Re: Inline MemoryContextSwitchTo?

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Karel Zak" <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "List pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Inline MemoryContextSwitchTo?
Date: 2005-02-07 08:28:09
Message-ID: KGEFLMPJFBNNLNOOOPLGAEHMCIAA.simon@2ndquadrant.com
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>Karel Zak wrote
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 18:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Can anyone think of a reason we aren't inlining
> MemoryContextSwitchTo()
> > in GCC builds, similarly to the way list_head() et al are handled?
> >
> > It wouldn't be a huge gain, but I consistently see
> MemoryContextSwitchTo
> > eating a percent or three of most profiles.
>
> Sounds good.
>
> I think we can inlining all MemoryContext functions which check memory
> context header and call context->metods->...() only. An example
> MemoryContextAlloc() that is very often called from code too.

Yes, thats good.

But why MemoryContextSwitchTo ? That seems to come out much lower than
MemoryContextAllocZeroAligned or MemoryContextAlloc on the profiles I've
seen.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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