c3b669071c368a858d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 15:38:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 02/19] pg_stat_io: Count buffer eviction after
invalidation
GetVictimBuffer() may double count pg_stat_io evictions/reuses when we
attempt to invalidate the buffer but some other backend has already
redirtied it or pinned it. This should be rare, but fixing it clarifies
the code.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 28ce5ff7436..d1d37595524 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2553,6 +2553,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
Buffer buf;
uint64 buf_state;
bool from_ring;
+ bool buf_valid;
/*
* Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
@@ -2640,8 +2641,21 @@ again:
&buf_hdr->tag);
}
+ /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ /*
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
+ * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
+ * buffer.
+ */
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ goto again;
+ }
+
+ if (buf_valid)
{
/*
* When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
@@ -2655,25 +2669,15 @@ again:
* counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
*
* At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer and
+ * invalidated its previous tenant. Previously, we may have been
+ * forced to release the buffer due to concurrent pinners or erroring
+ * out.
*/
pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
}
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
-
/* a final set of sanity checks */
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf_hdr->state);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0003-Make-StrategyRejectBuffer-encapsulate-more-logic.patch (4.8K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/4-v15-0003-Make-StrategyRejectBuffer-encapsulate-more-logic.patch)
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From 9953c4902c346e8da480fac50e41034ec5b32651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 18:38:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 03/19] Make StrategyRejectBuffer encapsulate more logic
Before refactoring GetVictimBuffer(), move more of its buffer rejection
logic into StrategyRejectBuffer itself.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 9 +--------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 7 ++++++-
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index d1d37595524..f36d1887970 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -71,11 +71,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
#include "utils/wait_event.h"
-
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2625,9 +2620,7 @@ again:
* inside StrategyGetBuffer().
*/
if (strategy && from_ring &&
- buf_state & BM_PERMANENT &&
- XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr)) &&
- StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
{
UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
goto again;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index fdb5bad7910..746740105a9 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -741,23 +742,36 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* StrategyRejectBuffer -- consider rejecting a dirty buffer
*
* When a nondefault strategy is used, the buffer manager calls this function
- * when it turns out that the buffer selected by StrategyGetBuffer needs to
- * be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
- * a chance to choose a different victim.
+ * when it turns out that the victim buffer selected needs to be written out
+ * and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us a chance to
+ * choose a different victim.
*
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
-StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
+StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state)
{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
/* Don't muck with behavior of normal buffer-replacement strategy */
- if (!from_ring ||
- strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
+ if (strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
+ return false;
+
+ /*
+ * Rejecting a dirty ring buffer is only useful when reusing it would
+ * require flushing WAL. This only applies to permanent buffers; unlogged
+ * buffers can have fake LSNs, so XLogNeedsFlush() is not meaningful for
+ * them.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
+ return false;
+
+ if (!XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(buf)))
return false;
/*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 2e0ae8720cc..a527bcd454b 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ StaticAssertDecl(MAX_BACKENDS_BITS <= (BUF_LOCK_BITS - 2),
StaticAssertDecl(BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT < (UINT64CONST(1) << BUF_USAGECOUNT_BITS),
"BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT doesn't fit in BUF_USAGECOUNT_BITS bits");
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/*
* Buffer tag identifies which disk block the buffer contains.
*
@@ -580,7 +585,7 @@ extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring);
+ BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
extern int StrategySyncStart(uint32 *complete_passes, uint32 *num_buf_alloc);
extern void StrategyNotifyBgWriter(int bgwprocno);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0004-Simplify-victim-buffer-selection.patch (14.1K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/5-v15-0004-Simplify-victim-buffer-selection.patch)
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From bbafe39f8345311baa8d6e8d751ba7dfa6f43666 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:15:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 04/19] Simplify victim buffer selection
Refactor victim buffer selection so that StrategyGetBuffer() returns a
fully cleaned buffer with its former contents invalidated, moving the
flush/reject/invalidate logic out of GetVictimBuffer() and into
StrategyGetBuffer().
This is step one of a larger refactor to clarify the conditions and
rules for which we continue to look in the strategy ring to reuse a
buffer and when we go to shared buffers and look for a buffer.
GetVictimBuffer()'s control flow was a bit confusing. When using a
strategy, the strategy buffer could be rejected for a variety of reasons
ranging from concurrent users to strategy-specific buffer conditions.
In some of these cases, we would stop looking in the strategy ring and
go look in shared buffers. In others we would advance to the next buffer
in the ring. And even after we start looking in shared buffers, we may
go back to looking in the ring. These rules were not clear nor
documented.
There introduces a new invariant: once we stop looking for a buffer in the
strategy ring and start looking in shared buffers, we will continue
looking in shared buffers until we find a victim. This seems more clear.
This changes one behavior: previously, if we selected a victim from the
clock sweep and then failed to invalidate it (e.g. a concurrent pinner
or dirtier), we would loop back and search the strategy ring again. Now,
once we move from the ring to the clock sweep, we continue searching the
clock sweep until we find a victim. This is clearer and avoids
re-checking the ring for a buffer we already decided to evict from
shared buffers.
It also prevents occupying a spot in the strategy ring with an abandoned
shared buffer we failed to invalidate. After this commit, we do not add
any shared buffers to the strategy ring until we have fully claimed
them.
There is one other difference with how we search for strategy buffers:
now we only loop through the strategy ring once. If we don't find any
buffer that meets our criteria, we go look in shared buffers.
Previously, we would keep looping around the strategy ring.
XXX: should we keep looking in the strategy ring instead of going to
look in SB when a buffer can't be reused due to usage count or pin count
too high? This would be a departure from master but seems like a good
idea.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 107 +++++++++++---------------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++-----
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 11 ++-
3 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f36d1887970..c060ee46163 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2541,36 +2541,21 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
return true;
}
-static Buffer
-GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
+/*
+ * Helper to claim a victim buffer -- which is invalidating its existing
+ * contents (including flushing the old contents first if needed).
+ * Returns true if it successfully claimed the victim buffer and false if it
+ * failed to do so. Buffer must already be pinned.
+ */
+bool
+ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr, Buffer bufnum, uint64 buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
- BufferDesc *buf_hdr;
- Buffer buf;
- uint64 buf_state;
- bool from_ring;
- bool buf_valid;
-
- /*
- * Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
- * entry and resource owner slot for the pin.
- */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
- */
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
/*
* We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
/*
* If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
@@ -2598,14 +2583,14 @@ again:
* index pages, and the second one just happens to be trying to split
* the page the first one got from StrategyGetBuffer.)
*/
- if (!BufferLockConditional(buf, buf_hdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
+ if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, buf_hdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
{
/*
* Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
* to get another one.
*/
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ return false;
}
/*
@@ -2616,27 +2601,23 @@ again:
* XLogNeedsFlush() is not meaningful for them.
*
* We need to hold the content lock in at least share-exclusive mode
- * to safely inspect the page LSN, so this couldn't have been done
- * inside StrategyGetBuffer().
+ * to safely inspect the page LSN.
*/
if (strategy && from_ring &&
StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
{
- UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
- goto again;
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ return false;
}
/* OK, do the I/O */
FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ LockBuffer(bufnum, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
&buf_hdr->tag);
}
- /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
- buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
-
/*
* If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
* can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
@@ -2645,43 +2626,47 @@ again:
if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
{
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ return false;
}
- if (buf_valid)
- {
- /*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer and
- * invalidated its previous tenant. Previously, we may have been
- * forced to release the buffer due to concurrent pinners or erroring
- * out.
- */
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- }
+ return true;
+}
+
+static Buffer
+GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ Buffer bufnum = InvalidBuffer;
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+#endif
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
+ * entry and resource owner slot for the pin.
+ */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /*
+ * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
+ * this backend.
+ */
+ bufnum = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, io_context);
+
/* a final set of sanity checks */
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf_hdr->state);
Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 1);
Assert(!(buf_state & (BM_TAG_VALID | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)));
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
#endif
- return buf;
+ return bufnum;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 746740105a9..f0f3a30cd03 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
static BufferDesc *GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint64 *buf_state);
static void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- BufferDesc *buf);
+ Buffer bufnum);
/*
* ClockSweepTick - Helper routine for StrategyGetBuffer()
@@ -181,14 +181,15 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
* The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(),
* before returning.
*/
-BufferDesc *
-StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring)
+Buffer
+StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
BufferDesc *buf;
+ Buffer bufnum;
int bgwprocno;
int trycounter;
-
- *from_ring = false;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ bool buf_valid;
/*
* If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a buffer. We
@@ -196,11 +197,40 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_r
*/
if (strategy != NULL)
{
- buf = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, buf_state);
- if (buf != NULL)
+ int ring_tries;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't loop around the ring forever. If we can't reuse any of the
+ * ring buffers (e.g. because they are all concurrently locked), fall
+ * back to the clock sweep after one full pass.
+ */
+ for (ring_tries = 0; ring_tries < strategy->nbuffers; ring_tries++)
{
- *from_ring = true;
- return buf;
+ buf = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, &buf_state);
+ if (buf == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
+ /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
+ if (ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf, bufnum, buf_state,
+ true, io_context))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring
+ * are counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy
+ * context.
+ *
+ * We can only count this now that we've successfully claimed
+ * the buffer and invalidated its previous tenant. Previously
+ * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to
+ * concurrent pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ if (buf_valid)
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ IOOP_REUSE, 1, 0);
+ return bufnum;
+ }
}
}
@@ -304,13 +334,49 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_r
local_buf_state))
{
/* Found a usable buffer */
- if (strategy != NULL)
- AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf);
- *buf_state = local_buf_state;
+ buf_state = local_buf_state;
TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
+
+ /*
+ * Don't use a stale buf_state value after
+ * InvalidateVictimBuffer
+ */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
- return buf;
+ /*
+ * If we can't claim the buffer (concurrent pin/dirty), go
+ * back to the clock sweep to find another one. Don't add
+ * a buffer we failed to claim to the strategy ring.
+ */
+ if (ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf, bufnum, buf_state,
+ false, io_context))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Blocks evicted from shared buffers are counted as
+ * IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context, even when
+ * a strategy is in use. Shared buffers are evicted by
+ * a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially
+ * claiming buffers for the strategy ring 2) to
+ * replace an existing strategy ring buffer because it
+ * is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * We can only count this now that we've successfully
+ * claimed the buffer and invalidated its previous
+ * tenant. Previously we may have been forced to
+ * release the buffer due to concurrent pinners or
+ * erroring out.
+ */
+ if (buf_valid)
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ if (strategy != NULL)
+ AddBufferToRing(strategy, bufnum);
+ return bufnum;
+ }
+
+ break;
}
}
}
@@ -694,15 +760,13 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state)
}
/*
- * AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
- *
- * Caller must hold the buffer header spinlock on the buffer. Since this
- * is called with the spinlock held, it had better be quite cheap.
+ * Records the buffer in the current ring slot. The caller must have already
+ * pinned the buffer and invalidated its previous contents.
*/
static void
-AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf)
+AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum)
{
- strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
+ strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = bufnum;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index a527bcd454b..8477cec8d34 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -548,6 +548,13 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/* For use in freelist.c but defined in bufmgr.c */
+extern bool ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr, Buffer bufnum,
+ uint64 buf_state,
+ bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -582,8 +589,8 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
-extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
+extern Buffer StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ IOContext io_context);
extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
--
2.43.0
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From e513688b5ff6fcc88c55c22f5f0464ead2dc899f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 17:24:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 05/19] Refactor victim buffer selection and add helpers
StrategyGetBuffer() (called by GetVictimBuffer()), contrary to its name,
did not always return a strategy buffer. It might have returned a buffer
from the strategy ring, a buffer from shared buffers, or a buffer from
shared buffers that was now in the strategy ring.
This commit makes dedicated helpers for getting a buffer from the
strategy ring and getting a buffer from shared buffers. It adds a little
code duplication but makes the rules for when to look for a buffer where
more clear.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 23 ++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 254 +++++++++++---------------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 7 +-
3 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index c060ee46163..771130b06a1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2545,7 +2545,8 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
* Helper to claim a victim buffer -- which is invalidating its existing
* contents (including flushing the old contents first if needed).
* Returns true if it successfully claimed the victim buffer and false if it
- * failed to do so. Buffer must already be pinned.
+ * failed to do so. Buffer must already be pinned, but if we fail to claim it
+ * we will unpin it.
*/
bool
ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
@@ -2603,8 +2604,7 @@ ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
* We need to hold the content lock in at least share-exclusive mode
* to safely inspect the page LSN.
*/
- if (strategy && from_ring &&
- StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
+ if (from_ring && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
{
UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
return false;
@@ -2649,11 +2649,19 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
/*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
+ * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by this
+ * backend and is already cleaned and invalidated.
*/
- bufnum = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, io_context);
+ if (strategy)
+ bufnum = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, io_context);
+ /* If no strategy or didn't find a strategy buffer, get one from SB */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ {
+ bufnum = GetBufferFromClocksweep(io_context);
+ if (strategy)
+ AddBufferToRing(strategy, bufnum);
+ }
/* a final set of sanity checks */
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
@@ -4585,8 +4593,7 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* If a shared buffer which was added to the ring later because the
* current strategy buffer is pinned or in use or because all strategy
* buffers were dirty and rejected (for BAS_BULKREAD operations only)
- * requires flushing, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE
- * (from_ring will be false).
+ * requires flushing, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE.
*
* When a strategy is not in use, the write can only be a "regular" write
* of a dirty shared buffer (IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE).
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index f0f3a30cd03..9c8ac8e7152 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -96,13 +96,9 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
/* Prototypes for internal functions */
-static BufferDesc *GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- uint64 *buf_state);
-static void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- Buffer bufnum);
/*
- * ClockSweepTick - Helper routine for StrategyGetBuffer()
+ * ClockSweepTick - Helper routine for GetBufferFromClocksweep()
*
* Move the clock hand one buffer ahead of its current position and return the
* id of the buffer now under the hand.
@@ -167,72 +163,15 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
}
/*
- * StrategyGetBuffer
- *
- * Called by the bufmgr to get the next candidate buffer to use in
- * GetVictimBuffer(). The only hard requirement GetVictimBuffer() has is that
- * the selected buffer must not currently be pinned by anyone.
- *
- * strategy is a BufferAccessStrategy object, or NULL for default strategy.
- *
- * It is the callers responsibility to ensure the buffer ownership can be
- * tracked via TrackNewBufferPin().
- *
- * The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(),
- * before returning.
+ * Return a buffer from clock sweep, pinned and marked as owned using
+ * TrackNewBufferPin(). It is the caller's responsibility to make sure the
+ * buffer ownership can be tracked.
*/
Buffer
-StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
+GetBufferFromClocksweep(IOContext io_context)
{
- BufferDesc *buf;
- Buffer bufnum;
int bgwprocno;
int trycounter;
- uint64 buf_state;
- bool buf_valid;
-
- /*
- * If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a buffer. We
- * assume strategy objects don't need buffer_strategy_lock.
- */
- if (strategy != NULL)
- {
- int ring_tries;
-
- /*
- * Don't loop around the ring forever. If we can't reuse any of the
- * ring buffers (e.g. because they are all concurrently locked), fall
- * back to the clock sweep after one full pass.
- */
- for (ring_tries = 0; ring_tries < strategy->nbuffers; ring_tries++)
- {
- buf = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, &buf_state);
- if (buf == NULL)
- break;
-
- bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
- /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
- buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
- if (ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf, bufnum, buf_state,
- true, io_context))
- {
- /*
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring
- * are counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy
- * context.
- *
- * We can only count this now that we've successfully claimed
- * the buffer and invalidated its previous tenant. Previously
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to
- * concurrent pinners or erroring out.
- */
- if (buf_valid)
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- IOOP_REUSE, 1, 0);
- return bufnum;
- }
- }
- }
/*
* If asked, we need to waken the bgwriter. Since we don't want to rely on
@@ -271,8 +210,11 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
trycounter = NBuffers;
for (;;)
{
+ BufferDesc *buf;
+ Buffer bufnum = InvalidBuffer;
uint64 old_buf_state;
- uint64 local_buf_state;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ bool buf_valid;
buf = GetBufferDescriptor(ClockSweepTick());
@@ -283,7 +225,7 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
for (;;)
{
- local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
/*
* If the buffer is pinned or has a nonzero usage_count, we cannot
@@ -291,7 +233,7 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
* scanning.
*/
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
{
if (--trycounter == 0)
{
@@ -308,18 +250,18 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
}
/* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
- if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
{
old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
continue;
}
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
{
- local_buf_state -= BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
+ buf_state -= BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
+ buf_state))
{
trycounter = NBuffers;
break;
@@ -328,16 +270,14 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
else
{
/* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
- local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
+ buf_state))
{
/* Found a usable buffer */
- buf_state = local_buf_state;
-
- TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
+ TrackNewBufferPin(bufnum);
/*
* Don't use a stale buf_state value after
@@ -345,12 +285,7 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
*/
buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
- /*
- * If we can't claim the buffer (concurrent pin/dirty), go
- * back to the clock sweep to find another one. Don't add
- * a buffer we failed to claim to the strategy ring.
- */
- if (ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf, bufnum, buf_state,
+ if (ClaimVictimBuffer(NULL, buf, bufnum, buf_state,
false, io_context))
{
/*
@@ -371,8 +306,6 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
if (buf_valid)
pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
- if (strategy != NULL)
- AddBufferToRing(strategy, bufnum);
return bufnum;
}
@@ -426,8 +359,8 @@ StrategySyncStart(uint32 *complete_passes, uint32 *num_buf_alloc)
/*
* StrategyNotifyBgWriter -- set or clear allocation notification latch
*
- * If bgwprocno isn't -1, the next invocation of StrategyGetBuffer will
- * set that latch. Pass -1 to clear the pending notification before it
+ * If bgwprocno isn't -1, the next invocation of GetBufferFromClocksweep()
+ * will set that latch. Pass -1 to clear the pending notification before it
* happens. This feature is used by the bgwriter process to wake itself up
* from hibernation, and is not meant for anybody else to use.
*/
@@ -436,8 +369,8 @@ StrategyNotifyBgWriter(int bgwprocno)
{
/*
* We acquire buffer_strategy_lock just to ensure that the store appears
- * atomic to StrategyGetBuffer. The bgwriter should call this rather
- * infrequently, so there's no performance penalty from being safe.
+ * atomic to GetBufferFromClocksweep. The bgwriter should call this
+ * rather infrequently, so there's no performance penalty from being safe.
*/
SpinLockAcquire(&StrategyControl->buffer_strategy_lock);
StrategyControl->bgwprocno = bgwprocno;
@@ -680,90 +613,121 @@ FreeAccessStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
}
/*
- * GetBufferFromRing -- returns a buffer from the ring, or NULL if the
- * ring is empty / not usable.
+ * Returns a clean, invalidated buffer from the ring, or InvalidBuffer if the
+ * ring is empty or contains no usable buffers. In that case, the caller will
+ * select a buffer from the clocksweep and add it to the ring.
*
* The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(), before
- * returning.
+ * returning. It is the caller's responsibility to make sure the buffer
+ * ownership can be tracked.
*/
-static BufferDesc *
-GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state)
+Buffer
+GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
- BufferDesc *buf;
- Buffer bufnum;
- uint64 old_buf_state;
- uint64 local_buf_state; /* to avoid repeated (de-)referencing */
-
-
- /* Advance to next ring slot */
- if (++strategy->current >= strategy->nbuffers)
- strategy->current = 0;
-
- /*
- * If the slot hasn't been filled yet, tell the caller to allocate a new
- * buffer with the normal allocation strategy. He will then fill this
- * slot by calling AddBufferToRing with the new buffer.
- */
- bufnum = strategy->buffers[strategy->current];
- if (bufnum == InvalidBuffer)
- return NULL;
-
- buf = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+ Assert(strategy);
/*
- * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
- * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
+ * Don't loop around the ring forever if none of the strategy buffers meet
+ * our criteria.
*/
- old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
- for (;;)
+ for (int trycounter = 0; trycounter < strategy->nbuffers; trycounter++)
{
- local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
+ BufferDesc *buf;
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ uint64 old_buf_state;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ bool buf_valid;
+
+ /* Advance to next ring slot */
+ if (++strategy->current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->current = 0;
/*
- * If the buffer is pinned we cannot use it under any circumstances.
- *
- * If usage_count is 0 or 1 then the buffer is fair game (we expect 1,
- * since our own previous usage of the ring element would have left it
- * there, but it might've been decremented by clock-sweep since then).
- * A higher usage_count indicates someone else has touched the buffer,
- * so we shouldn't re-use it.
+ * If the slot hasn't been filled yet, tell the caller to allocate a
+ * new buffer with the normal allocation strategy. He will then fill
+ * this slot by calling AddBufferToRing with the new buffer.
*/
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0
- || BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) > 1)
- break;
+ bufnum = strategy->buffers[strategy->current];
+ if (bufnum == InvalidBuffer)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
- /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
- if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ buf = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this
+ * using a CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
+ for (;;)
{
- old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
- continue;
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer is pinned we cannot use it under any
+ * circumstances.
+ *
+ * If usage_count is 0 or 1 then the buffer is fair game (we
+ * expect 1, since our own previous usage of the ring element
+ * would have left it there, but it might've been decremented by
+ * clock-sweep since then). A higher usage_count indicates someone
+ * else has touched the buffer, so we shouldn't re-use it.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0
+ || BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ /* if we can't change state, keep trying */
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ /* got a pin */
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
+ break;
+ }
}
- /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
- local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+ /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
- if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
+ if (ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf, bufnum, buf_state, true, io_context))
{
- *buf_state = local_buf_state;
-
- TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
- return buf;
+ /*
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * We can only count this now that we've successfully claimed the
+ * buffer and invalidated its previous tenant. Previously we may
+ * have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
+ * pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ if (buf_valid)
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_REUSE, 1, 0);
+ return bufnum;
}
}
/*
* Tell caller to allocate a new buffer with the normal allocation
- * strategy. He'll then replace this ring element via AddBufferToRing.
+ * strategy. He'll then replace this ring element via AddBufferToRing.
*/
- return NULL;
+ return InvalidBuffer;
}
/*
* Records the buffer in the current ring slot. The caller must have already
* pinned the buffer and invalidated its previous contents.
*/
-static void
+void
AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum)
{
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = bufnum;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 8477cec8d34..426393408f0 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -589,13 +589,14 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
-extern Buffer StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+extern Buffer GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
IOContext io_context);
-extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
+extern void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum);
+extern Buffer GetBufferFromClocksweep(IOContext io_context);
extern int StrategySyncStart(uint32 *complete_passes, uint32 *num_buf_alloc);
extern void StrategyNotifyBgWriter(int bgwprocno);
+extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
/* buf_table.c */
extern uint32 BufTableHashCode(BufferTag *tagPtr);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0006-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch (5.5K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/7-v15-0006-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch)
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From f4432681ab1284edf8ec0ea0e0f277880f936b60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:29:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v15 06/19] Allow PinBuffer to skip increasing usage count
Future commits will allow eagerly flushing buffers when flushing a
target buffer. In those cases, they do not want PinBuffer() to incrase
the usage count on the buffer, as it is not being used by that flusher.
BufferUsageCountChange allows increasing the usage count by either zero,
a maximum of one (in case we don't want to increase it beyond one), or
one unconditionally. This commit only introduces this but doesn't use
the zero option.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 771130b06a1..f9c3dcea2c3 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -180,6 +180,19 @@ typedef struct SMgrSortArray
SMgrRelation srel;
} SMgrSortArray;
+/* How much PinBuffer() should increase the usage count of the target buffer */
+typedef enum BufferUsageCountChange
+{
+ /* Do not increase the usage count */
+ BUC_ZERO,
+
+ /* Increase usage count by one to a maximum of one (used with strategies) */
+ BUC_MAX_ONE,
+
+ /* Increase usage count by one up to the max (BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT) */
+ BUC_ONE,
+} BufferUsageCountChange;
+
/* GUC variables */
bool zero_damaged_pages = false;
int bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 100;
@@ -623,7 +636,7 @@ static BlockNumber ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr,
BlockNumber extend_upto,
Buffer *buffers,
uint32 *extended_by);
-static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change,
bool skip_if_not_valid);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
@@ -854,7 +867,7 @@ ReadRecentBuffer(RelFileLocator rlocator, ForkNumber forkNum, BlockNumber blockN
* pin.
*/
if (BufferTagsEqual(&tag, &bufHdr->tag) &&
- PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, true))
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ONE, true))
{
if (BufferTagsEqual(&tag, &bufHdr->tag))
{
@@ -2231,7 +2244,9 @@ BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr, char relpersistence, ForkNumber forkNum,
*/
buf = GetBufferDescriptor(existing_buf_id);
- valid = PinBuffer(buf, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(buf,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
/* Can release the mapping lock as soon as we've pinned it */
LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
@@ -2293,7 +2308,9 @@ BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr, char relpersistence, ForkNumber forkNum,
existing_buf_hdr = GetBufferDescriptor(existing_buf_id);
- valid = PinBuffer(existing_buf_hdr, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(existing_buf_hdr,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
/* Can release the mapping lock as soon as we've pinned it */
LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
@@ -2931,7 +2948,9 @@ ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr,
* Pin the existing buffer before releasing the partition lock,
* preventing it from being evicted.
*/
- valid = PinBuffer(existing_hdr, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(existing_hdr,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
LWLockRelease(partition_lock);
UnpinBuffer(victim_buf_hdr);
@@ -3247,6 +3266,7 @@ ReleaseAndReadBuffer(Buffer buffer,
/*
* PinBuffer -- make buffer unavailable for replacement.
*
+ * Most callers will want to bump the usage count to at least one.
* For the default access strategy, the buffer's usage_count is incremented
* when we first pin it; for other strategies we just make sure the usage_count
* isn't zero. (The idea of the latter is that we don't want synchronized
@@ -3270,7 +3290,7 @@ ReleaseAndReadBuffer(Buffer buffer,
* (recently) invalid and has not been pinned.
*/
static bool
-PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change,
bool skip_if_not_valid)
{
Buffer b = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
@@ -3310,13 +3330,13 @@ PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
/* increase refcount */
buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
- if (strategy == NULL)
+ if (usage_count_change == BUC_ONE)
{
/* Default case: increase usagecount unless already max. */
if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) < BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT)
buf_state += BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
}
- else
+ else if (usage_count_change == BUC_MAX_ONE)
{
/*
* Ring buffers shouldn't evict others from pool. Thus we
@@ -3325,6 +3345,11 @@ PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
buf_state += BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
}
+ else
+ {
+ /* Don't increase usage count */
+ Assert(usage_count_change == BUC_ZERO);
+ }
if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
buf_state))
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 1969d467c1d..2954f47d286 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufferUsageCountChange
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
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[text/x-patch] v15-0007-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch (10.7K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/8-v15-0007-Eagerly-flush-bulkwrite-strategy-ring.patch)
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From c8195aa1ab75194922b2a87495aae2dad2da3af2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:56:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v15 07/19] Eagerly flush bulkwrite strategy ring
Operations using BAS_BULKWRITE (COPY FROM and createdb) will inevitably
need to flush buffers in the strategy ring in order to reuse them. By
eagerly flushing the buffers in a larger run, we encourage larger writes
at the kernel level and less interleaving of WAL flushes and data file
writes. The effect is mainly noticeable with multiple parallel COPY
FROMs. In this case, client backends achieve higher write throughput and
end up spending less time waiting on acquiring the lock to flush WAL.
Larger flush operations also mean less time waiting for flush operations
at the kernel level.
The heuristic for eager eviction is to only flush buffers in the
strategy ring which do not require a WAL flush.
This patch also is a step toward AIO writes, as it lines up multiple
buffers that can be issued asynchronously once the infrastructure
exists.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_Yjn4mvN9NBxtmsCQSGwup45CoA4e05nhR7ADP-v0WCig%40mail.gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 163 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 49 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
3 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f9c3dcea2c3..0c14d3b4561 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -666,6 +666,7 @@ static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum);
static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
@@ -2558,6 +2559,69 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
return true;
}
+
+/*
+ * Given a target strategy buffer, clean it and any of the other dirty buffers
+ * in the strategy ring meeting our criteria for eager flushing. The initial
+ * victim buffer must be pinned and locked. It is returned pinned.
+ */
+static void
+EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BufferDesc *next_bufhdr = buf_hdr;
+ Buffer next_bufnum = bufnum;
+ Buffer sweep_end = bufnum;
+ int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
+
+ /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after unpinning below */
+ IncrBufferRefCount(bufnum);
+
+ /*
+ * Flush the victim buffer and then loop around strategy ring one time
+ * eagerly flushing all of the eligible buffers.
+ */
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ if (next_bufhdr)
+ {
+ BufferTag tag = next_bufhdr->tag;
+
+ FlushBuffer(next_bufhdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(next_bufnum);
+ /* Only regular backends use buffer access strategies */
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context, &tag);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * It's important that we keep our own cursor and do not advance the
+ * current buffer in the strategy ring when flushing. We do not want
+ * to change the next buffer reused.
+ */
+ next_bufnum = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &cursor);
+
+ /* Completed one sweep of the strategy ring */
+ if (next_bufnum == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For strategies currently supporting eager flush (BAS_BULKWRITE,
+ * eventually BAS_VACUUM), once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the
+ * remaining buffers in the ring will be invalid. If BAS_BULKREAD is
+ * someday supported, this logic will have to change.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(next_bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * Check buffer eager flush eligibility. If the buffer is ineligible,
+ * we'll keep looking until we complete one full sweep around the
+ * ring.
+ */
+ next_bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_bufnum);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Helper to claim a victim buffer -- which is invalidating its existing
* contents (including flushing the old contents first if needed).
@@ -2628,11 +2692,15 @@ ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
}
/* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LockBuffer(bufnum, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ if (strategy && from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
+ EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(strategy, bufnum, buf_hdr, io_context);
+ else
+ {
+ FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, buf_hdr);
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
+ &buf_hdr->tag);
+ }
}
/*
@@ -4643,6 +4711,91 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Prepare bufnum for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return its buffer descriptor, pinned and locked and ready for
+ * write I/O, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that should be
+ * eager flushed. Buffers that are accepted are suitable for writing out
+ * eagerly. The input buffer should not already be pinned.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufhdr = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufhdr->state);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
+ * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Quick check to see if the buffer is pinned, in which case it is more
+ * likely to be dirtied again soon, and we don't want to eagerly flush it.
+ * We don't care if it has a non-zero usage count because we don't need to
+ * reuse it right away and a non-zero usage count doesn't necessarily mean
+ * it will be dirtied again soon.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0)
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush. We must check this
+ * again later while holding the buffer content lock for correctness.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT &&
+ XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(bufhdr)))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that there's a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leak a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, that slot will be reused.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /* There is no need to flush the buffer if it is not BM_VALID */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufhdr, BUC_ZERO, true /* skip_if_not_valid */ ))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, bufhdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have the lock, recheck if it needs WAL flush. Dirtiness and
+ * concurrent use are rechecked by the caller when flushing the buffer.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT &&
+ XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(bufhdr)))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ return bufhdr;
+
+reject_buffer_unlock:
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, bufhdr);
+
+reject_buffer_unpin:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufhdr);
+
+reject_buffer:
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Convenience wrapper around FlushBuffer() that locks/unlocks the buffer
* before/after calling FlushBuffer().
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 9c8ac8e7152..3b1d05c9544 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -316,6 +316,32 @@ GetBufferFromClocksweep(IOContext io_context)
}
}
+/*
+ * Some BufferAccessStrategies support eager flushing -- which is flushing
+ * buffers in the ring before they are needed. This can lead to better I/O
+ * patterns than lazily flushing buffers immediately before reusing them.
+ */
+bool
+StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
+ switch (strategy->btype)
+ {
+ case BAS_BULKWRITE:
+ return true;
+ case BAS_VACUUM:
+ case BAS_NORMAL:
+ case BAS_BULKREAD:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ elog(ERROR, "unrecognized buffer access strategy: %d",
+ (int) strategy->btype);
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
+
/*
* StrategySyncStart -- tell BgBufferSync where to start syncing
*
@@ -766,6 +792,29 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
pg_unreachable();
}
+/*
+ * Returns the next buffer in the ring after the one at cursor and increments
+ * cursor. Used when we do not want to advance the strategy->current to avoid
+ * changing the next buffer reused.
+ */
+Buffer
+StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, int *cursor)
+{
+ if (++(*cursor) >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ *cursor = 0;
+
+ return strategy->buffers[*cursor];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return the current slot in the strategy ring.
+ */
+int
+StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ return strategy->current;
+}
+
/*
* StrategyRejectBuffer -- consider rejecting a dirty buffer
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 426393408f0..1bd7e8aa273 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -593,10 +593,14 @@ extern Buffer GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
IOContext io_context);
extern void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum);
extern Buffer GetBufferFromClocksweep(IOContext io_context);
+extern Buffer StrategyNextBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ int *cursor);
+extern int StrategyGetCurrentIndex(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern int StrategySyncStart(uint32 *complete_passes, uint32 *num_buf_alloc);
extern void StrategyNotifyBgWriter(int bgwprocno);
extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
+extern bool StrategySupportsEagerFlush(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
/* buf_table.c */
extern uint32 BufTableHashCode(BufferTag *tagPtr);
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0008-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch (30.4K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/9-v15-0008-Write-combining-for-BAS_BULKWRITE.patch)
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From 4d6cebab4a74ff21d790e16004b8d695b2e25cfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 08/19] Write combining for BAS_BULKWRITE
Implement write combining for users of the bulkwrite buffer access
strategy (e.g. COPY FROM). When the buffer access strategy needs to
clean a buffer for reuse, it already opportunistically flushes some
other buffers. Now, combine any contiguous blocks from the same relation
into larger writes and issue them with smgrwritev().
The performance benefit for COPY FROM is mostly noticeable for multiple
concurrent COPY FROMs because a single COPY FROM is either CPU bound or
bound by WAL writes.
The infrastructure for flushing larger batches of IOs will be reused by
checkpointer and other processes doing writes of dirty data.
XXX: remove development-only GUCs
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_bcWRvRwZUop_d9vzF9nHAiT%2B-uPzkJ%3DS3ShZ1GqeAYOw%40mail.gmail.com
---
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 19 +
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 523 +++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 22 +
src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat | 9 +
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 1 +
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +
src/include/storage/bufmgr.h | 2 +
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
9 files changed, 564 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index fa566c9e553..560c0fc8c93 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -2894,6 +2894,25 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="guc-eager-clean-max-batch-size" xreflabel="eager_clean_max_batch_size">
+ <term><varname>eager_clean_max_batch_size</varname> (<type>integer</type>)
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary><varname>eager_clean_max_batch_size</varname> configuration parameter</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Controls the largest number of blocks flushed as one write by
+ eager cleaning in the buffer manager.
+ If this value is specified without units, it is taken as blocks,
+ that is <symbol>BLCKSZ</symbol> bytes, typically 8kB.
+ The maximum possible size depends on the operating system and block
+ size, but is typically 1MB on Unix and 128kB on Windows.
+ The default is 16 blocks.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="guc-io-combine-limit" xreflabel="io_combine_limit">
<term><varname>io_combine_limit</varname> (<type>integer</type>)
<indexterm>
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 0c14d3b4561..815b037a8ec 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -125,6 +125,27 @@ typedef struct PrivateRefCountEntry
PrivateRefCountData data;
} PrivateRefCountEntry;
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. bufhdrs
+ * contains buffer descriptors for buffers containing adjacent blocks of the
+ * same fork of the same relation.
+ */
+typedef struct BufferWriteBatch
+{
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid buffers in bufhdrs */
+ uint32 n;
+ BufferDesc *bufhdrs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} BufferWriteBatch;
+
#define SH_PREFIX refcount
#define SH_ELEMENT_TYPE PrivateRefCountEntry
#define SH_KEY_TYPE Buffer
@@ -223,6 +244,7 @@ int maintenance_io_concurrency = DEFAULT_MAINTENANCE_IO_CONCURRENCY;
int io_combine_limit = DEFAULT_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT;
int io_combine_limit_guc = DEFAULT_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT;
int io_max_combine_limit = DEFAULT_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT;
+int eager_clean_max_batch_size = DEFAULT_EAGER_CLEAN_MAX_BATCH_SIZE;
/*
* GUC variables about triggering kernel writeback for buffers written; OS
@@ -647,6 +669,7 @@ static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
+static void shared_buffer_write_batch_error_callback(void *arg);
static void local_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
char relpersistence,
@@ -661,14 +684,31 @@ static pg_attribute_always_inline void TrackBufferHit(IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context,
Relation rel, char persistence, SMgrRelation smgr,
ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum);
+static uint32 MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
+static uint32 CurrentMaxEagerWriteBatchSize(uint32 max_batch_size);
+static uint32 InitForwardEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
-static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+static void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
+static void ExtendStrategyEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor);
+static void CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static void ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ BufferTag tag, uint32 batch_size,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2569,12 +2609,34 @@ static void
EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context)
{
+ StartBufferIOResult status;
BufferDesc *next_bufhdr = buf_hdr;
Buffer next_bufnum = bufnum;
Buffer sweep_end = bufnum;
int cursor = StrategyGetCurrentIndex(strategy);
- /* Pin victim again so it stays ours even after unpinning below */
+ /* Start IO on the first buffer */
+ if ((status = StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL)) !=
+ BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ {
+ Assert(status == BUFFER_IO_ALREADY_DONE);
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush anything if the target buffer is already clean.
