Re: reducing the overhead of frequent table locks - now, with WIP patch

From: Jignesh Shah <jkshah(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: reducing the overhead of frequent table locks - now, with WIP patch
Date: 2011-06-06 19:54:07
Message-ID: BANLkTi=rQxgaqwKM1GLqmsGY08b5sMTwSg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> That's an improvement of about ~3.5x.  According to the vmstat output,
>> when running without the patch, the CPU state was about 40% idle.
>> With the patch, it dropped down to around 6%.
>
> Wow!  That's fantastic.
>
> Jignesh, are you in a position to test any of Robert's work using DBT or
> other benchmarks?
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
> http://pgexperts.com
>

I missed the discussion. Can you send me the patch (will that work
with 9.1 beta?)? I can do a before and after with DBT2 and let you
know.
And also test it with sysbench read test which also has a relation
locking bottleneck.

Thanks.

Regards,
Jignesh

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