Re: Get rid of WALBufMappingLock

From: Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: Get rid of WALBufMappingLock
Date: 2025-02-17 09:20:09
Message-ID: CALT9ZEH11gZJdrN=FnEVLtL7RjjAzN8HzL38mC477MbX32HiXg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi, Victor!

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 12:47, Victor Yegorov <vyegorov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hey.
>
> I find “Get rid of WALBufMappingLock" commit message misleading, 'cos Lock it's being replaced by CV, actually.
>
> Should the subject be changed to “Replace WALBufMappingLock with ConditionVariable” instead?

The patch replaces WALBufMappingLock with a lockless algorithm based
on atomic variables and CV. Mentioning only CV in the head is only a
part of implementation. Also, the header should better reflect what is
done on the whole, than the implementation details. So I'd rather see
a header like "Replace WALBufMappingLock by lockless algorithm" or
"Initialize WAL buffers concurrently without using WALBufMappingLock"
or something like that.

Kind regards,
Pavel Borisov
Supabase

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