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Subject: [PATCH v2.14 27/29] WIP: Use MAP_POPULATE
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:40:06 -0400
For benchmarking it's quite annoying that the first time a memory is touched
has completely different perf characteristics than subsequent accesses. Using
MAP_POPULATE reduces that substantially.
---
src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 197926d44f6..a700b02d5a1 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(Size *size)
allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
- PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+ PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_POPULATE | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
mmap_errno = errno;
if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
elog(DEBUG1, "mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
--
2.48.1.76.g4e746b1a31.dirty
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