RE: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist

From: "tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
To: 'Amit Kapila' <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "k(dot)jamison(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <k(dot)jamison(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist
Date: 2020-09-23 02:34:45
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From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
> > > > Don't
> > > > we need to guarantee the cache to be valid while recovery?
> > > >
> > >
> > > One possibility could be that we somehow detect that the value we
> > > are using is cached one and if so then only do this optimization.
> >
> > I basically like this direction. But I'm not sure the additional
> > parameter for smgrnblocks is acceptable.
> >
> > But on the contrary, it might be a better design that
> > DropRelFileNodeBuffers gives up the optimization when
> > smgrnblocks(,,must_accurate = true) returns InvalidBlockNumber.
> >
>
> I haven't thought about what is the best way to achieve this. Let us see if
> Tsunakawa-San or Kirk-San has other ideas on this?

I see no need for smgrnblocks() to add an argument as it returns the correct cached or measured value.

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa

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