diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 715254f6f1..4e4aaee589 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Based on RocksDB 8.6.7
 * Stall deadlock consists small cfs (#637).
 * Proactive Flushes: Fix a race in the ShouldInitiateAnotherFlushMemOnly that may cause the method to return an incorrect answer (#758).
 * Fix CI failure after changing compation_readahead_size default to 0 (#794).
+* Compaction: Restore SetupForCompaction functionality. Specifically, hint POSIX_FADV_NORMAL for compaction input files.See https://github.com/speedb-io/speedb/issues/787 for full details.
 
 ### Miscellaneous
 * Remove leftover references to ROCKSDB_LITE (#755).
diff --git a/table/block_based/block_based_table_reader.cc b/table/block_based/block_based_table_reader.cc
index 0b148a38d7..498bdfab14 100644
--- a/table/block_based/block_based_table_reader.cc
+++ b/table/block_based/block_based_table_reader.cc
@@ -1193,7 +1193,9 @@ Status BlockBasedTable::PrefetchIndexAndFilterBlocks(
   return s;
 }
 
-void BlockBasedTable::SetupForCompaction() {}
+void BlockBasedTable::SetupForCompaction() {
+  rep_->file->file()->Hint(FSRandomAccessFile::kNormal);
+}
 
 TablePinningPolicy* BlockBasedTable::GetPinningPolicy() const {
   return rep_->table_options.pinning_policy.get();