Re: SLRU optimization - configurable buffer pool and partitioning the SLRU lock

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: "Andrey M(dot) Borodin" <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, tender wang <tndrwang(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SLRU optimization - configurable buffer pool and partitioning the SLRU lock
Date: 2024-02-23 11:48:11
Message-ID: 202402231148.lqruleoappvd@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Feb-23, Andrey M. Borodin wrote:

> I'm sure anyone with multiple CPUs should increase, not decrease
> previous default of 128 buffers (with 512MB shared buffers). Having
> more CPUs (the only way to benefit from more locks) implies bigger
> transaction buffers.

Sure.

> IMO making bank size variable adds unneeded computation overhead, bank
> search loops should be unrollable by compiler etc.

Makes sense.

> Originally there was a patch set step, that packed bank's page
> addresses together in one array. It was done to make bank search a
> SIMD instruction.

Ants Aasma had proposed a rework of the LRU code for better performance.
He told me it depended on bank size being 16, so you're right that it's
probably not a good idea to make it variable.

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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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