snapshot scalability: Move delayChkpt from PGXACT to PGPROC.
authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Wed, 8 Apr 2020 00:36:23 +0000 (17:36 -0700)
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Wed, 8 Apr 2020 00:36:23 +0000 (17:36 -0700)
commit75848bc74411130ede23995d0ab1aefb12c4c4b0
tree239b59be148611c1d03f0cc97f599af42a59a400
parent2b88fdde30d8e9bf833b75a014189e9148233b85
snapshot scalability: Move delayChkpt from PGXACT to PGPROC.

The goal of separating hotly accessed per-backend data from PGPROC
into PGXACT is to make accesses fast (GetSnapshotData() in
particular). But delayChkpt is not actually accessed frequently; only
when starting a checkpoint. As it is frequently modified (multiple
times in the course of a single transaction), storing it in the same
cacheline as hotly accessed data unnecessarily dirties a contended
cacheline.

Therefore move delayChkpt to PGPROC.

This is part of a larger series of patches intending to improve
GetSnapshotData() scalability. It is committed and pushed separately,
as it is independently beneficial (small but measurable win, limited
by the other frequent modifications of PGXACT).

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c
src/backend/access/transam/twophase.c
src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
src/backend/storage/ipc/procarray.c
src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c
src/include/storage/proc.h