Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types
Date: 2022-10-04 08:35:55
Message-ID: CAApHDvrxyptOugW0aR8eF9iD+kzoFyKtoMTyhOHUyctKc9kLdw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 13:35, Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Revisiting my work on reducing memory consumption, I found this patch left out.
> I'm not sure I can help.
> But basically I was able to write and read the block size, in the chunk.
> Could it be the case of writing and reading the context pointer in the same way?
> Sure this leads to some performance loss, but would it make it possible to get the context pointer from the chunk?
> In other words, would it be possible to save the context pointer and compare it later in MemoryContextContains?

I'm not really sure I understand the intention of the patch. The
header size for all our memory contexts was already reduced in
c6e0fe1f2. The patch you sent seems to pre-date that commit.

David

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