Re: Performance under contention

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Віталій Тимчишин <tivv00(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras(at)freebsd(dot)org>, Jignesh Shah <jkshah(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance under contention
Date: 2010-12-08 04:24:14
Message-ID: AANLkTin=vVgkpYe2u_WBVHV59dgbe5QZ6PZ-nsT28Yb5@mail.gmail.com
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2010/12/7 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> 2010/12/7 Віталій Тимчишин <tivv00(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> As far as I can see from the source, there is a lot of code executed under
>> the partition lock protection, like two hash searches (and possibly
>> allocations).
>
> Yeah, that was my concern, too, though Tom seems skeptical (perhaps
> rightly).  And I'm not really sure why the PROCLOCKs need to be in a
> hash table anyway - if we know the PROC and LOCK we can surely look up
> the PROCLOCK pretty expensively by following the PROC SHM_QUEUE.

Err, pretty INexpensively.

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Robert Haas
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