Re: Separating Buffer LWlocks

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Separating Buffer LWlocks
Date: 2015-09-08 17:54:49
Message-ID: 20150908175449.GG5084@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2015-09-08 13:29:28 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I like this approach, though I think clearly it needs more performance testing.

Yea, obviously. I did run this on a slightly bigger machine yesterday
and it gave consistent ~8% performance improvements.

> The method of determining the tranche IDs is totally awful, though. I
> assume that's just a dirty hack for the POC and not something you'd
> seriously consider doing.

If you're referring to assigning fixed ids in the guts of lwlocks.c -
yea, that was really more of a quick hack. I think we should put a enum
into lwlock.h with fixed tranch ids with the final member being
LWTRANCHE_FIRST_DYNAMIC or so.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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