Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Subject: Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock
Date: 2024-04-03 17:57:32
Message-ID: 202404031757.72amsbwj4npm@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Apr-03, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:

> > So what I do in the attached 0001 is stop using the XLogwrtResult struct
> > in XLogCtl and replace it with separate Write and Flush values, and add
> > the macro XLogUpdateLocalLogwrtResult() that copies the values of Write
> > and Flush from the shared XLogCtl to the local variable given as macro
> > argument. (I also added our idiomatic do {} while(0) to the macro
> > definition, for safety). The new members are XLogCtl->logWriteResult
> > and XLogCtl->logFlushResult and as of 0001 are just XLogRecPtr, so
> > essentially identical semantics as the previous code. No atomic access
> > yet!
>
> +1.

> Also, I'm fine with renaming XLogUpdateLocalLogwrtResult() to
> RefreshXLogWriteResult().

Okay, I have pushed 0001 with the name change, will see about getting
the others in tomorrow.

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