Re: Overhead cost of Serializable Snapshot Isolation

From: Dan Ports <drkp(at)csail(dot)mit(dot)edu>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)endpoint(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Overhead cost of Serializable Snapshot Isolation
Date: 2011-10-10 21:55:10
Message-ID: 20111010215510.GH7608@csail.mit.edu
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:10:18PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Did you ever see much contention on
> SerializablePredicateLockListLock, or was it just
> SerializableXactHashLock? I think the former might be able to use
> the non-blocking techniques, but I fear the main issue is with the
> latter, which seems like a harder problem.

No, not that I recall -- if SerializablePredicateLockListLock was on
the list of contended locks, it was pretty far down.

SerializableXactHashLock was the main bottleneck, and
SerializableXactFinishedListLock was a lesser but still significant
one.

Dan

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Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/

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