+ * Leave the buffer pinned for the caller.
+ */
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, buf_hdr);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * We pin the victim again so it stays ours even after the batch is
+ * released. The victim buffer was pinned once by the caller and
+ * CompleteWriteBatchIO() will release a pin, so to return a pinned buffer
+ * back to the original caller requesting a clean buffer, we take a second
+ * pin now. Any other members of the batch will be pinned while building
+ * the batch.
+ */
IncrBufferRefCount(bufnum);
/*
@@ -2583,14 +2645,31 @@ EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
*/
for (;;)
{
+ XLogRecPtr next_buf_lsn; /* unused */
+
if (next_bufhdr)
{
- BufferTag tag = next_bufhdr->tag;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ BlockNumber limit;
- FlushBuffer(next_bufhdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- UnlockReleaseBuffer(next_bufnum);
- /* Only regular backends use buffer access strategies */
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context, &tag);
+ /*
+ * After finding an eligible buffer, if we are allowed more pins
+ * and there are more blocks in the relation, identify any of the
+ * buffers following it which are also eligible and combine them
+ * into a batch.
+ *
+ * The cursor is advanced through the ring slots consumed by the
+ * current batch. When a buffer is rejected, cursor is left
+ * pointing to it so that the outer loop can consider it as the
+ * start of a new batch.
+ */
+ limit = InitForwardEagerWriteBatch(strategy, next_bufhdr, &batch);
+ if (limit > 1)
+ ExtendStrategyEagerWriteBatch(strategy, sweep_end,
+ limit, &batch, &cursor);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ /* Pins and locks released inside CompleteWriteBatchIO */
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
/*
@@ -2614,11 +2693,13 @@ EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
break;
/*
- * Check buffer eager flush eligibility. If the buffer is ineligible,
- * we'll keep looking until we complete one full sweep around the
- * ring.
+ * If the buffer is eligible for eager flushing, it will be the start
+ * of a new batch. Otherwise, we'll keep looking until we complete one
+ * full sweep around the ring.
*/
- next_bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_bufnum);
+ next_bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_bufnum,
+ NULL,
+ &next_buf_lsn);
}
}
@@ -2717,6 +2798,46 @@ ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
return true;
}
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble given strategy-specific and global
+ * constraints on the number of pinned buffers and max IO size. Currently only
+ * a single write is inflight at a time, so the batch can consume all the
+ * pinned buffers this backend is allowed. Only for batches of shared
+ * (non-local) relations.
+ */
+static uint32
+MaxWriteBatchSize(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
+{
+ uint32 result = io_combine_limit;
+ uint32 strategy_pin_limit;
+ uint32 max_pin_limit = GetPinLimit();
+
+ /* Apply pin limits */
+ result = Min(result, max_pin_limit);
+ if (strategy)
+ {
+ strategy_pin_limit = GetAccessStrategyPinLimit(strategy);
+ result = Min(result, strategy_pin_limit);
+ }
+
+ /* Ensure forward progress */
+ result = Max(result, 1);
+
+ return result;
+}
+
+static uint32
+CurrentMaxEagerWriteBatchSize(uint32 max_batch_size)
+{
+ uint32 limit;
+
+ limit = Min(eager_clean_max_batch_size, max_batch_size);
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), limit);
+
+ /* Guarantee forward progress */
+ return Max(limit, 1);
+}
+
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
@@ -4711,31 +4832,84 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a required buffer that is ready to flush, initialize the batch
+ * structure and place it at the beginning of the new batch. Returns the
+ * maximum number of blocks this batch may contain given the location of the
+ * block, the number of currently available pins, and various configuration
+ * GUCs.
+ */
+static uint32
+InitForwardEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *required_bufhdr, BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ uint32 limit;
+
+ Assert(required_bufhdr);
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&required_bufhdr->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&required_bufhdr->tag),
+ INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr)));
+
+ batch->max_lsn =
+ pg_atomic_read_u64(&required_bufhdr->state) & BM_PERMANENT ?
+ BufferGetLSN(required_bufhdr) : InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
+ limit = CurrentMaxEagerWriteBatchSize(MaxWriteBatchSize(strategy));
+ limit = Min(limit, smgrmaxcombine(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum));
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum));
+ /* Batch goes forward so required buffer is first */
+ batch->bufhdrs[0] = required_bufhdr;
+ batch->n = 1;
+
+ return limit;
+}
+
/*
* Prepare bufnum for eager flushing.
*
- * Given bufnum, return its buffer descriptor, pinned and locked and ready for
- * write I/O, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that should be
- * eager flushed. Buffers that are accepted are suitable for writing out
+ * Given bufnum, return its buffer descriptor, pinned and locked and with
+ * BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that
+ * should be flushed. Buffers that are accepted are suitable for writing out
* eagerly. The input buffer should not already be pinned.
+ *
+ * If the caller requires a particular block to be in the buffer in order to
+ * accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
+ * RelFileLocator and fork.
+ *
+ * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
*/
static BufferDesc *
-PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
+PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
{
BufferDesc *bufhdr;
uint64 buf_state;
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
goto reject_buffer;
Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
bufhdr = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick, unsafe checks to see if buffer even possibly contains a block
+ * meeting our requirements. We'll recheck it all again after getting a
+ * pin.
+ */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufhdr->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufhdr->state);
/*
- * Quick racy check to see if the buffer is clean, in which case we don't
- * need to flush it. We'll recheck if it is dirty again later before
+ * We'll recheck if it is dirty later, when we have a pin and lock, before
* actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
*/
if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
@@ -4773,6 +4947,10 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+ /* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufhdr->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, bufhdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
goto reject_buffer_unpin;
@@ -4784,6 +4962,12 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(bufhdr)))
goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL) != BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufhdr);
+
return bufhdr;
reject_buffer_unlock:
@@ -4796,6 +4980,181 @@ reject_buffer:
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Given a starting buffer descriptor from a strategy ring that supports eager
+ * flushing, find additional buffers from the ring that can be combined into a
+ * single write batch with the starting buffer.
+ *
+ * This function will pin and content lock all of the buffers that it
+ * assembles for the IO batch. The caller is responsible for issuing the IO.
+ *
+ * We only want to look in the ring starting at the current *sweep_cursor and
+ * ending at sweep_end. This is to avoid examining the same ring buffers
+ * multiple times. The caller will ensure we make one complete sweep around
+ * the ring. This function only advances *sweep_cursor for buffers consumed
+ * and added to the batch. The caller is responsible for advancing the cursor
+ * to the next candidate batch start.
+ *
+ * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given the
+ * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
+ * current configuration.
+ *
+ * batch is an output parameter that this function will fill with the needed
+ * information to issue this IO.
+ */
+static void
+ExtendStrategyEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ Buffer sweep_end,
+ uint32 batch_limit,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ int *sweep_cursor)
+{
+ BlockNumber batch_start = batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ BufferTag require;
+
+ Assert(batch_limit > 1);
+
+ /*
+ * This should only be used to extend batches since it may reject flushing
+ * the buffer.
+ */
+ Assert(batch->n >= 1);
+
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ /*
+ * Now assemble a run of blocks to write out. Our victim buffer is already
+ * included in the batch (at the head) and we should only start looking
+ * forward from that buffer for adjacent blocks to include in the batch.
+ *
+ * batch->n is advanced in the loop body when a buffer is added.
+ */
+ while (batch->n < batch_limit)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ int next_cursor = *sweep_cursor;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't advance the real sweep_cursor until we know if want to
+ * consume it
+ */
+ bufnum = StrategyNextBuffer(strategy, &next_cursor);
+
+ /* Completed one sweep of the strategy ring */
+ if (bufnum == sweep_end)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * For BAS_BULKWRITE, once you hit an InvalidBuffer, the remaining
+ * buffers in the ring will be invalid, so we're done.
+ */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ break;
+
+ require.blockNum = batch_start + batch->n;
+
+ bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum, &require, &lsn);
+
+ /*
+ * Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run. Do not
+ * consume the ring slot; the caller may consider it the start of the
+ * next batch. If it did not belong to this batch, we want to consider
+ * it for the next batch. If it was rejected because it wasn't dirty
+ * or there was a concurrent user, that may have changed by now, so it
+ * is okay to do another round of checks next time. While a diabolical
+ * pattern where every other buffer is rejected could lead to
+ * pinning/locking and unpinning/unlocking many buffers, that should
+ * be rare -- especially since we spot those conditions before taking
+ * the pin and lock.
+ */
+ if (bufhdr == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ /* This buffer belongs to the current run, so consume this ring slot. */
+ *sweep_cursor = next_cursor;
+
+ /* Add it to the batch */
+ batch->bufhdrs[batch->n++] = bufhdr;
+
+ /*
+ * Because we don't eagerly flush buffers that need WAL flushed, this
+ * buffer's LSN should only be greater than the victim buffer LSN if
+ * the victim doesn't need WAL flushing either -- in which case, we
+ * don't really need to update max_lsn. But, it seems better to keep
+ * the max_lsn honest -- especially since doing so is cheap.
+ */
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+static void
+FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BlockNumber batch_start = batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum;
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_batch_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ /* Should have been opened when initializing the batch */
+ Assert(batch->reln);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr = batch->bufhdrs[i];
+
+ Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufhdr->state) & BM_PERMANENT) ||
+ !XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(bufhdr)));
+ Assert(BufTagGetForkNum(&bufhdr->tag) == batch->forkno);
+ Assert(bufhdr->tag.blockNum == batch_start + i);
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ for (BlockNumber i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch_start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(batch->bufhdrs[i]);
+ }
+
+ PageSetBatchChecksum((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch_start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, 1, batch->n * BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Convenience wrapper around FlushBuffer() that locks/unlocks the buffer
* before/after calling FlushBuffer().
@@ -4811,6 +5170,53 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
BufferLockUnlock(buffer, buf);
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+static void
+CompleteWriteBatchIO(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ BufferTag tag;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning the buffer */
+ tag = batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(batch->bufhdrs[i]);
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch->bufhdrs[i];
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(batch->bufhdrs[i], true, 0, true, false);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n,
+ tag.blockNum);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(wb_context, tag, batch->n, io_context);
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
@@ -7646,6 +8052,36 @@ shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg)
BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag)).str);
}
+/*
+ * Error context callback for errors occurring during a combined write of
+ * multiple shared buffers (see FlushBufferBatch()).
+ */
+static void
+shared_buffer_write_batch_error_callback(void *arg)
+{
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch = (BufferWriteBatch *) arg;
+ BufferDesc *first_bufhdr;
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ if (batch == NULL || batch->n == 0)
+ return;
+
+ first_bufhdr = batch->bufhdrs[0];
+ start = first_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+
+ /* Buffers are pinned, so we can read the tag without locking the spinlock */
+ if (batch->n == 1)
+ errcontext("writing block %u of relation \"%s\"",
+ start,
+ relpathperm(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&first_bufhdr->tag),
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&first_bufhdr->tag)).str);
+ else
+ errcontext("writing blocks %u..%u of relation \"%s\"",
+ start, start + batch->n - 1,
+ relpathperm(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&first_bufhdr->tag),
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&first_bufhdr->tag)).str);
+}
+
/*
* Error context callback for errors occurring during local buffer writes.
*/
@@ -7900,6 +8336,59 @@ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context
IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
}
+/*
+ * Add all the blocks from a write batch that was recently issued to a list of
+ * pending writeback requests. Don't call while holding buffer locks. tag
+ * should be a copy of a BufferTag from a buffer in the patch from when it was
+ * still pinned. It is okay to call this function for pinned or unpinned
+ * buffers as long as the tag was saved before any pin was released.
+ */
+static void
+ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ BufferTag tag, uint32 batch_size,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ /*
+ * As pg_flush_data() doesn't do anything with fsync disabled, there's no
+ * point in tracking in that case.
+ */
+ if (io_direct_flags & IO_DIRECT_DATA ||
+ !enableFsync)
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Drain the queue to make room if needed. We do this even if writeback
+ * control is disabled because it may have been previously enabled.
+ */
+ if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
+
+ /* If writeback control is disabled, leave */
+ if (*wb_context->max_pending <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* It is okay if n is > max_pending because we flush as we go */
+ Assert(*wb_context->max_pending <= WRITEBACK_MAX_PENDING_FLUSHES);
+
+ /*
+ * Add buffer to the pending writeback array. All must be from same
+ * relation.
+ */
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch_size; i++)
+ {
+ PendingWriteback *pending;
+
+ pending = &wb_context->pending_writebacks[wb_context->nr_pending++];
+ pending->tag = tag;
+
+ tag.blockNum++;
+
+ /* Perform pending flushes if writeback limit exceeded */
+ if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
+ }
+}
+
#define ST_SORT sort_pending_writebacks
#define ST_ELEMENT_TYPE PendingWriteback
#define ST_COMPARE(a, b) buffertag_comparator(&a->tag, &b->tag)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index 1fdfda59edd..186ce83a8e2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1528,3 +1528,25 @@ PageSetChecksum(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
RESUME_INTERRUPTS();
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple blocks' checksums
+ */
+void
+PageSetBatchChecksum(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsNeedWrite())
+ return;
+
+ HOLD_INTERRUPTS();
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+ RESUME_INTERRUPTS();
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat
index afaa058b046..5daf0ed5b1b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat
@@ -835,6 +835,15 @@
options => 'dynamic_shared_memory_options',
},
+{ name => 'eager_clean_max_batch_size', type => 'int', context => 'PGC_USERSET', group => 'RESOURCES_IO',
+ short_desc => 'Maximum number of blocks to flush for eager cleaning.',
+ flags => 'GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS',
+ variable => 'eager_clean_max_batch_size',
+ boot_val => 'DEFAULT_EAGER_CLEAN_MAX_BATCH_SIZE',
+ min => '1',
+ max => 'MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT',
+},
+
{ name => 'effective_cache_size', type => 'int', context => 'PGC_USERSET', group => 'QUERY_TUNING_COST',
short_desc => 'Sets the planner\'s assumption about the total size of the data caches.',
long_desc => 'That is, the total size of the caches (kernel cache and shared buffers) used for PostgreSQL data files. This is measured in disk pages, which are normally 8 kB each.',
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
index ac38cddaaf9..d2351bb1677 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@
#io_max_combine_limit = 128kB # usually 1-128 blocks (depends on OS)
# (change requires restart)
#io_combine_limit = 128kB # usually 1-128 blocks (depends on OS)
+#eager_clean_max_batch_size = 16 # 1-128 blocks (depends on OS)
#io_method = worker # worker, io_uring, sync
# (change requires restart)
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index 1929521c6a5..e0f48c6d2d9 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffer__batch__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
index 6837b35fc6d..d3d7380e2e2 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
@@ -174,9 +174,11 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int maintenance_io_concurrency;
#define MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT PG_IOV_MAX
#define DEFAULT_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT Min(MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT, (128 * 1024) / BLCKSZ)
+#define DEFAULT_EAGER_CLEAN_MAX_BATCH_SIZE 16
extern PGDLLIMPORT int io_combine_limit; /* min of the two GUCs below */
extern PGDLLIMPORT int io_combine_limit_guc;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int io_max_combine_limit;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int eager_clean_max_batch_size;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int checkpoint_flush_after;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int backend_flush_after;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index 634e1e49ee5..d13a8d4e162 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -538,5 +538,7 @@ extern void PageIndexTupleDeleteNoCompact(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum);
extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern void PageSetChecksum(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PageSetBatchChecksum(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 2954f47d286..74dc600d742 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
BufferUsageCountChange
+BufferWriteBatch
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0009-Add-COPY-FROM-write-combining-test.patch (3.5K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/10-v15-0009-Add-COPY-FROM-write-combining-test.patch)
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From a1d5c3f57af3106984dbdd0024d04b13323e209d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:16:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 09/19] Add COPY FROM write combining test
---
src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build | 1 +
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 94 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build b/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build
index 909f81d96c1..d3d5c996931 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ tests += {
't/002_io_workers.pl',
't/003_initdb.pl',
't/004_read_stream.pl',
+ 't/005_write_combining.pl',
],
},
}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d9c66b3cb01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2026, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+
+use strict;
+use warnings FATAL => 'all';
+
+use PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster;
+use PostgreSQL::Test::Utils;
+use Test::More;
+
+my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('write-combining');
+$node->init();
+
+$node->append_conf(
+ 'postgresql.conf', qq(
+shared_buffers = '128MB'
+max_wal_size = '4GB'
+checkpoint_timeout = '1h'
+checkpoint_completion_target = 0.0
+autovacuum = off
+io_combine_limit = '128kB'
+eager_clean_max_batch_size = 16
+bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 0
+fsync = off
+synchronous_commit = off
+));
+
+$node->start();
+
+my $block_size = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT current_setting('block_size')::int");
+
+test_copy_from_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+
+$node->stop();
+
+done_testing();
+
+sub io_stat_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $backend_type, $context) = @_;
+
+ my $result = $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+SELECT COALESCE(sum(writes), 0)::bigint,
+ COALESCE(sum(write_bytes), 0)::bigint,
+ COALESCE((sum(write_bytes) / NULLIF(sum(writes), 0))::bigint, 0)
+FROM pg_stat_io
+WHERE backend_type = '$backend_type'
+ AND object = 'relation'
+ AND context = '$context';
+));
+
+ return split /\|/, $result;
+}
+
+sub assert_combined_writes
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $backend_type, $context, $block_size) = @_;
+ my ($writes, $write_bytes, $avg_write_bytes) =
+ io_stat_writes($node, $backend_type, $context);
+
+ note "$label: writes=$writes write_bytes=$write_bytes avg_write_bytes=$avg_write_bytes";
+ ok($writes > 0, "$label wrote buffers");
+ ok($avg_write_bytes > $block_size, "$label combined writes");
+}
+
+sub test_copy_from_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE wc_copy (id int, payload text);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ # Feed the rows to "COPY ... FROM STDIN" inline on psql's stdin.
+ my $rows = 200000;
+ my $payload = '0' x 200;
+ my $copy_data = '';
+ $copy_data .= "$_\t$payload\n" for (1 .. $rows);
+
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('io')");
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "COPY wc_copy FROM STDIN;\n" . $copy_data . "\\.\n");
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_combined_writes($node, 'copy from', 'client backend', 'bulkwrite',
+ $block_size);
+ is($node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT count(*) FROM wc_copy"),
+ $rows, 'copy from inserted rows');
+}
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0010-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/11-v15-0010-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From 99f99a299ee1f067edcecaf8b765899ee27ad1ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 10/19] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is an oversight that currently isn't causing harm. However, it is
required for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added in
a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 815b037a8ec..9bdfc6b7f99 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3825,6 +3825,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -8242,6 +8243,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 1bd7e8aa273..70b22419ad4 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ extern uint64 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
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[text/x-patch] v15-0011-Inline-BufferSync-into-CheckPointBuffers.patch (2.4K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/12-v15-0011-Inline-BufferSync-into-CheckPointBuffers.patch)
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From 787134e8b44cccea10720febb462117f1685b197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:51:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 11/19] Inline BufferSync() into CheckPointBuffers()
CheckPointBuffers() contained only the static function call to
BufferSync(). It seemed more confusing than anything else. Inline the
code of BufferSync().
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 24 ++++++------------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 9bdfc6b7f99..713aba1260d 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -663,7 +663,6 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
-static void BufferSync(int flags);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
@@ -3754,7 +3753,7 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
#include "lib/sort_template.h"
/*
- * BufferSync -- Write out all dirty buffers in the pool.
+ * Write out all dirty buffers in the buffer pool.
*
* This is called at checkpoint time to write out all dirty shared buffers.
* The checkpoint request flags should be passed in. If CHECKPOINT_FAST is
@@ -3762,9 +3761,12 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
* CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY or CHECKPOINT_FLUSH_UNLOGGED is set, we write
* even unlogged buffers, which are otherwise skipped. The remaining flags
* currently have no effect here.
+ *
+ * Note: temporary relations do not participate in checkpoints, so they don't
+ * need to be flushed.
*/
-static void
-BufferSync(int flags)
+void
+CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
{
uint64 buf_state;
int buf_id;
@@ -4636,20 +4638,6 @@ DebugPrintBufferRefcount(Buffer buffer)
return result;
}
-/*
- * CheckPointBuffers
- *
- * Flush all dirty blocks in buffer pool to disk at checkpoint time.
- *
- * Note: temporary relations do not participate in checkpoints, so they don't
- * need to be flushed.
- */
-void
-CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
-{
- BufferSync(flags);
-}
-
/*
* BufferGetBlockNumber
* Returns the block number associated with a buffer.
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0012-Write-combining-for-checkpointer.patch (11.6K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/13-v15-0012-Write-combining-for-checkpointer.patch)
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From f7073e7b0706e5a699e1a1e7e486c30a5346a012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 12/19] Write combining for checkpointer
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Soumya <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +-
2 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 713aba1260d..7e9bdc7ef85 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3768,8 +3768,6 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
void
CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
{
- uint64 buf_state;
- int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
int num_processed;
@@ -3780,6 +3778,8 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
int i;
uint64 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3807,10 +3807,11 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
* certainly need to be written for the next checkpoint attempt, too.
*/
num_to_scan = 0;
- for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
+ for (int buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint64 set_bits = 0;
+ uint64 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3953,48 +3954,224 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = MaxWriteBatchSize(NULL);
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
- BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
+ BlockNumber batch_limit = max_batch_size;
+ BlockNumber batch_start = InvalidBlockNumber;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < batch_limit)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ StartBufferIOResult status;
- num_processed++;
+ if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
+ ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
+
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
+
+ Assert(item.buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(item.buf_id);
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch_start))
+ {
+ RelFileLocator rlocator = {
+ .spcOid = item.tsId,
+ .dbOid = item.dbId,
+ .relNumber = item.relNumber
+ };
+
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch_start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ batch_limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch_start);
+ batch_limit = Min(max_batch_size, batch_limit);
+ batch_limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), batch_limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress even if at max pins */
+ batch_limit = Max(batch_limit, 1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid ||
+ item.relNumber != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber ||
+ item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch_start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ *
+ * It's okay for us to check if the buffer needs flushing (if it's
+ * dirty) without holding the buffer content lock as long as we
+ * mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes
+ * with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after
+ * our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not
+ * required to write such a dirty buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* If the buffer is not BM_VALID, nothing to do on this buffer */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have a pin, we must recheck that the buffer
+ * contains the specified block. Someone may have replaced the
+ * block in the buffer with a different block. In that case, count
+ * it as processed and issue the IO so far. These fields won't
+ * change as long as we hold a pin, so we don't need a spinlock to
+ * read them.
+ */
+ if (!BufTagMatchesRelFileLocator(&bufHdr->tag,
+ &batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator) ||
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag) != batch.forkno ||
+ bufHdr->tag.blockNum != batch_start + batch.n)
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * It's conceivable that between the time we examine the buffer
+ * header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED above and when we are now
+ * acquiring the lock that someone else wrote the buffer out. In
+ * that improbable case, we will write the buffer though we didn't
+ * need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding against this, though.
+ *
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ BufferLockAcquire(bufnum, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
+ else if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
}
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if ((status = StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL)) !=
+ BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ {
+ Assert(status == BUFFER_IO_ALREADY_DONE);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in DoFlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs
+ * of unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state) & BM_PERMANENT)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+
+ if (lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
+ }
+
+ batch.bufhdrs[batch.n++] = bufHdr;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
+ */
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_BATCH_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ batch.n = 0;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -4012,6 +4189,7 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
*
* (This will check for barrier events even if it doesn't sleep.)
*/
+ Assert(batch.n == 0);
CheckpointWriteDelay(flags, (double) num_processed / num_to_scan);
}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index e0f48c6d2d9..90169c92c26 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffer__batch__sync__written(BlockNumber);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0013-Add-checkpointer-write-combining-test.patch (11.4K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/14-v15-0013-Add-checkpointer-write-combining-test.patch)
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From 994058c61e14b768e83e90337073fa215efba837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:17:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 13/19] Add checkpointer write combining test
---
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 120 ++++++++++++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql | 16 ++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c | 178 ++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 314 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
index d9c66b3cb01..089b7094eda 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -26,9 +26,12 @@ synchronous_commit = off
$node->start();
+$node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CREATE EXTENSION test_aio');
+
my $block_size = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
"SELECT current_setting('block_size')::int");
+test_checkpointer_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_copy_from_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
$node->stop();
@@ -66,6 +69,73 @@ sub assert_combined_writes
ok($avg_write_bytes > $block_size, "$label combined writes");
}
+sub assert_writes
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $backend_type, $context, $expected_writes, $expected_bytes) = @_;
+ my ($writes, $write_bytes, $avg_write_bytes) =
+ io_stat_writes($node, $backend_type, $context);
+
+ note "$label: writes=$writes write_bytes=$write_bytes avg_write_bytes=$avg_write_bytes";
+
+ is($writes, $expected_writes, "$label write count");
+ is($write_bytes, $expected_bytes, "$label write bytes");
+}
+
+sub assert_writes_at_least
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $backend_type, $context, $expected_writes, $expected_bytes) = @_;
+ my ($writes, $write_bytes, $avg_write_bytes) =
+ io_stat_writes($node, $backend_type, $context);
+
+ note "$label: writes=$writes write_bytes=$write_bytes avg_write_bytes=$avg_write_bytes";
+ ok($writes >= $expected_writes,
+ "$label wrote at least $expected_writes times");
+ ok($write_bytes >= $expected_bytes,
+ "$label wrote at least $expected_bytes bytes");
+}
+
+sub assert_blocks_dirty
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $table, $blocks, $expected, $label) = @_;
+
+ is($node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT true = ALL (rel_blocks_are_dirty('$table', ARRAY[$blocks]))"),
+ $expected, $label);
+}
+
+sub assert_any_blocks_dirty
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $table, $blocks, $expected, $label) = @_;
+
+ is($node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT true = ANY (rel_blocks_are_dirty('$table', ARRAY[$blocks]))"),
+ $expected, $label);
+}
+
+sub flush_and_reset_io_stats
+{
+ my ($node, $psql) = @_;
+
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('io')");
+}
+
+sub dirty_blocks
+{
+ my ($psql, $table, $blocks) = @_;
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed('$table', ARRAY[$blocks])");
+}
+
sub test_copy_from_combines_writes
{
my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
@@ -92,3 +162,53 @@ sub test_copy_from_combines_writes
is($node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT count(*) FROM wc_copy"),
$rows, 'copy from inserted rows');
}
+
+sub test_checkpointer_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_checkpointer (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_checkpointer SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_checkpointer'::regclass);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write by checkpointer.
+ ####
+
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before checkpoint');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_combined_writes($node, 'contiguous checkpointer', 'checkpointer',
+ 'normal', $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'checkpointer wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers.
+ ####
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_checkpointer', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_writes_at_least($node, 'nonresident gaps checkpointer', 'checkpointer',
+ 'normal', 3, 3 * $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'checkpointer wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
index 762ac29512f..e1dc6a5ef10 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
@@ -37,10 +37,26 @@ CREATE FUNCTION evict_rel(rel regclass)
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION flush_rel_buffers(rel regclass)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
+CREATE FUNCTION make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
+CREATE FUNCTION rel_blocks_are_dirty(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
+RETURNS pg_catalog.bool[] STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION invalidate_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int)
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION invalidate_rel_blocks(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION buffer_create_toy(rel regclass, blockno int4)
RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
index 35efba1a5e3..c062b9177a4 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include "utils/builtins.h"
#include "utils/injection_point.h"
#include "utils/rel.h"
+#include "utils/resowner.h"
#include "utils/tuplestore.h"
#include "utils/wait_event.h"
@@ -84,6 +85,8 @@ static const ShmemCallbacks inj_io_shmem_callbacks = {
.attach_fn = test_aio_shmem_attach,
};
+static bool clear_usage_count_if_unpinned(BufferDesc *desc);
+
static PgAioHandle *last_handle;
@@ -537,6 +540,32 @@ invalidate_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(invalidate_rel_blocks);
+Datum
+invalidate_rel_blocks(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ ArrayType *blocksarray = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ uint32 *blocks;
+ int nblocks;
+
+ if (ARR_NDIM(blocksarray) != 1 ||
+ ARR_HASNULL(blocksarray) ||
+ ARR_ELEMTYPE(blocksarray) != INT4OID)
+ elog(ERROR, "expected 1 dimensional int4 array");
+
+ blocks = (uint32 *) ARR_DATA_PTR(blocksarray);
+ nblocks = ARR_DIMS(blocksarray)[0];
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessExclusiveLock);
+ for (int i = 0; i < nblocks; i++)
+ invalidate_one_block(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blocks[i]);
+ relation_close(rel, AccessExclusiveLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(evict_rel);
Datum
evict_rel(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
@@ -586,6 +615,155 @@ evict_rel(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+static bool
+clear_usage_count_if_unpinned(BufferDesc *desc)
+{
+ uint64 buf_state;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(desc);
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ uint64 new_buf_state;
+
+ if ((buf_state & BM_VALID) == 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ UnlockBufHdr(desc);
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ new_buf_state = buf_state;
+ new_buf_state &= ~BUF_USAGECOUNT_MASK;
+ new_buf_state &= ~BM_LOCKED;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&desc->state, &buf_state,
+ new_buf_state))
+ return true;
+ }
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(flush_rel_buffers);
+Datum
+flush_rel_buffers(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ Relation rel;
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessExclusiveLock);
+ FlushRelationBuffers(rel);
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed);
+Datum
+make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ ArrayType *blocksarray = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ uint32 *blocks;
+ int nblocks;
+
+ if (ARR_NDIM(blocksarray) != 1 ||
+ ARR_HASNULL(blocksarray) ||
+ ARR_ELEMTYPE(blocksarray) != INT4OID)
+ elog(ERROR, "expected 1 dimensional int4 array");
+
+ blocks = (uint32 *) ARR_DATA_PTR(blocksarray);
+ nblocks = ARR_DIMS(blocksarray)[0];
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessExclusiveLock);
+ if (RelationUsesLocalBuffers(rel))
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ errmsg("this function doesn't prepare local buffers"));
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < nblocks; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buf;
+ BufferDesc *desc;
+
+ CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
+
+ buf = ReadBufferExtended(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blocks[i], RBM_NORMAL, NULL);
+ desc = GetBufferDescriptor(buf - 1);
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE);
+ FlushOneBuffer(buf);
+ MarkBufferDirty(buf);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
+
+ /*
+ * There's no way to explicitly guarantee the usage count stays 0 for
+ * our bgwriter tests. It requires careful coding and setup in the
+ * test to make sure that nothing else is going to look for a free
+ * buffer.
+ */
+ if (!clear_usage_count_if_unpinned(desc))
+ elog(ERROR, "could not clear usage count for block %u",
+ blocks[i]);
+ }
+
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(rel_blocks_are_dirty);
+Datum
+rel_blocks_are_dirty(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ ArrayType *blocksarray = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ uint32 *blocks;
+ int nblocks;
+ Datum *dirty_datums;
+ ArrayType *dirty_array;
+
+ if (ARR_NDIM(blocksarray) != 1 ||
+ ARR_HASNULL(blocksarray) ||
+ ARR_ELEMTYPE(blocksarray) != INT4OID)
+ elog(ERROR, "expected 1 dimensional int4 array");
+
+ blocks = (uint32 *) ARR_DATA_PTR(blocksarray);
+ nblocks = ARR_DIMS(blocksarray)[0];
+ dirty_datums = palloc0(sizeof(Datum) * nblocks);
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessShareLock);
+ for (int i = 0; i < nblocks; i++)
+ {
+ BufferTag tag;
+ uint32 hash;
+ LWLock *partition_lock;
+ int buf_id;
+ bool is_dirty = false;
+
+ InitBufferTag(&tag, &rel->rd_locator, MAIN_FORKNUM, blocks[i]);
+ hash = BufTableHashCode(&tag);
+ partition_lock = BufMappingPartitionLock(hash);
+
+ LWLockAcquire(partition_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ buf_id = BufTableLookup(&tag, hash);
+ LWLockRelease(partition_lock);
+
+ if (buf_id >= 0)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *desc = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ is_dirty = (pg_atomic_read_u64(&desc->state) & BM_DIRTY) != 0;
+ }
+
+ dirty_datums[i] = BoolGetDatum(is_dirty);
+ }
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ dirty_array = construct_array(dirty_datums, nblocks, BOOLOID, 1, true,
+ TYPALIGN_CHAR);
+
+ PG_RETURN_ARRAYTYPE_P(dirty_array);
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(buffer_create_toy);
Datum
buffer_create_toy(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0014-Remove-SyncOneBuffer-and-refactor-BgBufferSync.patch (10.1K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/15-v15-0014-Remove-SyncOneBuffer-and-refactor-BgBufferSync.patch)
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From cc8e3efef44c7ce467fc61c7521d6c35c18a0f3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:58:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v15 14/19] Remove SyncOneBuffer() and refactor BgBufferSync()
Since xxx, only bgwriter used SyncOneBuffer() and it can be easily
inlined, so do so. Simplifying the logic for a single case makes it much
easier to understand.
While we're here replace PinBuffer_Locked() with PinBuffer() since
PinBuffer() can now avoid incrementign the usage count.
---
src/backend/access/transam/README | 4 +-
src/backend/commands/sequence.c | 16 +--
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 149 +++++++++-------------------
src/include/storage/proc.h | 2 +-
4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/README b/src/backend/access/transam/README
index 231106270fd..8ca94e0575b 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/README
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/README
@@ -448,7 +448,9 @@ critical section.)
3. Apply the required changes to the shared buffer(s).
4. Mark the shared buffer(s) as dirty with MarkBufferDirty(). (This must
-happen before the WAL record is inserted; see notes in SyncOneBuffer().)
+happen before the WAL record is inserted; otherwise a checkpoint could
+write the buffer without the change and its WAL record before the redo
+point, making the change unrecoverable.)
Note that marking a buffer dirty with MarkBufferDirty() should only
happen iff you write a WAL record; see Writing Hints below.
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
index 551667650ba..e51afbc67cd 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
@@ -809,13 +809,15 @@ nextval_internal(Oid relid, bool check_permissions)
START_CRIT_SECTION();
/*
- * We must mark the buffer dirty before doing XLogInsert(); see notes in
- * SyncOneBuffer(). However, we don't apply the desired changes just yet.
- * This looks like a violation of the buffer update protocol, but it is in
- * fact safe because we hold exclusive lock on the buffer. Any other
- * process, including a checkpoint, that tries to examine the buffer
- * contents will block until we release the lock, and then will see the
- * final state that we install below.
+ * We must mark the buffer dirty before doing XLogInsert(); otherwise a
+ * checkpoint could write the buffer without the change and its WAL record
+ * before the redo point, making the change unrecoverable. However, we
+ * don't apply the desired changes just yet. This looks like a violation
+ * of the buffer update protocol, but it is in fact safe because we hold
+ * exclusive lock on the buffer. Any other process, including a
+ * checkpoint, that tries to examine the buffer contents will block until
+ * we release the lock, and then will see the final state that we install
+ * below.
*/
MarkBufferDirty(buf);
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 7e9bdc7ef85..6c82e7d4039 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -75,10 +75,6 @@
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
-/* Bits in SyncOneBuffer's return value */
-#define BUF_WRITTEN 0x01
-#define BUF_REUSABLE 0x02
-
#define RELS_BSEARCH_THRESHOLD 20
/*
@@ -663,8 +659,6 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -3814,8 +3808,12 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
uint64 buf_state;
/*
- * Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
- * SyncOneBuffer.
+ * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
*/
buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
@@ -4444,29 +4442,57 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
reusable_buffers = reusable_buffers_est;
/* Execute the LRU scan */
- while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
+ for (; num_to_scan > 0; num_to_scan--, next_to_clean++)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr;
+ BufferTag tag;
- if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
+ if (reusable_buffers >= upcoming_alloc_est)
+ break;
+
+ if (next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
next_to_clean = 0;
next_passes++;
}
- num_to_scan--;
- if (sync_state & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(next_to_clean);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ continue;
+
+ reusable_buffers++;
+
+ /*
+ * Racy check is fine: bgwriter writes are opportunistic. If we miss a
+ * buffer that just became dirty, it will be written by a future
+ * bgwriter pass or by checkpointer.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ continue;
+
+ FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
+ tag = bufHdr->tag;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
+
+ if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
{
- reusable_buffers++;
- if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
- {
- PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
- break;
- }
+ PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
+ break;
}
- else if (sync_state & BUF_REUSABLE)
- reusable_buffers++;
}
PendingBgWriterStats.buf_written_clean += num_written;
@@ -4507,83 +4533,6 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
return (bufs_to_lap == 0 && recent_alloc == 0);
}
-/*
- * SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
- *
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
- *
- * Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
- * BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
- * BUF_REUSABLE: buffer is available for replacement, ie, it has
- * pin count 0 and usage count 0.
- *
- * (BUF_WRITTEN could be set in error if FlushBuffer finds the buffer clean
- * after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
- */
-static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
-{
- BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
- int result = 0;
- uint64 buf_state;
- BufferTag tag;
-
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- /*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
- */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
- {
- result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- /*
- * Pin it, share-exclusive-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do
- * nothing if the buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
- */
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
-
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
-
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
-
- /*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
- */
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
-
- return result | BUF_WRITTEN;
-}
-
/*
* AtEOXact_Buffers - clean up at end of transaction.
