From: | Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Relation extension scalability |
Date: | 2016-03-08 15:04:08 |
Message-ID: | CAA4eK1+EF2rhW7uN7sK=Q34xu33VneDjosqoa8o9sD1v0i2HJA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> >> Hmm. Can we drive this off of the heavyweight lock manager's idea of
> >> how big the relation extension lock wait queue is, instead of adding
> >> more stuff to PGPROC?
> >
> > One idea to make it work without adding additional stuff in PGPROC is
that
> > after acquiring relation extension lock, check if there is any available
> > block in fsm, if it founds any block, then release the lock and proceed,
> > else extend the relation by one block and then check lock's wait queue
size
> > or number of lock requests (nRequested) and extend the relation further
in
> > proportion to wait queue size and then release the lock and proceed.
Here,
> > I think we can check for wait queue size even before extending the
relation
> > by one block.
> >
> > The benefit of doing it with PGPROC is that there will be relatively
less
> > number LockAcquire calls as compare to heavyweight lock approach, which
I
> > think should not matter much because we are planing to extend the
relation
> > in proportion to wait queue size (probably wait queue size * 10).
>
> I don't think switching relation extension from heavyweight locks to
> lightweight locks is going to work.
>
Sorry, but I am not suggesting to change it to lightweight locks. I am
just suggesting how to make batching works with heavyweight locks as asked
by you.
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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