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-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c6
-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c38
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index f47f1b66b1f..e59af33e729 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -1278,11 +1278,9 @@ BufferSync(int flags)
break;
/*
- * Perform normal bgwriter duties and sleep to throttle our
- * I/O rate.
+ * Sleep to throttle our I/O rate.
*/
- CheckpointWriteDelay(flags,
- (double) num_written / num_to_write);
+ CheckpointWriteDelay(flags, (double) num_written / num_to_write);
}
}
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c b/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
index 3015885117f..a761369d39c 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
/*
* Special values for the segno arg to RememberFsyncRequest.
*
- * Note that CompactBgwriterRequestQueue assumes that it's OK to remove an
+ * Note that CompactcheckpointerRequestQueue assumes that it's OK to remove an
* fsync request from the queue if an identical, subsequent request is found.
* See comments there before making changes here.
*/
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
* Inactive segments are those that once contained data but are currently
* not needed because of an mdtruncate() operation. The reason for leaving
* them present at size zero, rather than unlinking them, is that other
- * backends and/or the bgwriter might be holding open file references to
+ * backends and/or the checkpointer might be holding open file references to
* such segments. If the relation expands again after mdtruncate(), such
* that a deactivated segment becomes active again, it is important that
* such file references still be valid --- else data might get written
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static MemoryContext MdCxt; /* context for all md.c allocations */
/*
- * In some contexts (currently, standalone backends and the bgwriter process)
+ * In some contexts (currently, standalone backends and the checkpointer process)
* we keep track of pending fsync operations: we need to remember all relation
* segments that have been written since the last checkpoint, so that we can
* fsync them down to disk before completing the next checkpoint. This hash
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static MemoryContext MdCxt; /* context for all md.c allocations */
* a hash table, because we don't expect there to be any duplicate requests.
*
* (Regular backends do not track pending operations locally, but forward
- * them to the bgwriter.)
+ * them to the checkpointer.)
*/
typedef struct
{
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ mdinit(void)
* Create pending-operations hashtable if we need it. Currently, we need
* it if we are standalone (not under a postmaster) OR if we are a
* bootstrap-mode subprocess of a postmaster (that is, a startup or
- * bgwriter process).
+ * checkpointer process).
*/
if (!IsUnderPostmaster || IsBootstrapProcessingMode())
{
@@ -214,10 +214,10 @@ mdinit(void)
}
/*
- * In archive recovery, we rely on bgwriter to do fsyncs, but we will have
+ * In archive recovery, we rely on checkpointer to do fsyncs, but we will have
* already created the pendingOpsTable during initialization of the startup
* process. Calling this function drops the local pendingOpsTable so that
- * subsequent requests will be forwarded to bgwriter.
+ * subsequent requests will be forwarded to checkpointer.
*/
void
SetForwardFsyncRequests(void)
@@ -765,9 +765,9 @@ mdnblocks(SMgrRelation reln, ForkNumber forknum)
* NOTE: this assumption could only be wrong if another backend has
* truncated the relation. We rely on higher code levels to handle that
* scenario by closing and re-opening the md fd, which is handled via
- * relcache flush. (Since the bgwriter doesn't participate in relcache
+ * relcache flush. (Since the checkpointer doesn't participate in relcache
* flush, it could have segment chain entries for inactive segments;
- * that's OK because the bgwriter never needs to compute relation size.)
+ * that's OK because the checkpointer never needs to compute relation size.)
*/
while (v->mdfd_chain != NULL)
{
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ mdsync(void)
elog(ERROR, "cannot sync without a pendingOpsTable");
/*
- * If we are in the bgwriter, the sync had better include all fsync
+ * If we are in the checkpointer, the sync had better include all fsync
* 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
@@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ mdsync(void)
int failures;
/*
- * If in bgwriter, we want to absorb pending requests every so
+ * If in checkpointer, we want to absorb pending requests every so
* often to prevent overflow of the fsync request queue. It is
* unspecified whether newly-added entries will be visited by
* hash_seq_search, but we don't care since we don't need to
@@ -1070,9 +1070,9 @@ mdsync(void)
* say "but an unreferenced SMgrRelation is still a leak!" Not
* really, because the only case in which a checkpoint is done
* by a process that isn't about to shut down is in the
- * bgwriter, and it will periodically do smgrcloseall(). This
+ * checkpointer, and it will periodically do smgrcloseall(). This
* fact justifies our not closing the reln in the success path
- * either, which is a good thing since in non-bgwriter cases
+ * either, which is a good thing since in non-checkpointer cases
* we couldn't safely do that.) Furthermore, in many cases
* the relation will have been dirtied through this same smgr
* relation, and so we can save a file open/close cycle.
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ register_unlink(RelFileNodeBackend rnode)
else
{
/*
- * Notify the bgwriter about it. If we fail to queue the request
+ * Notify the checkpointer about it. If we fail to queue the request
* message, we have to sleep and try again, because we can't simply
* delete the file now. Ugly, but hopefully won't happen often.
*
@@ -1315,10 +1315,10 @@ register_unlink(RelFileNodeBackend rnode)
}
/*
- * RememberFsyncRequest() -- callback from bgwriter side of fsync request
+ * RememberFsyncRequest() -- callback from checkpointer side of fsync request
*
* We stuff most fsync requests into the local hash table for execution
- * during the bgwriter's next checkpoint. UNLINK requests go into a
+ * during the checkpointer's next checkpoint. UNLINK requests go into a
* separate linked list, however, because they get processed separately.
*
* The range of possible segment numbers is way less than the range of
@@ -1460,20 +1460,20 @@ ForgetRelationFsyncRequests(RelFileNodeBackend rnode, ForkNumber forknum)
else if (IsUnderPostmaster)
{
/*
- * Notify the bgwriter about it. If we fail to queue the revoke
+ * Notify the checkpointer about it. If we fail to queue the revoke
* message, we have to sleep and try again ... ugly, but hopefully
* won't happen often.
*
* XXX should we CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in this loop? Escaping with an
* error would leave the no-longer-used file still present on disk,
- * which would be bad, so I'm inclined to assume that the bgwriter
+ * which would be bad, so I'm inclined to assume that the checkpointer
* will always empty the queue soon.
*/
while (!ForwardFsyncRequest(rnode, forknum, FORGET_RELATION_FSYNC))
pg_usleep(10000L); /* 10 msec seems a good number */
/*
- * Note we don't wait for the bgwriter to actually absorb the revoke
+ * Note we don't wait for the checkpointer to actually absorb the revoke
* message; see mdsync() for the implications.
*/
}