*
@@ -6498,7 +6447,7 @@ MarkSharedBufferDirtyHint(Buffer buffer, BufferDesc *bufHdr, uint64 lockstate,
/*
* We must mark the page dirty before we emit the WAL record, as per
- * the usual rules, to ensure that BufferSync()/SyncOneBuffer() try to
+ * the usual rules, to ensure that BufferSync()/BgBufferSync() try to
* flush the buffer, even if we haven't inserted the WAL record yet.
* As we hold at least a share-exclusive lock, checkpoints will wait
* for this backend to be done with the buffer before continuing. If
diff --git a/src/include/storage/proc.h b/src/include/storage/proc.h
index 3e1d1fad5f9..488553fba90 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/proc.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/proc.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int FastPathLockGroupsPerBackend;
* and we acquire an exclusive content lock and MarkBufferDirty() on the
* relevant buffers before writing WAL, this mechanism is not needed, because
* phase 2 will block until we release the content lock and then flush the
- * modified data to disk. See transam/README and SyncOneBuffer().)
+ * modified data to disk. See transam/README.)
*
* Setting DELAY_CHKPT_COMPLETE prevents the system from moving from phase 2
* to phase 3. This is useful if we are performing a WAL-logged operation that
--
2.43.0
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From 8a990476cee50cb336f6be488616c82c4129557e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 12:45:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 15/19] Write combining for client backends
When flushing a dirty buffer, check if the blocks preceding and
following it are in shared buffers and whether or not they are dirty.
If they are, flush them together with the victim buffer.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/0198DBB9-4A76-49E4-87F8-43D46DD0FD76%40gmail.com#1d8677fc75dc8b39f0eb5dd6bbafb65d
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 274 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c | 36 ++++
src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c | 24 +++
src/include/storage/md.h | 3 +
src/include/storage/smgr.h | 3 +
5 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 6c82e7d4039..abe78c39306 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -682,6 +682,9 @@ static uint32 CurrentMaxEagerWriteBatchSize(uint32 max_batch_size);
static uint32 InitForwardEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
BufferWriteBatch *batch);
+static BlockNumber InitCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ BlockNumber *scan_start, BlockNumber *scan_end);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
@@ -693,6 +696,9 @@ static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
static void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
+static void ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
+static Buffer LookupBufferForTag(BufferTag *tag);
static void ExtendStrategyEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
uint32 batch_limit,
BufferWriteBatch *batch,
@@ -2696,6 +2702,49 @@ EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
}
}
+/*
+ * Given a target victim buffer, clean it and look for additional adjacent
+ * blocks that are already in shared buffers and dirty to eagerly flush along
+ * with it in a single write. The victim buffer must be already pinned and
+ * locked and will remain pinned upon return.
+ */
+static void
+EagerCleanBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
+ StartBufferIOResult status;
+
+ /* Start IO on the victim buffer */
+ if ((status = StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL)) !=
+ BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ {
+ Assert(status == BUFFER_IO_ALREADY_DONE);
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush anything if the victim buffer is already clean.
+ * Leave the buffer pinned for the caller.
+ */
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, buf_hdr);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released. See
+ * EagerCleanStrategyBuffer() for more details.
+ */
+ IncrBufferRefCount(bufnum);
+
+ /*
+ * If we are allowed more pins and there are more blocks in the relation
+ * and the victim buffer's block's preceding and/or following blocks are
+ * eligible for eager flushing, combine them into a batch.
+ */
+ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(buf_hdr, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, io_context);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, io_context, wb_context);
+}
+
/*
* Helper to claim a victim buffer -- which is invalidating its existing
* contents (including flushing the old contents first if needed).
@@ -2769,12 +2818,7 @@ ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (strategy && from_ring && StrategySupportsEagerFlush(strategy))
EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(strategy, bufnum, buf_hdr, io_context);
else
- {
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, buf_hdr);
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
- }
+ EagerCleanBuffer(bufnum, buf_hdr, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
/*
@@ -4948,6 +4992,32 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+static Buffer
+LookupBufferForTag(BufferTag *tag)
+{
+ uint32 hash;
+ LWLock *partition_lock;
+ int buf_id;
+
+ hash = BufTableHashCode(tag);
+ partition_lock = BufMappingPartitionLock(hash);
+
+ /*
+ * We can release the partition lock as soon as we've done the lookup. The
+ * buffer may be evicted and reused before we pin it, but
+ * PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer() rechecks the buffer's tag after
+ * pinning it, so it will reject the buffer if that happens.
+ */
+ LWLockAcquire(partition_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ buf_id = BufTableLookup(tag, hash);
+ LWLockRelease(partition_lock);
+
+ if (buf_id < 0)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ return buf_id + 1;
+}
+
/*
* Given a required buffer that is ready to flush, initialize the batch
* structure and place it at the beginning of the new batch. Returns the
@@ -4983,6 +5053,198 @@ InitForwardEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
return limit;
}
+/*
+ * Given a required bufhdr, set up a batch that will include it and may
+ * include blocks from its same segment, preceding and/or following. Returns
+ * the current maximum number of blocks that can be in this batch given the
+ * location of the block in the file, the current available pins, and various
+ * configuration GUCs.
+ */
+static BlockNumber
+InitCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch,
+ BlockNumber *scan_start, BlockNumber *scan_end)
+{
+ BlockNumber batch_limit;
+ BlockNumber required_block;
+ BlockNumber bound_start,
+ bound_end;
+
+ Assert(required_bufhdr);
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&required_bufhdr->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&required_bufhdr->tag),
+ INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr)));
+ batch->max_lsn =
+ pg_atomic_read_u64(&required_bufhdr->state) & BM_PERMANENT ?
+ BufferGetLSN(required_bufhdr) : InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
+ batch->n = 0;
+
+ batch_limit = CurrentMaxEagerWriteBatchSize(MaxWriteBatchSize(NULL));
+
+ /* If we can only write out the required buffer, do that */
+ if (batch_limit <= 1)
+ {
+ batch->bufhdrs[0] = required_bufhdr;
+ batch->n = 1;
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ required_block = required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(required_block));
+
+ /*
+ * This shouldn't fail but because we are eagerly constructing a batch,
+ * let's not make it a source of runtime failures and instead cope. If we
+ * fail later, that should hopefully be a more useful error.
+ */
+ if (!smgrblockbounds(batch->reln, batch->forkno, required_block,
+ &bound_start, &bound_end))
+ {
+ batch->bufhdrs[0] = required_bufhdr;
+ batch->n = 1;
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ Assert(bound_start <= required_block);
+ Assert(required_block <= bound_end);
+
+ /* Limit the scan to batch_limit in either direction */
+ *scan_start = required_block - Min(required_block - bound_start,
+ batch_limit - 1);
+ *scan_end = required_block + Min(bound_end - required_block,
+ batch_limit - 1);
+
+ return batch_limit;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Construct a contiguous, fully prepared batch containing required_bufhdr.
+ * This looks both forward and backwards for contiguous blocks that are dirty
+ * and in shared buffers.
+ */
+static void
+ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch)
+{
+ BufferDesc *left_bufhdrs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ uint32 left_count = 0;
+ BlockNumber scan_start,
+ scan_end;
+ BufferTag require;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ uint32 batch_limit;
+ BlockNumber blkno = required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+
+ Assert(required_bufhdr);
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr)));
+
+ batch_limit = InitCenteredEagerWriteBatch(required_bufhdr,
+ batch,
+ &scan_start, &scan_end);
+ if (batch_limit <= 1)
+ return;
+
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno,
+ InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ /*
+ * Loop backwards from our required block, looking for up to batch_limit
+ * contiguous blocks, but stop once we hit the start of the current
+ * file/segment.
+ */
+ while (blkno > scan_start && left_count < batch_limit - 1)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+
+ /*
+ * We must be sure not to process the required buffer here, as we've
+ * already confirmed it is dirty and needs to be written out and
+ * pinned and locked it.
+ */
+ require.blockNum = --blkno;
+
+ /*
+ * blkno is guaranteed to be valid because we checked scan_start
+ * before decrementing it.
+ */
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blkno));
+ bufnum = LookupBufferForTag(&require);
+ bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum, &require,
+ &lsn);
+ if (bufhdr == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ left_bufhdrs[left_count++] = bufhdr;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Copy those left side buffer descriptors we found into the final result
+ * batch.
+ */
+ while (left_count > 0)
+ {
+ batch->bufhdrs[batch->n++] = left_bufhdrs[left_count - 1];
+ left_count--;
+ }
+
+ /* Now we know where our required buffer will be in the batch */
+ batch->bufhdrs[batch->n++] = required_bufhdr;
+
+ /*
+ * Loop forward from our required block and put any contiguous blocks we
+ * find, up to batch_limit, in our bufhdrs array. Stop if we hit the end
+ * of the segment.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber right_blkno = required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+ right_blkno < scan_end && batch->n < batch_limit;)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+
+ /*
+ * We must be sure not to process the required buffer here, as we've
+ * already confirmed it is dirty and needs to be written out and
+ * pinned and locked it.
+ */
+ require.blockNum = ++right_blkno;
+
+ /*
+ * right_blkno is guaranteed to be valid because we checked scan_end
+ * before incrementing it.
+ */
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(right_blkno));
+ bufnum = LookupBufferForTag(&require);
+ bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum, &require,
+ &lsn);
+ if (bufhdr == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch->bufhdrs[batch->n++] = bufhdr;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Batch validations, including that we actually added the required buffer
+ * to the batch and it is at the expected location in the array.
+ */
+ Assert(batch->n > 0);
+ Assert(batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum <= required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum);
+ Assert(required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum <
+ batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum + batch->n);
+ Assert(batch->bufhdrs[required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum -
+ batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum] == required_bufhdr);
+}
+
/*
* Prepare bufnum for eager flushing.
*
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c b/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
index dee29037b16..3256e2a9891 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
@@ -852,6 +852,42 @@ mdmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
return RELSEG_SIZE - segoff;
}
+/*
+ * Return the start and end block numbers of the segment containing blocknum,
+ * clamped to the current relation fork size.
+ */
+bool
+mdblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end)
+{
+ BlockNumber nblocks;
+ BlockNumber max_block;
+ BlockNumber segstart;
+ BlockNumber segend;
+
+ nblocks = mdnblocks(reln, forknum);
+ if (nblocks == 0 || blocknum >= nblocks)
+ return false;
+
+ max_block = nblocks - 1;
+ segstart = (blocknum / ((BlockNumber) RELSEG_SIZE)) *
+ ((BlockNumber) RELSEG_SIZE);
+ segend = segstart + ((BlockNumber) RELSEG_SIZE - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * segend is how big the relation fork could be, but if it is the last
+ * segment of the relation, it may not be full. Be sure segend does not
+ * exceed the size of the relation.
+ */
+ if (segend > max_block)
+ segend = max_block;
+
+ *start = segstart;
+ *end = segend;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
/*
* mdreadv() -- Read the specified blocks from a relation.
*/
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c b/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
index 5391640d861..e5d29e7c168 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ typedef struct f_smgr
BlockNumber blocknum, int nblocks);
uint32 (*smgr_maxcombine) (SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum);
+ bool (*smgr_blockbounds) (SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
+ BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end);
void (*smgr_readv) (SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum,
void **buffers, BlockNumber nblocks);
@@ -139,6 +142,7 @@ static const f_smgr smgrsw[] = {
.smgr_zeroextend = mdzeroextend,
.smgr_prefetch = mdprefetch,
.smgr_maxcombine = mdmaxcombine,
+ .smgr_blockbounds = mdblockbounds,
.smgr_readv = mdreadv,
.smgr_startreadv = mdstartreadv,
.smgr_writev = mdwritev,
@@ -706,6 +710,26 @@ smgrmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Return the start and end block numbers of the storage manager's combinable
+ * range containing blocknum.
+ *
+ * Returns false if blocknum is not within the current relation fork size.
+ */
+bool
+smgrblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end)
+{
+ bool ret;
+
+ HOLD_INTERRUPTS();
+ ret = smgrsw[reln->smgr_which].smgr_blockbounds(reln, forknum, blocknum,
+ start, end);
+ RESUME_INTERRUPTS();
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
/*
* smgrreadv() -- read a particular block range from a relation into the
* supplied buffers.
diff --git a/src/include/storage/md.h b/src/include/storage/md.h
index b8d10329eb8..8bbf5f0b94a 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/md.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/md.h
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ extern bool mdprefetch(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum, int nblocks);
extern uint32 mdmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum);
+extern bool mdblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
+ BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end);
extern void mdreadv(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum,
void **buffers, BlockNumber nblocks);
extern void mdstartreadv(PgAioHandle *ioh,
diff --git a/src/include/storage/smgr.h b/src/include/storage/smgr.h
index 09bd42fcf4b..79a7f2c53c7 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/smgr.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/smgr.h
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ extern bool smgrprefetch(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum, int nblocks);
extern uint32 smgrmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum);
+extern bool smgrblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
+ BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end);
extern void smgrreadv(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum,
void **buffers, BlockNumber nblocks);
--
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From 17a6c723757b22ef5314045184fb78a2af324793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:19:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 16/19] Add client backend write combining test
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 2 +-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 3 +
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 166 ++++++++++++++++++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql | 4 +
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c | 25 +++
5 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index abe78c39306..09205bda26f 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2708,7 +2708,7 @@ EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
* with it in a single write. The victim buffer must be already pinned and
* locked and will remain pinned upon return.
*/
-static void
+void
EagerCleanBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 70b22419ad4..d107c1c0215 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ extern StartBufferIOResult StartSharedBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, b
extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag_bits,
bool forget_owner, bool release_aio);
+extern void EagerCleanBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
+
/* freelist.c */
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
index 089b7094eda..c51d14691e7 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ my $block_size = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
"SELECT current_setting('block_size')::int");
test_checkpointer_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_regular_backend_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_eager_clean_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_copy_from_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
$node->stop();
@@ -56,6 +58,20 @@ WHERE backend_type = '$backend_type'
return split /\|/, $result;
}
+sub io_stat_evictions
+{
+ my ($node, $backend_type, $context) = @_;
+
+ return $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+SELECT COALESCE(sum(evictions), 0)::bigint
+FROM pg_stat_io
+WHERE backend_type = '$backend_type'
+ AND object = 'relation'
+ AND context = '$context';
+));
+}
+
sub assert_combined_writes
{
local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
@@ -98,6 +114,18 @@ sub assert_writes_at_least
"$label wrote at least $expected_bytes bytes");
}
+sub assert_evictions_at_least
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $expected_evictions) = @_;
+ my $evictions = io_stat_evictions($node, 'client backend', 'normal');
+
+ note "$label: evictions=$evictions";
+ ok($evictions >= $expected_evictions,
+ "$label evicted at least $expected_evictions buffers");
+}
+
sub assert_blocks_dirty
{
local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
@@ -136,6 +164,33 @@ sub dirty_blocks
"SELECT make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed('$table', ARRAY[$blocks])");
}
+sub allocate_until_blocks_clean
+{
+ my ($node, $psql, $table, $blocks, $filler, $label) = @_;
+ my $shared_buffers_blocks = $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres',
+ "SELECT pg_size_bytes(current_setting('shared_buffers')) / current_setting('block_size')::int"
+ );
+ my $extend_by = 1024;
+ my $allocated = 0;
+ my $max_allocations = 3 * $shared_buffers_blocks;
+
+ while ($node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT true = ANY (rel_blocks_are_dirty('$table', ARRAY[$blocks]))") eq 't')
+ {
+ if ($allocated >= $max_allocations)
+ {
+ die "$label: blocks $blocks still dirty after $allocated buffer allocations";
+ }
+
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT grow_rel('$filler'::regclass, $extend_by)");
+ $allocated += $extend_by;
+ }
+
+ note "$label: allocated $allocated buffers to reach regular backend victims";
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+}
+
sub test_copy_from_combines_writes
{
my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
@@ -212,3 +267,114 @@ sub test_checkpointer_combines_writes
$psql->quit();
}
+
+# A higher level test that might be too expensive to commit
+sub test_regular_backend_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ # Keep unrelated dirty buffers out of the client-backend write statistics.
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_backend (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_backend SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_backend'::regclass);
+ CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE wc_backend_filler (id int);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write from regular backend buffer allocation.
+ ####
+
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before regular backend allocation');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ allocate_until_blocks_clean($node, $psql, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5',
+ 'wc_backend_filler', 'contiguous regular backend');
+
+ assert_writes($node, 'contiguous regular backend', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 1, 6 * $block_size);
+ assert_evictions_at_least($node, 'contiguous regular backend', 6);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'regular backend wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers.
+ ####
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_backend', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_backend', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ allocate_until_blocks_clean($node, $psql, 'wc_backend', '0,2,4',
+ 'wc_backend_filler', 'nonresident gaps regular backend');
+ assert_writes($node, 'nonresident gaps regular backend', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 3,
+ 3 * $block_size);
+ assert_evictions_at_least($node, 'nonresident gaps regular backend', 3);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_backend', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'regular backend wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
+
+sub test_eager_clean_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_victim (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_victim SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_victim'::regclass);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write when EagerCleanBuffer() is called directly.
+ ####
+
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_victim', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_victim', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before direct eager clean');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 0)");
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_writes($node, 'contiguous direct eager clean', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 1, 6 * $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_victim', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'direct eager clean wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers.
+ ####
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_victim', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_victim', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 0)");
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 2)");
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 4)");
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+ assert_writes($node, 'nonresident gaps direct eager clean', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 3,
+ 3 * $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_victim', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'direct eager clean wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
index e1dc6a5ef10..d7d5006b3d5 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ CREATE FUNCTION make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION eager_clean_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION rel_blocks_are_dirty(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.bool[] STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
index c062b9177a4..b54764dcb46 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
@@ -709,6 +709,31 @@ make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(eager_clean_rel_block);
+Datum
+eager_clean_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ BlockNumber blkno = PG_GETARG_UINT32(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ Buffer buf;
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessShareLock);
+ if (RelationUsesLocalBuffers(rel))
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ (errmsg("cannot eager clean local buffers")));
+
+ buf = ReadBufferExtended(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blkno, RBM_NORMAL, NULL);
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
+ EagerCleanBuffer(buf, GetBufferDescriptor(buf - 1), IOCONTEXT_NORMAL,
+ &BackendWritebackContext);
+ ReleaseBuffer(buf);
+
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(rel_blocks_are_dirty);
Datum
rel_blocks_are_dirty(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0017-Add-bgwriter-helper.patch (6.2K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/18-v15-0017-Add-bgwriter-helper.patch)
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From 3b909c1a5b0c1d4f883a25934d3995a6bcdc177e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:08:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 17/19] Add bgwriter helper
BgBufferSync() is long and complex. Put the logic that actually cleans
the number of buffers it has decided to clean in its own helper. This is
useful for code clarity, but it also allows us to test the bgwriter
write combining logic. It's very difficult to directly test any bgwriter
functionality reliably.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 150 ++++++++++++++++++----------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
2 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 09205bda26f..99c738aa2b1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -4254,6 +4254,97 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_DONE(NBuffers, num_written, num_to_scan);
}
+/*
+ * Clean dirty reusable buffers.
+ *
+ * This is the bgwriter's LRU cleaning scan. It works forward from
+ * next_to_clean and stops after scanning num_to_scan buffers, finding enough
+ * reusable buffers, or hitting lru_maxpages. BgBufferSync() is long and
+ * complicated, so this helps simplify it. It also allows us to directly test
+ * background writer write combining logic.
+ */
+int
+BgBufferSyncCleanBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ int *next_to_clean, uint32 *next_passes,
+ int *num_to_scan, int *reusable_buffers,
+ int upcoming_alloc_est, bool *maxwritten_clean)
+{
+ int num_written = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Work on local copies of the in/out parameters to avoid repeated
+ * dereferencing in the loop.
+ */
+ int to_scan = *num_to_scan;
+ int clean_idx = *next_to_clean;
+ uint32 passes = *next_passes;
+ int reusable = *reusable_buffers;
+
+ *maxwritten_clean = false;
+
+ /* Execute the LRU scan */
+ for (; to_scan > 0; to_scan--, clean_idx++)
+ {
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr;
+ BufferTag tag;
+
+ if (reusable >= upcoming_alloc_est)
+ break;
+
+ if (clean_idx >= NBuffers)
+ {
+ clean_idx = 0;
+ passes++;
+ }
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(clean_idx);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ continue;
+
+ reusable++;
+
+ /*
+ * Racy check is fine: bgwriter writes are opportunistic. If we miss a
+ * buffer that just became dirty, it will be written by a future
+ * bgwriter pass or by checkpointer.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ continue;
+
+ FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
+ tag = bufHdr->tag;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
+
+ if (++num_written >= lru_maxpages)
+ {
+ *maxwritten_clean = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Write back the updated scan state for the caller */
+ *num_to_scan = to_scan;
+ *next_to_clean = clean_idx;
+ *next_passes = passes;
+ *reusable_buffers = reusable;
+
+ return num_written;
+}
+
/*
* BgBufferSync -- Write out some dirty buffers in the pool.
*
@@ -4304,6 +4395,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
int num_to_scan;
int num_written;
int reusable_buffers;
+ bool maxwritten_clean;
/* Variables for final smoothed_density update */
long new_strategy_delta;
@@ -4485,59 +4577,13 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
num_written = 0;
reusable_buffers = reusable_buffers_est;
- /* Execute the LRU scan */
- for (; num_to_scan > 0; num_to_scan--, next_to_clean++)
- {
- uint64 buf_state;
- BufferDesc *bufHdr;
- BufferTag tag;
-
- if (reusable_buffers >= upcoming_alloc_est)
- break;
-
- if (next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
- {
- next_to_clean = 0;
- next_passes++;
- }
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(next_to_clean);
- buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
- continue;
-
- reusable_buffers++;
-
- /*
- * Racy check is fine: bgwriter writes are opportunistic. If we miss a
- * buffer that just became dirty, it will be written by a future
- * bgwriter pass or by checkpointer.
- */
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- continue;
-
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
- continue;
+ num_written = BgBufferSyncCleanBuffers(bgwriter_lru_maxpages, wb_context,
+ &next_to_clean, &next_passes,
+ &num_to_scan, &reusable_buffers,
+ upcoming_alloc_est, &maxwritten_clean);
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
-
- /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
-
- if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
- {
- PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
- break;
- }
- }
+ if (maxwritten_clean)
+ PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
PendingBgWriterStats.buf_written_clean += num_written;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index d107c1c0215..bb752ba4a55 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -589,6 +589,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag
extern void EagerCleanBuffer(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
+extern int BgBufferSyncCleanBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ int *next_to_clean, uint32 *next_passes,
+ int *num_to_scan, int *reusable_buffers,
+ int upcoming_alloc_est, bool *maxwritten_clean);
/* freelist.c */
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0018-Write-combining-for-background-writer.patch (10.2K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/19-v15-0018-Write-combining-for-background-writer.patch)
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From f9de90a0f67594065f788c0f9230c13e510694b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 13:06:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 18/19] Write combining for background writer
Using the same logic used by normal client backends, when the bgwriter
is going to write out a dirty buffer, look for preceding and following
contiguous blocks also dirty and in shared buffers and write those out.
In situations where the working set doesn't fit in shared memory and
IOPs are constrained this can substantially improve performance and
throughput.
This commit removes ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback() since all callers
use the batch variant instead now.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 123 +++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 99c738aa2b1..595eda57db9 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -692,12 +692,11 @@ static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
- XLogRecPtr *lsn);
-static void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
- IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn,
+ bool *usage_count_zero);
static void FlushBufferBatch(BufferWriteBatch *batch, IOContext io_context);
-static void ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
- BufferWriteBatch *batch);
+static uint32 ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ BufferWriteBatch *batch);
static Buffer LookupBufferForTag(BufferTag *tag);
static void ExtendStrategyEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer sweep_end,
uint32 batch_limit,
@@ -2644,6 +2643,7 @@ EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
*/
for (;;)
{
+ bool usage_count_zero; /* unused */
XLogRecPtr next_buf_lsn; /* unused */
if (next_bufhdr)
@@ -2698,7 +2698,8 @@ EagerCleanStrategyBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum,
*/
next_bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(next_bufnum,
NULL,
- &next_buf_lsn);
+ &next_buf_lsn,
+ &usage_count_zero);
}
}
@@ -4286,8 +4287,10 @@ BgBufferSyncCleanBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
for (; to_scan > 0; to_scan--, clean_idx++)
{
uint64 buf_state;
+ StartBufferIOResult status;
BufferDesc *bufHdr;
- BufferTag tag;
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferWriteBatch batch;
if (reusable >= upcoming_alloc_est)
break;
@@ -4318,18 +4321,32 @@ BgBufferSyncCleanBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ /*
+ * Any other buffers found and added to the same batch will be pinned
+ * when they are identified. We know we want to flush this buffer,
+ * however, so we'll pin and lock it now. Pins and locks are released
+ * when completing the writes on all buffers in the batch.
+ */
if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
continue;
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+ BufferLockAcquire(bufnum, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
- /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ if ((status = StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL)) !=
+ BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ {
+ Assert(status == BUFFER_IO_ALREADY_DONE);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ continue;
+ }
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
+ reusable += ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(bufHdr, &batch);
+ FlushBufferBatch(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ CompleteWriteBatchIO(&batch, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, wb_context);
+ num_written += batch.n;
- if (++num_written >= lru_maxpages)
+ if (num_written >= lru_maxpages)
{
*maxwritten_clean = true;
break;
@@ -5170,8 +5187,11 @@ InitCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
* Construct a contiguous, fully prepared batch containing required_bufhdr.
* This looks both forward and backwards for contiguous blocks that are dirty
* and in shared buffers.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of buffers in the batch of adjacents that have zero
+ * usage counts. These will be reusable once their contents have been flushed.
*/
-static void
+static uint32
ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
BufferWriteBatch *batch)
{
@@ -5182,6 +5202,7 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
BufferTag require;
XLogRecPtr lsn;
uint32 batch_limit;
+ uint32 zero_usage_count_buffers = 0;
BlockNumber blkno = required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
Assert(required_bufhdr);
@@ -5191,7 +5212,7 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
batch,
&scan_start, &scan_end);
if (batch_limit <= 1)
- return;
+ return zero_usage_count_buffers;
InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
batch->forkno,
@@ -5206,6 +5227,7 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
{
Buffer bufnum;
BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+ bool usage_count_zero;
/*
* We must be sure not to process the required buffer here, as we've
@@ -5221,10 +5243,14 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blkno));
bufnum = LookupBufferForTag(&require);
bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum, &require,
- &lsn);
+ &lsn,
+ &usage_count_zero);
if (bufhdr == NULL)
break;
+ if (usage_count_zero)
+ zero_usage_count_buffers++;
+
if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
batch->max_lsn = lsn;
@@ -5254,6 +5280,7 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
{
Buffer bufnum;
BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+ bool usage_count_zero;
/*
* We must be sure not to process the required buffer here, as we've
@@ -5269,13 +5296,17 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(right_blkno));
bufnum = LookupBufferForTag(&require);
bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum, &require,
- &lsn);
+ &lsn,
+ &usage_count_zero);
if (bufhdr == NULL)
break;
if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+ if (usage_count_zero)
+ zero_usage_count_buffers++;
+
batch->bufhdrs[batch->n++] = bufhdr;
}
@@ -5289,6 +5320,8 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum + batch->n);
Assert(batch->bufhdrs[required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum -
batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum] == required_bufhdr);
+
+ return zero_usage_count_buffers;
}
/*
@@ -5304,16 +5337,23 @@ ConstructCenteredEagerWriteBatch(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
* RelFileLocator and fork.
*
* If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
+ *
+ * usage_count_zero is set to true if the buffer that is selected has a zero
+ * usage count. It is set to false if either the buffer is rejected or it has
+ * a non-zero usage count. It is only a hint, as we would need to hold the
+ * buffer header lock for the whole time to avoid it changing.
*/
static BufferDesc *
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
BufferTag *require,
- XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn,
+ bool *usage_count_zero)
{
BufferDesc *bufhdr;
uint64 buf_state;
*lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ *usage_count_zero = false;
if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
goto reject_buffer;
@@ -5391,6 +5431,8 @@ PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
goto reject_buffer_unlock;
*lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufhdr);
+ *usage_count_zero =
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufhdr->state)) == 0;
return bufhdr;
@@ -5435,6 +5477,7 @@ ExtendStrategyEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
{
BlockNumber batch_start = batch->bufhdrs[0]->tag.blockNum;
BufferTag require;
+ bool usage_count_zero;
Assert(batch_limit > 1);
@@ -5480,7 +5523,8 @@ ExtendStrategyEagerWriteBatch(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
require.blockNum = batch_start + batch->n;
- bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum, &require, &lsn);
+ bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(bufnum, &require, &lsn,
+ &usage_count_zero);
/*
* Stop when we encounter a buffer that will break the run. Do not
@@ -8728,45 +8772,6 @@ WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending)
context->nr_pending = 0;
}
-/*
- * Add buffer to list of pending writeback requests.
- */
-static void
-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context,
- BufferTag *tag)
-{
- PendingWriteback *pending;
-
- /*
- * As pg_flush_data() doesn't do anything with fsync disabled, there's no
- * point in tracking in that case.
- */
- if (io_direct_flags & IO_DIRECT_DATA ||
- !enableFsync)
- return;
-
- /*
- * Add buffer to the pending writeback array, unless writeback control is
- * disabled.
- */
- if (*wb_context->max_pending > 0)
- {
- Assert(*wb_context->max_pending <= WRITEBACK_MAX_PENDING_FLUSHES);
-
- pending = &wb_context->pending_writebacks[wb_context->nr_pending++];
-
- pending->tag = *tag;
- }
-
- /*
- * Perform pending flushes if the writeback limit is exceeded. This
- * includes the case where previously an item has been added, but control
- * is now disabled.
- */
- if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
- IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
-}
-
/*
* Add all the blocks from a write batch that was recently issued to a list of
* pending writeback requests. Don't call while holding buffer locks. tag
@@ -8829,7 +8834,7 @@ ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
/*
* Issue all pending writeback requests, previously scheduled with
- * ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback, to the OS.
+ * ScheduleBufferTagBatchForWriteback, to the OS.
*
* Because this is only used to improve the OSs IO scheduling we try to never
* error out - it's just a hint.
--
2.43.0
[text/x-patch] v15-0019-Add-bgwriter-write-combining-test.patch (8.0K, ../../CAAKRu_ZoKTpnmQ3MmmQXTpG7msHrP3jNWC68sf8R82-8cgb7Kw@mail.gmail.com/20-v15-0019-Add-bgwriter-write-combining-test.patch)
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From bb1944d194dccf01b2ab4a28fe0c73aaf1782797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:20:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v15 19/19] Add bgwriter write combining test
---
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 100 ++++++++++++++++++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql | 12 +++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c | 54 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 166 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
index c51d14691e7..3c9b72925fc 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ my $block_size = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
test_checkpointer_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_regular_backend_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_eager_clean_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_bgwriter_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_copy_from_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
$node->stop();
@@ -164,6 +165,14 @@ sub dirty_blocks
"SELECT make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed('$table', ARRAY[$blocks])");
}
+sub run_bgwriter_cleaner
+{
+ my $psql = shift;
+
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT run_bgwriter_cleaner(1000)');
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+}
+
sub allocate_until_blocks_clean
{
my ($node, $psql, $table, $blocks, $filler, $label) = @_;
@@ -378,3 +387,94 @@ sub test_eager_clean_combines_writes
$psql->quit();
}
+
+sub test_bgwriter_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ # Keep unrelated dirty buffers out of the client-backend write statistics.
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+
+ # We create a relation and then flush all of its data. We can then mark
+ # buffers dirty for bgwriter without requiring WAL flush and thus preventing
+ # opportunistic write combining.
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_bgwriter (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_bgwriter SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_bgwriter'::regclass);
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write
+ ####
+
+ # Mark blocks 0-5 dirty
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before bgwriter cleaner');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ run_bgwriter_cleaner($psql);
+ # Should have written one big write
+ assert_writes($node, 'contiguous bgwriter cleaner', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 1, 6 * $block_size);
+ # None of those blocks should still be dirty
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers
+ ####
+
+ # Evict every other block and mark the other blocks dirty
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_bgwriter', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ run_bgwriter_cleaner($psql);
+ # The three blocks that were dirty should have been written out in three
+ # writes.
+ assert_writes($node, 'nonresident gaps bgwriter cleaner', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 3,
+ 3 * $block_size);
+ # And none of them should be dirty anymore
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ ####
+ # Test two combined writes split around a pinned buffer
+ ####
+
+ # Make sure first six blocks are all read in and marked dirty
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ # Do this in a transaction so that we can hold the buffer pin across
+ # multiple SQL statements by transferring ownership to the top transaction
+ # resource owner.
+ $psql->query_safe("BEGIN");
+ # Pin a block in the middle of the blocks
+ my $pinned_buf = $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT pin_rel_block('wc_bgwriter', 3)");
+
+ run_bgwriter_cleaner($psql);
+ # All the blocks should be in clean buffers except block 3 which was pinned
+ # and should still be marked dirty.
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,4,5', 'f',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner wrote buffers around pinned gap');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '3', 't',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner skipped pinned buffer');
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT release_buffer($pinned_buf)");
+ $psql->query_safe("COMMIT");
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+ # Should have written out blocks 0,1,2 in one write and blocks 4 and 5 in
+ # another, totaling two writes.
+ assert_writes($node, 'pinned gap bgwriter cleaner', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 2, 5 * $block_size);
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
index d7d5006b3d5..6454328cd19 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ CREATE FUNCTION make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION run_bgwriter_cleaner(lru_maxpages int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION eager_clean_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int4)
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
@@ -61,6 +65,14 @@ CREATE FUNCTION invalidate_rel_blocks(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION pin_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
+CREATE FUNCTION release_buffer(buffer int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION buffer_create_toy(rel regclass, blockno int4)
RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
index b54764dcb46..67686a98eaf 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
@@ -709,6 +709,29 @@ make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(run_bgwriter_cleaner);
+Datum
+run_bgwriter_cleaner(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ int lru_maxpages = PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+ WritebackContext wb_context;
+ int next_to_clean = 0;
+ uint32 next_passes = 0;
+ int num_to_scan = NBuffers;
+ int reusable_buffers = 0;
+ bool maxwritten_clean;
+ int num_written;
+
+ WritebackContextInit(&wb_context, &bgwriter_flush_after);
+ num_written = BgBufferSyncCleanBuffers(lru_maxpages, &wb_context,
+ &next_to_clean, &next_passes,
+ &num_to_scan, &reusable_buffers,
+ NBuffers, &maxwritten_clean);
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(&wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ PG_RETURN_INT32(num_written);
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(eager_clean_rel_block);
Datum
eager_clean_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
@@ -789,6 +812,37 @@ rel_blocks_are_dirty(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_ARRAYTYPE_P(dirty_array);
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(pin_rel_block);
+Datum
+pin_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ BlockNumber blkno = PG_GETARG_UINT32(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ Buffer buf;
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessShareLock);
+ buf = ReadBufferExtended(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blkno, RBM_NORMAL, NULL);
+ ResourceOwnerForgetBuffer(CurrentResourceOwner, buf);
+ ResourceOwnerRememberBuffer(TopTransactionResourceOwner, buf);
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_INT32(buf);
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(release_buffer);
+Datum
+release_buffer(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Buffer buf = PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+
+ ResourceOwnerForgetBuffer(TopTransactionResourceOwner, buf);
+ ResourceOwnerRememberBuffer(CurrentResourceOwner, buf);
+ ReleaseBuffer(buf);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(buffer_create_toy);
Datum
buffer_create_toy(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
--
2.43.0
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-07-19 08:05 Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 2 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Andrey Borodin @ 2026-07-19 08:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> On 20 Jun 2026, at 03:13, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Attached is v15
Hi Melanie,
I started reviewing the write-combining series and want to send feedback in
groups. This first group covers the preparatory/refactor patches that come
before any actual write combining: the ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback
cleanup, the pg_stat_io fix, the StrategyRejectBuffer/PinBuffer tweaks, and
the two victim-buffer-selection refactors.
Per-patch
=========
* "Make ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback static"
LGTM as a preparatory cleanup. Note that a later patch in the series
("Write combining for background writer") removes the function entirely.
So this intermediate static-ification is churn that goes away.
* "pg_stat_io: Count buffer eviction after invalidation"
This is a bug fix. Is it too insignificant for backpatching?
* "Make StrategyRejectBuffer encapsulate more logic"
I agree that there's no need to check from_ring in StrategyRejectBuffer().
Assert(strategy) documents it well.
Non-rejection of not-BM_PERMANENT and not needing WAL flush is a bit mind
melting due to lots of negations.
But it seems correct new heuristic. Maybe it is already in effect somewhere
else in the code, IDK.
Moving BufHdrGetBlock()/BufferGetLSN() into buf_internals.h is reasonable.
"shared buffers only" macro is now visible to more code, so it's a bit easier
to misuse on a local buffer. Not something worth bothering, just maybe Assert
somewhere... But it's fine as is.
