Re: Proposal for CSN based snapshots

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Rajeev rastogi <rajeev(dot)rastogi(at)huawei(dot)com>, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, obartunov <obartunov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Borodin Vladimir <root(at)simply(dot)name>
Subject: Re: Proposal for CSN based snapshots
Date: 2017-06-21 01:48:53
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQYh6zEeJ9PWMsNvdRC9rj=Q8XKw6Ew1VCLiun1=aUo-Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> And here are the results on the 72 core machine (thanks again, Alexander!).
> The test setup was the same as on the 32-core machine, except that I ran it
> with more clients since the system has more CPU cores. In summary, in the
> best case, the patch increases throughput by about 10%. That peak is with 64
> clients. Interestingly, as the number of clients increases further, the gain
> evaporates, and the CSN version actually performs worse than unpatched
> master. I don't know why that is. One theory that by eliminating one
> bottleneck, we're now hitting another bottleneck which doesn't degrade as
> gracefully when there's contention.
>
> Full results are available at
> https://hlinnaka.iki.fi/temp/csn-4-72core-results/.

There has not been much activity on this thread for some time, and I
mentioned my intentions to some developers at the last PGCon. But I am
planning to study more the work that has been done here, with as
envisaged goal to present a patch for the first CF of PG11. Lots of
fun ahead.
--
Michael

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