At Tue, 12 May 2020 15:50:35 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in
> I happened to come across this code added by 28cac71bd:
>
> static PgStat_MsgSLRU *
> slru_entry(SlruCtl ctl)
> {
> int idx = pgstat_slru_index(ctl->shared->lwlock_tranche_name);
>
> Assert((idx >= 0) && (idx < SLRU_NUM_ELEMENTS));
>
> return &SLRUStats[idx];
> }
>
> which is invoked by all the pgstat_count_slru_XXX routines.
> This seems mightily inefficient --- the count functions are
> just there to increment integer counters, but first they
> have to do up to half a dozen strcmp's to figure out which
> counter to increment.
>
> We could improve this by adding another integer field to
> SlruSharedData (which is already big enough that no one
> would notice) and recording the result of pgstat_slru_index()
> there as soon as the lwlock_tranche_name is set. (In fact,
> it looks like we could stop saving the tranche name as such
> altogether, thus buying back way more shmem than the integer
> field would occupy.)
I noticed that while trying to move that stuff into shmem-stats patch.
I think we can get rid of SlruCtl->shared->lwlock_tranche_name since
the only user is the slru_entry() and no external modules don't look
into that depth and there's a substitute way to know the name for
them.
> This does require the assumption that all backends agree
> on the SLRU stats index for a particular SLRU cache. But
> AFAICS we're locked into that already, since the backends
> use those indexes to tell the stats collector which cache
> they're sending stats for.
>
> Thoughts?
AFAICS it is right and the change suggested looks reasonable to me.
One arguable point might be whether it is right that SlruData holds
pgstats internal index from the standpoint of modularity. (It is one
of the reasons I didn't propose a patch for that..)
regards.
--
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