* "Simplify victim buffer selection"
This is the big one and I think the direction is right: ClaimVictimBuffer()
loop is much easier to follow than the old goto-again control flow.
The commit message is commendably explicit about the three behavior
changes. It seems to me they're all improvements, and not adding a shared
buffer to the ring until it's fully claimed is clearly better.
These changes only matter under contention, so an experiment would be good.
I imagine something like: run several concurrent COPY FROMs (a contended
BAS_BULKWRITE workload) and compare pg_stat_io in the "bulkwrite" context
before and after the patch. The number to watch is reuses vs evictions.
If evictions go up noticeably, the strategy is giving up on its ring and
evicting from shared buffers more than before, which would work against the
ring's whole point of not polluting the buffer pool. If the ratio stays
about the same, the behavior change is harmless. I'll try to allocate time
to do this check myself, if you think such experiment is of an interest.
On your XXX ("should we keep looking in the ring when a buffer can't be
reused due to usage/pin count, instead of going to shared buffers?"): my
vote is to keep the simpler "go to the clocksweep" behavior. Re-scanning
the ring for a hot/pinned slot risks spinning on the same busy buffers,
and replacing the slot from the clocksweep is what master effectively does
today anyway.
One modular note: ClaimVictimBuffer() now performs I/O (FlushBuffer and
potentially XLogFlush) but is called from the freelist.c selection
helpers, and it's declared "For use in freelist.c but defined in bufmgr.c".
That blurs the old freelist.c (pure selection) / bufmgr.c (I/O) boundary a
bit. I'm not sure such convention exists, but anyway.
This patch folds buffer claiming into the existing StrategyGetBuffer() (so
it now both selects and claims a victim), and the very next patch then
splits StrategyGetBuffer() into GetBufferFromRing()/GetBufferFromClocksweep().
So this intermediate shape doesn't survive.
* "Refactor victim buffer selection and add helpers"
I like API with which this patch ends. GetBufferFromRing()/
GetBufferFromClocksweep() are much clearer than the old StrategyGetBuffer(),
and dropping the redundant "strategy &&" in front of from_ring seems correct.
The duplicated buf_valid + EVICT/REUSE counting between the
two helpers is the small price you declare in the message. I think that's
acceptable, though a tiny static helper for "count and return" could remove.
* "Allow PinBuffer to skip increasing usage count"
LGTM. Made me look at where usage_count actually climbs. Always +1,
capped at BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT (5). nbtree re-pins internal pages (a splitting
insert re-pins the parent). Expected enough, the cap is just small, so those
pages sit at max.
The BufferUsageCountChange enum is more readable than the old
strategy==NULL overloading. BUC_ZERO is unused here (introduced for later
patches), which is fine to mention in the message. Two tiny nits: BUC_ONE
vs BUC_MAX_ONE are easy to mix up at a glance, and the
"strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE" mapping is now repeated at three call
sites. A one-line helper or a comment on the enum would help.
I didn't find any correctness problems in this group. The buf_valid
staleness handling and the conditional-lock/reject/invalidate ordering
all look correct to me.
Design-level questions (looking ahead at patches not reviewed yet)
==================================================================
* eager_clean_max_batch_size vs io_combine_limit. I realize the batch-size
sizing has been discussed at length already, and I couldn't tell what was
finally settled, so treat this as a DBA-side note. In the code, eager
cleaning is already bounded by io_combine_limit (MaxWriteBatchSize), and
eager_clean_max_batch_size is an additional cap on top of that
(CurrentMaxEagerWriteBatchSize). That only becomes clear after reading
bufmgr.c. From the docs and postgresql.conf alone it does not: io_combine_limit
reads fine, but eager_clean_max_batch_size gives no hint of which "cleaning"
it means, or why it needs a separate knob next to io_combine_limit. If it
survives (the commit notes "XXX: remove development-only GUCs"), the
docs should spell out how it relates to io_combine_limit.
* Batch construction geometry. The strategy path only looks forward from the
target buffer, while the client-backend/bgwriter path looks both ways
around the target block. Isn't forward-only case leaving easy combining
on the table?
I'll follow up with the bulkwrite and checkpointer patches next.
Best regards, Andrey Borodin.
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-07-20 22:21 Haibo Yan <tristan.yim@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
1 sibling, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Haibo Yan @ 2026-07-20 22:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Sat, Jun 20, 2026 at 6:13 AM Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Attached is v15. I've done substantial work since my last post.
>
> The biggest difference is that regular backends and background writer
> write combining try to combine up to io_combine_limit sized write IOs
> by looking for preceding and following blocks to their target block
> that are in shared buffers and are dirty. I've found this to
> substantially improve performance.
>
> For a regular pgbench scale 500 with 8 clients and 4GB SB on a machine
> with IOPS limited to 7500, pgbench TPS improves by 30% (I tuned
> backend_flush_after to 512kB). I think in an environment where buffers
> and IOPS are scarce, those extra buffers getting cleaned each time is
> very helpful. It also improves the p99 latency by 75%. If you turn off
> synchronous commit, it is actually almost a 70% increase in TPS
> (because over 50% of the IO is WAL with sync commit on). In the stats
> I collect, you see that with my patch backends and bgwriter are doing
> larger writes and this is the source of the improvement.
>
> I did several more realistic (than tpc-b) benchmarks -- including
> multiple clients inserting 1000 rows at a time and saw similar
> speedups. I isolated the different combining types and it seems that
> the biggest benefit is coming from backends doing their own combining.
> If you tune everything so the bgwriter is doing most of the cleaning
> of buffers, there is still a benefit, but it is hard to get the
> bgwriter sufficiently aggressive. checkpointer has little effect here
> because the kernel was already combining those writes.
>
> I did see some benefit in workloads with a fast, local SSD, but the
> biggest benefit was in an IOPs constrained environment (which makes
> sense). I'll note that I've lost the ability to reproduce the
> performance gain with parallel COPY FROMs.
>
> v15 also adds TAP tests of the write combining behavior.
>
> I haven't enabled and started testing write combining for vacuum and
bulkread.
>
> The patchset still needs review and some polish. There are a number of
> outstanding questions mostly around different function APIs and a bit
> around some of the control flow.
>
> I substantially refactored GetVictimBuffer() in
> v15-0004-Simplify-victim-buffer-selection and
> v15-0005-Refactor-victim-buffer-selection-and-add-helpers. I have
> questions about some of the control flow changes I made including
> whether or not we should keep looking in the strategy ring once we
> find a buffer that has a usagecount > 1 (the current behavior in
> master that I've preserved in my patch).
>
> Another question is if EagerCleanStrategyBuffer() should change how it
> advances the cursor to avoid calling PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer()
> twice for a buffer that was rejected for reasons other than being
> non-contiguous. I think that requirement worsens
> PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer()'s API and potentially eliminate some
> buffers we want to revisit, however without it, we may end up having
> to reject the same buffers twice.
>
> I've also incorporated Chao's review feedback. Here are my inline replies:
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A few comments for v14:
>
> Thanks for continuing to review!
>
> > 1 - 0001
> > ```
> > - FlushBuffer(buf, reln, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
> > + FlushBuffer(buf, reln, io_object, io_context);
> > ```
> >
> > This changes the hardcode IOOBJECT_RELATION to io_object when calling
FlushBuffer(). But FlushBuffer() itself still uses IOOBJECT_RELATION
instead of io_object, so the change will actually not take effective:
> > ```
> > pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
> > IOOP_WRITE, io_start, 1,
BLCKSZ);
> > ```
> >
> > So, an update in FlushBuffer() is also needed.
>
> I believe we did already fix this. However, because FlushLocalBuffer()
> exists, FlushBuffer() doesn't need to take an IOObject. And definitely
> FlushUnlockedBuffer() does not need to -- since it takes an lock and
> thus wouldn't be used for local buffers. I wonder if it is worth the
> code churn to change these to avoid any confusion.
>
> FlushRelationBuffers(), FlushRelationAllBuffers(),
> FlushDatabaseBuffers(), and FlushOneBuffer(),
> EvictUnpinnedBufferInternal() could stand to take an IOContext, though
> they don't need it for their current callers, so I won't add the extra
> code churn.
>
> > 2 - 0003 - freelist.c
> > ```
> > bool
> > StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf,
bool from_ring)
> > {
> > + Assert(strategy);
> > +
> > /* We only do this in bulkread mode */
> > if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
> > return false;
> > @@ -795,8 +800,14 @@ StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy
strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_r
> > strategy->buffers[strategy->current] !=
BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
> > return false;
> >
> > + Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf)));
> > + Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) & BM_LOCKED));
> > ```
> >
> > I don’t quite understand Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state) &
BM_LOCKED));
> >
> > The comment says “the buffer header spinlock must not be held,” but I
doubt this Assert actually ensures that. Since BM_LOCKED is just a bit in a
shared state, isn't it possible for a concurrent backend to grab the lock
right when we’re checking it?
> >
> > If a concurrent process locks the header a split-second before the
Assert, we’ll get a false-positive crash in a dev environment even though
the code is fine. If they lock it a split-second after, then the Assert
didn't really catch anything. It feels like a race condition either way.
> >
> > I think the only way to truly ensure a spinlock is "not held" is to
actually acquire it. If we’re just checking the bit like this, it’s just a
snapshot that might be stale by the time the instruction finishes. What was
the specific worry here—a self-deadlock, or something else?
>
> I ended up changing StrategyRejectBuffer() substantially since then
> and it no longer has this assert. However, this assert is more of a
> sanity check. It is present for example in UnlockBufHdr().
>
> > +typedef enum BufferUsageCountChange
> > +{
> > + BUC_ZERO,
> > + BUC_MAX_ONE,
> > + BUC_ONE,
> > +} BufferUsageCountChange;
> > ```
> >
> > Can we add some brief comments to explain every enum item? I feel hard
to guess the meaning from the names without further reading the code.
>
> Done
>
> > +static BufferDesc *
> > +PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum)
> > ```
> >
> > This header comment looks stale.
> >
> > * It says “and with BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set”, but I don’t see where
BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS is set in this function.
> > * It says “also return its LSN”, but I don’t see LSN is returned.
>
> Fixed
>
> > + /* Start IO on the first buffer */
> > + if (!StartBufferIO(buf_hdr, false, false))
> > + goto clean;
> > ```
> >
> > This failure branch feels like leaking the content lock. The buffer was
already share-locked via BufferLockConditional() earlier, and I don’t see
the “clean" path unlock that content lock before returning.
>
> I think I've found and fixed anything like this.
>
> > + FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION,
IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
> > + UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
> > +
> > + ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context,
IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &bufHdr->tag);
> > ```
> >
> > bufHdr is unlocked and unpinned, it might be unsafe to still use
bufHdr->tag. I think we can copy bufHdr->tag to a local variable before
unlock the buffer.
>
> Fixed.
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > - * batch_limit is the largest batch we are allowed to construct given
the
> > - * remaining blocks in the table, the number of available pins, and the
> > - * current configuration.
> > + * max_batch_size is the maximum number of blocks that can be combined
into a
> > + * single write in general. This function, based on the block number
of start,
> > + * will determine the maximum IO size for this particular write given
how much
> > + * of the file remains. max_batch_size is provided by the caller so it
doesn't
> > + * have to be recalculated for each write.
> > ```
> >
> > I don’t see the function FindStrategyFlushAdjacents() has a parameter
named max_batch_size, but batch_limit is still there.
>
> Fixed.
>
> > static void
> > +FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
> > + uint32 batch_limit,
> > + BufferWriteBatch *batch)
> > +{
> > + BufferTag require; /* requested block's
buffer tag */
> > + uint32 newHash; /* hash value for
require */
> > + LWLock *newPartitionLock; /* buffer partition lock for it
*/
> > + int buf_id;
> > +
> > + /* create a tag so we can lookup the buffers */
> > + InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
> > + batch->forkno, InvalidBlockNumber);
> > +
> > + for (; batch->n < batch_limit; batch->n++)
> > + {
> > + XLogRecPtr lsn;
> > +
> > + require.blockNum = batch->start + batch->n;
> > +
> > + Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(require.blockNum));
> > ```
> >
> > When I first time read the Assert, I was confused how it can assume the
block to be valid, then I realized that WriteBatchInit() ensures a safe
“limit”. Maybe add a brief comment for the Assert.
>
> Added comment.
>
> > + batch->bufdescs[batch->n] =
> > + PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(buf_id + 1,
> > +
&require,
> > +
newPartitionLock,
> > +
&lsn);
> > + if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
> > + batch->max_lsn = lsn;
> > +
> > + if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL)
> > + break;
> > ```
> >
> > I think we can move if (batch->bufdescs[batch->n] == NULL) to before if
(lsn > batch->max_lsn).
> >
> > This is a correctness issue, because PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer
will set lsn to InvalidXLogRecPtr when returns NULL, but doing the NULL
check early just feels more reasonable.
>
> Fixed.
>
> > + * max_lsn may be updated if the provided buffer LSN exceeds the
current max
> > + * LSN.
> > */
> > static BufferDesc *
> > PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
> >
BufferTag *require,
> > + LWLock
*buftable_lock,
> >
XLogRecPtr *lsn)
> > ```
> >
> > The function doesn’t have a parameter named max_lsn, is it “lsn”?
>
> Fixed.
>
> > +FindFlushAdjacents(BufferDesc *batch_start,
> > + uint32 batch_limit,
> > + BufferWriteBatch *batch)
> > ```
> >
> > Looks like batch_start is not used at all in this function.
> >
> > 12 - 0011
> > ```
> > + * Callers specify if and by how much they want to bump the buffer's
usage
> > + * count.
> > ```
> >
> > I don’t get what this comment means.
>
> I removed it.
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 7:17 AM Soumya S Murali
> <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Batch size = 8
> > LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 12622 buffers (77.0%); write=0.113 s,
> > sync=0.195 s, total=0.485 s; sync files=37
> > DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=9923,
writeback_calls=1242
> > Avg: 7.989 approx 8 buffers per writeback.
> >
> > Batch size = 16
> > LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 13537 buffers (82.6%); write=0.260 s,
> > sync=0.211 s, total=0.625 s; sync files=3
> > DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=6196,
writeback_calls=389
> > Avg: 15.9 approx 16 buffers per writeback.
> >
> > Batch size = 32
> > LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 12914 buffers (78.8%); write=0.116 s,
> > sync=0.136 s, total=0.442 s; sync files=5
> > DEBUG: checkpoint BufferSync stats: buffers_written=12914,
writeback_calls=1616
> > Avg: 7.99 approx 8 buffers per writeback.
> >
> > Batch 16 significantly reduces sync fan-out (as low as 3 files per
> > checkpoint), but this comes at the cost of longer individual sync
> > operations, resulting in higher total checkpoint time (≈0.625 s).
> > Batch 32 provides a better balance, maintaining low sync fragmentation
> > while avoiding long sync stalls, yielding the lowest overall
> > checkpoint time (≈0.442 s). I am attaching the patch with batch size
> > fixed as 32 for now for further review.
> > Please let me know if further workloads or instrumentation would be
useful.
>
> FWIW, I found batch size 16 to be optimal in experimenting with my own
> patchset as well.
>
> - Melanie
Hi Melanie,
I have been looking through the v15 series. The current implementation
looks fairly complete for synchronous shared-buffer write combining, but I
have a few questions about whether the API shape is general enough for the
longer-term AIO and direct-I/O goals.
1. Submission and completion lifetime
BufferWriteBatch is currently stack-allocated and contains pinned,
content-locked buffer descriptors. FlushBufferBatch() then performs WAL
flushing, checksum preparation, synchronous smgrwritev(), and I/O
accounting, after which CompleteWriteBatchIO() marks the buffers clean.
That works well for synchronous writes, but it seems to encode an
all-or-nothing synchronous lifetime.
For an asynchronous implementation:
* How would the batch object survive after submission?
* Would all pins and content locks remain held until completion?
* Would submission, completion, and cleanup need to become separate
phases?
For example, would an interface along these lines make the lifetime clearer?
* PrepareBufferWriteBatch()
* SubmitBufferWriteBatch()
* CompleteBufferWriteBatch()
* AbortBufferWriteBatch()
The current implementation could still complete synchronously inside
SubmitBufferWriteBatch(), but the interface would not require that behavior.
2. Failure and partial completion
The current path appears to assume that normal return from smgrwritev()
means that the whole batch completed successfully, after which all buffers
can be marked clean.
Would the future API need to represent:
* partial completion,
* cancellation,
* submission failure,
* or an error affecting only part of a batch?
Even if the current smgr contract remains all-or-nothing, it may be useful
to make that contract explicit rather than embedding it in
FlushBufferBatch().
3. Relationship with the read side
Write combining is important for direct I/O, but the same applies to reads.
Issuing one 8 kB direct-I/O request per buffer would also lose the
readahead and aggregation normally provided by the kernel page cache.
I do not think the read and write buffer state machines necessarily need to
share the same API, since their locking and completion rules are quite
different.
However, could the lower-level physical-I/O parts be read/write neutral?
For example:
* contiguous extent description,
* io_combine_limit,
* smgr segment and boundary handling,
* multi-block submission,
* completion representation,
* and physical-I/O accounting.
Those pieces seem closely related to what the recent ReadStream work and
the broader AIO effort already need
Otherwise, is there a risk that the write-batching code and the read-side
AIO infrastructure evolve into two parallel mechanisms for essentially the
same physical-I/O aggregation problem?
4. Foreground backend work and lock duration
For foreground backends, combining a required victim with several adjacent
buffers increases more than just the I/O size; it can introduce
unpredictable latency spikes for user queries. It also increases:
* the amount of foreground cleanup work,
* the number of pinned buffers,
* and the time for which content locks may be held.
Should foreground batching therefore have a separate latency or work
budget, in addition to the pin limit and maximum combine size?
My main concern is that, without separating these layers now, asynchronous
writes may require another substantial API refactoring later.
Thanks,
Haibo
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-08-14 11:39 Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
parent: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
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From: Andrey Borodin @ 2026-08-14 11:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>; tristan.yim@gmail.com
> On 19 Jul 2026, at 11:05, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
>
> I'll follow up with the bulkwrite and checkpointer patches next.
Hi!
I looked through 0007-0009 and did not find correctness issues.
The existing COPY test uses an unlogged relation, so it does not
exercise the WAL eligibility checks in
PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(). I tried the same test with a regular
table and it consistently combined writes.
For deterministic results I used wal_writer_delay = '10ms'. With
synchronous_commit disabled, a fast COPY may otherwise finish before the
default 200ms WAL writer interval. fsync can remain disabled: the test
only needs the PostgreSQL WAL flush position to advance.
Perhaps the test could run the COPY case for both unlogged and regular
tables.
Best regards, Andrey Borodin.
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-08-19 22:18 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
1 sibling, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2026-08-19 22:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 4:05 AM Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
>
>
> I started reviewing the write-combining series and want to send feedback in
> groups.
Thanks for the review!
> * "Make ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback static"
> LGTM as a preparatory cleanup. Note that a later patch in the series
> ("Write combining for background writer") removes the function entirely.
> So this intermediate static-ification is churn that goes away.
Yea, you're right. I dropped this from attached v16.
> * "pg_stat_io: Count buffer eviction after invalidation"
> This is a bug fix. Is it too insignificant for backpatching?
I think it's not important enough to backpatch. It become worth fixing
because of my refactor. I will probably commit it next week to master.
> Non-rejection of not-BM_PERMANENT and not needing WAL flush is a bit mind
> melting due to lots of negations.
Yes, it is hard to understand -- that is how it was already though.
> Moving BufHdrGetBlock()/BufferGetLSN() into buf_internals.h is reasonable.
> "shared buffers only" macro is now visible to more code, so it's a bit easier
> to misuse on a local buffer. Not something worth bothering, just maybe Assert
> somewhere... But it's fine as is.
I added an assert to it
> * "Simplify victim buffer selection"
> These changes only matter under contention, so an experiment would be good.
> I imagine something like: run several concurrent COPY FROMs (a contended
> BAS_BULKWRITE workload) and compare pg_stat_io in the "bulkwrite" context
> before and after the patch. The number to watch is reuses vs evictions.
> If evictions go up noticeably, the strategy is giving up on its ring and
> evicting from shared buffers more than before, which would work against the
> ring's whole point of not polluting the buffer pool. If the ratio stays
> about the same, the behavior change is harmless. I'll try to allocate time
> to do this check myself, if you think such experiment is of an interest.
So, concurrent COPY FROMs could not easily hit something like this
because with multi-insert the different backends will extend the table
and then use the blocks (without adding to FSM) and there won't be any
contention for those blocks and they will be reusing their own ring
buffers without contention for those from other COPY FROMs. Even for
single-insert, the FSM should hand them out different blocks, so they
shouldn't have contention for the same buffers.
You could perhaps have a scenario where other backends are reading the
data in the same table we are bulk loading new data into -- and then
you get some contention. I was able to simulate this and get some
evictions due to concurrent readers of the buffers we were copying,
but no more with the patch than on master. I also tried it with
synchronized large sequential scans (no COPY FROM) and did not see
more evictions with my patch than on master.
I also thought about testing the scenarios where this refactor would
be beneficial and decided it was too difficult because the timing has
to line up perfectly to get
the buffer eviction to fail in the right way. I look at the refactor
as more of a way of making the code structurally clearer that has no
downside.
> On your XXX ("should we keep looking in the ring when a buffer can't be
> reused due to usage/pin count, instead of going to shared buffers?"): my
> vote is to keep the simpler "go to the clocksweep" behavior. Re-scanning
> the ring for a hot/pinned slot risks spinning on the same busy buffers,
> and replacing the slot from the clocksweep is what master effectively does
> today anyway.
Yea, I mean we won't do more than one full revolution of the ring, but we don't
want to leave the pinned/used buffers in the ring forever -- we eventually have
to get rid of them and replace them with new shared buffers if the pinner
doesn't release. So, it's more complicated and probably not worth it.
I've dropped it.
> One modular note: ClaimVictimBuffer() now performs I/O (FlushBuffer and
> potentially XLogFlush) but is called from the freelist.c selection
> helpers, and it's declared "For use in freelist.c but defined in bufmgr.c".
> That blurs the old freelist.c (pure selection) / bufmgr.c (I/O) boundary a
> bit. I'm not sure such convention exists, but anyway.
>
> This patch folds buffer claiming into the existing StrategyGetBuffer() (so
> it now both selects and claims a victim), and the very next patch then
> splits StrategyGetBuffer() into GetBufferFromRing()/GetBufferFromClocksweep().
> So this intermediate shape doesn't survive.
That's a good point. I split the refactoring and the logic changes
into more commits and reordered them to avoid this problem and to
simplify the individual commits.
One of the new commits -- the one that changes behavior -- is still
rather large but I tried splitting it into two -- one for moving
ClaimVictimBuffer() into GetBufferFromRing() and one for moving
ClaimVictimBuffer() into GetBufferFromClocksweep() and it was ugly.
Only one of them substantially changes behavior and the intermediate
state was very odd looking. So, I kept it together even though it is a
bigger commit.
> * "Refactor victim buffer selection and add helpers"
...
> The duplicated buf_valid + EVICT/REUSE counting between the
> two helpers is the small price you declare in the message. I think that's
> acceptable, though a tiny static helper for "count and return" could remove.
This is just under the amount of duplication I think makes sense to
put in a helper.
> * "Allow PinBuffer to skip increasing usage count"
> LGTM. Made me look at where usage_count actually climbs. Always +1,
> capped at BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT (5). nbtree re-pins internal pages (a splitting
> insert re-pins the parent). Expected enough, the cap is just small, so those
> pages sit at max.
> The BufferUsageCountChange enum is more readable than the old
> strategy==NULL overloading. BUC_ZERO is unused here (introduced for later
> patches), which is fine to mention in the message. Two tiny nits: BUC_ONE
> vs BUC_MAX_ONE are easy to mix up at a glance, and the
> "strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE" mapping is now repeated at three call
> sites. A one-line helper or a comment on the enum would help.
I do have a comment on the enum about this. Should it be more
descriptive in some way?
> * eager_clean_max_batch_size vs io_combine_limit. I realize the batch-size
> sizing has been discussed at length already, and I couldn't tell what was
> finally settled, so treat this as a DBA-side note. In the code, eager
> cleaning is already bounded by io_combine_limit (MaxWriteBatchSize), and
> eager_clean_max_batch_size is an additional cap on top of that
> (CurrentMaxEagerWriteBatchSize). That only becomes clear after reading
> bufmgr.c. From the docs and postgresql.conf alone it does not: io_combine_limit
> reads fine, but eager_clean_max_batch_size gives no hint of which "cleaning"
> it means, or why it needs a separate knob next to io_combine_limit. If it
> survives (the commit notes "XXX: remove development-only GUCs"), the
> docs should spell out how it relates to io_combine_limit.
eager_clean_max_batch_size was only for development -- I thought it
would be useful for people to experiment but anyone can just add it
themselves. I've dropped it from this stack.
> * Batch construction geometry. The strategy path only looks forward from the
> target buffer, while the client-backend/bgwriter path looks both ways
> around the target block. Isn't forward-only case leaving easy combining
> on the table?
When you fill up the ring sequentially by the time you get to a buffer
to reuse, the blocks from before it should already have been cleaned
and evicted in the course of reusing slots in the ring.
The attached v16 has all of the above changes plus some larger changes
including renaming structures and functions to be more similar to read
combining and reordering the patch series.
The biggest change in the series is that I dropped the ring-sweep
approach for COPY FROM. Write combining is now done entirely through
neighbor-based eager flushing.
I dropped the ring-sweep method because, while testing write combining
for bulkread and vacuum, I found the ring-sweep approach was often
worse than neighbor-based
eager flushing alone for those strategies, for several reasons I
detail below. That made me question how much it was helping COPY FROM
in the first place — and without AIO, the answer appears to be not
much. It carried a lot of extra code complexity given that it does not
appear to provide benefits.
Note that once we have AIO writes, we will need the ring sweep method
(or something like it) for all strategies. I had an LLM layer AIO
writes on top of write combining and the ring-sweep method beats
neighbor-based write combining for all strategies.
Now onto ring-sweep vs neighbor-based write combining comparisons:
Mixed buffer hits leading to non-contiguous rings:
--
With concurrent access, a block can already be resident in shared
buffers and be already dirty. In this case it is not pulled into the
strategy ring. When this happens, the ring no longer holds a
contiguous run of blocks, so the ring-sweep method gets little
combining. But those buffers are still dirty; they're just not in the
ring. Neighbor-based flushing does combine them, because it looks at
blocks adjacent to a ring buffer regardless of whether they're in the
ring. If there is pressure for clean shared buffers, cleaning these
buffers in combined writes improves performance (neighbor-based beats
ring-sweep).
The catch is that the extra combining is cleaning buffers the strategy
won't reuse (they're not in our ring). That's only beneficial under
memory pressure, when those buffers would have had to be written out
by someone anyway. If there isn't memory pressure, we are writing out
buffers that don't need to be written out.
I tested this for vacuum in a scenario with no memory pressure where
the buffer isn't immediately dirtied again (random pgbench-style
dirtying of pages), it just costs a little extra bandwidth but didn't
affect TPS or vacuum duration.
However, in the worst case where it does dirty the buffer again, I did
see it affect vacuum duration (but not TPS). I built a workload where
every 16th block of the table is unmodified and the rest are
constantly modified by a concurrent workload. On the first vacuum of
the table, the unmodified blocks are read into the ring while the
modified ones stay in shared buffers. Once the ring fills and we reuse
a buffer, neighbor-based flushing writes out all of that buffer's
dirty neighbors that aren't in the ring -- but those are being
constantly modified, so the write-out is wasted. This did increase
vacuum time from master. It only applies to the first vacuum, though:
afterward the unmodified blocks are all-visible and get skipped so
nothing lands in the ring.
I wonder whether it's worth a heuristic to avoid this. The problem
with a usage_count filter (don't eagerly write out buffers with a high
usage count) is that it would stop us from combining in cases where we
want to. If we're vacuuming a page that was recently modified and
won't be modified again, it's good to write it out — and it will
commonly be outside the ring, where ring-sweep can't help. If we defer
writing it until the buffer is reused by some other backend for some
other purpose, we're less likely to find contiguous dirty buffers to
combine it with. When I applied a usage count filter, many of my
experiments performed worse than with it.
Timing effects with concurrent workloads:
--
Sweeping the ring and preemptively writing dirty buffers changes when
the write happens, which can interact with concurrent workloads.
Concurrent workloads may pin pages at a moment that prevents combining
or they may flush WAL enabling more combining had the strategy waited
to write out some buffers (they would be eagerly combinable and
flushable because they would not require WAL flush after the
concurrent workload flushed WAL). I generally saw the ring sweep lose
here.
Read-ahead and clipped writes:
--
Vacuum and bulkread both read ahead, so more than one buffer in the
ring is pinned at any given time. Preemptively cleaning the whole ring
can therefore produce clipped (undersized) writes. That's potentially
solvable by refusing to issue undersized writes. It would be
non-trivial to make sure this heuristic didn't stop write combining of
non fully sized writes in general and was only avoiding it due to this
read-ahead pin frontier problem.
CPU cost of the neighbor method:
--
I checked whether the extra shared-buffer lookups cost meaningful CPU.
In my bulkread experiments they increased CPU cycles only slightly. I
also found that for a sparsely dirty ring (every other buffer dirty),
the ring-sweep method pins buffers one extra time compared to the
neighbor method — once when writing them out and again when reusing
them — whereas the neighbor method reuses them under the same pin it
wrote them out under. This only applies to sparsely dirty rings, where
we aren't getting combining.
COPY FROM:
--
COPY FROM doesn't seem to benefit from ring-sweep more than the
neighbor-based method. The combining is the same, and in some narrow
cases neighbor-based may be better (e.g. single-insert COPY into an
already-dirty, resident page, which leaves the ring non-contiguous
[this is largely theoretical, I couldn't come up with an example where
this made a difference]). The extra buffer-lookup CPU seems
negligible.
When ring sweep is needed:
--
The real benefits come with AIO: starting more writes at once reduces
overall runtime for all strategies. And once we add that code, we may
decide to start writing dirty buffers out sooner — before we need to
reuse them — to cut stalls further. At that point we'd be changing the
ring code substantially anyway.
I ran so many experiments that I'm hesitant to fill this email with
numbers and reproducers — if there's a particular scenario people want
to see, let me know.
The bottom line: once we have AIO we'll want both the neighbor-based
and ring-sweep methods, and the neighbor-based method is required for
non-strategy combining regardless. The ring-sweep method is a lot of
extra code that, without AIO, has no obvious benefit. So my focus is
on implementing the neighbor-based method without any regression from
master.
- Melanie
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] v16-0001-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch (5.7K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/2-v16-0001-Allow-PinBuffer-to-skip-increasing-usage-count.patch)
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From c9247f3fdde1855717d9276a1bdf387d1fdfcbbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:29:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v16 01/21] Allow PinBuffer to skip increasing usage count
Future commits will allow eagerly flushing buffers when flushing a
target buffer. In those cases, they do not want PinBuffer() to increase
the usage count on the buffer, as it is not being used by that flusher.
BufferUsageCountChange allows increasing the usage count by either zero,
a maximum of one (in case we don't want to increase it beyond one), or
one unconditionally. This commit only introduces this but doesn't use
the zero option.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D0E7C430-76A9-4030-B8AB-109E7D7ED8C1%40yandex-team.ru
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 17f142e4c5b..f69bc0b0676 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -185,6 +185,19 @@ typedef struct SMgrSortArray
SMgrRelation srel;
} SMgrSortArray;
+/* How much PinBuffer() should increase the usage count of the target buffer */
+typedef enum BufferUsageCountChange
+{
+ /* Do not increase the usage count */
+ BUC_ZERO,
+
+ /* Increase usage count by one to a maximum of one (used with strategies) */
+ BUC_MAX_ONE,
+
+ /* Increase usage count by one up to the max (BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT) */
+ BUC_ONE,
+} BufferUsageCountChange;
+
/* GUC variables */
bool zero_damaged_pages = false;
int bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 100;
@@ -628,7 +641,7 @@ static BlockNumber ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr,
BlockNumber extend_upto,
Buffer *buffers,
uint32 *extended_by);
-static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change,
bool skip_if_not_valid);
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
@@ -857,7 +870,7 @@ ReadRecentBuffer(RelFileLocator rlocator, ForkNumber forkNum, BlockNumber blockN
* pin.
*/
if (BufferTagsEqual(&tag, &bufHdr->tag) &&
- PinBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, true))
+ PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ONE, true))
{
if (BufferTagsEqual(&tag, &bufHdr->tag))
{
@@ -2234,7 +2247,9 @@ BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr, char relpersistence, ForkNumber forkNum,
*/
buf = GetBufferDescriptor(existing_buf_id);
- valid = PinBuffer(buf, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(buf,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
/* Can release the mapping lock as soon as we've pinned it */
LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
@@ -2296,7 +2311,9 @@ BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr, char relpersistence, ForkNumber forkNum,
existing_buf_hdr = GetBufferDescriptor(existing_buf_id);
- valid = PinBuffer(existing_buf_hdr, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(existing_buf_hdr,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
/* Can release the mapping lock as soon as we've pinned it */
LWLockRelease(newPartitionLock);
@@ -2953,7 +2970,9 @@ ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr,
* Pin the existing buffer before releasing the partition lock,
* preventing it from being evicted.
*/
- valid = PinBuffer(existing_hdr, strategy, false);
+ valid = PinBuffer(existing_hdr,
+ strategy ? BUC_MAX_ONE : BUC_ONE,
+ false);
LWLockRelease(partition_lock);
UnpinBuffer(victim_buf_hdr);
@@ -3269,6 +3288,7 @@ ReleaseAndReadBuffer(Buffer buffer,
/*
* PinBuffer -- make buffer unavailable for replacement.
*
+ * Most callers will want to bump the usage count to at least one.
* For the default access strategy, the buffer's usage_count is incremented
* when we first pin it; for other strategies we just make sure the usage_count
* isn't zero. (The idea of the latter is that we don't want synchronized
@@ -3292,7 +3312,7 @@ ReleaseAndReadBuffer(Buffer buffer,
* (recently) invalid and has not been pinned.
*/
static bool
-PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change,
bool skip_if_not_valid)
{
Buffer b = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
@@ -3332,13 +3352,13 @@ PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
/* increase refcount */
buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
- if (strategy == NULL)
+ if (usage_count_change == BUC_ONE)
{
/* Default case: increase usagecount unless already max. */
if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) < BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT)
buf_state += BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
}
- else
+ else if (usage_count_change == BUC_MAX_ONE)
{
/*
* Ring buffers shouldn't evict others from pool. Thus we
@@ -3347,6 +3367,11 @@ PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
buf_state += BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
}
+ else
+ {
+ /* Don't increase usage count */
+ Assert(usage_count_change == BUC_ZERO);
+ }
if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
buf_state))
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index 298a3d586e7..f13e42e46e4 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ BufferManagerRelation
BufferStrategyControl
BufferTag
BufferUsage
+BufferUsageCountChange
BuildAccumulator
BuiltinScript
BulkInsertState
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0002-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/3-v16-0002-Add-database-Oid-to-CkptSortItem.patch)
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From a8a2b29d79405228262419e7536536615aa4b32b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:22:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 02/21] Add database Oid to CkptSortItem
This is an oversight that currently isn't causing harm. However, it is
required for checkpointer write combining -- which will be added in
a future commit.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++++++
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f69bc0b0676..1ce4a689f4f 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -3658,6 +3658,7 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
item = &CkptBufferIds[num_to_scan++];
item->buf_id = buf_id;
item->tsId = bufHdr->tag.spcOid;
+ item->dbId = bufHdr->tag.dbOid;
item->relNumber = BufTagGetRelNumber(&bufHdr->tag);
item->forkNum = BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag);
item->blockNum = bufHdr->tag.blockNum;
@@ -7702,6 +7703,13 @@ ckpt_buforder_comparator(const CkptSortItem *a, const CkptSortItem *b)
return -1;
else if (a->tsId > b->tsId)
return 1;
+
+ /* compare database */
+ if (a->dbId < b->dbId)
+ return -1;
+ else if (a->dbId > b->dbId)
+ return 1;
+
/* compare relation */
if (a->relNumber < b->relNumber)
return -1;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index e4ff5619b79..5297b4ea2a2 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -516,6 +516,7 @@ extern uint64 WaitBufHdrUnlocked(BufferDesc *buf);
typedef struct CkptSortItem
{
Oid tsId;
+ Oid dbId;
RelFileNumber relNumber;
ForkNumber forkNum;
BlockNumber blockNum;
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0003-Inline-BufferSync-into-CheckPointBuffers.patch (7.0K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/4-v16-0003-Inline-BufferSync-into-CheckPointBuffers.patch)
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From 567f315d7ab7dd8f13916d7c31b8d3f3a1eef87f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:51:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 03/21] Inline BufferSync() into CheckPointBuffers()
CheckPointBuffers() contained only the static function call to
BufferSync(). It seemed more confusing than anything else. Inline the
code of BufferSync().
