Re: heavily contended lwlocks with long wait queues scale badly

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(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>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: heavily contended lwlocks with long wait queues scale badly
Date: 2022-10-31 12:38:46
Message-ID: CAPpHfdv6ggM3XNPMNZKe+QdfBhv8tB+8SWtnuY61X7VKywNsxw@mail.gmail.com
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Hi Andres,

Thank you for your patch. The results are impressive.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:10 PM Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I was working on optimizing the LWLock queue in a little different way
> and I also did a benchmarking of Andres' original patch from this
> thread. [1]
> The results are quite impressive, indeed. Please feel free to see the
> results and join the discussion in [1] if you want.
>
> Best regards,
> Pavel
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALT9ZEEz%2B%3DNepc5eti6x531q64Z6%2BDxtP3h-h_8O5HDdtkJcPw%40mail.gmail.com

Pavel posted a patch implementing a lock-less queue for LWLock. The
results are interesting indeed, but slightly lower than your current
patch have. The current Pavel's patch probably doesn't utilize the
full potential of lock-less idea. I wonder what do you think about
this direction? We would be grateful for your guidance. Thank you.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov

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