RE: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist

On Thu, December 24, 2020 6:02 PM JST, Tang, Haiying wrote:
> Hi Amit, Kirk
>
> >One idea could be to remove "nBlocksToInvalidate <
> >BUF_DROP_FULL_SCAN_THRESHOLD" part of check "if (cached &&
> >nBlocksToInvalidate < BUF_DROP_FULL_SCAN_THRESHOLD)" so that it
> always
> >use optimized path for the tests. Then use the relation size as
> >NBuffers/128, NBuffers/256, NBuffers/512 for different values of shared
> >buffers as 128MB, 1GB, 20GB, 100GB.
>
> I followed your idea to remove check and use different relation size for
> different shared buffers as 128M,1G,20G,50G(my environment can't support
> 100G, so I choose 50G).
> According to results, all three thresholds can get optimized, even
> NBuffers/128 when shared_buffers > 128M.
> IMHO, I think NBuffers/128 is the maximum relation size we can get
> optimization in the three thresholds, Please let me know if I made something
> wrong.

Hello Tang,
Thank you very much again for testing. Perhaps there is a confusing part in the
presented table where you indicated master(512), master(256), master(128).
Because the master is not supposed to use the BUF_DROP_FULL_SCAN_THRESHOLD
and just execute the existing default full scan of NBuffers.
Or I may have misunderstood something?

> Recovery after vacuum test results as below ' Optimized percentage' and '
> Optimization details(unit: second)' shows:
> (512),(256),(128): means relation size is NBuffers/512, NBuffers/256,
> NBuffers/128
> %reg: means (patched(512)- master(512))/ master(512)
>
> Optimized percentage:
> shared_buffers%reg(512)%reg(256)%reg(128)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 128M0%-1%-1%
> 1G -65%-49%-62%
> 20G -98%-98%-98%
> 50G -99%-99%-99%
>
> Optimization details(unit: second):
> shared_buffersmaster(512)patched(512)master(256)patched(256)master(12
> 8)patched(128)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------
> 128M0.1080.1080.1090.1080.1090.108
> 1G0.310 0.107 0.410 0.208 0.811 0.309
> 20G 94.493 1.511 188.777 3.014 380.633 6.020
> 50G537.9783.815867.4537.5241559.07615.541
>
> Test prepare:
> Below is test table amount for different shared buffers. Each table size is 8k,
> so I use table amount = NBuffers/(512 or 256 or 128):
> shared_buffersNBuffersNBuffers/512NBuffers/256NBuffers/128
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> 128M163843264128
> 1G1310722565121024
> 20G2621440 51201024020480
> 50G6553600 128002560051200
>
> Besides, I also did single table performance test.
> Still, NBuffers/128 is the max relation size which we can get optimization.
>
> Optimized percentage:
> shared_buffers%reg(512)%reg(256)%reg(128)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 128M0%0%-1%
> 1G 0%1%0%
> 20G 0%-24%-25%
> 50G 0%-24%-20%
>
> Optimization details(unit: second):
> shared_buffersmaster(512)patched(512)master(256)patched(256)master(12
> 8)patched(128)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------
> 128M0.1070.1070.1080.1080.1080.107
> 1G0.108 0.108 0.107 0.108 0.108 0.108
> 20G0.208 0.208 0.409 0.309 0.409 0.308
> 50G0.309 0.308 0.408 0.309 0.509 0.408

I will also post results from my machine in the next email.
Adding what Amit mentioned that we should also test for NBuffers/64, etc.
until we determine which of the threshold performs worse than master.

Regards,
Kirk Jamison