Re: Scaling shared buffer eviction

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Scaling shared buffer eviction
Date: 2014-09-25 14:42:29
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoacn3GQTaSsr-q+gfdAS5ZranytFEd-WPLtz_mpf97POA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2014-09-25 10:22:47 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> > That leads me to wonder: Have you measured different, lower, number of
>> > buffer mapping locks? 128 locks is, if we'd as we should align them
>> > properly, 8KB of memory. Common L1 cache sizes are around 32k...
>>
>> Amit has some results upthread showing 64 being good, but not as good
>> as 128. I haven't verified that myself, but have no reason to doubt
>> it.
>
> How about you push the spinlock change and I crosscheck the partition
> number on a multi socket x86 machine? Seems worthwile to make sure that
> it doesn't cause problems on x86. I seriously doubt it'll, but ...

OK.

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Robert Haas
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