Avoid the use of a separate spinlock to protect a LWLock's wait queue.
Previously we used a spinlock, in adition to the atomically manipulated
->state field, to protect the wait queue. But it's pretty simple to
instead perform the locking using a flag in state.
Due to 6150a1b0 BufferDescs, on platforms (like PPC) with > 1 byte
spinlocks, increased their size above 64byte. As 64 bytes are the size
we pad allocated BufferDescs to, this can increase false sharing;
causing performance problems in turn. Together with the previous commit
this reduces the size to <= 64 bytes on all common platforms.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: CAA4eK1+ZeB8PMwwktf+3bRS0Pt4Ux6Rs6Aom0uip8c6shJWmyg@mail.gmail.com
20160327121858.zrmrjegmji2ymnvr@alap3.anarazel.de
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/008608b9d51061b1f598c197477b3dc7be9c4a64
Modified Files
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src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
src/include/storage/lwlock.h | 6 +-
2 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
