about half processes are blocked by btree, btree is bottleneck?

From: Xiaoyulei <xiaoyulei(at)huawei(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: about half processes are blocked by btree, btree is bottleneck?
Date: 2014-09-11 03:08:56
Message-ID: E8870A2F6A4B1045B1C292B77EAB207C5BA3B11D@SZXEMA501-MBX.china.huawei.com
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I use benchmarksql with more than 200 clients on pg 9.3.3. when the test is going on, I collect all the process stack. I found about 100 processes are blocked by btree insert. Another 100 are blocked by xloginsert.

Does btree has bad performance in concurrency scenarios?

Sum:66
#0 0x00007f8273a77627 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000060cda7 in PGSemaphoreLock ()
#2 0x00000000006511a9 in LWLockAcquire ()
#3 0x00000000004987f7 in _bt_relandgetbuf ()
#4 0x000000000049c116 in _bt_search ()
#5 0x0000000000497e13 in _bt_doinsert ()
#6 0x000000000049af52 in btinsert ()
#7 0x000000000072dce4 in FunctionCall6Coll ()
#8 0x000000000049592e in index_insert ()
#9 0x0000000000590ac5 in ExecInsertIndexTuples ()

Sum:36
#0 0x00007f8273a77627 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000060cda7 in PGSemaphoreLock ()
#2 0x00000000006511a9 in LWLockAcquire ()
#3 0x0000000000497e31 in _bt_doinsert ()
#4 0x000000000049af52 in btinsert ()
#5 0x000000000072dce4 in FunctionCall6Coll ()
#6 0x000000000049592e in index_insert ()
#7 0x0000000000590ac5 in ExecInsertIndexTuples ()

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