Re: Suppressing useless wakeups in walreceiver

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org, bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Suppressing useless wakeups in walreceiver
Date: 2022-11-13 22:26:44
Message-ID: 20221113222644.GA1269110@nathanxps13
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:08:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> There is something very seriously wrong with this patch.
>
> On my machine, running "make -j10 check-world" (with compilation
> already done) has been taking right about 2 minutes for some time.
> Since this patch, it's taking around 2:45 --- I did a bisect run
> to confirm that this patch is where it changed.

I've been looking into this. I wrote a similar patch for logical/worker.c
before noticing that check-world was taking much longer. The problem in
that case seems to be that process_syncing_tables() isn't called as often.
It wouldn't surprise me if there's also something in walreceiver.c that
depends upon the frequent wakeups. I suspect this will require a revert.

--
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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