On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:20 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The checkpointer never takes heavyweight locks, so the opportunity
> > you're describing can't arise.
>
> <thinks harder> Hmm, oh, you probably meant the buffer interlocking
> in SyncOneBuffer(). It's true that my most recent patch throws away
> more requests than it could, by doing the level check at the end of
> the loop over all buffers instead of adding some kind of
> DropPendingWritebacks() in the barrier handler. I guess I could find
> a way to improve that, basically checking the level more often instead
> of at the end, but I don't know if it's worth it; we're still throwing
> out an arbitrary percentage of writeback requests.
Doesn't every backend have its own set of pending writebacks?
BufferAlloc() calls
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback(&BackendWritebackContext, ...)?
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Robert Haas
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