From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Page-at-a-time Locking Considerations |
Date: | 2008-02-07 08:53:32 |
Message-ID: | 1202374412.29242.191.camel@ebony.site |
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On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:54 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:03 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> > I wonder how hard it would be to shove the clog into regular shared
> > memory pages and let the clock sweep take care of adjusting the
> > percentage of shared mem allocated to the clog versus data pages.
>
> There is a reason that's not been done... try it and see.
>
> Plus it doesn't fully resolve the main issue as described.
On further thought, there may be a way to do as Greg suggests.
We keep clog pages in shared buffers, but maintain a vestigial slru
structure that provides fast lookup to the N most recently accessed
pages. So we don't keep a physical slru buffer space anymore, we just
keep pointers to shared buffers. Slru "I/O" then becomes a swapping of
entries on the slru fast lookup structure, but hopefully not I/O out of
shared_buffers.
When we move out of clog buffers we *may* need to write the page
immediately because of async LSNs, but that seems OK.
That solution sounds weird at first, but seems much less yuck than
mmap() style solutions.
--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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