Re: suboverflowed subtransactions concurrency performance optimize

From: Simon Riggs <simon(dot)riggs(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Cc: Pengchengliu <pengchengliu(at)tju(dot)edu(dot)cn>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: suboverflowed subtransactions concurrency performance optimize
Date: 2021-12-08 15:34:21
Message-ID: CANbhV-Ht6HUEWfLa6QaKQRX6OcYNa6T2g1irTaAbJazjmLphbg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 06:41, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru> wrote:

> > On review, I think it is also possible that we update subtrans ONLY if
> > someone uses >PGPROC_MAX_CACHED_SUBXIDS.
> > This would make subtrans much smaller and avoid one-entry-per-page
> > which is a major source of cacheing.
> > This would means some light changes in GetSnapshotData().
> > Let me know if that seems interesting also?
>
> I'm afraid of unexpected performance degradation. When the system runs fine, you provision a VM of some vCPU\RAM, and then some backend uses a little more than 64 subtransactions and all the system is stuck. Or will it affect only backend using more than 64 subtransactions?

That is the objective: to isolate the effect to only those that
overflow. It seems possible.

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Simon Riggs http://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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