Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD
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Msg-id 4728.1422470331@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.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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