Re: ReadRecentBuffer() doesn't scale well

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Subject: Re: ReadRecentBuffer() doesn't scale well
Date: 2023-06-27 15:40:04
Message-ID: 20230627154004.h2rn3abkfynfcbcr@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-06-27 14:49:48 +0300, Ants Aasma wrote:
> If you want to experiment, here is a rebased version of something I
> hacked up a couple of years back on the way to Fosdem Pgday. I didn't
> pursue it further because I didn't have a use case where it showed a
> significant difference.

Thanks for posting!

Based on past experiments, anything that requires an atomic op during spinlock
release on x86 will be painful :/. I'm not sure there's a realistic way to
avoid that with futexes though :(.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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