---
src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c | 12 ++++----
src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c | 4 +--
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 40 +++++++++----------------
src/backend/storage/sync/sync.c | 7 +++--
4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c
index c9aff944a2e..3a155eb483e 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c
@@ -1142,12 +1142,12 @@ XLogSaveBufferForHint(Buffer buffer, bool buffer_std)
/*
* Update RedoRecPtr so that we can make the right decision. It's possible
* that a new checkpoint will start just after GetRedoRecPtr(), but that
- * is ok, as the buffer is already dirty, ensuring that any BufferSync()
- * started after the buffer was marked dirty cannot complete without
- * flushing this buffer. If a checkpoint started between marking the
- * buffer dirty and this check, we will emit an unnecessary WAL record (as
- * the buffer will be written out as part of the checkpoint), but the
- * window for that is not big.
+ * is ok, as the buffer is already dirty, ensuring that any
+ * CheckPointBuffers() started after the buffer was marked dirty cannot
+ * complete without flushing this buffer. If a checkpoint started between
+ * marking the buffer dirty and this check, we will emit an unnecessary
+ * WAL record (as the buffer will be written out as part of the
+ * checkpoint), but the window for that is not big.
*/
RedoRecPtr = GetRedoRecPtr();
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
index 580c7944119..b9b7145c4cd 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
@@ -781,8 +781,8 @@ FastCheckpointRequested(void)
/*
* CheckpointWriteDelay -- control rate of checkpoint
*
- * This function is called after each page write performed by BufferSync().
- * It is responsible for throttling BufferSync()'s write rate to hit
+ * This function is called after each page write performed by
+ * CheckPointBuffers(). It is responsible for throttling its write rate to hit
* checkpoint_completion_target.
*
* The checkpoint request flags should be passed in; currently the only one
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 1ce4a689f4f..790a41e5e9c 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ typedef struct PrivateRefCountEntry
/*
* Status of buffers to checkpoint for a particular tablespace, used
- * internally in BufferSync.
+ * internally in CheckPointBuffers().
*/
typedef struct CkptTsStatus
{
@@ -646,7 +646,6 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
-static void BufferSync(int flags);
static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
@@ -3587,7 +3586,7 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
#include "lib/sort_template.h"
/*
- * BufferSync -- Write out all dirty buffers in the pool.
+ * Write out all dirty buffers in the buffer pool.
*
* This is called at checkpoint time to write out all dirty shared buffers.
* The checkpoint request flags should be passed in. If CHECKPOINT_FAST is
@@ -3595,9 +3594,12 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
* CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY or CHECKPOINT_FLUSH_UNLOGGED is set, we write
* even unlogged buffers, which are otherwise skipped. The remaining flags
* currently have no effect here.
+ *
+ * Note: temporary relations do not participate in checkpoints, so they don't
+ * need to be flushed.
*/
-static void
-BufferSync(int flags)
+void
+CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
{
uint64 buf_state;
int buf_id;
@@ -3847,8 +3849,8 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
}
/*
- * Issue all pending flushes. Only checkpointer calls BufferSync(), so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
+ * Issue all pending flushes. Only the checkpointer calls
+ * CheckPointBuffers(), so IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
*/
IssuePendingWritebacks(&wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
@@ -4469,20 +4471,6 @@ DebugPrintBufferRefcount(Buffer buffer)
return result;
}
-/*
- * CheckPointBuffers
- *
- * Flush all dirty blocks in buffer pool to disk at checkpoint time.
- *
- * Note: temporary relations do not participate in checkpoints, so they don't
- * need to be flushed.
- */
-void
-CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
-{
- BufferSync(flags);
-}
-
/*
* BufferGetBlockNumber
* Returns the block number associated with a buffer.
@@ -5796,11 +5784,11 @@ MarkSharedBufferDirtyHint(Buffer buffer, BufferDesc *bufHdr, uint64 lockstate,
/*
* We must mark the page dirty before we emit the WAL record, as per
- * the usual rules, to ensure that BufferSync()/SyncOneBuffer() try to
- * flush the buffer, even if we haven't inserted the WAL record yet.
- * As we hold at least a share-exclusive lock, checkpoints will wait
- * for this backend to be done with the buffer before continuing. If
- * we did it the other way round, a checkpoint could start between
+ * the usual rules, to ensure that CheckPointBuffers()/BgBufferSync()
+ * try to flush the buffer, even if we haven't inserted the WAL record
+ * yet. As we hold at least a share-exclusive lock, checkpoints will
+ * wait for this backend to be done with the buffer before continuing.
+ * If we did it the other way round, a checkpoint could start between
* writing the WAL record and marking the buffer dirty.
*/
buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/sync/sync.c b/src/backend/storage/sync/sync.c
index 2c964b6f3d9..265dc1aca5b 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/sync/sync.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/sync/sync.c
@@ -313,9 +313,10 @@ ProcessSyncRequests(void)
* requests that were queued by backends up to this point. The tightest
* race condition that could occur is that a buffer that must be written
* and fsync'd for the checkpoint could have been dumped by a backend just
- * before it was visited by BufferSync(). We know the backend will have
- * queued an fsync request before clearing the buffer's dirtybit, so we
- * are safe as long as we do an Absorb after completing BufferSync().
+ * before it was visited by CheckPointBuffers(). We know the backend will
+ * have queued an fsync request before clearing the buffer's dirtybit, so
+ * we are safe as long as we do an Absorb after completing
+ * CheckPointBuffers().
*/
AbsorbSyncRequests();
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0004-Write-combining-for-checkpointer.patch (26.7K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/5-v16-0004-Write-combining-for-checkpointer.patch)
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From 49cd47536e3667b0f7bc34889ee922d4e3a09604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:23:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 04/21] Write combining for checkpointer
When the checkpointer writes out dirty buffers, writing multiple
contiguous blocks as a single IO is a substantial performance
improvement. The checkpointer is usually bottlenecked on IO, so issuing
larger IOs leads to increased write throughput and faster checkpoints.
The buffer__sync__written dtrace probe is renamed to
buffers__sync__written and now reports the number of buffers written per
combined IO instead of the buffer ID. Blocks in a combined operation are
contiguous but buffer IDs are not, so we can't easily report the buffers
IDs.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Soumya <bharatdbpg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2FA0BAC7-5413-4ABD-94CA-4398FE77750D%40gmail.com
---
src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c | 18 +-
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 477 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c | 22 ++
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 4 +-
src/include/postmaster/bgwriter.h | 2 +-
src/include/storage/bufpage.h | 2 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 1 +
7 files changed, 486 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
index b9b7145c4cd..b681429167d 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
@@ -781,8 +781,10 @@ FastCheckpointRequested(void)
/*
* CheckpointWriteDelay -- control rate of checkpoint
*
- * This function is called after each page write performed by
- * CheckPointBuffers(). It is responsible for throttling its write rate to hit
+ * This function is called after each batch of page writes performed by
+ * CheckPointBuffers(); npages is the number of pages the call represents
+ * (including pages that were scanned but did not need writing). It is
+ * responsible for throttling the checkpoint's write rate to hit
* checkpoint_completion_target.
*
* The checkpoint request flags should be passed in; currently the only one
@@ -792,7 +794,7 @@ FastCheckpointRequested(void)
* fraction between 0.0 meaning none, and 1.0 meaning all done.
*/
void
-CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress)
+CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress, int npages)
{
static int absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB;
@@ -837,12 +839,14 @@ CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress)
WAIT_EVENT_CHECKPOINT_WRITE_DELAY);
ResetLatch(MyLatch);
}
- else if (--absorb_counter <= 0)
+ else if ((absorb_counter -= npages) <= 0)
{
/*
- * Absorb pending fsync requests after each WRITES_PER_ABSORB write
- * operations even when we don't sleep, to prevent overflow of the
- * fsync request queue.
+ * Absorb pending fsync requests after each WRITES_PER_ABSORB pages of
+ * checkpoint progress even when we don't sleep, to prevent overflow
+ * of the fsync request queue. Combined writes mean we are called once
+ * per batch rather than once per page, so deduct the number of pages
+ * each call represents from the budget instead of counting calls.
*/
AbsorbSyncRequests();
absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 790a41e5e9c..b241aff5066 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -130,6 +130,28 @@ typedef struct PrivateRefCountEntry
PrivateRefCountData data;
} PrivateRefCountEntry;
+/*
+ * Used to write out multiple blocks at a time in a combined IO. buffers
+ * contains the buffers holding adjacent blocks of the same fork of the same
+ * relation.
+ */
+typedef struct WriteBuffersOperation
+{
+ ForkNumber forkno;
+ SMgrRelation reln;
+ IOContext io_context;
+
+ /*
+ * While assembling the buffers, we keep track of the maximum LSN so that
+ * we can flush WAL through this LSN before flushing the buffers.
+ */
+ XLogRecPtr max_lsn;
+
+ /* The number of valid entries in buffers */
+ uint32 n;
+ Buffer buffers[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+} WriteBuffersOperation;
+
#define SH_PREFIX refcount
#define SH_ELEMENT_TYPE PrivateRefCountEntry
#define SH_KEY_TYPE Buffer
@@ -651,6 +673,7 @@ static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
+static void shared_buffers_write_error_callback(void *arg);
static void local_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
static inline BufferDesc *BufferAlloc(SMgrRelation smgr,
char relpersistence,
@@ -665,11 +688,18 @@ static pg_always_inline void TrackBufferHit(IOObject io_object,
IOContext io_context,
Relation rel, char persistence, SMgrRelation smgr,
ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum);
+static uint32 MaxWriteBuffers(void);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static void WriteBuffers(WriteBuffersOperation *batch);
+static void CompleteWriteBuffers(WriteBuffersOperation *batch,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
+static void ScheduleBufferTagsForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ BufferTag tag, uint32 n,
+ IOContext io_context);
static void FindAndDropRelationBuffers(RelFileLocator rlocator,
ForkNumber forkNum,
BlockNumber nForkBlock,
@@ -2560,6 +2590,21 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble given global constraints on the
+ * number of pinned buffers and max IO size. Currently only a single write is
+ * inflight at a time, so the batch can consume all the pinned buffers this
+ * backend is allowed. Only for batches of shared (non-local) relations.
+ */
+static uint32
+MaxWriteBuffers(void)
+{
+ uint32 result = Min(io_combine_limit, GetPinLimit());
+
+ /* Ensure forward progress */
+ return Max(result, 1);
+}
+
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
@@ -3601,8 +3646,6 @@ TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf)
void
CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
{
- uint64 buf_state;
- int buf_id;
int num_to_scan;
int num_spaces;
int num_processed;
@@ -3613,6 +3656,8 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
int i;
uint64 mask = BM_DIRTY;
WritebackContext wb_context;
+ uint32 max_batch_size;
+ WriteBuffersOperation batch;
/*
* Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint or we have been explicitly told,
@@ -3640,10 +3685,11 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
* certainly need to be written for the next checkpoint attempt, too.
*/
num_to_scan = 0;
- for (buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
+ for (int buf_id = 0; buf_id < NBuffers; buf_id++)
{
BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
uint64 set_bits = 0;
+ uint64 buf_state;
/*
* Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
@@ -3786,48 +3832,222 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
*/
num_processed = 0;
num_written = 0;
+ max_batch_size = MaxWriteBuffers();
while (!binaryheap_empty(ts_heap))
{
- BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
+ uint32 batch_limit = max_batch_size;
+ BlockNumber batch_start = InvalidBlockNumber;
CkptTsStatus *ts_stat = (CkptTsStatus *)
DatumGetPointer(binaryheap_first(ts_heap));
+ int ts_end = ts_stat->index - ts_stat->num_scanned + ts_stat->num_to_scan;
+ int processed = 0;
- buf_id = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index].buf_id;
- Assert(buf_id != -1);
+ batch.io_context = IOCONTEXT_NORMAL;
+ batch.max_lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+ batch.n = 0;
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+ while (batch.n < batch_limit)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr = NULL;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ CkptSortItem item;
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ StartBufferIOResult status;
+
+ /* Check if we are done with this tablespace */
+ if (ts_stat->index + processed >= ts_end)
+ break;
- num_processed++;
+ item = CkptBufferIds[ts_stat->index + processed];
- /*
- * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only looking
- * at a single bit. It's possible that someone else writes the buffer
- * and clears the flag right after we check, but that doesn't matter
- * since SyncOneBuffer will then do nothing. However, there is a
- * further race condition: it's conceivable that between the time we
- * examine the bit here and the time SyncOneBuffer acquires the lock,
- * someone else not only wrote the buffer but replaced it with another
- * page and dirtied it. In that improbable case, SyncOneBuffer will
- * write the buffer though we didn't need to. It doesn't seem worth
- * guarding against this, though.
- */
- if (pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state) & BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED)
- {
- if (SyncOneBuffer(buf_id, false, &wb_context) & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ Assert(item.buf_id != -1);
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(item.buf_id);
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ /*
+ * If this is the first block of the batch, then check if we need
+ * to open a new relation. Open the relation now because we have
+ * to determine the maximum IO size based on how many blocks
+ * remain in the file.
+ */
+ if (!BlockNumberIsValid(batch_start))
+ {
+ RelFileLocator rlocator = {
+ .spcOid = item.tsId,
+ .dbOid = item.dbId,
+ .relNumber = item.relNumber
+ };
+
+ Assert(batch.max_lsn == InvalidXLogRecPtr && batch.n == 0);
+ batch.forkno = item.forkNum;
+ batch_start = item.blockNum;
+ batch.reln = smgropen(rlocator, INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+ batch_limit = smgrmaxcombine(batch.reln, batch.forkno, batch_start);
+ batch_limit = Min(max_batch_size, batch_limit);
+ batch_limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), batch_limit);
+ /* Guarantee progress even if at max pins */
+ batch_limit = Max(batch_limit, 1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Once we hit blocks from the next relation or fork of the
+ * relation, break out of the loop and issue the IO we've built up
+ * so far. It is important that we don't increment processed
+ * because we want to start the next IO with this item.
+ */
+ if (item.dbId != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid ||
+ item.relNumber != batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber ||
+ item.forkNum != batch.forkno)
+ break;
+
+ Assert(item.tsId == batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid);
+
+ /*
+ * If the next block is not contiguous, we can't include it in the
+ * IO we will issue. Break out of the loop and issue what we have
+ * so far. Do not count this item as processed -- otherwise we
+ * will end up skipping it.
+ */
+ if (item.blockNum != batch_start + batch.n)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't need to acquire the lock here, because we're only
+ * looking at a few bits. It's possible that someone else writes
+ * the buffer and clears the flag right after we check, but that
+ * doesn't matter since StartBufferIO will then return false.
+ *
+ * If the buffer doesn't need checkpointing, don't include it in
+ * the batch we are building. And if the buffer doesn't need
+ * flushing, we're done with the item, so count it as processed
+ * and break out of the loop to issue the IO so far.
+ *
+ * It's okay for us to check if the buffer needs flushing (if it's
+ * dirty) without holding the buffer content lock as long as we
+ * mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes
+ * with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after
+ * our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not
+ * required to write such a dirty buffer.
+ */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if ((buf_state & (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)) !=
+ (BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* If the buffer is not BM_VALID, nothing to do on this buffer */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ {
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Now that we have a pin, we must recheck that the buffer
+ * contains the specified block. Someone may have replaced the
+ * block in the buffer with a different block. In that case, count
+ * it as processed and issue the IO so far. These fields won't
+ * change as long as we hold a pin, so we don't need a spinlock to
+ * read them.
+ */
+ if (!BufTagMatchesRelFileLocator(&bufHdr->tag,
+ &batch.reln->smgr_rlocator.locator) ||
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag) != batch.forkno ||
+ bufHdr->tag.blockNum != batch_start + batch.n)
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * It's conceivable that between the time we examine the buffer
+ * header for BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED above and when we are now
+ * acquiring the lock that someone else wrote the buffer out. In
+ * that improbable case, we will write the buffer though we didn't
+ * need to. It doesn't seem worth guarding against this, though.
+ *
+ * We are willing to wait for the content lock on the first IO in
+ * the batch. However, for subsequent IOs, waiting could lead to
+ * deadlock. We have to eventually flush all eligible buffers,
+ * though. So, if we fail to acquire the lock on a subsequent
+ * buffer, we break out and issue the IO we've built up so far.
+ * Then we come back and start a new IO with that buffer as the
+ * starting buffer. As such, we must not count the item as
+ * processed if we end up failing to acquire the content lock.
+ */
+ if (batch.n == 0)
+ BufferLockAcquire(bufnum, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
+ else if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer doesn't need IO, count the item as processed,
+ * release the buffer, and break out of the loop to issue the IO
+ * we have built up so far.
+ */
+ if ((status = StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL)) !=
+ BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
{
- TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_WRITTEN(buf_id);
- PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written++;
- num_written++;
+ Assert(status == BUFFER_IO_ALREADY_DONE);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ processed++;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Keep track of the max LSN so that we can be sure to flush
+ * enough WAL before flushing data from the buffers. See comment
+ * in FlushBuffer() for more on why we don't consider the LSNs of
+ * unlogged relations.
+ */
+ if (pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state) & BM_PERMANENT)
+ {
+ XLogRecPtr lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufHdr);
+
+ if (lsn > batch.max_lsn)
+ batch.max_lsn = lsn;
}
+
+ batch.buffers[batch.n++] = bufnum;
+ processed++;
}
/*
* Measure progress independent of actually having to flush the buffer
- * - otherwise writing become unbalanced.
+ * - otherwise writing becomes unbalanced.
+ */
+ num_processed += processed;
+ ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice * processed;
+ ts_stat->num_scanned += processed;
+ ts_stat->index += processed;
+
+ /*
+ * If we built up an IO, issue it. There's a chance we didn't find any
+ * items referencing buffers that needed flushing this time, but we
+ * still want to check if we should update the heap if we examined and
+ * processed the items.
*/
- ts_stat->progress += ts_stat->progress_slice;
- ts_stat->num_scanned++;
- ts_stat->index++;
+ if (batch.n > 0)
+ {
+ WriteBuffers(&batch);
+ CompleteWriteBuffers(&batch, &wb_context);
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFERS_SYNC_WRITTEN(batch.n);
+ PendingCheckpointerStats.buffers_written += batch.n;
+ num_written += batch.n;
+ batch.n = 0;
+ }
/* Have all the buffers from the tablespace been processed? */
if (ts_stat->num_scanned == ts_stat->num_to_scan)
@@ -3845,7 +4065,9 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
*
* (This will check for barrier events even if it doesn't sleep.)
*/
- CheckpointWriteDelay(flags, (double) num_processed / num_to_scan);
+ Assert(batch.n == 0);
+ CheckpointWriteDelay(flags, (double) num_processed / num_to_scan,
+ processed);
}
/*
@@ -4655,6 +4877,69 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+/*
+ * Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
+ */
+static void
+WriteBuffers(WriteBuffersOperation *batch)
+{
+ BlockNumber batch_start = GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[0] - 1)->tag.blockNum;
+ BlockNumber blknums[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ Block blocks[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ instr_time io_start;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffers_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ errcallback.arg = batch;
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+
+ if (XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn))
+ XLogFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ /* Should have been opened when initializing the batch */
+ Assert(batch->reln);
+
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr = GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[i] - 1);
+
+ Assert(!(pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufhdr->state) & BM_PERMANENT) ||
+ !XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(bufhdr)));
+ Assert(BufTagGetForkNum(&bufhdr->tag) == batch->forkno);
+ Assert(bufhdr->tag.blockNum == batch_start + i);
+ }
+#endif
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFERS_FLUSH_START(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n);
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ blknums[i] = batch_start + i;
+ blocks[i] = BufHdrGetBlock(GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[i] - 1));
+ }
+
+ PagesSetChecksum((Page *) blocks, blknums, batch->n);
+
+ io_start = pgstat_prepare_io_time(track_io_timing);
+
+ smgrwritev(batch->reln, batch->forkno,
+ batch_start, (const void **) blocks, batch->n, false);
+
+ pgstat_count_io_op_time(IOOBJECT_RELATION, batch->io_context, IOOP_WRITE,
+ io_start, 1, batch->n * BLCKSZ);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+}
+
/*
* Convenience wrapper around FlushBuffer() that locks/unlocks the buffer
* before/after calling FlushBuffer().
@@ -4670,6 +4955,53 @@ FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
BufferLockUnlock(buffer, buf);
}
+/*
+ * Given a previously initialized batch with buffers that have already been
+ * flushed, terminate the IO on each buffer and then unlock and unpin them.
+ * This assumes all the buffers were locked and pinned. wb_context will be
+ * modified.
+ */
+static void
+CompleteWriteBuffers(WriteBuffersOperation *batch,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ BufferTag tag;
+ ErrorContextCallback errcallback =
+ {
+ .callback = shared_buffer_write_error_callback,
+ .previous = error_context_stack,
+ };
+
+ error_context_stack = &errcallback;
+ pgBufferUsage.shared_blks_written += batch->n;
+
+ /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning the buffer */
+ tag = GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[0] - 1)->tag;
+
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < batch->n; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buffer = batch->buffers[i];
+
+ errcallback.arg = GetBufferDescriptor(buffer - 1);
+
+ /* Mark the buffer as clean and end the BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS state. */
+ TerminateBufferIO(GetBufferDescriptor(buffer - 1), true, 0, true, false);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ }
+
+ TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFERS_FLUSH_DONE(batch->forkno,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.spcOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.dbOid,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator.relNumber,
+ batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.backend,
+ batch->n,
+ tag.blockNum);
+
+ error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagsForWriteback(wb_context, tag, batch->n, batch->io_context);
+}
+
/*
* RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork
* Determines the current number of pages in the specified relation fork.
@@ -7531,6 +7863,36 @@ shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg)
BufTagGetForkNum(&bufHdr->tag)).str);
}
+/*
+ * Error context callback for errors occurring during a combined write of
+ * multiple shared buffers (see WriteBuffers()).
+ */
+static void
+shared_buffers_write_error_callback(void *arg)
+{
+ WriteBuffersOperation *batch = (WriteBuffersOperation *) arg;
+ BufferDesc *first_bufhdr;
+ BlockNumber start;
+
+ if (batch == NULL || batch->n == 0)
+ return;
+
+ first_bufhdr = GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[0] - 1);
+ start = first_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+
+ /* Buffers are pinned, so we can read the tag without locking the spinlock */
+ if (batch->n == 1)
+ errcontext("writing block %u of relation \"%s\"",
+ start,
+ relpathperm(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&first_bufhdr->tag),
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&first_bufhdr->tag)).str);
+ else
+ errcontext("writing blocks %u..%u of relation \"%s\"",
+ start, start + batch->n - 1,
+ relpathperm(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&first_bufhdr->tag),
+ BufTagGetForkNum(&first_bufhdr->tag)).str);
+}
+
/*
* Error context callback for errors occurring during local buffer writes.
*/
@@ -7792,6 +8154,59 @@ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context
IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
}
+/*
+ * Add all the blocks from a write batch that was recently issued to a list of
+ * pending writeback requests. Don't call while holding buffer locks. tag
+ * should be a copy of a BufferTag from a buffer in the batch from when it was
+ * still pinned. It is okay to call this function for pinned or unpinned
+ * buffers as long as the tag was saved before any pin was released.
+ */
+static void
+ScheduleBufferTagsForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ BufferTag tag, uint32 n,
+ IOContext io_context)
+{
+ /*
+ * As pg_flush_data() doesn't do anything with fsync disabled, there's no
+ * point in tracking in that case.
+ */
+ if (io_direct_flags & IO_DIRECT_DATA ||
+ !enableFsync)
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Drain the queue to make room if needed. We do this even if writeback
+ * control is disabled because it may have been previously enabled.
+ */
+ if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
+
+ /* If writeback control is disabled, leave */
+ if (*wb_context->max_pending <= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* It is okay if n is > max_pending because we flush as we go */
+ Assert(*wb_context->max_pending <= WRITEBACK_MAX_PENDING_FLUSHES);
+
+ /*
+ * Add the buffers to the pending writeback array. They must be contiguous
+ * and from the same relation.
+ */
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ {
+ PendingWriteback *pending;
+
+ pending = &wb_context->pending_writebacks[wb_context->nr_pending++];
+ pending->tag = tag;
+
+ tag.blockNum++;
+
+ /* Perform pending flushes if writeback limit exceeded */
+ if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
+ }
+}
+
#define ST_SORT sort_pending_writebacks
#define ST_ELEMENT_TYPE PendingWriteback
#define ST_COMPARE(a, b) buffertag_comparator(&a->tag, &b->tag)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index 1fdfda59edd..8c948269efe 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -1528,3 +1528,25 @@ PageSetChecksum(Page page, BlockNumber blkno)
((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blkno);
RESUME_INTERRUPTS();
}
+
+/*
+ * A helper to set multiple blocks' checksums
+ */
+void
+PagesSetChecksum(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos, uint32 length)
+{
+ /* If we don't need a checksum, just return */
+ if (!DataChecksumsNeedWrite())
+ return;
+
+ HOLD_INTERRUPTS();
+ for (uint32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+ {
+ Page page = pages[i];
+
+ if (PageIsNew(page))
+ continue;
+ ((PageHeader) page)->pd_checksum = pg_checksum_page(page, blknos[i]);
+ }
+ RESUME_INTERRUPTS();
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/probes.d b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
index f70577b38f2..b1e51293b9d 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/probes.d
+++ b/src/backend/utils/probes.d
@@ -67,12 +67,14 @@ provider postgresql {
probe buffer__flush__done(ForkNumber, BlockNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid);
probe buffer__extend__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
probe buffer__extend__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
+ probe buffers__flush__start(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int);
+ probe buffers__flush__done(ForkNumber, Oid, Oid, Oid, int, unsigned int, BlockNumber);
probe buffer__checkpoint__start(int);
probe buffer__checkpoint__sync__start();
probe buffer__checkpoint__done();
probe buffer__sync__start(int, int);
- probe buffer__sync__written(int);
+ probe buffers__sync__written(unsigned int);
probe buffer__sync__done(int, int, int);
probe deadlock__found();
diff --git a/src/include/postmaster/bgwriter.h b/src/include/postmaster/bgwriter.h
index 36eea0b1ab0..2f47b3411e2 100644
--- a/src/include/postmaster/bgwriter.h
+++ b/src/include/postmaster/bgwriter.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ pg_noreturn extern void CheckpointerMain(const void *startup_data, size_t startu
extern void ExecCheckpoint(ParseState *pstate, CheckPointStmt *stmt);
extern void RequestCheckpoint(int flags);
-extern void CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress);
+extern void CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress, int npages);
extern bool ForwardSyncRequest(const FileTag *ftag, SyncRequestType type);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
index 634e1e49ee5..c28df38cb3e 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufpage.h
@@ -538,5 +538,7 @@ extern void PageIndexTupleDeleteNoCompact(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum);
extern bool PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
const void *newtup, Size newsize);
extern void PageSetChecksum(Page page, BlockNumber blkno);
+extern void PagesSetChecksum(Page *pages, const BlockNumber *blknos,
+ uint32 length);
#endif /* BUFPAGE_H */
diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
index f13e42e46e4..88204ac7e19 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
@@ -3498,6 +3498,7 @@ WorkerJobRestorePtrType
WorkerNodeInstrumentation
Working_State
WriteBufPtrType
+WriteBuffersOperation
WriteBytePtrType
WriteDataCallback
WriteDataPtrType
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0005-Add-checkpointer-write-combining-test.patch (12.5K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/6-v16-0005-Add-checkpointer-write-combining-test.patch)
download | inline diff:
From e69cd0a8240cade5c18732aa18a6c6ee9c9efd48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:16:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 05/21] Add checkpointer write combining test
Introduce the 005_write_combining.pl TAP test, with shared IO-stat
helpers and test_aio support functions for dirtying, flushing, and
invalidating specific relation blocks, and add the checkpointer write
combining test.
---
src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build | 1 +
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 169 +++++++++++++++++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql | 16 ++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c | 178 ++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 364 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build b/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build
index 909f81d96c1..d3d5c996931 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/meson.build
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ tests += {
't/002_io_workers.pl',
't/003_initdb.pl',
't/004_read_stream.pl',
+ 't/005_write_combining.pl',
],
},
}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f4679a7adfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2026, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+
+use strict;
+use warnings FATAL => 'all';
+
+use PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster;
+use PostgreSQL::Test::Utils;
+use Test::More;
+
+my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('write-combining');
+$node->init();
+
+$node->append_conf(
+ 'postgresql.conf', qq(
+max_wal_size = '4GB'
+checkpoint_timeout = '1d'
+autovacuum = off
+io_combine_limit = '128kB'
+bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 0
+));
+
+$node->start();
+
+$node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CREATE EXTENSION test_aio');
+
+my $block_size = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT current_setting('block_size')::int");
+
+test_checkpointer_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+
+$node->stop();
+
+done_testing();
+
+sub io_stat_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $backend_type, $context) = @_;
+
+ my $result = $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ SELECT COALESCE(sum(writes), 0)::bigint,
+ COALESCE(sum(write_bytes), 0)::bigint,
+ COALESCE((sum(write_bytes) / NULLIF(sum(writes), 0))::bigint, 0)
+ FROM pg_stat_io
+ WHERE backend_type = '$backend_type'
+ AND object = 'relation'
+ AND context = '$context';
+ ));
+
+ return split /\|/, $result;
+}
+
+sub assert_combined_writes
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $backend_type, $context, $block_size) = @_;
+ my ($writes, $write_bytes, $avg_write_bytes) =
+ io_stat_writes($node, $backend_type, $context);
+
+ note "$label: writes=$writes write_bytes=$write_bytes avg_write_bytes=$avg_write_bytes";
+ ok($writes > 0, "$label wrote buffers");
+ ok($avg_write_bytes > $block_size, "$label combined writes");
+}
+
+
+sub assert_writes_at_least
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $backend_type, $context, $expected_writes, $expected_bytes) = @_;
+ my ($writes, $write_bytes, $avg_write_bytes) =
+ io_stat_writes($node, $backend_type, $context);
+
+ note "$label: writes=$writes write_bytes=$write_bytes avg_write_bytes=$avg_write_bytes";
+ ok($writes >= $expected_writes,
+ "$label wrote at least $expected_writes times");
+ ok($write_bytes >= $expected_bytes,
+ "$label wrote at least $expected_bytes bytes");
+}
+
+sub assert_blocks_dirty
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $table, $blocks, $expected, $label) = @_;
+
+ is($node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT true = ALL (rel_blocks_are_dirty('$table', ARRAY[$blocks]))"),
+ $expected, $label);
+}
+
+sub assert_any_blocks_dirty
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $table, $blocks, $expected, $label) = @_;
+
+ is($node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT true = ANY (rel_blocks_are_dirty('$table', ARRAY[$blocks]))"),
+ $expected, $label);
+}
+
+sub flush_and_reset_io_stats
+{
+ my ($node, $psql) = @_;
+
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('io')");
+}
+
+sub dirty_blocks
+{
+ my ($psql, $table, $blocks) = @_;
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed('$table', ARRAY[$blocks])");
+}
+
+
+sub test_checkpointer_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_checkpointer (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_checkpointer SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_checkpointer'::regclass);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write by checkpointer.
+ ####
+
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before checkpoint');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_combined_writes($node, 'contiguous checkpointer', 'checkpointer',
+ 'normal', $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'checkpointer wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers.
+ ####
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_checkpointer', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_writes_at_least($node, 'nonresident gaps checkpointer', 'checkpointer',
+ 'normal', 3, 3 * $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_checkpointer', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'checkpointer wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
index 762ac29512f..e1dc6a5ef10 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
@@ -37,10 +37,26 @@ CREATE FUNCTION evict_rel(rel regclass)
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION flush_rel_buffers(rel regclass)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
+CREATE FUNCTION make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
+CREATE FUNCTION rel_blocks_are_dirty(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
+RETURNS pg_catalog.bool[] STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION invalidate_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int)
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION invalidate_rel_blocks(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION buffer_create_toy(rel regclass, blockno int4)
RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
index 39d857557cf..1c6bad8e8ef 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include "utils/builtins.h"
#include "utils/injection_point.h"
#include "utils/rel.h"
+#include "utils/resowner.h"
#include "utils/tuplestore.h"
#include "utils/wait_event.h"
@@ -84,6 +85,8 @@ static const ShmemCallbacks inj_io_shmem_callbacks = {
.attach_fn = test_aio_shmem_attach,
};
+static bool clear_usage_count_if_unpinned(BufferDesc *desc);
+
static PgAioHandle *last_handle;
@@ -537,6 +540,32 @@ invalidate_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(invalidate_rel_blocks);
+Datum
+invalidate_rel_blocks(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ ArrayType *blocksarray = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ uint32 *blocks;
+ int nblocks;
+
+ if (ARR_NDIM(blocksarray) != 1 ||
+ ARR_HASNULL(blocksarray) ||
+ ARR_ELEMTYPE(blocksarray) != INT4OID)
+ elog(ERROR, "expected 1 dimensional int4 array");
+
+ blocks = (uint32 *) ARR_DATA_PTR(blocksarray);
+ nblocks = ARR_DIMS(blocksarray)[0];
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessExclusiveLock);
+ for (int i = 0; i < nblocks; i++)
+ invalidate_one_block(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blocks[i]);
+ relation_close(rel, AccessExclusiveLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(evict_rel);
Datum
evict_rel(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
@@ -586,6 +615,155 @@ evict_rel(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+static bool
+clear_usage_count_if_unpinned(BufferDesc *desc)
+{
+ uint64 buf_state;
+
+ buf_state = LockBufHdr(desc);
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ uint64 new_buf_state;
+
+ if ((buf_state & BM_VALID) == 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ {
+ UnlockBufHdr(desc);
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ new_buf_state = buf_state;
+ new_buf_state &= ~BUF_USAGECOUNT_MASK;
+ new_buf_state &= ~BM_LOCKED;
+
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&desc->state, &buf_state,
+ new_buf_state))
+ return true;
+ }
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(flush_rel_buffers);
+Datum
+flush_rel_buffers(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ Relation rel;
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessExclusiveLock);
+ FlushRelationBuffers(rel);
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed);
+Datum
+make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ ArrayType *blocksarray = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ uint32 *blocks;
+ int nblocks;
+
+ if (ARR_NDIM(blocksarray) != 1 ||
+ ARR_HASNULL(blocksarray) ||
+ ARR_ELEMTYPE(blocksarray) != INT4OID)
+ elog(ERROR, "expected 1 dimensional int4 array");
+
+ blocks = (uint32 *) ARR_DATA_PTR(blocksarray);
+ nblocks = ARR_DIMS(blocksarray)[0];
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessExclusiveLock);
+ if (RelationUsesLocalBuffers(rel))
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ errmsg("this function doesn't prepare local buffers"));
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < nblocks; i++)
+ {
+ Buffer buf;
+ BufferDesc *desc;
+
+ CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
+
+ buf = ReadBufferExtended(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blocks[i], RBM_NORMAL, NULL);
+ desc = GetBufferDescriptor(buf - 1);
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE);
+ FlushOneBuffer(buf);
+ MarkBufferDirty(buf);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
+
+ /*
+ * There's no way to explicitly guarantee the usage count stays 0 for
+ * our bgwriter tests. It requires careful coding and setup in the
+ * test to make sure that nothing else is going to look for a free
+ * buffer.
+ */
+ if (!clear_usage_count_if_unpinned(desc))
+ elog(ERROR, "could not clear usage count for block %u",
+ blocks[i]);
+ }
+
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(rel_blocks_are_dirty);
+Datum
+rel_blocks_are_dirty(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ ArrayType *blocksarray = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ uint32 *blocks;
+ int nblocks;
+ Datum *dirty_datums;
+ ArrayType *dirty_array;
+
+ if (ARR_NDIM(blocksarray) != 1 ||
+ ARR_HASNULL(blocksarray) ||
+ ARR_ELEMTYPE(blocksarray) != INT4OID)
+ elog(ERROR, "expected 1 dimensional int4 array");
+
+ blocks = (uint32 *) ARR_DATA_PTR(blocksarray);
+ nblocks = ARR_DIMS(blocksarray)[0];
+ dirty_datums = palloc0(sizeof(Datum) * nblocks);
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessShareLock);
+ for (int i = 0; i < nblocks; i++)
+ {
+ BufferTag tag;
+ uint32 hash;
+ LWLock *partition_lock;
+ int buf_id;
+ bool is_dirty = false;
+
+ InitBufferTag(&tag, &rel->rd_locator, MAIN_FORKNUM, blocks[i]);
+ hash = BufTableHashCode(&tag);
+ partition_lock = BufMappingPartitionLock(hash);
+
+ LWLockAcquire(partition_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ buf_id = BufTableLookup(&tag, hash);
+ LWLockRelease(partition_lock);
+
+ if (buf_id >= 0)
+ {
+ BufferDesc *desc = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
+
+ is_dirty = (pg_atomic_read_u64(&desc->state) & BM_DIRTY) != 0;
+ }
+
+ dirty_datums[i] = BoolGetDatum(is_dirty);
+ }
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ dirty_array = construct_array(dirty_datums, nblocks, BOOLOID, 1, true,
+ TYPALIGN_CHAR);
+
+ PG_RETURN_ARRAYTYPE_P(dirty_array);
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(buffer_create_toy);
Datum
buffer_create_toy(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
--
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From e0964bdd91a1de8af906be43a2a0409cc93668c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:58:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v16 06/21] Remove SyncOneBuffer() and refactor BgBufferSync()
Since checkpointer write combining moved CheckPointBuffers() off of
SyncOneBuffer(), only bgwriter used it, and it can be easily inlined, so
do so. Simplifying the logic for a single case makes it much easier to
understand.
