Re: wal stats questions

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: andres(at)anarazel(dot)de
Cc: ikedamsh(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com
Subject: Re: wal stats questions
Date: 2021-03-29 02:09:00
Message-ID: 20210329.110900.1325449677023103678.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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At Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:07:45 -0700, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote in
> Hi,
>
> On 2021-03-25 16:37:10 +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> > On the other hand, the counters are incremented in XLogInsertRecord()
> > and I think we don't want add instructions there.
>
> I don't really buy this. Setting a boolean to true, in a cacheline
> you're already touching, isn't that much compared to all the other stuff
> in there. The branch to check if wal stats timing etc is enabled is much
> more expensive. I think we should just set a boolean to true and leave
> it at that.

Hmm. Yes, I agree to you in that opinion. I (remember I) was told not
to add even a cycle to the hot path as far as we can avoid when I
tried something like that.

So I'm happy to +1 for that if it is the consensus here, since it is
cleaner.

regards.

--
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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