This change impacts only non-buffered I/O on Windows.
Currently, there is a buffer per RandomAccessFile
instance that is protected by a lock. The reason we
maintain the buffer is non-buffered I/O requires an aligned
buffer to work.
XPerf traces demonstrate that we accumulate a considerable
wait time while waiting for that lock.
This change enables to set random access buffer size to zero
which would indicate a per request allocation.
We are expecting that allocation expense would be much less than
I/O costs plus wait time due to the fact that the memory heap
would tend to re-use page aligned allocations especially with the
use of Jemalloc.
This change does not affect buffer use as a read_ahead_buffer for
compaction purposes.
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