On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have updated the patch to support wait events and moved it to upcoming CF.
This patch doesn't apply any more, but I made it apply with a hammer
and then did a little benchmarking (scylla, EDB server, Intel Xeon
E5-2695 v3 @ 2.30GHz, 2 sockets, 14 cores/socket, 2 threads/core).
The results were not impressive. There's basically no clog contention
to remove, so the patch just doesn't really do anything. For example,
here's a wait event profile with master and using Ashutosh's test
script with 5 savepoints:
1 Lock | tuple 2 IO | SLRUSync 5 LWLock | wal_insert 5 LWLock
| XidGenLock 9 IO | DataFileRead 12 LWLock | lock_manager 16 IO |
SLRURead 20 LWLock | CLogControlLock 97 LWLock | buffer_content 216 Lock |
transactionid 237 LWLock | ProcArrayLock 1238 IPC | ProcArrayGroupUpdate 2266 Client
| ClientRead
This is just a 5-minute test; maybe things would change if we ran it
for longer, but if only 0.5% of the samples are blocked on
CLogControlLock without the patch, obviously the patch can't help
much. I did some other experiments too, but I won't bother
summarizing the results here because they're basically boring. I
guess I should have used a bigger machine.
Given that we've changed the approach here somewhat, I think we need
to validate that we're still seeing a substantial reduction in
CLogControlLock contention on big machines.
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