On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Munro
<thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Specifically, DeleteChildTargetLocks() assumes it can walk
> MySerializableXact->predicateLocks and throw away locks that are
> covered by a new lock (ie throw away tuple locks because a covering
> page lock has been acquired) without let or hindrance until it needs
> to modify the locks themselves. That assumption doesn't hold up with
> that last patch and will require a new kind of mutual exclusion. I
> wonder if the solution is to introduce an LWLock into each
> SERIALIZABLEXACT object, so DeleteChildTargetLocks() can prevent
> workers from stepping on each others' toes during lock cleanup. An
> alternative would be to start taking SerializablePredicateLockListLock
> in exclusive rather than shared mode, but that seems unnecessarily
> coarse.
Here is a patch to do that, for discussion. It adds an LWLock to each
SERIALIZABLEXACT, and acquires it after SerializablePredicateListLock
and before any predicate lock partition lock. It doesn't bother with
that if not in parallel mode, or in the cases where
SerializablePredicateListLock is held exclusively. This prevents
parallel query workers and leader from stepping on each others' toes
when manipulating the predicate list.
The case in CheckTargetForConflictsIn is theoretical for now since we
don't support writing in parallel query yet. The case in
CreatePredicateLock is reachable by running a simple parallel
sequential scan. The case in DeleteChildTargetLocks is for when we've
acquired a new predicate lock that covers finer grained locks which
can be dropped; that is reachable the same way again. I don't think
it's required in ReleaseOneSerializableXact since it was already
called in several places with an sxact other than the caller's, and
deals with finished transactions.
--
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com
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