Re: Move unused buffers to freelist

On Wednesday, July 03, 2013 6:10 PM Simon Riggs wrote:
On 3 July 2013 12:56, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com> wrote:
 
>>>My perspectives here would be

>>> * BufFreelistLock is a huge issue. Finding a next victim block needs to
be
an O(1) operation, yet it is currently much worse than that. Measuring
>>> contention on that lock hides that problem, since having shared buffers
lock up for 100ms or more but only occasionally is a huge problem, even if
it
>>> doesn't occur frequently enough for the averaged contention to show as
an
issue.
 >> To optimize finding next victim buffer, I am planning to run the clock
>> sweep in background. Apart from that do you have any idea to make it
closer
>> to O(1)?

> Yes, I already posted patches to attentuate the search time. Please check
back last few CFs of 9.3

Okay, I got it. I think you mean 9.2.

Patch: Reduce locking on StrategySyncStart()
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=743

Patch: Reduce freelist locking during DROP TABLE/DROP DATABASE
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=744

I shall pay attention to patches and the discussion during my work on
enhancement of this patch.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.