From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [RFC, POC] Don't require a NBuffer sized PrivateRefCount array of local buffer pins |
Date: | 2014-08-27 14:12:35 |
Message-ID: | 20140827141235.GB7046@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-08-26 22:19:47 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I would say that the issue most deserving of performance testing is your
> > sizing of the linear-search array --- it's not obvious that 8 is a good
> > size.
>
> It's about the size of a cacheline on all common architectures, that's
> how I found it. I don't think it makes a very big difference whether we
> make it 4 or 12, but outside of that range I think it'll be unlikely to
> be beneficial. The regression tests never go about three or four pins or
> so currently, so I think that's a number unlikely to regularly be
> crossed in practice.
FWIW scanning a minmax index will keep three pages pinned IIRC
(metapage, current revmap page, current regular page).
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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