Re: [HACKERS] Moving relation extension locks out of heavyweight lock manager

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 9:17 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:58 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 1. Group members wait for page locks. If you test that the leader
> > acquires the page lock and then member also tries to acquire the same
> > lock on the same index, it wouldn't block before the patch, but after
> > the patch, the member should wait for the leader to release the lock.
>
> Okay, I will test this part.
>
> > 2. Try to hit Assert in LockAcquireExtended (a) by trying to
> > re-acquire the page lock via the debugger,
>
> I am not sure whether it is true or not, Because, if we are holding
> the page lock and we try the same page lock then the lock will be
> granted without reaching the code path. However, I agree that this is
> not intended instead this is a side effect of allowing relation
> extension lock while holding the same relation extension lock. So
> basically, now the situation is that if the lock is directly granted
> because we are holding the same lock then it will not go to the assert
> code. IMHO, we don't need to add extra code to make it behave
> differently. Please let me know what is your opinion on this.
>

I also don't think there is any reason to add code to prevent that.
Actually, what I wanted to test was to somehow hit the Assert for the
cases where it will actually hit if someone tomorrow tries to acquire
any other type of lock. Can we mimic such a situation by hacking code
(say try to acquire some other type of heavyweight lock) or in some
way to hit the newly added Assert?

> (b) try to acquire the
> > relation extension lock after page lock and it should be allowed
> > (after acquiring page lock, we take relation extension lock in
> > following code path:
> > ginInsertCleanup->ginEntryInsert->ginFindLeafPage->ginPlaceToPage->GinNewBuffer).
>
> ok
>

Thanks.

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Amit Kapila.
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