Wait events for delayed checkpoints

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Wait events for delayed checkpoints
Date: 2023-10-12 01:10:25
Message-ID: CA+hUKGL7Whi8iwKbzkbn_1fixH3Yy8aAPz7mfq6Hpj7FeJrKMg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

You can't tell if your checkpointer is spending a lot of time waiting
around for flags in delayChkptFlags to clear. Trivial patch to add
that. I've managed to see it a few times when checkpointing
repeatedly with a heavy pgbench workload.

I had to stop and think for a moment about whether these events belong
under "WaitEventIPC", "waiting for notification from another process"
or under "WaitEventTimeout", "waiting for a timeout to expire". I
mean, both? It's using sleep-and-poll instead of (say) a CV due to
the economics, we want to make the other side as cheap as possible, so
we don't care about making the checkpointer take some micro-naps in
this case. I feel like the key point here is that it's waiting for
another process to do stuff and unblock it.

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0001-Add-wait-events-for-checkpoint-delay-mechanism.patch text/x-patch 2.4 KB

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