Re: Logging in LockBufferForCleanup() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: Logging in LockBufferForCleanup()
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Msg-id 9b446d57-481d-e65e-4f17-ccd4e90f82e3@oss.nttdata.com
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In response to Re: Logging in LockBufferForCleanup()  (Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>)
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On 2022/02/10 20:28, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> While I understand that these are theoretically valid concerns, it’s
> unclear to me how much the current code leads to bad effects in
> practice. There are other low-level codes/paths that call palloc()
> while holding LWLocks, and I’m not sure that the overheads result in
> visible negative performance impact particularly because the calling
> to LockBufferForCleanup() is likely to accompany wait in the first
> place.

I'm also not sure that. palloc() for PS display, copy of process title, GetCurrentTimestamp() and ereport() of recovery
conflicthappen when we fail to acquire the lock. In this case we also call ResolveRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin() and
waitto be signaled there. So compared to the wait time or overhead caused in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin(),
ISTMthat the overhead caused by them would be ralatively small. Also ereport() of recovery conflict can happen only
whenlog_recovery_conflict_waits parameter is enabled and the deadlock timeout happens during the lock wait.
 


> BTW I think calling to LockBufferForCleanup() in a critical
> section is a bad idea for sure since it becomes uninterruptible.

Yes. And as far as I tested, currently LockBufferForCleanup() is not called in critical section. Right?

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION



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