pgsql: Increase BAS_BULKREAD based on effective_io_concurrency

Increase BAS_BULKREAD based on effective_io_concurrency

Before, BAS_BULKREAD was always of size 256kB. With the default
io_combine_limit of 16, that only allowed 1-2 IOs to be in flight -
insufficient even on very low latency storage.

We don't just want to increase the size to a much larger hardcoded value, as
very large rings (10s of MBs of of buffers), appear to have negative
performance effects when reading in data that the OS has cached (but not when
actually needing to do IO).

To address this, increase the size of BAS_BULKREAD to allow for
io_combine_limit * effective_io_concurrency buffers getting read in. To
prevent the ring being much larger than useful, limit the increased size with
GetPinLimit().

The formula outlined above keeps the ring size to sizes for which we have not
observed performance regressions, unless very large effective_io_concurrency
values are used together with large shared_buffers setting.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/lqwghabtu2ak4wknzycufqjm5ijnxhb4k73vzphlt2a3wsemcd@gtftg44kdim6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah@brqs62irg4dt

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/15f0cb26b530b6725a37391738cfc62d4745c49b

Modified Files
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src/backend/storage/buffer/freelist.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)