aio: Combine io_uring memory mappings, if supported
authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Tue, 8 Jul 2025 01:03:16 +0000 (21:03 -0400)
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Tue, 8 Jul 2025 02:57:07 +0000 (22:57 -0400)
commitf54af9f2679d5987b4680e742ac9bd585260e620
treef53671d9d66b881087541054594405fe3c211bb3
parent55a780e9476a753354a6db887e92125c7886ca6d
aio: Combine io_uring memory mappings, if supported

By default io_uring creates a shared memory mapping for each io_uring
instance, leading to a large number of memory mappings. Unfortunately a large
number of memory mappings slows things down, backend exit is particularly
affected.  To address that, newer kernels (6.5) support using user-provided
memory for the memory. By putting the relevant memory into shared memory we
don't need any additional mappings.

On a system with a new enough kernel and liburing, there is no discernible
overhead when doing a pgbench -S -C anymore.

Reported-by: MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Burd, Greg" <greg@burd.me>
Reviewed-by: Jim Nasby <jnasby@upgrade.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFbpF8OA44_UG+RYJcWH9WjF7E3GA6gka3gvH6nsrSnEe9H0NA@mail.gmail.com
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configure
configure.ac
meson.build
src/backend/storage/aio/method_io_uring.c
src/include/pg_config.h.in
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list