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authorThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>2024-09-04 10:12:20 +1200
committerThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>2024-09-04 10:28:53 +1200
commit813fde73d4dd4fab1b7bde99ceaa47dd8437c21e (patch)
tree63437a026ced60f92a5e7db70785a65d5b885f92
parent1c61fd8b527954f0ec522e5e60a11ce82628b681 (diff)
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Standardize "read-ahead advice" terminology.
Commit 6654bb920 added macOS's equivalent of POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED, and changed some explicit references to posix_fadvise to use this more general name for the concept. Update some remaining references. Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0827edec-1317-4917-a186-035eb1e3241d%40eisentraut.org
-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/transam/xlogprefetcher.c2
-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/aio/read_stream.c15
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogprefetcher.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogprefetcher.c
index 3cb698d3bcb..3acaaea5b70 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogprefetcher.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogprefetcher.c
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ check_recovery_prefetch(int *new_value, void **extra, GucSource source)
#ifndef USE_PREFETCH
if (*new_value == RECOVERY_PREFETCH_ON)
{
- GUC_check_errdetail("\"recovery_prefetch\" is not supported on platforms that lack posix_fadvise().");
+ GUC_check_errdetail("\"recovery_prefetch\" is not supported on platforms that lack support for issuing read-ahead advice.");
return false;
}
#endif
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/aio/read_stream.c b/src/backend/storage/aio/read_stream.c
index 039d3678114..7f0e07d9586 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/aio/read_stream.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/aio/read_stream.c
@@ -24,16 +24,17 @@
* already. There is no benefit to looking ahead more than one block, so
* distance is 1. This is the default initial assumption.
*
- * B) I/O is necessary, but fadvise is undesirable because the access is
- * sequential, or impossible because direct I/O is enabled or the system
- * doesn't support fadvise. There is no benefit in looking ahead more than
+ * B) I/O is necessary, but read-ahead advice is undesirable because the
+ * access is sequential and we can rely on the kernel's read-ahead heuristics,
+ * or impossible because direct I/O is enabled, or the system doesn't support
+ * read-ahead advice. There is no benefit in looking ahead more than
* io_combine_limit, because in this case the only goal is larger read system
* calls. Looking further ahead would pin many buffers and perform
- * speculative work looking ahead for no benefit.
+ * speculative work for no benefit.
*
- * C) I/O is necessary, it appears random, and this system supports fadvise.
- * We'll look further ahead in order to reach the configured level of I/O
- * concurrency.
+ * C) I/O is necessary, it appears to be random, and this system supports
+ * read-ahead advice. We'll look further ahead in order to reach the
+ * configured level of I/O concurrency.
*
* The distance increases rapidly and decays slowly, so that it moves towards
* those levels as different I/O patterns are discovered. For example, a