While we're here, replace PinBuffer_Locked() with PinBuffer() since
PinBuffer() can now avoid incrementing the usage count.
Also inline the relevant parts of SyncOneBuffer()'s comments into the
places that referenced them (transam/README, sequence.c, proc.h).
---
src/backend/access/transam/README | 4 +-
src/backend/commands/sequence.c | 16 +--
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 147 +++++++++-------------------
src/include/storage/proc.h | 2 +-
4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/README b/src/backend/access/transam/README
index 231106270fd..8ca94e0575b 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/README
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/README
@@ -448,7 +448,9 @@ critical section.)
3. Apply the required changes to the shared buffer(s).
4. Mark the shared buffer(s) as dirty with MarkBufferDirty(). (This must
-happen before the WAL record is inserted; see notes in SyncOneBuffer().)
+happen before the WAL record is inserted; otherwise a checkpoint could
+write the buffer without the change and its WAL record before the redo
+point, making the change unrecoverable.)
Note that marking a buffer dirty with MarkBufferDirty() should only
happen iff you write a WAL record; see Writing Hints below.
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
index 551667650ba..e51afbc67cd 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c
@@ -809,13 +809,15 @@ nextval_internal(Oid relid, bool check_permissions)
START_CRIT_SECTION();
/*
- * We must mark the buffer dirty before doing XLogInsert(); see notes in
- * SyncOneBuffer(). However, we don't apply the desired changes just yet.
- * This looks like a violation of the buffer update protocol, but it is in
- * fact safe because we hold exclusive lock on the buffer. Any other
- * process, including a checkpoint, that tries to examine the buffer
- * contents will block until we release the lock, and then will see the
- * final state that we install below.
+ * We must mark the buffer dirty before doing XLogInsert(); otherwise a
+ * checkpoint could write the buffer without the change and its WAL record
+ * before the redo point, making the change unrecoverable. However, we
+ * don't apply the desired changes just yet. This looks like a violation
+ * of the buffer update protocol, but it is in fact safe because we hold
+ * exclusive lock on the buffer. Any other process, including a
+ * checkpoint, that tries to examine the buffer contents will block until
+ * we release the lock, and then will see the final state that we install
+ * below.
*/
MarkBufferDirty(buf);
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index b241aff5066..7842fe812ae 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -80,10 +80,6 @@
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
-/* Bits in SyncOneBuffer's return value */
-#define BUF_WRITTEN 0x01
-#define BUF_REUSABLE 0x02
-
#define RELS_BSEARCH_THRESHOLD 20
/*
@@ -668,8 +664,6 @@ static bool PinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, BufferUsageCountChange usage_count_change
static void PinBuffer_Locked(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBuffer(BufferDesc *buf);
static void UnpinBufferNoOwner(BufferDesc *buf);
-static int SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used,
- WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void WaitIO(BufferDesc *buf);
static void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
static void shared_buffer_write_error_callback(void *arg);
@@ -3692,8 +3686,12 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
uint64 buf_state;
/*
- * Header spinlock is enough to examine BM_DIRTY, see comment in
- * SyncOneBuffer.
+ * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so
+ * long as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging
+ * changes with XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just
+ * after our check we don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points
+ * before log record for upcoming changes and so we are not required
+ * to write such dirty buffer.
*/
buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
@@ -4321,29 +4319,57 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
reusable_buffers = reusable_buffers_est;
/* Execute the LRU scan */
- while (num_to_scan > 0 && reusable_buffers < upcoming_alloc_est)
+ for (; num_to_scan > 0; num_to_scan--, next_to_clean++)
{
- int sync_state = SyncOneBuffer(next_to_clean, true,
- wb_context);
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr;
+ BufferTag tag;
- if (++next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
+ if (reusable_buffers >= upcoming_alloc_est)
+ break;
+
+ if (next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
{
next_to_clean = 0;
next_passes++;
}
- num_to_scan--;
- if (sync_state & BUF_WRITTEN)
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(next_to_clean);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ continue;
+
+ reusable_buffers++;
+
+ /*
+ * Racy check is fine: bgwriter writes are opportunistic. If we miss a
+ * buffer that just became dirty, it will be written by a future
+ * bgwriter pass or by checkpointer.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ continue;
+
+ FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
+ tag = bufHdr->tag;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
+
+ if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
{
- reusable_buffers++;
- if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
- {
- PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
- break;
- }
+ PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
+ break;
}
- else if (sync_state & BUF_REUSABLE)
- reusable_buffers++;
}
PendingBgWriterStats.buf_written_clean += num_written;
@@ -4384,83 +4410,6 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
return (bufs_to_lap == 0 && recent_alloc == 0);
}
-/*
- * SyncOneBuffer -- process a single buffer during syncing.
- *
- * If skip_recently_used is true, we don't write currently-pinned buffers, nor
- * buffers marked recently used, as these are not replacement candidates.
- *
- * Returns a bitmask containing the following flag bits:
- * BUF_WRITTEN: we wrote the buffer.
- * BUF_REUSABLE: buffer is available for replacement, ie, it has
- * pin count 0 and usage count 0.
- *
- * (BUF_WRITTEN could be set in error if FlushBuffer finds the buffer clean
- * after locking it, but we don't care all that much.)
- */
-static int
-SyncOneBuffer(int buf_id, bool skip_recently_used, WritebackContext *wb_context)
-{
- BufferDesc *bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(buf_id);
- int result = 0;
- uint64 buf_state;
- BufferTag tag;
-
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- /*
- * Check whether buffer needs writing.
- *
- * We can make this check without taking the buffer content lock so long
- * as we mark pages dirty in access methods *before* logging changes with
- * XLogInsert(): if someone marks the buffer dirty just after our check we
- * don't worry because our checkpoint.redo points before log record for
- * upcoming changes and so we are not required to write such dirty buffer.
- */
- buf_state = LockBufHdr(bufHdr);
-
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 0 &&
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) == 0)
- {
- result |= BUF_REUSABLE;
- }
- else if (skip_recently_used)
- {
- /* Caller told us not to write recently-used buffers */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- {
- /* It's clean, so nothing to do */
- UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- return result;
- }
-
- /*
- * Pin it, share-exclusive-lock it, write it. (FlushBuffer will do
- * nothing if the buffer is clean by the time we've locked it.)
- */
- PinBuffer_Locked(bufHdr);
-
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
-
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
-
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
-
- /*
- * SyncOneBuffer() is only called by checkpointer and bgwriter, so
- * IOContext will always be IOCONTEXT_NORMAL.
- */
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
-
- return result | BUF_WRITTEN;
-}
-
/*
* AtEOXact_Buffers - clean up at end of transaction.
*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/proc.h b/src/include/storage/proc.h
index 03a1a466fa8..dcfaa0ee67e 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/proc.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/proc.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int FastPathLockGroupsPerBackend;
* and we acquire an exclusive content lock and MarkBufferDirty() on the
* relevant buffers before writing WAL, this mechanism is not needed, because
* phase 2 will block until we release the content lock and then flush the
- * modified data to disk. See transam/README and SyncOneBuffer().)
+ * modified data to disk. See transam/README.)
*
* Setting DELAY_CHKPT_COMPLETE prevents the system from moving from phase 2
* to phase 3. This is useful if we are performing a WAL-logged operation that
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0007-pg_stat_io-Count-buffer-eviction-after-invalidat.patch (3.0K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/8-v16-0007-pg_stat_io-Count-buffer-eviction-after-invalidat.patch)
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From 837b4fd5ef9ba79c6881eb2eb5da38c9502a9721 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 15:38:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 07/21] pg_stat_io: Count buffer eviction after
invalidation
GetVictimBuffer() may double count pg_stat_io evictions/reuses when we
attempt to invalidate the buffer but some other backend has already
redirtied it or pinned it. This should be rare, but fixing it clarifies
the code. This didn't seem like a serious enough issue to backpatch.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D0E7C430-76A9-4030-B8AB-109E7D7ED8C1%40yandex-team.ru
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 7842fe812ae..e14c5f9ba88 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2606,6 +2606,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
Buffer buf;
uint64 buf_state;
bool from_ring;
+ bool buf_valid;
/*
* Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
@@ -2693,8 +2694,21 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
&buf_hdr->tag);
}
+ /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
- if (buf_state & BM_VALID)
+ /*
+ * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
+ * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
+ * buffer.
+ */
+ if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
+ {
+ UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ goto again;
+ }
+
+ if (buf_valid)
{
/*
* When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
@@ -2708,25 +2722,15 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
* counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
*
* At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer. Previously,
- * we may have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
- * pinners or erroring out.
+ * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer and
+ * invalidated its previous tenant. Previously, we may have been
+ * forced to release the buffer due to concurrent pinners or erroring
+ * out.
*/
pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
}
- /*
- * If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
- * can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
- * buffer.
- */
- if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
- {
- UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
- }
-
/* a final set of sanity checks */
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf_hdr->state);
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0008-Call-BufferLockUnlock-directly-where-the-buffer-.patch (1.9K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/9-v16-0008-Call-BufferLockUnlock-directly-where-the-buffer-.patch)
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From 11c7123d48275cd94778d3070fcde45a66dbd501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:49:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 08/21] Call BufferLockUnlock() directly where the buffer
descriptor is already known
Use BufferLockUnlock() directly instead of going through LockBuffer(..,
BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK) when the buffer descriptor is already available
locally. It is cheaper, as it doesn't have to translate from Buffer to
BufferDescriptor.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index e14c5f9ba88..1a8cf4ddc30 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
/* OK, do the I/O */
FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ BufferLockUnlock(buf, buf_hdr);
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
&buf_hdr->tag);
@@ -7034,7 +7034,7 @@ LockBufferForCleanup(Buffer buffer)
if (buf_state & BM_PIN_COUNT_WAITER)
{
UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ BufferLockUnlock(buffer, bufHdr);
elog(ERROR, "multiple backends attempting to wait for pincount 1");
}
bufHdr->wait_backend_pgprocno = MyProcNumber;
@@ -7065,7 +7065,7 @@ LockBufferForCleanup(Buffer buffer)
}
UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ BufferLockUnlock(buffer, bufHdr);
/* Wait to be signaled by UnpinBuffer() */
if (InHotStandby)
@@ -7233,7 +7233,7 @@ ConditionalLockBufferForCleanup(Buffer buffer)
/* Failed, so release the lock */
UnlockBufHdr(bufHdr);
- LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
+ BufferLockUnlock(buffer, bufHdr);
return false;
}
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0009-Make-StrategyRejectBuffer-encapsulate-more-logic.patch (5.5K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/10-v16-0009-Make-StrategyRejectBuffer-encapsulate-more-logic.patch)
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From cd2ee3c048a0a07c7590f042a2a8369eece45c0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 18:38:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 09/21] Make StrategyRejectBuffer encapsulate more logic
Callers of StrategyRejectBuffer() checked whether reusing the buffer
would require a WAL flush before calling it. Move that check into
StrategyRejectBuffer() itself. This also allows us to do the check less
often, since it now runs after the other, cheaper pre-conditions. This
is a preparatory commit for further refactoring of GetVictimBuffer().
Because we moved BufHdrGetBlock() into buf_internals.h, protect it more
directly from being called on local buffers with an assert.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D0E7C430-76A9-4030-B8AB-109E7D7ED8C1%40yandex-team.ru
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 9 +--------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 9 ++++++++-
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 1a8cf4ddc30..d32df08ec1a 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -71,11 +71,6 @@
#include "utils/timestamp.h"
#include "utils/wait_event.h"
-
-/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
-#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) ((Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
-#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
-
/* Note: this macro only works on local buffers, not shared ones! */
#define LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
LocalBufferBlockPointers[-((bufHdr)->buf_id + 2)]
@@ -2678,9 +2673,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
* inside StrategyGetBuffer().
*/
if (strategy && from_ring &&
- buf_state & BM_PERMANENT &&
- XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(buf_hdr)) &&
- StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, from_ring))
+ StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
{
UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
goto again;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index fdb5bad7910..746740105a9 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
*/
#include "postgres.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
#include "storage/buf_internals.h"
@@ -741,23 +742,36 @@ IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* StrategyRejectBuffer -- consider rejecting a dirty buffer
*
* When a nondefault strategy is used, the buffer manager calls this function
- * when it turns out that the buffer selected by StrategyGetBuffer needs to
- * be written out and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us
- * a chance to choose a different victim.
+ * when it turns out that the victim buffer selected needs to be written out
+ * and doing so would require flushing WAL too. This gives us a chance to
+ * choose a different victim.
*
* Returns true if buffer manager should ask for a new victim, and false
* if this buffer should be written and re-used.
*/
bool
-StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring)
+StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state)
{
+ Assert(strategy);
+
/* We only do this in bulkread mode */
if (strategy->btype != BAS_BULKREAD)
return false;
/* Don't muck with behavior of normal buffer-replacement strategy */
- if (!from_ring ||
- strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
+ if (strategy->buffers[strategy->current] != BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf))
+ return false;
+
+ /*
+ * Rejecting a dirty ring buffer is only useful when reusing it would
+ * require flushing WAL. This only applies to permanent buffers; unlogged
+ * buffers can have fake LSNs, so XLogNeedsFlush() is not meaningful for
+ * them.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_PERMANENT))
+ return false;
+
+ if (!XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(buf)))
return false;
/*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 5297b4ea2a2..b52af7101f2 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ StaticAssertDecl(MAX_BACKENDS_BITS <= (BUF_LOCK_BITS - 2),
StaticAssertDecl(BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT < (UINT64CONST(1) << BUF_USAGECOUNT_BITS),
"BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT doesn't fit in BUF_USAGECOUNT_BITS bits");
+
+/* Note: these two macros only work on shared buffers, not local ones! */
+#define BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) \
+ (AssertMacro((bufHdr)->buf_id >= 0), \
+ (Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (bufHdr)->buf_id) * BLCKSZ))
+#define BufferGetLSN(bufHdr) (PageGetLSN(BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr)))
+
/*
* Buffer tag identifies which disk block the buffer contains.
*
@@ -590,7 +597,7 @@ extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- BufferDesc *buf, bool from_ring);
+ BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
extern int StrategySyncStart(uint32 *complete_passes, uint32 *num_buf_alloc);
extern void StrategyNotifyBgWriter(int bgwprocno);
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0010-Split-StrategyGetBuffer-into-source-specific-hel.patch (9.4K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/11-v16-0010-Split-StrategyGetBuffer-into-source-specific-hel.patch)
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From 10f0a00df8ddfa0678f2366f259c3bfd04fa2701 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:08:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 10/21] Split StrategyGetBuffer() into source-specific
helpers
StrategyGetBuffer() (called by GetVictimBuffer()), contrary to its name,
did not always return a strategy buffer. It might have returned a buffer
from the strategy ring, a buffer from shared buffers, or a buffer from
shared buffers that was now in the strategy ring.
Split it into dedicated helpers: GetBufferFromRing() returns a reusable
buffer from the strategy ring and GetBufferFromClocksweep() returns a
buffer from shared buffers. GetVictimBuffer() now calls them directly,
making it explicit where each kind of buffer comes from and where a
buffer taken from shared buffers is recorded in the ring.
This is purely structural; no behavior change.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Earler version Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D0E7C430-76A9-4030-B8AB-109E7D7ED8C1%40yandex-team.ru
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 29 ++++++++++----
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 54 ++++++---------------------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 6 ++-
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index d32df08ec1a..be2dd9bf7b5 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2614,10 +2614,25 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
again:
/*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by
- * this backend.
+ * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by this
+ * backend. If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a
+ * buffer; otherwise, or if the ring cannot provide one, get a buffer from
+ * shared buffers using the clock sweep and record it in the ring.
*/
- buf_hdr = StrategyGetBuffer(strategy, &buf_state, &from_ring);
+ buf_hdr = NULL;
+ from_ring = false;
+ if (strategy)
+ {
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, &buf_state);
+ if (buf_hdr)
+ from_ring = true;
+ }
+ if (!buf_hdr)
+ {
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferFromClocksweep(&buf_state);
+ if (strategy)
+ AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf_hdr);
+ }
buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
/*
@@ -2628,7 +2643,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
/*
* If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
* condition here, another backend could dirty the buffer between
- * StrategyGetBuffer() checking that it is not in use and invalidating the
+ * GetBufferFrom*() checking that it is not in use and invalidating the
* buffer below. That's addressed by InvalidateVictimBuffer() verifying
* that the buffer is not dirty.
*/
@@ -2643,13 +2658,13 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
* compacting the page contents while we write). We must use a
* conditional lock acquisition here to avoid deadlock. Even though
* the buffer was not pinned (and therefore surely not locked) when
- * StrategyGetBuffer returned it, someone else could have pinned and
+ * GetBufferFrom*() returned it, someone else could have pinned and
* (share-)exclusive-locked it by the time we get here. If we try to
* get the lock unconditionally, we'd block waiting for them; if they
* later block waiting for us, deadlock ensues. (This has been
* observed to happen when two backends are both trying to split btree
* index pages, and the second one just happens to be trying to split
- * the page the first one got from StrategyGetBuffer.)
+ * the page the first one got from GetBufferFrom*().)
*/
if (!BufferLockConditional(buf, buf_hdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
{
@@ -2670,7 +2685,7 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
*
* We need to hold the content lock in at least share-exclusive mode
* to safely inspect the page LSN, so this couldn't have been done
- * inside StrategyGetBuffer().
+ * inside GetBufferFromRing().
*/
if (strategy && from_ring &&
StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 746740105a9..7a8b20c6929 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -96,13 +96,9 @@ typedef struct BufferAccessStrategyData
/* Prototypes for internal functions */
-static BufferDesc *GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- uint64 *buf_state);
-static void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- BufferDesc *buf);
/*
- * ClockSweepTick - Helper routine for StrategyGetBuffer()
+ * ClockSweepTick - Helper routine for GetBufferFromClocksweep()
*
* Move the clock hand one buffer ahead of its current position and return the
* id of the buffer now under the hand.
@@ -167,43 +163,17 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
}
/*
- * StrategyGetBuffer
- *
- * Called by the bufmgr to get the next candidate buffer to use in
- * GetVictimBuffer(). The only hard requirement GetVictimBuffer() has is that
- * the selected buffer must not currently be pinned by anyone.
- *
- * strategy is a BufferAccessStrategy object, or NULL for default strategy.
- *
- * It is the callers responsibility to ensure the buffer ownership can be
- * tracked via TrackNewBufferPin().
- *
- * The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(),
- * before returning.
+ * Return a buffer from clock sweep, pinned and marked as owned using
+ * TrackNewBufferPin(). It is the caller's responsibility to make sure the
+ * buffer ownership can be tracked.
*/
BufferDesc *
-StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring)
+GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state)
{
BufferDesc *buf;
int bgwprocno;
int trycounter;
- *from_ring = false;
-
- /*
- * If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a buffer. We
- * assume strategy objects don't need buffer_strategy_lock.
- */
- if (strategy != NULL)
- {
- buf = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, buf_state);
- if (buf != NULL)
- {
- *from_ring = true;
- return buf;
- }
- }
-
/*
* If asked, we need to waken the bgwriter. Since we don't want to rely on
* a spinlock for this we force a read from shared memory once, and then
@@ -304,8 +274,6 @@ StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_r
local_buf_state))
{
/* Found a usable buffer */
- if (strategy != NULL)
- AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf);
*buf_state = local_buf_state;
TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
@@ -360,8 +328,8 @@ StrategySyncStart(uint32 *complete_passes, uint32 *num_buf_alloc)
/*
* StrategyNotifyBgWriter -- set or clear allocation notification latch
*
- * If bgwprocno isn't -1, the next invocation of StrategyGetBuffer will
- * set that latch. Pass -1 to clear the pending notification before it
+ * If bgwprocno isn't -1, the next invocation of GetBufferFromClocksweep()
+ * will set that latch. Pass -1 to clear the pending notification before it
* happens. This feature is used by the bgwriter process to wake itself up
* from hibernation, and is not meant for anybody else to use.
*/
@@ -370,8 +338,8 @@ StrategyNotifyBgWriter(int bgwprocno)
{
/*
* We acquire buffer_strategy_lock just to ensure that the store appears
- * atomic to StrategyGetBuffer. The bgwriter should call this rather
- * infrequently, so there's no performance penalty from being safe.
+ * atomic to GetBufferFromClocksweep. The bgwriter should call this
+ * rather infrequently, so there's no performance penalty from being safe.
*/
SpinLockAcquire(&StrategyControl->buffer_strategy_lock);
StrategyControl->bgwprocno = bgwprocno;
@@ -620,7 +588,7 @@ FreeAccessStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
* The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(), before
* returning.
*/
-static BufferDesc *
+BufferDesc *
GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state)
{
BufferDesc *buf;
@@ -699,7 +667,7 @@ GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state)
* Caller must hold the buffer header spinlock on the buffer. Since this
* is called with the spinlock held, it had better be quite cheap.
*/
-static void
+void
AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf)
{
strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index b52af7101f2..c4c155b7e0c 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -594,8 +594,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
-extern BufferDesc *StrategyGetBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- uint64 *buf_state, bool *from_ring);
+extern BufferDesc *GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ uint64 *buf_state);
+extern void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf);
+extern BufferDesc *GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state);
extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0011-Introduce-ClaimVictimBuffer-helper.patch (8.0K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/12-v16-0011-Introduce-ClaimVictimBuffer-helper.patch)
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From 522e6ae63abdb5a3b130f0077da9912033372cef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:35:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 11/21] Introduce ClaimVictimBuffer() helper
Extract the code to flush, possibly reject, and invalidate a
prospective victim buffer from GetVictimBuffer() into a new helper,
ClaimVictimBuffer(). When the claim fails, GetVictimBuffer() retries
with another buffer exactly as before.
While at it, drop the redundant check for strategy when deciding whether
to reject a buffer from the strategy ring.
This commit is a refactor only.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D0E7C430-76A9-4030-B8AB-109E7D7ED8C1%40yandex-team.ru
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 160 ++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 93 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index be2dd9bf7b5..09040bbb3c1 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -679,6 +679,10 @@ static pg_always_inline void TrackBufferHit(IOObject io_object,
ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum);
static uint32 MaxWriteBuffers(void);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
+static bool ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr, Buffer bufnum,
+ uint64 buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
@@ -2580,65 +2584,21 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
}
/*
- * Determine the largest IO we can assemble given global constraints on the
- * number of pinned buffers and max IO size. Currently only a single write is
- * inflight at a time, so the batch can consume all the pinned buffers this
- * backend is allowed. Only for batches of shared (non-local) relations.
+ * Helper to claim a victim buffer -- which is invalidating its existing
+ * contents (including flushing the old contents first if needed).
+ * Returns true if it successfully claimed the victim buffer and false if it
+ * failed to do so. Buffer must already be pinned, but if we fail to claim it
+ * we will unpin it.
*/
-static uint32
-MaxWriteBuffers(void)
-{
- uint32 result = Min(io_combine_limit, GetPinLimit());
-
- /* Ensure forward progress */
- return Max(result, 1);
-}
-
-static Buffer
-GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
+static bool
+ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr, Buffer bufnum, uint64 buf_state,
+ bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
{
- BufferDesc *buf_hdr;
- Buffer buf;
- uint64 buf_state;
- bool from_ring;
- bool buf_valid;
-
- /*
- * Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
- * entry and resource owner slot for the pin.
- */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
- /*
- * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by this
- * backend. If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a
- * buffer; otherwise, or if the ring cannot provide one, get a buffer from
- * shared buffers using the clock sweep and record it in the ring.
- */
- buf_hdr = NULL;
- from_ring = false;
- if (strategy)
- {
- buf_hdr = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, &buf_state);
- if (buf_hdr)
- from_ring = true;
- }
- if (!buf_hdr)
- {
- buf_hdr = GetBufferFromClocksweep(&buf_state);
- if (strategy)
- AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf_hdr);
- }
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
-
/*
* We shouldn't have any other pins for this buffer.
*/
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
/*
* If the buffer was dirty, try to write it out. There is a race
@@ -2666,14 +2626,14 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
* index pages, and the second one just happens to be trying to split
* the page the first one got from GetBufferFrom*().)
*/
- if (!BufferLockConditional(buf, buf_hdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
+ if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, buf_hdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
{
/*
* Someone else has locked the buffer, so give it up and loop back
* to get another one.
*/
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ return false;
}
/*
@@ -2684,27 +2644,22 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
* XLogNeedsFlush() is not meaningful for them.
*
* We need to hold the content lock in at least share-exclusive mode
- * to safely inspect the page LSN, so this couldn't have been done
- * inside GetBufferFromRing().
+ * to safely inspect the page LSN.
*/
- if (strategy && from_ring &&
- StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
+ if (from_ring && StrategyRejectBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf_state))
{
- UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
- goto again;
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ return false;
}
/* OK, do the I/O */
FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- BufferLockUnlock(buf, buf_hdr);
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, buf_hdr);
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
&buf_hdr->tag);
}
- /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
- buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
-
/*
* If the buffer has an entry in the buffer mapping table, delete it. This
* can fail because another backend could have pinned or dirtied the
@@ -2713,8 +2668,79 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
if ((buf_state & BM_TAG_VALID) && !InvalidateVictimBuffer(buf_hdr))
{
UnpinBuffer(buf_hdr);
- goto again;
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Determine the largest IO we can assemble given global constraints on the
+ * number of pinned buffers and max IO size. Currently only a single write is
+ * inflight at a time, so the batch can consume all the pinned buffers this
+ * backend is allowed. Only for batches of shared (non-local) relations.
+ */
+static uint32
+MaxWriteBuffers(void)
+{
+ uint32 result = Min(io_combine_limit, GetPinLimit());
+
+ /* Ensure forward progress */
+ return Max(result, 1);
+}
+
+static Buffer
+GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
+{
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr;
+ Buffer buf;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ bool from_ring;
+ bool buf_valid;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
+ * entry and resource owner slot for the pin.
+ */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
+again:
+
+ /*
+ * Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by this
+ * backend. If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a
+ * buffer; otherwise, or if the ring cannot provide one, get a buffer from
+ * shared buffers using the clock sweep and record it in the ring.
+ */
+ buf_hdr = NULL;
+ from_ring = false;
+ if (strategy)
+ {
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, &buf_state);
+ if (buf_hdr)
+ from_ring = true;
+ }
+ if (!buf_hdr)
+ {
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferFromClocksweep(&buf_state);
+ if (strategy)
+ AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf_hdr);
}
+ buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
+
+ /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
+
+ /*
+ * Try to claim the buffer -- flushing it first if dirty, and possibly
+ * letting the strategy reject it. If someone else takes or dirties the
+ * buffer before we can claim it, loop back and get another one.
+ */
+ if (!ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf, buf_state, from_ring,
+ io_context))
+ goto again;
if (buf_valid)
{
--
2.47.3
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From 44e2d272418ec3ac4521ed332675718680cbc17a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:37:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 12/21] Don't retry the strategy ring after a failed
clock-sweep claim
Move the flush/reject/invalidate logic for ring buffers out of
GetVictimBuffer() entirely so that GetBufferFromClocksweep() and
GetBufferFromRing() each return a fully cleaned buffer with its former
contents invalidated.
This changes one behavior: previously, if we selected a victim from the
clock sweep and then failed to invalidate it (e.g. a concurrent pinner
or dirtier), we would loop back and search the strategy ring again. Now,
once we move from the ring to the clock sweep, we continue searching the
clock sweep until we find a victim. This is clearer and avoids
re-checking the ring for a buffer we already decided to evict from
shared buffers.
It also prevents occupying a spot in the strategy ring with an abandoned
shared buffer we failed to invalidate. After this commit, we do not add
any shared buffers to the strategy ring until we have fully claimed
them.
With this, GetVictimBuffer() no longer needs a retry loop: a ring buffer
that cannot be claimed is handled inside GetBufferFromRing() by
advancing to the next ring slot, and the clock sweep is entered at most
once, only after the ring search has given up.
One other small change to the control flow: the retry loop over the
strategy ring is now explicitly bounded to one full pass. Previously
termination was implicit and relied on concurrent pin races being
transient.
As a side effect of these control flow changes, numBufferAllocs and the
bgwriter latch check happen at most once per victim buffer acquisition,
rather than once per claim attempt.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D0E7C430-76A9-4030-B8AB-109E7D7ED8C1%40yandex-team.ru
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 79 ++-------
src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 221 +++++++++++++++++---------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 15 +-
3 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 09040bbb3c1..784af0fe3ea 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -679,10 +679,6 @@ static pg_always_inline void TrackBufferHit(IOObject io_object,
ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum);
static uint32 MaxWriteBuffers(void);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
-static bool ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- BufferDesc *buf_hdr, Buffer bufnum,
- uint64 buf_state,
- bool from_ring, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
@@ -2590,7 +2586,7 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
* failed to do so. Buffer must already be pinned, but if we fail to claim it
* we will unpin it.
*/
-static bool
+bool
ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *buf_hdr, Buffer bufnum, uint64 buf_state,
bool from_ring, IOContext io_context)
@@ -2692,11 +2688,11 @@ MaxWriteBuffers(void)
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
+ Buffer bufnum = InvalidBuffer;
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
BufferDesc *buf_hdr;
- Buffer buf;
uint64 buf_state;
- bool from_ring;
- bool buf_valid;
+#endif
/*
* Ensure, before we pin a victim buffer, that there's a free refcount
@@ -2705,77 +2701,33 @@ GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
- /* we return here if a prospective victim buffer gets used concurrently */
-again:
-
/*
* Select a victim buffer. The buffer is returned pinned and owned by this
- * backend. If given a strategy object, see whether it can select a
- * buffer; otherwise, or if the ring cannot provide one, get a buffer from
- * shared buffers using the clock sweep and record it in the ring.
+ * backend and is already cleaned and invalidated.
*/
- buf_hdr = NULL;
- from_ring = false;
if (strategy)
- {
- buf_hdr = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, &buf_state);
- if (buf_hdr)
- from_ring = true;
- }
- if (!buf_hdr)
- {
- buf_hdr = GetBufferFromClocksweep(&buf_state);
- if (strategy)
- AddBufferToRing(strategy, buf_hdr);
- }
- buf = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf_hdr);
+ bufnum = GetBufferFromRing(strategy, io_context);
- /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
- buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
-
- /*
- * Try to claim the buffer -- flushing it first if dirty, and possibly
- * letting the strategy reject it. If someone else takes or dirties the
- * buffer before we can claim it, loop back and get another one.
- */
- if (!ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf_hdr, buf, buf_state, from_ring,
- io_context))
- goto again;
-
- if (buf_valid)
+ /* If no strategy or didn't find a strategy buffer, get one from SB */
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
{
- /*
- * When a BufferAccessStrategy is in use, blocks evicted from shared
- * buffers are counted as IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context
- * (e.g. IOCONTEXT_BULKWRITE). Shared buffers are evicted by a
- * strategy in two cases: 1) while initially claiming buffers for the
- * strategy ring 2) to replace an existing strategy ring buffer
- * because it is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
- *
- * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
- * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
- *
- * At this point, we can accurately count evictions and reuses,
- * because we have successfully claimed the valid buffer and
- * invalidated its previous tenant. Previously, we may have been
- * forced to release the buffer due to concurrent pinners or erroring
- * out.
- */
- pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
- from_ring ? IOOP_REUSE : IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ bufnum = GetBufferFromClocksweep(io_context);
+ if (strategy)
+ AddBufferToRing(strategy, bufnum);
}
/* a final set of sanity checks */
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+ buf_hdr = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf_hdr->state);
Assert(BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) == 1);
Assert(!(buf_state & (BM_TAG_VALID | BM_VALID | BM_DIRTY)));
- CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(buf);
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
#endif
- return buf;
+ return bufnum;
}
/*
@@ -4838,8 +4790,7 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
* If a shared buffer which was added to the ring later because the
* current strategy buffer is pinned or in use or because all strategy
* buffers were dirty and rejected (for BAS_BULKREAD operations only)
- * requires flushing, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE
- * (from_ring will be false).
+ * requires flushing, this is counted as an IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE.
*
* When a strategy is not in use, the write can only be a "regular" write
* of a dirty shared buffer (IOCONTEXT_NORMAL IOOP_WRITE).
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
index 7a8b20c6929..c56addaabc4 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c
@@ -167,10 +167,9 @@ ClockSweepTick(void)
* TrackNewBufferPin(). It is the caller's responsibility to make sure the
* buffer ownership can be tracked.
*/
-BufferDesc *
-GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state)
+Buffer
+GetBufferFromClocksweep(IOContext io_context)
{
- BufferDesc *buf;
int bgwprocno;
int trycounter;
@@ -211,8 +210,11 @@ GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state)
trycounter = NBuffers;
for (;;)
{
+ BufferDesc *buf;
+ Buffer bufnum = InvalidBuffer;
uint64 old_buf_state;
- uint64 local_buf_state;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ bool buf_valid;
buf = GetBufferDescriptor(ClockSweepTick());
@@ -223,7 +225,7 @@ GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state)
old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
for (;;)
{
- local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
/*
* If the buffer is pinned or has a nonzero usage_count, we cannot
@@ -231,7 +233,7 @@ GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state)
* scanning.
*/
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
{
if (--trycounter == 0)
{
@@ -248,18 +250,18 @@ GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state)
}
/* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
- if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
{
old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
continue;
}
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0)
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
{
- local_buf_state -= BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
+ buf_state -= BUF_USAGECOUNT_ONE;
if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
+ buf_state))
{
trycounter = NBuffers;
break;
@@ -268,17 +270,52 @@ GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state)
else
{
/* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
- local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
+ buf_state))
{
/* Found a usable buffer */
- *buf_state = local_buf_state;
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
+ TrackNewBufferPin(bufnum);
- TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
+ /*
+ * Don't use a stale buf_state value after
+ * InvalidateVictimBuffer
+ */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
+
+ if (ClaimVictimBuffer(NULL, buf, bufnum, buf_state,
+ false, io_context))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Blocks evicted from shared buffers are counted as
+ * IOOP_EVICT in the corresponding context, even when
+ * a strategy is in use. Shared buffers are evicted by
+ * a strategy in two cases: 1) while initially
+ * claiming buffers for the strategy ring 2) to
+ * replace an existing strategy ring buffer because it
+ * is pinned or in use and cannot be reused.
+ *
+ * We can only count this now that we've successfully
+ * claimed the buffer and invalidated its previous
+ * tenant. Previously we may have been forced to
+ * release the buffer due to concurrent pinners or
+ * erroring out.
+ */
+ if (buf_valid)
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context,
+ IOOP_EVICT, 1, 0);
+ return bufnum;
+ }
- return buf;
+ /*
+ * The claim failed because the buffer was concurrently
+ * pinned or dirtied. Resume the sweep with a fresh
+ * budget, as if we had restarted the search.
+ */
+ trycounter = NBuffers;
+ break;
}
}
}
@@ -582,95 +619,129 @@ FreeAccessStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy)
}
/*
- * GetBufferFromRing -- returns a buffer from the ring, or NULL if the
- * ring is empty / not usable.
+ * Returns a clean, invalidated buffer from the ring, or InvalidBuffer if the
+ * ring is empty or contains no usable buffers. In that case, the caller will
+ * select a buffer from the clocksweep and add it to the ring.
*
* The buffer is pinned and marked as owned, using TrackNewBufferPin(), before
- * returning.
+ * returning. It is the caller's responsibility to make sure the buffer
+ * ownership can be tracked.
*/
-BufferDesc *
-GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, uint64 *buf_state)
+Buffer
+GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
- BufferDesc *buf;
- Buffer bufnum;
- uint64 old_buf_state;
- uint64 local_buf_state; /* to avoid repeated (de-)referencing */
-
-
- /* Advance to next ring slot */
- if (++strategy->current >= strategy->nbuffers)
- strategy->current = 0;
-
- /*
- * If the slot hasn't been filled yet, tell the caller to allocate a new
- * buffer with the normal allocation strategy. He will then fill this
- * slot by calling AddBufferToRing with the new buffer.
- */
- bufnum = strategy->buffers[strategy->current];
- if (bufnum == InvalidBuffer)
- return NULL;
-
- buf = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+ Assert(strategy);
/*
- * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this using a
- * CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
+ * Bound the retries so this loop terminates no matter why claims fail. A
+ * buffer that fails the reuse checks (pinned or recently used) ends the
+ * ring search immediately, but a claim failure -- a concurrent pin or
+ * dirty, or a strategy rejection -- continues it. Today every such
+ * failure is either transient or removes the buffer from the ring, but
+ * rather than depend on that, give up after one full pass and let the
+ * caller fall back to the clock sweep.
*/
- old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
- for (;;)
+ for (int i = 0; i < strategy->nbuffers; i++)
{
- local_buf_state = old_buf_state;
+ BufferDesc *buf;
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ uint64 old_buf_state;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ bool buf_valid;
+
+ /* Advance to next ring slot */
+ if (++strategy->current >= strategy->nbuffers)
+ strategy->current = 0;
/*
- * If the buffer is pinned we cannot use it under any circumstances.
- *
- * If usage_count is 0 or 1 then the buffer is fair game (we expect 1,
- * since our own previous usage of the ring element would have left it
- * there, but it might've been decremented by clock-sweep since then).
