Re: Improve eviction algorithm in ReorderBuffer

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Shubham Khanna <khannashubham1197(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Improve eviction algorithm in ReorderBuffer
Date: 2024-04-04 08:28:27
Message-ID: CAD21AoCfP++VF+12Za7SV_vQpRpFbe+Kf_LQsRPAw_pJj0YS3Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 1:54 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2024-04-04 at 09:31 +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > IIUC, with your suggestion, sift_{up|down} needs to update the
> > heap_index field as well. Does it mean that the caller needs to pass
> > the address of heap_index down to sift_{up|down}?
>
> I'm not sure quite how binaryheap should be changed. Bringing the heap
> implementation into reorderbuffer.c would obviously work, but that
> would be more code.

Right.

> Another option might be to make the API of
> binaryheap look a little more like simplehash, where some #defines
> control optional behavior and can tell the implementation where to find
> fields in the structure.

Interesting idea.

>
> Perhaps it's not worth the effort though, if performance is already
> good enough?

Yeah, it would be better to measure the overhead first. I'll do that.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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