Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD
Date: 2015-01-28 18:38:51
Message-ID: 4728.1422470331@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I personally still think that a comment above sbufdesc's definition
>> would be sufficient for now. But whatever. I'll enforce 64byte padding
>> on 64bit platforms, and do nothing on 32bit platforms.

> Patch doing that attached.

Surely the sizeof() in BufferShmemSize needs to be
sizeof(BufferDescPadded) now?

Also, the macro is unnecessarily unsafe for use in #if tests; why not
something like

#define BUFFERDESC_PADDED_SIZE (SIZEOF_VOID_P == 8 ? 64 : 32)

Otherwise it looks reasonably sane to me, just in a quick once-over;
I didn't test.

regards, tom lane

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