- * A higher usage_count indicates someone else has touched the buffer,
- * so we shouldn't re-use it.
+ * If the slot hasn't been filled yet, tell the caller to allocate a
+ * new buffer with the normal allocation strategy. He will then fill
+ * this slot by calling AddBufferToRing with the new buffer.
*/
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(local_buf_state) != 0
- || BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(local_buf_state) > 1)
- break;
+ bufnum = strategy->buffers[strategy->current];
+ if (bufnum == InvalidBuffer)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ buf = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
- /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
- if (unlikely(local_buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ /*
+ * Check whether the buffer can be used and pin it if so. Do this
+ * using a CAS loop, to avoid having to lock the buffer header.
+ */
+ old_buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&buf->state);
+ for (;;)
{
- old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
- continue;
+ buf_state = old_buf_state;
+
+ /*
+ * If the buffer is pinned we cannot use it under any
+ * circumstances.
+ *
+ * If usage_count is 0 or 1 then the buffer is fair game (we
+ * expect 1, since our own previous usage of the ring element
+ * would have left it there, but it might've been decremented by
+ * clock-sweep since then). A higher usage_count indicates someone
+ * else has touched the buffer, so we shouldn't re-use it.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0
+ || BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) > 1)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ /* See equivalent code in PinBuffer() */
+ if (unlikely(buf_state & BM_LOCKED))
+ {
+ old_buf_state = WaitBufHdrUnlocked(buf);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
+ buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+
+ /* if we can't change state, keep trying */
+ if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
+ buf_state))
+ {
+ /* got a pin */
+ TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
+ break;
+ }
}
- /* pin the buffer if the CAS succeeds */
- local_buf_state += BUF_REFCOUNT_ONE;
+ /* Don't use a stale buf_state value after InvalidateVictimBuffer */
+ buf_valid = buf_state & BM_VALID;
- if (pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u64(&buf->state, &old_buf_state,
- local_buf_state))
+ if (ClaimVictimBuffer(strategy, buf, bufnum, buf_state, true, io_context))
{
- *buf_state = local_buf_state;
-
- TrackNewBufferPin(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf));
- return buf;
+ /*
+ * Blocks evicted from buffers already in the strategy ring are
+ * counted as IOOP_REUSE in the corresponding strategy context.
+ *
+ * We can only count this now that we've successfully claimed the
+ * buffer and invalidated its previous tenant. Previously we may
+ * have been forced to release the buffer due to concurrent
+ * pinners or erroring out.
+ */
+ if (buf_valid)
+ pgstat_count_io_op(IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context, IOOP_REUSE, 1, 0);
+ return bufnum;
}
}
/*
* Tell caller to allocate a new buffer with the normal allocation
- * strategy. He'll then replace this ring element via AddBufferToRing.
+ * strategy. He'll then replace this ring element via AddBufferToRing.
*/
- return NULL;
+ return InvalidBuffer;
}
/*
- * AddBufferToRing -- add a buffer to the buffer ring
- *
- * Caller must hold the buffer header spinlock on the buffer. Since this
- * is called with the spinlock held, it had better be quite cheap.
+ * Records the buffer in the current ring slot. The caller must have already
+ * pinned the buffer and invalidated its previous contents.
*/
void
-AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf)
+AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum)
{
- strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
+ strategy->buffers[strategy->current] = bufnum;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index c4c155b7e0c..541308a678c 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -558,6 +558,13 @@ ResourceOwnerForgetBufferIO(ResourceOwner owner, Buffer buffer)
ResourceOwnerForget(owner, Int32GetDatum(buffer), &buffer_io_resowner_desc);
}
+/* For use in freelist.c but defined in bufmgr.c */
+extern bool ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ BufferDesc *buf_hdr, Buffer bufnum,
+ uint64 buf_state,
+ bool from_ring,
+ IOContext io_context);
+
/*
* Internal buffer management routines
*/
@@ -594,10 +601,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag
/* freelist.c */
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
-extern BufferDesc *GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
- uint64 *buf_state);
-extern void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, BufferDesc *buf);
-extern BufferDesc *GetBufferFromClocksweep(uint64 *buf_state);
+extern Buffer GetBufferFromRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
+ IOContext io_context);
+extern void AddBufferToRing(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, Buffer bufnum);
+extern Buffer GetBufferFromClocksweep(IOContext io_context);
extern bool StrategyRejectBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
BufferDesc *buf, uint64 buf_state);
--
2.47.3
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From 65551df08b32452fb4159ae3e4926850ac988669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 12:45:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 13/21] Write combining for client backends
When flushing a dirty buffer, check if the blocks preceding and
following it are in shared buffers and whether or not they are dirty.
If they are, flush them together with the victim buffer as a single
larger IO.
Batches are bounded by io_combine_limit, the backend's pin limit, and
the segment boundaries of the relation; the new smgrblockbounds() and
smgrmaxcombine() report the combinable range around a block. A buffer
whose WAL is not yet flushed is only included if the batch already has
to flush WAL anyway (XLogFlush() flushes through the requested LSN, so
such buffers ride along without adding flushes).
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Earlier version Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/0198DBB9-4A76-49E4-87F8-43D46DD0FD76%40gmail.com#1d8677fc75dc8b39f0eb5dd6bbafb65d
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 422 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c | 24 ++
src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c | 21 ++
src/include/storage/md.h | 3 +
src/include/storage/smgr.h | 3 +
5 files changed, 468 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 784af0fe3ea..393971ac9b8 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -678,12 +678,24 @@ static pg_always_inline void TrackBufferHit(IOObject io_object,
Relation rel, char persistence, SMgrRelation smgr,
ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum);
static uint32 MaxWriteBuffers(void);
+static uint32 CurrentMaxWriteBuffers(uint32 max_batch_size);
+static uint32 InitWriteBuffersOperation(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr, IOContext io_context,
+ WriteBuffersOperation *batch,
+ BlockNumber *scan_start, BlockNumber *scan_end);
static Buffer GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
static void FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context);
+static BufferDesc *PrepareOrRejectEagerWriteBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
+ bool allow_pending_wal,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn);
static void WriteBuffers(WriteBuffersOperation *batch);
+static void GatherContiguousDirtyBuffers(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ IOContext io_context,
+ WriteBuffersOperation *batch);
+static Buffer LookupBufferForTag(BufferTag *tag);
static void CompleteWriteBuffers(WriteBuffersOperation *batch,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
static void ScheduleBufferTagsForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
@@ -2579,6 +2591,48 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * Given a target victim buffer, clean it and look for additional adjacent
+ * blocks that are already in shared buffers and dirty to eagerly flush along
+ * with it in a single write. The victim buffer must be already pinned and
+ * locked and will remain pinned upon return.
+ */
+static void
+WriteBufferAndNeighbors(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context)
+{
+ WriteBuffersOperation batch;
+ StartBufferIOResult status;
+
+ /* Start IO on the victim buffer */
+ if ((status = StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL)) !=
+ BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ {
+ Assert(status == BUFFER_IO_ALREADY_DONE);
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush anything if the victim buffer is already clean.
+ * Leave the buffer pinned for the caller.
+ */
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, buf_hdr);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Pin victim again so it stays ours even after batch released.
+ */
+ IncrBufferRefCount(bufnum);
+
+ /*
+ * If we are allowed more pins and there are more blocks in the relation
+ * and the victim buffer's block's preceding and/or following blocks are
+ * eligible for eager flushing, combine them into a batch.
+ */
+ GatherContiguousDirtyBuffers(buf_hdr, io_context, &batch);
+ WriteBuffers(&batch);
+ CompleteWriteBuffers(&batch, wb_context);
+}
+
/*
* Helper to claim a victim buffer -- which is invalidating its existing
* contents (including flushing the old contents first if needed).
@@ -2649,11 +2703,7 @@ ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
}
/* OK, do the I/O */
- FlushBuffer(buf_hdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, io_context);
- BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, buf_hdr);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, io_context,
- &buf_hdr->tag);
+ WriteBufferAndNeighbors(bufnum, buf_hdr, io_context, &BackendWritebackContext);
}
/*
@@ -2685,6 +2735,17 @@ MaxWriteBuffers(void)
return Max(result, 1);
}
+static uint32
+CurrentMaxWriteBuffers(uint32 max_batch_size)
+{
+ uint32 limit;
+
+ limit = Min(GetAdditionalPinLimit(), max_batch_size);
+
+ /* Guarantee forward progress */
+ return Max(limit, 1);
+}
+
static Buffer
GetVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy, IOContext io_context)
{
@@ -4815,6 +4876,357 @@ FlushBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln, IOObject io_object,
error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
}
+static Buffer
+LookupBufferForTag(BufferTag *tag)
+{
+ uint32 hash;
+ LWLock *partition_lock;
+ int buf_id;
+
+ hash = BufTableHashCode(tag);
+ partition_lock = BufMappingPartitionLock(hash);
+
+ /*
+ * We can release the partition lock as soon as we've done the lookup. The
+ * buffer may be evicted and reused before we pin it, but
+ * PrepareOrRejectEagerWriteBuffer() rechecks the buffer's tag after
+ * pinning it, so it will reject the buffer if that happens.
+ */
+ LWLockAcquire(partition_lock, LW_SHARED);
+ buf_id = BufTableLookup(tag, hash);
+ LWLockRelease(partition_lock);
+
+ if (buf_id < 0)
+ return InvalidBuffer;
+
+ return buf_id + 1;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Given a required bufhdr, set up a batch that will include it and may
+ * include blocks from its same segment, preceding and/or following. Returns
+ * the current maximum number of blocks that can be in this batch given the
+ * location of the block in the file, the current available pins, and various
+ * configuration GUCs.
+ */
+static uint32
+InitWriteBuffersOperation(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr, IOContext io_context,
+ WriteBuffersOperation *batch,
+ BlockNumber *scan_start, BlockNumber *scan_end)
+{
+ uint32 batch_limit;
+ BlockNumber required_block;
+ BlockNumber bound_start,
+ bound_end;
+
+ Assert(required_bufhdr);
+ batch->io_context = io_context;
+ batch->forkno = BufTagGetForkNum(&required_bufhdr->tag);
+ batch->reln = smgropen(BufTagGetRelFileLocator(&required_bufhdr->tag),
+ INVALID_PROC_NUMBER);
+
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr)));
+ batch->max_lsn =
+ pg_atomic_read_u64(&required_bufhdr->state) & BM_PERMANENT ?
+ BufferGetLSN(required_bufhdr) : InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
+ batch->n = 0;
+
+ batch_limit = CurrentMaxWriteBuffers(MaxWriteBuffers());
+
+ /* If we can only write out the required buffer, do that */
+ if (batch_limit <= 1)
+ {
+ batch->buffers[0] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr);
+ batch->n = 1;
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ required_block = required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(required_block));
+
+ smgrblockbounds(batch->reln, batch->forkno, required_block,
+ &bound_start, &bound_end);
+
+ Assert(bound_start <= required_block);
+ Assert(required_block <= bound_end);
+
+ /* Limit the scan to batch_limit in either direction */
+ *scan_start = required_block - Min(required_block - bound_start,
+ batch_limit - 1);
+ *scan_end = required_block + Min(bound_end - required_block,
+ batch_limit - 1);
+
+ return batch_limit;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Prepare bufnum for eager flushing.
+ *
+ * Given bufnum, return its buffer descriptor, pinned and locked and with
+ * BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS set, or NULL if this buffer does not contain a block that
+ * should be flushed. Buffers that are accepted are suitable for writing out
+ * eagerly. The input buffer should not already be pinned.
+ *
+ * If the caller requires a particular block to be in the buffer in order to
+ * accept it, they will provide the required block number and its
+ * RelFileLocator and fork.
+ *
+ * If allow_pending_wal is true, the caller is willing to eagerly flush a
+ * buffer that would require first flushing WAL. This is true, for example,
+ * when constructing a WriteBuffersOperation around a victim buffer that has
+ * its own pending WAL.
+ *
+ * If returning a buffer, also return its LSN.
+ */
+static BufferDesc *
+PrepareOrRejectEagerWriteBuffer(Buffer bufnum,
+ BufferTag *require,
+ bool allow_pending_wal,
+ XLogRecPtr *lsn)
+{
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+ uint64 buf_state;
+
+ *lsn = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
+
+ if (!BufferIsValid(bufnum))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ Assert(!BufferIsLocal(bufnum));
+
+ bufhdr = GetBufferDescriptor(bufnum - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Quick, unsafe checks to see if buffer even possibly contains a block
+ * meeting our requirements. We'll recheck it all again after getting a
+ * pin.
+ */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufhdr->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufhdr->state);
+
+ /*
+ * We'll recheck if it is dirty later, when we have a pin and lock, before
+ * actually setting BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Quick check to see if the buffer is pinned, in which case it is more
+ * likely to be dirtied again soon, and we don't want to eagerly flush it.
+ * We don't care if it has a non-zero usage count because we don't need to
+ * reuse it right away and a non-zero usage count doesn't necessarily mean
+ * it will be dirtied again soon.
+ */
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) > 0)
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't eagerly flush buffers requiring WAL flush unless the caller has
+ * specifically allowed it. We must check this again later while holding
+ * the buffer content lock for correctness.
+ */
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT &&
+ !allow_pending_wal && XLogNeedsFlush(BufferGetLSN(bufhdr)))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that there's a free refcount entry and resource owner slot for
+ * the pin before pinning the buffer. While this may leak a refcount and
+ * slot if we return without a buffer, that slot will be reused.
+ */
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+
+ /* There is no need to flush the buffer if it is not BM_VALID */
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufhdr, BUC_ZERO, true /* skip_if_not_valid */ ))
+ goto reject_buffer;
+
+ CheckBufferIsPinnedOnce(bufnum);
+
+ /* Now that we have the buffer pinned, recheck it's got the right block */
+ if (require && !BufferTagsEqual(require, &bufhdr->tag))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
+ if (!BufferLockConditional(bufnum, bufhdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE))
+ goto reject_buffer_unpin;
+
+ /* Re-read buf_state now that we have the buffer pinned */
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufhdr->state);
+ if (buf_state & BM_PERMANENT)
+ {
+ /* The LSN is for flushing WAL, so we only care about "real" LSNs */
+ *lsn = BufferGetLSN(bufhdr);
+
+ /*
+ * Recheck if the buffer needs WAL flush now that we hold the lock.
+ * Dirtiness and concurrent use are rechecked by the caller when
+ * flushing the buffer.
+ */
+ if (!allow_pending_wal && XLogNeedsFlush(*lsn))
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+ }
+
+ /* Try to start an I/O operation */
+ if (StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL) != BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ goto reject_buffer_unlock;
+
+ return bufhdr;
+
+reject_buffer_unlock:
+ BufferLockUnlock(bufnum, bufhdr);
+
+reject_buffer_unpin:
+ UnpinBuffer(bufhdr);
+
+reject_buffer:
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Construct a contiguous, fully prepared batch containing required_bufhdr.
+ * This looks both forward and backwards for contiguous blocks that are dirty
+ * and in shared buffers.
+ */
+static void
+GatherContiguousDirtyBuffers(BufferDesc *required_bufhdr,
+ IOContext io_context,
+ WriteBuffersOperation *batch)
+{
+ BufferDesc *left_bufhdrs[MAX_IO_COMBINE_LIMIT];
+ uint32 left_count = 0;
+ BlockNumber scan_start,
+ scan_end;
+ BufferTag require;
+ bool allow_pending_wal;
+ XLogRecPtr lsn;
+ uint32 batch_limit;
+ BlockNumber blkno = required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+
+ Assert(required_bufhdr);
+ Assert(BufferIsLockedByMe(BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr)));
+
+ batch_limit = InitWriteBuffersOperation(required_bufhdr, io_context,
+ batch,
+ &scan_start, &scan_end);
+ if (batch_limit <= 1)
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * If the required buffer needs its WAL flushed, this operation will flush
+ * WAL anyway, so admitting other buffers with pending WAL adds no WAL
+ * flushes. Deciding this once is safe: while allow_pending_wal is false,
+ * only buffers with already-flushed LSNs are admitted, so batch->max_lsn
+ * stays behind the flushed pointer. If another backend flushes the
+ * required buffer's WAL after we decide, admitting a later-dirtied buffer
+ * may cost this operation an extra WAL flush; that's rare and bounded.
+ */
+ allow_pending_wal = XLogRecPtrIsValid(batch->max_lsn) &&
+ XLogNeedsFlush(batch->max_lsn);
+
+ InitBufferTag(&require, &batch->reln->smgr_rlocator.locator,
+ batch->forkno,
+ InvalidBlockNumber);
+
+ /*
+ * Loop backwards from our required block, looking for up to batch_limit
+ * contiguous blocks, but stop once we hit the start of the current
+ * file/segment.
+ */
+ while (blkno > scan_start && left_count < batch_limit - 1)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+
+ /*
+ * We must be sure not to process the required buffer here, as we've
+ * already confirmed it is dirty and needs to be written out and
+ * pinned and locked it.
+ */
+ require.blockNum = --blkno;
+
+ /*
+ * blkno is guaranteed to be valid because we checked scan_start
+ * before decrementing it.
+ */
+ Assert(BlockNumberIsValid(blkno));
+ bufnum = LookupBufferForTag(&require);
+ bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerWriteBuffer(bufnum, &require,
+ allow_pending_wal, &lsn);
+ if (bufhdr == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ left_bufhdrs[left_count++] = bufhdr;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Copy those left side buffer descriptors we found into the final result
+ * batch.
+ */
+ while (left_count > 0)
+ {
+ batch->buffers[batch->n++] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(left_bufhdrs[left_count - 1]);
+ left_count--;
+ }
+
+ /* Now we know where our required buffer will be in the batch */
+ batch->buffers[batch->n++] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr);
+
+ /*
+ * Loop forward from our required block and put any contiguous blocks we
+ * find, up to batch_limit, in our buffers array. Stop if we hit the end
+ * of the segment.
+ *
+ * scan_end comes from smgrblockbounds(), which bounds us to the segment
+ * without consulting the on-disk relation size, so it may extend past the
+ * relation's EOF. That's not a problem, because a non-existent block
+ * won't have a valid associated buffer and we'll just break out of the
+ * loop below.
+ */
+ for (BlockNumber right_blkno = required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum;
+ right_blkno < scan_end && batch->n < batch_limit;)
+ {
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ BufferDesc *bufhdr;
+
+ /*
+ * We must be sure not to process the required buffer here, as we've
+ * already confirmed it is dirty and needs to be written out and
+ * pinned and locked it.
+ */
+ require.blockNum = ++right_blkno;
+
+ bufnum = LookupBufferForTag(&require);
+ bufhdr = PrepareOrRejectEagerWriteBuffer(bufnum, &require,
+ allow_pending_wal, &lsn);
+ if (bufhdr == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ if (lsn > batch->max_lsn)
+ batch->max_lsn = lsn;
+
+ batch->buffers[batch->n++] = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufhdr);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Batch validations, including that we actually added the required buffer
+ * to the batch and it is at the expected location in the array.
+ */
+ Assert(batch->n > 0);
+ Assert(GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[0] - 1)->tag.blockNum <= required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum);
+ Assert(required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum <
+ GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[0] - 1)->tag.blockNum + batch->n);
+ Assert(batch->buffers[required_bufhdr->tag.blockNum -
+ GetBufferDescriptor(batch->buffers[0] - 1)->tag.blockNum] ==
+ BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(required_bufhdr));
+}
+
/*
* Given a prepared batch of buffers write them out as a vector.
*/
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c b/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
index 780c88c0630..acfd71f8cd8 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
@@ -851,6 +851,30 @@ mdmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
return RELSEG_SIZE - segoff;
}
+/*
+ * Return the start and end block numbers of the segment containing blocknum.
+ *
+ * These bounds are computed arithmetically from the segment size and do not
+ * consult the actual on-disk relation size to save syscall overhead. As a
+ * consequence, if the relation is not yet that large -- for example, the last
+ * segment is not full, or blocknum is at or beyond the current EOF -- the
+ * bounds may not be accurate: *end can refer to a block past the real end of
+ * the relation. Callers that scan this range must be prepared to encounter
+ * blocks that do not exist.
+ */
+void
+mdblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end)
+{
+ BlockNumber segstart;
+
+ segstart = (blocknum / ((BlockNumber) RELSEG_SIZE)) *
+ ((BlockNumber) RELSEG_SIZE);
+
+ *start = segstart;
+ *end = segstart + ((BlockNumber) RELSEG_SIZE - 1);
+}
+
/*
* mdreadv() -- Read the specified blocks from a relation.
*/
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c b/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
index 5391640d861..b70e8a172c6 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ typedef struct f_smgr
BlockNumber blocknum, int nblocks);
uint32 (*smgr_maxcombine) (SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum);
+ void (*smgr_blockbounds) (SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
+ BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end);
void (*smgr_readv) (SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum,
void **buffers, BlockNumber nblocks);
@@ -139,6 +142,7 @@ static const f_smgr smgrsw[] = {
.smgr_zeroextend = mdzeroextend,
.smgr_prefetch = mdprefetch,
.smgr_maxcombine = mdmaxcombine,
+ .smgr_blockbounds = mdblockbounds,
.smgr_readv = mdreadv,
.smgr_startreadv = mdstartreadv,
.smgr_writev = mdwritev,
@@ -706,6 +710,23 @@ smgrmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Return the start and end block numbers of the storage manager's combinable
+ * range containing blocknum.
+ *
+ * The bounds are not necessarily clamped to the current relation fork size, so
+ * *end may refer to a block past the actual end of the relation.
+ */
+void
+smgrblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end)
+{
+ HOLD_INTERRUPTS();
+ smgrsw[reln->smgr_which].smgr_blockbounds(reln, forknum, blocknum,
+ start, end);
+ RESUME_INTERRUPTS();
+}
+
/*
* smgrreadv() -- read a particular block range from a relation into the
* supplied buffers.
diff --git a/src/include/storage/md.h b/src/include/storage/md.h
index b8d10329eb8..123f5b61c93 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/md.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/md.h
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ extern bool mdprefetch(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum, int nblocks);
extern uint32 mdmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum);
+extern void mdblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
+ BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end);
extern void mdreadv(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber blocknum,
void **buffers, BlockNumber nblocks);
extern void mdstartreadv(PgAioHandle *ioh,
diff --git a/src/include/storage/smgr.h b/src/include/storage/smgr.h
index 09bd42fcf4b..927c863226c 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/smgr.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/smgr.h
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ extern bool smgrprefetch(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum, int nblocks);
extern uint32 smgrmaxcombine(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum);
+extern void smgrblockbounds(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
+ BlockNumber blocknum,
+ BlockNumber *start, BlockNumber *end);
extern void smgrreadv(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum,
BlockNumber blocknum,
void **buffers, BlockNumber nblocks);
--
2.47.3
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From 5d6e9a45fca57467092d6e049c5160dea20514f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:19:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 14/21] Add client backend write combining test
Test that a client backend evicting dirty buffers through a strategy
ring combines contiguous dirty blocks into larger writes, both via
normal victim buffer eviction and via WriteBufferAndNeighbors()
directly, and that non-resident gaps fall back to single-block writes.
The normal buffer eviction path is likely both too expensive and too
prone to flakiness to be committable in the end, but it is nice to
exercise this at least during development.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 2 +-
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 3 +
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 193 ++++++++++++++++++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql | 4 +
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c | 25 +++
5 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 393971ac9b8..cb5b60c5129 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2597,7 +2597,7 @@ InvalidateVictimBuffer(BufferDesc *buf_hdr)
* with it in a single write. The victim buffer must be already pinned and
* locked and will remain pinned upon return.
*/
-static void
+void
WriteBufferAndNeighbors(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
WritebackContext *wb_context)
{
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 541308a678c..24c19a71220 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -598,6 +598,9 @@ extern StartBufferIOResult StartSharedBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool forInput, b
extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag_bits,
bool forget_owner, bool release_aio);
+extern void WriteBufferAndNeighbors(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
+ WritebackContext *wb_context);
+
/* freelist.c */
extern IOContext IOContextForStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
index f4679a7adfc..ed41651e87c 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ my $block_size = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
"SELECT current_setting('block_size')::int");
test_checkpointer_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_regular_backend_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_eager_clean_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
$node->stop();
@@ -50,6 +52,20 @@ sub io_stat_writes
return split /\|/, $result;
}
+sub io_stat_evictions
+{
+ my ($node, $backend_type, $context) = @_;
+
+ return $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ SELECT COALESCE(sum(evictions), 0)::bigint
+ FROM pg_stat_io
+ WHERE backend_type = '$backend_type'
+ AND object = 'relation'
+ AND context = '$context';
+ ));
+}
+
sub assert_combined_writes
{
local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
@@ -64,6 +80,20 @@ sub assert_combined_writes
}
+sub assert_writes
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $backend_type, $context, $expected_writes, $expected_bytes) = @_;
+ my ($writes, $write_bytes, $avg_write_bytes) =
+ io_stat_writes($node, $backend_type, $context);
+
+ note "$label: writes=$writes write_bytes=$write_bytes avg_write_bytes=$avg_write_bytes";
+
+ is($writes, $expected_writes, "$label write count");
+ is($write_bytes, $expected_bytes, "$label write bytes");
+}
+
sub assert_writes_at_least
{
local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
@@ -79,6 +109,18 @@ sub assert_writes_at_least
"$label wrote at least $expected_bytes bytes");
}
+sub assert_evictions_at_least
+{
+ local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
+
+ my ($node, $label, $expected_evictions) = @_;
+ my $evictions = io_stat_evictions($node, 'client backend', 'normal');
+
+ note "$label: evictions=$evictions";
+ ok($evictions >= $expected_evictions,
+ "$label evicted at least $expected_evictions buffers");
+}
+
sub assert_blocks_dirty
{
local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1;
@@ -117,6 +159,32 @@ sub dirty_blocks
"SELECT make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed('$table', ARRAY[$blocks])");
}
+sub allocate_until_blocks_clean
+{
+ my ($node, $psql, $table, $blocks, $filler, $label) = @_;
+ my $shared_buffers_blocks = $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres',
+ "SELECT pg_size_bytes(current_setting('shared_buffers')) / current_setting('block_size')::int"
+ );
+ my $extend_by = 1024;
+ my $allocated = 0;
+ my $max_allocations = 3 * $shared_buffers_blocks;
+
+ while ($node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "SELECT true = ANY (rel_blocks_are_dirty('$table', ARRAY[$blocks]))") eq 't')
+ {
+ if ($allocated >= $max_allocations)
+ {
+ die "$label: blocks $blocks still dirty after $allocated buffer allocations";
+ }
+
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT grow_rel('$filler'::regclass, $extend_by)");
+ $allocated += $extend_by;
+ }
+
+ note "$label: allocated $allocated buffers to reach regular backend victims";
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+}
sub test_checkpointer_combines_writes
{
@@ -167,3 +235,128 @@ sub test_checkpointer_combines_writes
$psql->quit();
}
+
+# A higher level test that might be too expensive to commit
+sub test_regular_backend_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ # Keep unrelated dirty buffers out of the client-backend write statistics.
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_backend (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_backend SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_backend'::regclass);
+ CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE wc_backend_filler (id int);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write from regular backend buffer allocation.
+ ####
+
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before regular backend allocation');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ allocate_until_blocks_clean($node, $psql, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5',
+ 'wc_backend_filler', 'contiguous regular backend');
+
+ # Assert that combining happened at all, which shouldn't fail even if the
+ # more specific test below it flakes.
+ assert_combined_writes($node, 'contiguous regular backend', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', $block_size);
+ # Unlike the checkpointer/bgwriter/eager-clean cases, we force writes here
+ # by growing a filler relation until the clock sweep evicts our blocks. The
+ # same sweep may also evict unrelated dirty pages in the 'normal' context
+ # (e.g. a catalog page freshly dirtied by a hint bit), so this exact write
+ # count test may fail. That's okay since we think this whole test routine is
+ # probably too expensive to commit.
+ assert_writes($node, 'contiguous regular backend', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 1, 6 * $block_size);
+ assert_evictions_at_least($node, 'contiguous regular backend', 6);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_backend', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'regular backend wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers.
+ ####
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_backend', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_backend', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ allocate_until_blocks_clean($node, $psql, 'wc_backend', '0,2,4',
+ 'wc_backend_filler', 'nonresident gaps regular backend');
+ # The three dirty blocks are separated by non-resident gaps, so they must
+ # not be combined: at least three separate writes. As above, stray dirty
+ # pages evicted by the same sweep may push the count higher, so assert "at
+ # least" rather than an exact count.
+ assert_writes_at_least($node, 'nonresident gaps regular backend', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 3,
+ 3 * $block_size);
+ assert_evictions_at_least($node, 'nonresident gaps regular backend', 3);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_backend', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'regular backend wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
+
+sub test_eager_clean_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_victim (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_victim SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_victim'::regclass);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write when WriteBufferAndNeighbors() is called directly.
+ ####
+
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_victim', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_victim', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before direct eager clean');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 0)");
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_writes($node, 'contiguous direct eager clean', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 1, 6 * $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_victim', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'direct eager clean wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers.
+ ####
+
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_victim', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_victim', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 0)");
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 2)");
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT eager_clean_rel_block('wc_victim', 4)");
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+ assert_writes($node, 'nonresident gaps direct eager clean', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 3,
+ 3 * $block_size);
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_victim', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'direct eager clean wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
index e1dc6a5ef10..d7d5006b3d5 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ CREATE FUNCTION make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION eager_clean_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION rel_blocks_are_dirty(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.bool[] STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
index 1c6bad8e8ef..579fa3df8e4 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
@@ -709,6 +709,31 @@ make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(eager_clean_rel_block);
+Datum
+eager_clean_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ BlockNumber blkno = PG_GETARG_UINT32(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ Buffer buf;
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessShareLock);
+ if (RelationUsesLocalBuffers(rel))
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ (errmsg("cannot eager clean local buffers")));
+
+ buf = ReadBufferExtended(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blkno, RBM_NORMAL, NULL);
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
+ WriteBufferAndNeighbors(buf, GetBufferDescriptor(buf - 1), IOCONTEXT_NORMAL,
+ &BackendWritebackContext);
+ ReleaseBuffer(buf);
+
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(rel_blocks_are_dirty);
Datum
rel_blocks_are_dirty(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0015-Add-COPY-FROM-write-combining-test.patch (2.2K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/16-v16-0015-Add-COPY-FROM-write-combining-test.patch)
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From 7f706b5b4b166e4ac60ffc3d2e59d0c094886882 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:29:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 15/21] Add COPY FROM write combining test
COPY into an unlogged table uses BAS_BULKWRITE and now combines its
writes via the centered eager-clean path used by client backends.
Note that BAS_BULKREAD uses the same eager clean path but is more
expensive to test due to requiring a table 4x shared buffers and
avoiding interactions with readahead, so we haven't included a test for
that.
---
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 28 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
index ed41651e87c..2ccf10cf2c0 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ my $block_size = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
test_checkpointer_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_regular_backend_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_eager_clean_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_copy_from_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
$node->stop();
@@ -186,6 +187,33 @@ sub allocate_until_blocks_clean
$psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
}
+sub test_copy_from_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE wc_copy (id int, payload text);
+ CHECKPOINT;
+ ));
+
+ # Feed the rows to "COPY ... FROM STDIN" inline on psql's stdin.
+ my $rows = 200000;
+ my $payload = '0' x 200;
+ my $copy_data = '';
+ $copy_data .= "$_\t$payload\n" for (1 .. $rows);
+
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('io')");
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "COPY wc_copy FROM STDIN;\n" . $copy_data . "\\.\n");
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_combined_writes($node, 'copy from', 'client backend', 'bulkwrite',
+ $block_size);
+ is($node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT count(*) FROM wc_copy"),
+ $rows, 'copy from inserted rows');
+}
+
sub test_checkpointer_combines_writes
{
my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0016-Add-VACUUM-write-combining-test.patch (2.3K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/17-v16-0016-Add-VACUUM-write-combining-test.patch)
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From 5e2aae4b94ff79d87c1d58bfd6f21933a857b7ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:09:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 16/21] Add VACUUM write combining test
Though vacuum uses the same write write combining logic that is used by
COPY FROM and regular backends needing a clean buffer, it is worth
exercising it.
---
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
index 2ccf10cf2c0..7aa18bbdf96 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ test_checkpointer_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_regular_backend_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_eager_clean_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_copy_from_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_vacuum_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
$node->stop();
@@ -388,3 +389,33 @@ sub test_eager_clean_combines_writes
$psql->quit();
}
+
+sub test_vacuum_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+
+ # ~120 blocks: enough to wrap vacuum's ring (sized below) several
+ # times, with dead tuples on every page so pruning dirties every page
+ # vacuum reads into the ring.
+ #
+ # This uses a regular (logged) table, so at least one test covers logged
+ # tables. We don't expect WAL flush timing to affect the results because the
+ # target buffer is always included in the batch and will do a combined write
+ # regardless of whether or not it has to flush WAL.
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_vacuum (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_vacuum SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 3600) AS g;
+ DELETE FROM wc_vacuum WHERE id % 5 = 0;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_vacuum'::regclass);
+ SELECT evict_rel('wc_vacuum'::regclass);
+ ));
+
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT pg_stat_reset_shared('io')");
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres',
+ "VACUUM (BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT '256kB') wc_vacuum");
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+
+ assert_combined_writes($node, 'vacuum', 'client backend', 'vacuum',
+ $block_size);
+}
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0017-Add-bgwriter-helper-to-write-buffers.patch (6.2K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/18-v16-0017-Add-bgwriter-helper-to-write-buffers.patch)
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From 62ec349f4a0acabe269e718222a4288fa29272cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:08:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 17/21] Add bgwriter helper to write buffers
BgBufferSync() is long and complex. Put the logic that actually cleans
the number of buffers it has decided to clean in its own helper. This is
useful for code clarity, but it also allows us to test the upcoming
bgwriter write combining logic. It's very difficult to directly test any
bgwriter functionality reliably.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 150 ++++++++++++++++++----------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 4 +
2 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index cb5b60c5129..2391fecae12 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -4138,6 +4138,97 @@ CheckPointBuffers(int flags)
TRACE_POSTGRESQL_BUFFER_SYNC_DONE(NBuffers, num_written, num_to_scan);
}
+/*
+ * Clean dirty reusable buffers.
+ *
+ * This is the bgwriter's LRU cleaning scan. It works forward from
+ * next_to_clean and stops after scanning num_to_scan buffers, finding enough
+ * reusable buffers, or hitting lru_maxpages. BgBufferSync() is long and
+ * complicated, so this helps simplify it. It also allows us to directly test
+ * background writer write combining logic.
+ */
+int
+BgwriterWriteBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ int *next_to_clean, uint32 *next_passes,
+ int *num_to_scan, int *reusable_buffers,
+ int upcoming_alloc_est, bool *maxwritten_clean)
+{
+ int num_written = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Work on local copies of the in/out parameters to avoid repeated
+ * dereferencing in the loop.
+ */
+ int to_scan = *num_to_scan;
+ int clean_idx = *next_to_clean;
+ uint32 passes = *next_passes;
+ int reusable = *reusable_buffers;
+
+ *maxwritten_clean = false;
+
+ /* Execute the LRU scan */
+ for (; to_scan > 0; to_scan--, clean_idx++)
+ {
+ uint64 buf_state;
+ BufferDesc *bufHdr;
+ BufferTag tag;
+
+ if (reusable >= upcoming_alloc_est)
+ break;
+
+ if (clean_idx >= NBuffers)
+ {
+ clean_idx = 0;
+ passes++;
+ }
+
+ bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(clean_idx);
+ buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
+ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
+ BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
+ continue;
+
+ reusable++;
+
+ /*
+ * Racy check is fine: bgwriter writes are opportunistic. If we miss a
+ * buffer that just became dirty, it will be written by a future
+ * bgwriter pass or by checkpointer.
+ */
+ if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
+ ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
+ ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+
+ if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
+ continue;
+
+ FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
+ tag = bufHdr->tag;
+ UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+
+ ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
+
+ if (++num_written >= lru_maxpages)
+ {
+ *maxwritten_clean = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Write back the updated scan state for the caller */
+ *num_to_scan = to_scan;
+ *next_to_clean = clean_idx;
+ *next_passes = passes;
+ *reusable_buffers = reusable;
+
+ return num_written;
+}
+
/*
* BgBufferSync -- Write out some dirty buffers in the pool.
*
@@ -4188,6 +4279,7 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
int num_to_scan;
int num_written;
int reusable_buffers;
+ bool maxwritten_clean;
/* Variables for final smoothed_density update */
long new_strategy_delta;
@@ -4369,59 +4461,13 @@ BgBufferSync(WritebackContext *wb_context)
num_written = 0;
reusable_buffers = reusable_buffers_est;
- /* Execute the LRU scan */
- for (; num_to_scan > 0; num_to_scan--, next_to_clean++)
- {
- uint64 buf_state;
- BufferDesc *bufHdr;
- BufferTag tag;
-
- if (reusable_buffers >= upcoming_alloc_est)
- break;
-
- if (next_to_clean >= NBuffers)
- {
- next_to_clean = 0;
- next_passes++;
- }
-
- bufHdr = GetBufferDescriptor(next_to_clean);
- buf_state = pg_atomic_read_u64(&bufHdr->state);
- if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0 ||
- BUF_STATE_GET_USAGECOUNT(buf_state) != 0)
- continue;
-
- reusable_buffers++;
-
- /*
- * Racy check is fine: bgwriter writes are opportunistic. If we miss a
- * buffer that just became dirty, it will be written by a future
- * bgwriter pass or by checkpointer.
