Re: heavily contended lwlocks with long wait queues scale badly

From: Zhihong Yu <zyu(at)yugabyte(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: heavily contended lwlocks with long wait queues scale badly
Date: 2022-11-01 00:17:03
Message-ID: CALNJ-vQYE8USe+MsrmOTUsP-k=y=nqWDABObzA4B515t-htswQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:51 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2022-10-31 16:21:06 +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > BTW, I've seen a sporadic crash (SEGV) with the patch in bg writer
> > with the same set up [1], I'm not sure if it's really because of the
> > patch. I'm unable to reproduce it now and unfortunately I didn't
> > capture further details when it occurred.
>
> That's likely because the prototype patch I submitted in this thread missed
> updating LWLockUpdateVar().
>
> Updated patch attached.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund
>

Hi,
Minor comment:

+ uint8 lwWaiting; /* see LWLockWaitState */

Why not declare `lwWaiting` of type LWLockWaitState ?

Cheers

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