- */
- if (!(buf_state & BM_VALID) || !(buf_state & BM_DIRTY))
- continue;
-
- /* Make sure we can handle the pin */
- ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
- ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
-
- if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
- continue;
+ num_written = BgwriterWriteBuffers(bgwriter_lru_maxpages, wb_context,
+ &next_to_clean, &next_passes,
+ &num_to_scan, &reusable_buffers,
+ upcoming_alloc_est, &maxwritten_clean);
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
-
- /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
-
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
-
- if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
- {
- PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
- break;
- }
- }
+ if (maxwritten_clean)
+ PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
PendingBgWriterStats.buf_written_clean += num_written;
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 24c19a71220..32853da256a 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -600,6 +600,10 @@ extern void TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint64 set_flag
extern void WriteBufferAndNeighbors(Buffer bufnum, BufferDesc *buf_hdr, IOContext io_context,
WritebackContext *wb_context);
+extern int BgwriterWriteBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
+ int *next_to_clean, uint32 *next_passes,
+ int *num_to_scan, int *reusable_buffers,
+ int upcoming_alloc_est, bool *maxwritten_clean);
/* freelist.c */
--
2.47.3
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From cf56f34e5c25af8100d5a638a00ba1b86225ba18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 13:06:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 18/21] Write combining for background writer
Using the same logic used by normal client backends, when the bgwriter
is going to write out a dirty buffer, look for preceding and following
contiguous blocks also dirty and in shared buffers and write those out.
In situations where the working set doesn't fit in shared memory and
IOPs are constrained this can substantially improve performance and
throughput.
This commit removes ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback() since all callers
use the batch variant instead now.
---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 79 ++++++++++++-----------------
src/include/storage/buf_internals.h | 2 -
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 2391fecae12..a59b6b18661 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -4170,8 +4170,10 @@ BgwriterWriteBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
for (; to_scan > 0; to_scan--, clean_idx++)
{
uint64 buf_state;
+ StartBufferIOResult status;
BufferDesc *bufHdr;
- BufferTag tag;
+ Buffer bufnum;
+ WriteBuffersOperation batch;
if (reusable >= upcoming_alloc_est)
break;
@@ -4202,18 +4204,40 @@ BgwriterWriteBuffers(int lru_maxpages, WritebackContext *wb_context,
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry();
ResourceOwnerEnlarge(CurrentResourceOwner);
+ /*
+ * Any other buffers found and added to the same batch will be pinned
+ * when they are identified. We know we want to flush this buffer,
+ * however, so we'll pin and lock it now. Pins and locks are released
+ * when completing the writes on all buffers in the batch.
+ */
if (!PinBuffer(bufHdr, BUC_ZERO, true))
continue;
- FlushUnlockedBuffer(bufHdr, NULL, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+ bufnum = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(bufHdr);
+ BufferLockAcquire(bufnum, bufHdr, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
- /* Snapshot the tag before unpinning */
- tag = bufHdr->tag;
- UnpinBuffer(bufHdr);
+ if ((status = StartBufferIO(bufnum, false, true, NULL)) !=
+ BUFFER_IO_READY_FOR_IO)
+ {
+ Assert(status == BUFFER_IO_ALREADY_DONE);
+ UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufnum);
+ continue;
+ }
- ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &tag);
+ /*
+ * We may opportunistically clean other buffers as part of this batch,
+ * but we only count the single buffer under the clock hand as
+ * reusable (above). The others are counted when the clock hand
+ * reaches them on a later iteration or pass; counting them here as
+ * well would overestimate the number of reusable buffers (and could
+ * even count buffers behind the clock hand that we won't hand out).
+ */
+ GatherContiguousDirtyBuffers(bufHdr, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &batch);
+ WriteBuffers(&batch);
+ CompleteWriteBuffers(&batch, wb_context);
+ num_written += batch.n;
- if (++num_written >= lru_maxpages)
+ if (num_written >= lru_maxpages)
{
*maxwritten_clean = true;
break;
@@ -8511,45 +8535,6 @@ WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending)
context->nr_pending = 0;
}
-/*
- * Add buffer to list of pending writeback requests.
- */
-void
-ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context,
- BufferTag *tag)
-{
- PendingWriteback *pending;
-
- /*
- * As pg_flush_data() doesn't do anything with fsync disabled, there's no
- * point in tracking in that case.
- */
- if (io_direct_flags & IO_DIRECT_DATA ||
- !enableFsync)
- return;
-
- /*
- * Add buffer to the pending writeback array, unless writeback control is
- * disabled.
- */
- if (*wb_context->max_pending > 0)
- {
- Assert(*wb_context->max_pending <= WRITEBACK_MAX_PENDING_FLUSHES);
-
- pending = &wb_context->pending_writebacks[wb_context->nr_pending++];
-
- pending->tag = *tag;
- }
-
- /*
- * Perform pending flushes if the writeback limit is exceeded. This
- * includes the case where previously an item has been added, but control
- * is now disabled.
- */
- if (wb_context->nr_pending >= *wb_context->max_pending)
- IssuePendingWritebacks(wb_context, io_context);
-}
-
/*
* Add all the blocks from a write batch that was recently issued to a list of
* pending writeback requests. Don't call while holding buffer locks. tag
@@ -8612,7 +8597,7 @@ ScheduleBufferTagsForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
/*
* Issue all pending writeback requests, previously scheduled with
- * ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback, to the OS.
+ * ScheduleBufferTagsForWriteback, to the OS.
*
* Because this is only used to improve the OSs IO scheduling we try to never
* error out - it's just a hint.
diff --git a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
index 32853da256a..e794aecdf7c 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/buf_internals.h
@@ -571,8 +571,6 @@ extern bool ClaimVictimBuffer(BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
/* bufmgr.c */
extern void WritebackContextInit(WritebackContext *context, int *max_pending);
extern void IssuePendingWritebacks(WritebackContext *wb_context, IOContext io_context);
-extern void ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(WritebackContext *wb_context,
- IOContext io_context, BufferTag *tag);
extern void TrackNewBufferPin(Buffer buf);
--
2.47.3
[text/x-patch] v16-0019-Add-bgwriter-write-combining-test.patch (8.3K, ../../CAAKRu_Z+GEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ@mail.gmail.com/20-v16-0019-Add-bgwriter-write-combining-test.patch)
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From f37978bc9581fe956ca8b47d0531bc395cfcc2e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:20:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v16 19/21] Add bgwriter write combining test
Test that the bgwriter cleaning path combines contiguous dirty blocks
into larger writes, using the run_bgwriter_cleaner() test_aio helper to
invoke the bgwriter cleaning logic deterministically from a normal
backend.
---
.../modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl | 101 ++++++++++++++++++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql | 12 +++
src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c | 54 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 167 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
index 7aa18bbdf96..d98f77587a5 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/t/005_write_combining.pl
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ test_regular_backend_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_eager_clean_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_copy_from_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
test_vacuum_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
+test_bgwriter_combines_writes($node, $block_size);
$node->stop();
@@ -161,6 +162,14 @@ sub dirty_blocks
"SELECT make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed('$table', ARRAY[$blocks])");
}
+sub run_bgwriter_cleaner
+{
+ my $psql = shift;
+
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT run_bgwriter_cleaner(1000)');
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+}
+
sub allocate_until_blocks_clean
{
my ($node, $psql, $table, $blocks, $filler, $label) = @_;
@@ -419,3 +428,95 @@ sub test_vacuum_combines_writes
assert_combined_writes($node, 'vacuum', 'client backend', 'vacuum',
$block_size);
}
+
+sub test_bgwriter_combines_writes
+{
+ my ($node, $block_size) = @_;
+ my $psql = $node->background_psql('postgres', on_error_stop => 0);
+
+ # Keep unrelated dirty buffers out of the client-backend write statistics.
+ $node->safe_psql('postgres', 'CHECKPOINT');
+
+ # We create a relation and then flush all of its data. We can then mark
+ # buffers dirty for bgwriter without requiring WAL flush and thus preventing
+ # opportunistic write combining.
+ $node->safe_psql(
+ 'postgres', qq(
+ CREATE TABLE wc_bgwriter (id int, payload text);
+ INSERT INTO wc_bgwriter SELECT g, repeat('y', 200) FROM generate_series(1, 1000) AS g;
+ SELECT flush_rel_buffers('wc_bgwriter'::regclass);
+ ));
+
+ ####
+ # Test one big combined write
+ ####
+
+ # Mark blocks 0-5 dirty
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 't',
+ 'contiguous buffers are dirty before bgwriter cleaner');
+
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+ run_bgwriter_cleaner($psql);
+ # Should have written one big write
+ assert_writes($node, 'contiguous bgwriter cleaner', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 1, 6 * $block_size);
+ # None of those blocks should still be dirty
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5', 'f',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner wrote contiguous dirty buffers');
+
+ ####
+ # Test multiple single block writes when interspersed blocks are not in
+ # shared buffers
+ ####
+
+ # Evict every other block and mark the other blocks dirty
+ $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT invalidate_rel_blocks('wc_bgwriter', ARRAY[1,3,5])");
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,2,4');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ run_bgwriter_cleaner($psql);
+ # The three blocks that were dirty should have been written out in three
+ # writes.
+ assert_writes($node, 'nonresident gaps bgwriter cleaner', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 3,
+ 3 * $block_size);
+ # And none of them should be dirty anymore
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,2,4', 'f',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner wrote dirty buffers separated by nonresident gaps');
+
+ ####
+ # Test two combined writes split around a pinned buffer. This covers all
+ # code eagerly flushing non-pinned buffers, not just bgwriter.
+ ####
+
+ # Make sure first six blocks are all read in and marked dirty
+ dirty_blocks($psql, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,3,4,5');
+ flush_and_reset_io_stats($node, $psql);
+
+ # Do this in a transaction so that we can hold the buffer pin across
+ # multiple SQL statements by transferring ownership to the top transaction
+ # resource owner.
+ $psql->query_safe("BEGIN");
+ # Pin a block in the middle of the blocks
+ my $pinned_buf = $psql->query_safe(
+ "SELECT pin_rel_block('wc_bgwriter', 3)");
+
+ run_bgwriter_cleaner($psql);
+ # All the blocks should be in clean buffers except block 3 which was pinned
+ # and should still be marked dirty.
+ assert_any_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '0,1,2,4,5', 'f',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner wrote buffers around pinned gap');
+ assert_blocks_dirty($node, 'wc_bgwriter', '3', 't',
+ 'bgwriter cleaner skipped pinned buffer');
+ $psql->query_safe("SELECT release_buffer($pinned_buf)");
+ $psql->query_safe("COMMIT");
+ $psql->query_safe('SELECT pg_stat_force_next_flush()');
+ # Should have written out blocks 0,1,2 in one write and blocks 4 and 5 in
+ # another, totaling two writes.
+ assert_writes($node, 'pinned gap bgwriter cleaner', 'client backend',
+ 'normal', 2, 5 * $block_size);
+
+ $psql->quit();
+}
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
index d7d5006b3d5..6454328cd19 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio--1.0.sql
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ CREATE FUNCTION make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION run_bgwriter_cleaner(lru_maxpages int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION eager_clean_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int4)
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
@@ -61,6 +65,14 @@ CREATE FUNCTION invalidate_rel_blocks(rel regclass, blocks int4[])
RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION pin_rel_block(rel regclass, blockno int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
+CREATE FUNCTION release_buffer(buffer int4)
+RETURNS pg_catalog.void STRICT
+AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
+
CREATE FUNCTION buffer_create_toy(rel regclass, blockno int4)
RETURNS pg_catalog.int4 STRICT
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C;
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
index 579fa3df8e4..c99ec29d622 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_aio/test_aio.c
@@ -709,6 +709,29 @@ make_blocks_unused_dirty_flushed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_VOID();
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(run_bgwriter_cleaner);
+Datum
+run_bgwriter_cleaner(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ int lru_maxpages = PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+ WritebackContext wb_context;
+ int next_to_clean = 0;
+ uint32 next_passes = 0;
+ int num_to_scan = NBuffers;
+ int reusable_buffers = 0;
+ bool maxwritten_clean;
+ int num_written;
+
+ WritebackContextInit(&wb_context, &bgwriter_flush_after);
+ num_written = BgwriterWriteBuffers(lru_maxpages, &wb_context,
+ &next_to_clean, &next_passes,
+ &num_to_scan, &reusable_buffers,
+ NBuffers, &maxwritten_clean);
+ IssuePendingWritebacks(&wb_context, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL);
+
+ PG_RETURN_INT32(num_written);
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(eager_clean_rel_block);
Datum
eager_clean_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
@@ -789,6 +812,37 @@ rel_blocks_are_dirty(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
PG_RETURN_ARRAYTYPE_P(dirty_array);
}
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(pin_rel_block);
+Datum
+pin_rel_block(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Oid relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
+ BlockNumber blkno = PG_GETARG_UINT32(1);
+ Relation rel;
+ Buffer buf;
+
+ rel = relation_open(relid, AccessShareLock);
+ buf = ReadBufferExtended(rel, MAIN_FORKNUM, blkno, RBM_NORMAL, NULL);
+ ResourceOwnerForgetBuffer(CurrentResourceOwner, buf);
+ ResourceOwnerRememberBuffer(TopTransactionResourceOwner, buf);
+ relation_close(rel, NoLock);
+
+ PG_RETURN_INT32(buf);
+}
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(release_buffer);
+Datum
+release_buffer(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ Buffer buf = PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
+
+ ResourceOwnerForgetBuffer(TopTransactionResourceOwner, buf);
+ ResourceOwnerRememberBuffer(CurrentResourceOwner, buf);
+ ReleaseBuffer(buf);
+
+ PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(buffer_create_toy);
Datum
buffer_create_toy(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
--
2.47.3
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-08-19 22:30 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2026-08-19 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>; tristan.yim@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 7:39 AM Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
>
> The existing COPY test uses an unlogged relation, so it does not
> exercise the WAL eligibility checks in
> PrepareOrRejectEagerFlushBuffer(). I tried the same test with a regular
> table and it consistently combined writes.
>
> For deterministic results I used wal_writer_delay = '10ms'. With
> synchronous_commit disabled, a fast COPY may otherwise finish before the
> default 200ms WAL writer interval. fsync can remain disabled: the test
> only needs the PostgreSQL WAL flush position to advance.
I don't think we'll be able to get deterministic test runs of this
heuristic. With unlogged tables we are already testing the happy path
where nothing gets rejected. If we want to test the case where buffers
are rejected due to pending WAL, I think we would need something more
surgical. We'd have to be sure that nothing else flushes WAL anywhere.
Wal writer, Bgwriter, checkpointer, etc can mostly be disabled with
settings but crossing a WAL segment boundary flushes WAL. So, I think
it would be pretty hard for us to tell where the WAL is flushed until
and make sure the test doesn't flake. Maybe if we can be sure that the
WAL segment isn't full? But it seems easy for it to fail incorrectly
in the future if people change how much WAL other database operations
take that we do before the test.
> Perhaps the test could run the COPY case for both unlogged and regular
> tables.
I added a vacuum test in v16 that uses a logged table to give some
coverage of the logged path. It won't give coverage of rejected
combining as I make a point to make sure the table doesn't have
pending WAL, but it seemed like good variety to add.
- Melanie
^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 51+ messages in thread
* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-08-19 22:54 Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
parent: Haibo Yan <tristan.yim@gmail.com>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Melanie Plageman @ 2026-08-19 22:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Haibo Yan <tristan.yim@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 6:21 PM Haibo Yan <tristan.yim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been looking through the v15 series.
Thanks for taking a look.
> The current implementation looks fairly complete for synchronous shared-buffer write combining, but I have a few questions about whether the API shape is general enough for the longer-term AIO and direct-I/O goals.
> 1. Submission and completion lifetime
> BufferWriteBatch is currently stack-allocated and contains pinned, content-locked buffer descriptors. FlushBufferBatch() then performs WAL flushing, checksum preparation, synchronous smgrwritev(), and I/O accounting, after which CompleteWriteBatchIO() marks the buffers clean.
> That works well for synchronous writes, but it seems to encode an all-or-nothing synchronous lifetime.
Reads use AIO and have an object in backend memory
ReadBuffersOperation. When other backends complete a read, there are a
limited number of things that they have to do in the shared callback
and they can use a PgAIOHandle to do it. The issuing backend still
needs access to information outside of what is in the PgAIOHandle (and
has a different lifetime), and it gets that with the
ReadBuffersOperation. Writes are similar with a few differences, but
they will need a dedicated object for the issuing backend to keep
track of the operations it initiates. In my latest posted version (v16
[1]), I renamed BufferWriteBatch to WriteBuffersOperation to make it
more symmetrical.
> For an asynchronous implementation:
>
> * How would the batch object survive after submission?
In the issuing backend which has responsibilities like adding the
buffers to the writeback queue after completion.
> * Would all pins and content locks remain held until completion?
They have to be or someone could corrupt the buffer while it was being
written out.
> * Would submission, completion, and cleanup need to become separate phases?
There will have to be three-ish functions -- one to start the writes
in an issuing backend, one to complete the writes in either the
issuing backend or another backend, and one to wait for the writes to
be done and do any remaining tasks on the buffers.
In v16 [1], I've renamed FlushBufferBatch() to WriteBuffers() and
CompleteBufferBatchIO() to CompleteWriteBuffers(). With AIO, those
will have to become StartWriteBuffers() and WaitWriteBuffers() with a
separate completion callback implemented. I had an LLM demonstrate
what AIO writes would look like on top of write combining. I looked at
the commits it wrote and they have some problems and are missing some
things (including not handling some architectural issues that Andres
has already mentioned we have to solve before implementing AIO writes)
-- but the broad strokes are correct and I think that is the shape
we'll end up with [2]. Doing this exercise helped me figure out what
to name functions and if I needed to change anything for
future-proofing reasons.
> 2. Failure and partial completion
> The current path appears to assume that normal return from smgrwritev() means that the whole batch completed successfully, after which all buffers can be marked clean.
> Would the future API need to represent:
>
> * partial completion,
> * cancellation,
> * submission failure,
> * or an error affecting only part of a batch?
Yes, it would but that code is non-trivial and not needed with a
single combined write as smgrwritev() will complete or fail -- there
won't be partial writes. I have some of the above in the hack-y AIO
writes branch I mentioned and I don't think any of those
considerations change the shape of the code in a way that merits
changing synchronous combining.
> Even if the current smgr contract remains all-or-nothing, it may be useful to make that contract explicit rather than embedding it in FlushBufferBatch().
I don't know what you mean by this.
> 3. Relationship with the read side
> Write combining is important for direct I/O, but the same applies to reads. Issuing one 8 kB direct-I/O request per buffer would also lose the readahead and aggregation normally provided by the kernel page cache.
> I do not think the read and write buffer state machines necessarily need to share the same API, since their locking and completion rules are quite different.
> However, could the lower-level physical-I/O parts be read/write neutral?
> For example:
>
> * contiguous extent description,
> * io_combine_limit,
> * smgr segment and boundary handling,
> * multi-block submission,
> * completion representation,
> * and physical-I/O accounting.
io_combine_limit is already what is used for writes in my code. I had
a development-only guc letting me control it separately but I got rid
of that in v16. The boundary handling can't work the same way as reads
because reads only read ahead and don't consider going backwards to
create a batch (wouldn't make sense). And for buffer access strategy,
it works differently as well with writes. The completion callbacks
will look similar but can't be shared because you have different
things you need to do on completion. All of the low-level IO stuff
will be shared, but at the bufmgr layer, not much issuing/completing
code can be shared, as it's not the same behavior (flushing WAL,
locks, fsync requests, writeback requests, etc). And I/O accounting at
bufmgr level has always been done with separate traces and pg_stat_io
function calls for reads and writes.
> Those pieces seem closely related to what the recent ReadStream work and the broader AIO effort already need
> Otherwise, is there a risk that the write-batching code and the read-side AIO infrastructure evolve into two parallel mechanisms for essentially the same physical-I/O aggregation problem?
I have made an effort to make the structures and names more consistent
with the Read concepts in v16 -- including moving from
BufferDescriptors to Buffers in the WriteBuffersOperation.
> 4. Foreground backend work and lock duration
> For foreground backends, combining a required victim with several adjacent buffers increases more than just the I/O size; it can introduce unpredictable latency spikes for user queries. It also increases:
>
> * the amount of foreground cleanup work,
> * the number of pinned buffers,
> * and the time for which content locks may be held.
>
> Should foreground batching therefore have a separate latency or work budget, in addition to the pin limit and maximum combine size?
Number of pinned buffers is already bounded by io_combine_limit and
eventually by effective_io_concurrency -- like reads. I think that is
sufficient with only write combining.
Once we have AIO writes, there will be much more competition for
pinned buffers (since we have reads already), so perhaps we will need
to think about the pinned buffers limits, but I don't foresee any
issue with non-toy shared buffers with just write combining.
As for foreground cleanup work and content lock duration, if there is
enough shared buffer pressure that you are evicting buffers at all
(which is the only time you'll do this combining for regular
backends), then the buffers you are eagerly cleaning will need to be
cleaned by someone. Combining won't create new writes, only change how
they're issued. And if there isn't shared buffer pressure, it is less
likely that you are I/O bound. However, there is a possible negative
case here I describe in my most recent performance analysis here [1]
(see the section entitled "Mixed buffer hits leading to non-contiguous
rings").
If your point is that a 128kB write takes longer than an 8kB write,
sure, that's usually true (though if you flood the device with enough
small requests, you may end up having the 8kB write take longer).
However, the aggregate time spent holding locks will go down with
write combining. If you write out 16 8k blocks individually, each one
pays the full per-write cost -- making the aggregate time spent
holding locks much higher than writing a single 128k write.
Now if all the concurrently working backends are contending for the
lock on the buffers that are being written out in that 128k write, you
can see p999 latency spikes occasionally -- and I did see that in a
scenario I concocted to exercise this.
But the more common case is that in IOPs constrained environments, the
p99 latency with combining can improve by 80%+. The writes being done
by regular backends and background writer are random IO without
combining, so making them more sequential relieves a lot of IOPs
pressure.
Separately, there is a cost to doing a few more buffer table lookups,
but I did performance evaluation and, even in the worst case, it seems
to have basically no impact given the cost of writing.
I think once we can issue more than one combined IO (with AIO) then we
have to be way more careful of this stuff. Backends absolutely can't
wait for multiple IOs to finish when their victim was in the first IO
-- even if the IOs are overlapped with AIO. And we'll have to be
worried about putting too much IO in flight.
> My main concern is that, without separating these layers now, asynchronous writes may require another substantial API refactoring later.
Yes, we want to avoid that, but I think with the latest revisions, we
are being as careful as we can reasonably be.
- Melanie
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_Z%2BGEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ%40mail.g...
[2] https://github.com/melanieplageman/postgres/tree/aio_writes_llm-draft
(I will likely delete this branch later, sorry to anyone looking at
this in the hackers archive)
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-08-21 21:46 Haibo Yan <tristan.yim@gmail.com>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
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From: Haibo Yan @ 2026-08-21 21:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 3:55 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 6:21 PM Haibo Yan <tristan.yim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have been looking through the v15 series.
>
> Thanks for taking a look.
>
> > The current implementation looks fairly complete for synchronous shared-buffer write combining, but I have a few questions about whether the API shape is general enough for the longer-term AIO and direct-I/O goals.
> > 1. Submission and completion lifetime
> > BufferWriteBatch is currently stack-allocated and contains pinned, content-locked buffer descriptors. FlushBufferBatch() then performs WAL flushing, checksum preparation, synchronous smgrwritev(), and I/O accounting, after which CompleteWriteBatchIO() marks the buffers clean.
> > That works well for synchronous writes, but it seems to encode an all-or-nothing synchronous lifetime.
>
> Reads use AIO and have an object in backend memory
> ReadBuffersOperation. When other backends complete a read, there are a
> limited number of things that they have to do in the shared callback
> and they can use a PgAIOHandle to do it. The issuing backend still
> needs access to information outside of what is in the PgAIOHandle (and
> has a different lifetime), and it gets that with the
> ReadBuffersOperation. Writes are similar with a few differences, but
> they will need a dedicated object for the issuing backend to keep
> track of the operations it initiates. In my latest posted version (v16
> [1]), I renamed BufferWriteBatch to WriteBuffersOperation to make it
> more symmetrical.
>
> > For an asynchronous implementation:
> >
> > * How would the batch object survive after submission?
>
> In the issuing backend which has responsibilities like adding the
> buffers to the writeback queue after completion.
>
> > * Would all pins and content locks remain held until completion?
>
> They have to be or someone could corrupt the buffer while it was being
> written out.
>
> > * Would submission, completion, and cleanup need to become separate phases?
>
> There will have to be three-ish functions -- one to start the writes
> in an issuing backend, one to complete the writes in either the
> issuing backend or another backend, and one to wait for the writes to
> be done and do any remaining tasks on the buffers.
>
> In v16 [1], I've renamed FlushBufferBatch() to WriteBuffers() and
> CompleteBufferBatchIO() to CompleteWriteBuffers(). With AIO, those
> will have to become StartWriteBuffers() and WaitWriteBuffers() with a
> separate completion callback implemented. I had an LLM demonstrate
> what AIO writes would look like on top of write combining. I looked at
> the commits it wrote and they have some problems and are missing some
> things (including not handling some architectural issues that Andres
> has already mentioned we have to solve before implementing AIO writes)
> -- but the broad strokes are correct and I think that is the shape
> we'll end up with [2]. Doing this exercise helped me figure out what
> to name functions and if I needed to change anything for
> future-proofing reasons.
>
> > 2. Failure and partial completion
> > The current path appears to assume that normal return from smgrwritev() means that the whole batch completed successfully, after which all buffers can be marked clean.
> > Would the future API need to represent:
> >
> > * partial completion,
> > * cancellation,
> > * submission failure,
> > * or an error affecting only part of a batch?
>
> Yes, it would but that code is non-trivial and not needed with a
> single combined write as smgrwritev() will complete or fail -- there
> won't be partial writes. I have some of the above in the hack-y AIO
> writes branch I mentioned and I don't think any of those
> considerations change the shape of the code in a way that merits
> changing synchronous combining.
>
> > Even if the current smgr contract remains all-or-nothing, it may be useful to make that contract explicit rather than embedding it in FlushBufferBatch().
>
> I don't know what you mean by this.
What I meant here was whether the all-or-nothing property was intended to be a
property of the WriteBuffersOperation abstraction, or was just a consequence
of the current synchronous smgrwritev() implementation. I was worried that
callers might start depending on “the whole operation completes together”,
making it harder later for one operation to contain multiple
independently completing AIO requests.
Your explanation of the future StartWriteBuffers() / completion callback /
WaitWriteBuffers() split answers that for me. In particular, I now understand
the current all-or-nothing behavior as a property of the synchronous
implementation, not something the operation abstraction is intended to
guarantee. So I don’t think anything needs to change here for this patch.
>
> > 3. Relationship with the read side
> > Write combining is important for direct I/O, but the same applies to reads. Issuing one 8 kB direct-I/O request per buffer would also lose the readahead and aggregation normally provided by the kernel page cache.
> > I do not think the read and write buffer state machines necessarily need to share the same API, since their locking and completion rules are quite different.
> > However, could the lower-level physical-I/O parts be read/write neutral?
> > For example:
> >
> > * contiguous extent description,
> > * io_combine_limit,
> > * smgr segment and boundary handling,
> > * multi-block submission,
> > * completion representation,
> > * and physical-I/O accounting.
>
> io_combine_limit is already what is used for writes in my code. I had
> a development-only guc letting me control it separately but I got rid
> of that in v16. The boundary handling can't work the same way as reads
> because reads only read ahead and don't consider going backwards to
> create a batch (wouldn't make sense). And for buffer access strategy,
> it works differently as well with writes. The completion callbacks
> will look similar but can't be shared because you have different
> things you need to do on completion. All of the low-level IO stuff
> will be shared, but at the bufmgr layer, not much issuing/completing
> code can be shared, as it's not the same behavior (flushing WAL,
> locks, fsync requests, writeback requests, etc). And I/O accounting at
> bufmgr level has always been done with separate traces and pg_stat_io
> function calls for reads and writes.
>
> > Those pieces seem closely related to what the recent ReadStream work and the broader AIO effort already need
> > Otherwise, is there a risk that the write-batching code and the read-side AIO infrastructure evolve into two parallel mechanisms for essentially the same physical-I/O aggregation problem?
>
> I have made an effort to make the structures and names more consistent
> with the Read concepts in v16 -- including moving from
> BufferDescriptors to Buffers in the WriteBuffersOperation.
>
> > 4. Foreground backend work and lock duration
> > For foreground backends, combining a required victim with several adjacent buffers increases more than just the I/O size; it can introduce unpredictable latency spikes for user queries. It also increases:
> >
> > * the amount of foreground cleanup work,
> > * the number of pinned buffers,
> > * and the time for which content locks may be held.
> >
> > Should foreground batching therefore have a separate latency or work budget, in addition to the pin limit and maximum combine size?
>
> Number of pinned buffers is already bounded by io_combine_limit and
> eventually by effective_io_concurrency -- like reads. I think that is
> sufficient with only write combining.
> Once we have AIO writes, there will be much more competition for
> pinned buffers (since we have reads already), so perhaps we will need
> to think about the pinned buffers limits, but I don't foresee any
> issue with non-toy shared buffers with just write combining.
>
> As for foreground cleanup work and content lock duration, if there is
> enough shared buffer pressure that you are evicting buffers at all
> (which is the only time you'll do this combining for regular
> backends), then the buffers you are eagerly cleaning will need to be
> cleaned by someone. Combining won't create new writes, only change how
> they're issued. And if there isn't shared buffer pressure, it is less
> likely that you are I/O bound. However, there is a possible negative
> case here I describe in my most recent performance analysis here [1]
> (see the section entitled "Mixed buffer hits leading to non-contiguous
> rings").
>
> If your point is that a 128kB write takes longer than an 8kB write,
> sure, that's usually true (though if you flood the device with enough
> small requests, you may end up having the 8kB write take longer).
> However, the aggregate time spent holding locks will go down with
> write combining. If you write out 16 8k blocks individually, each one
> pays the full per-write cost -- making the aggregate time spent
> holding locks much higher than writing a single 128k write.
>
> Now if all the concurrently working backends are contending for the
> lock on the buffers that are being written out in that 128k write, you
> can see p999 latency spikes occasionally -- and I did see that in a
> scenario I concocted to exercise this.
>
> But the more common case is that in IOPs constrained environments, the
> p99 latency with combining can improve by 80%+. The writes being done
> by regular backends and background writer are random IO without
> combining, so making them more sequential relieves a lot of IOPs
> pressure.
>
> Separately, there is a cost to doing a few more buffer table lookups,
> but I did performance evaluation and, even in the worst case, it seems
> to have basically no impact given the cost of writing.
>
> I think once we can issue more than one combined IO (with AIO) then we
> have to be way more careful of this stuff. Backends absolutely can't
> wait for multiple IOs to finish when their victim was in the first IO
> -- even if the IOs are overlapped with AIO. And we'll have to be
> worried about putting too much IO in flight.
I did some more testing on this point.
One additional foreground-latency case I was wondering about was the WAL side
of eager combining. In GatherContiguousDirtyBuffers(), once the required
victim itself needs a WAL flush, allow_pending_wal allows a newer adjacent
dirty buffer into the batch. That buffer can raise
WriteBuffersOperation.max_lsn, so the eventual XLogFlush() target can be
substantially ahead of what the required victim alone needed.
I instrumented this and exercised it through the real GetVictimBuffer() ->
ClaimVictimBuffer() -> WriteBufferAndNeighbors() path under concurrent pgbench
workloads. The mechanism is actually fairly common: about 5.6–28% of
dirty-victim writes in the representative workloads, and 53–63% in an
intentionally adversarial workload, had max_lsn > required_lsn.
But I couldn’t find a measurable cost from it. In 99.9–100% of the sampled
amplified cases, the flush pointer had already advanced through max_lsn by the
time XLogFlush() was called, due to concurrent WAL activity, so the call did
no real additional flush work. I also saw no consistent difference in p99/p999
transaction latency or TPS when comparing the current behavior with a
diagnostic version that rejected neighbors with LSNs beyond the required
victim’s LSN.
This was all on fast local NVMe, so slower or heavily contended WAL storage
could behave differently, but based on these results I agree that adding
another foreground work/latency limit for synchronous combining doesn’t seem
justified.
One small wording point I noticed while doing this: the allow_pending_wal
comment says that admitting such neighbors “adds no WAL flushes”. That’s true
in terms of the number of XLogFlush() calls, but it can increase the target
LSN of that call. It didn’t matter in my tests, but perhaps “adds no
additional XLogFlush() calls” would make the distinction a little clearer.
>
> > My main concern is that, without separating these layers now, asynchronous writes may require another substantial API refactoring later.
>
> Yes, we want to avoid that, but I think with the latest revisions, we
> are being as careful as we can reasonably be.
>
> - Melanie
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_Z%2BGEgkHqQPajsy0ApDWYTvfmR5G6AjnE7mVcy1_00kxQ%40mail.g...
> [2] https://github.com/melanieplageman/postgres/tree/aio_writes_llm-draft
> (I will likely delete this branch later, sorry to anyone looking at
> this in the hackers archive)
Thanks,
Haibo
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* Re: Checkpointer write combining
@ 2026-08-24 06:05 Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
parent: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
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From: Andrey Borodin @ 2026-08-24 06:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>; tristan.yim@gmail.com
> On 20 Aug 2026, at 01:30, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Melanie,
Thank you for working through the comments and for the detailed
performance analysis.
> I do have a comment on the enum about this. Should it be more
> descriptive in some way?
The enum purpose is already apparent from the name. I'd go with
something like this for BUC_MAX_ONE:
/*
* A strategy admits a buffer with usage count 1, but repeated
* strategy accesses must not make it resistant to eviction.
*/
BUC_MAX_ONE,
> I wonder whether it's worth a heuristic to avoid this.
I would very much like to avoid adding another heuristic initially. On
the other hand, the adverse workload seems less artificial than it first
sounds: a hot OLTP working set remains resident and is continuously
dirtied, while VACUUM brings the colder gaps through its ring. Writing
the hot neighbors early can then add foreground I/O only for them to be
dirtied again. Latency-sensitive OLTP is already a difficult workload
for PostgreSQL.
The opposite case is important too. When the server is under sustained
dirty-buffer pressure, writing wider contiguous batches is exactly what
should let it recover more efficiently. I do not yet see a reliable
signal that distinguishes these two cases, and the usage-count
experiment suggests that a simple filter would discard useful combining
as well.
So I do not yet have an opinion on whether the usage-count heuristic is
the right tradeoff, or whether there is a better signal. I will
think more about the adverse case, and will return to this with review of
the next group of commits.
Best regards, Andrey Borodin.
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@ 2026-09-14 18:29 Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
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From: Andrey Borodin @ 2026-09-14 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>; +Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>; Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>; tristan.yim@gmail.com
I continued reviewing v16, focusing on checkpointer and bgwriter.
In 0004:
> + CheckpointWriteDelay(flags, (double) num_processed / num_to_scan,
> + processed);
This is now called once per batch instead of once per processed buffer,
but each call can still sleep for at most 100 ms. This can make smaller
spread checkpoints finish much earlier.
On Linux, with shared_buffers = 128MB, fsync = off,
checkpoint_timeout = 30s and checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9,
I updated a 20000-row table after a fast checkpoint, then issued
CHECKPOINT (MODE spread). Each run wrote 1146 buffers:
pg_stat_io.writes write phase
master 1146 26.869s
v16, io_combine_limit=8kB 1146 26.166s
v16, default 128kB limit 75 7.121s
v16, per-buffer delay calls 75 26.259s
For the last row I restored per-buffer delay calls after releasing the
batch's locks. Could we preserve that pacing when combining writes?
In 0006:
> + for (; num_to_scan > 0; num_to_scan--, next_to_clean++)
> ...
> + if (++num_written >= bgwriter_lru_maxpages)
> {
> + PendingBgWriterStats.maxwritten_clean++;
> + break;
> }
Reaching the limit skips the for-loop update. The last buffer is
counted as reusable but omitted from scan progress. The saved position
still points to it. Advancing and wrapping the scan position after
selecting the buffer, before processing it, should avoid this.
The issue survives in BgwriterWriteBuffers() later in the series.
In 0018:
> + GatherContiguousDirtyBuffers(bufHdr, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL, &batch);
> + WriteBuffers(&batch);
> + CompleteWriteBuffers(&batch, wb_context);
> + num_written += batch.n;
>
> + if (num_written >= lru_maxpages)
The combined write can already exceed bgwriter_lru_maxpages by the time
we check it. Calling run_bgwriter_cleaner(1) in the existing test
writes all six contiguous buffers. Could GatherContiguousDirtyBuffers()
also take the remaining per-round budget, so the documented limit
still holds?
Thank you!
Best regards, Andrey Borodin.
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