RE: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From k.jamison@fujitsu.com
Subject RE: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist
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In response to Re: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist  (Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, January 7, 2021 5:36 PM (JST), Amit Kapila wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:43 PM k.jamison@fujitsu.com
> <k.jamison@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >
> > [Results for VACUUM on single relation]
> > Average of 5 runs.
> >
> > 1. % REGRESSION
> > % Regression: (patched - master)/master
> >
> > | rel_size | 128MB  | 1GB    | 20GB   | 100GB    |
> > |----------|--------|--------|--------|----------|
> > | NB/512   | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000% | -32.680% |
> > | NB/256   | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000%   |
> > | NB/128   | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000% | -16.502% |
> > | NB/64    | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000% | -9.841%  |
> > | NB/32    | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000% | -6.219%  |
> > | NB/16    | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000% | 3.323%   |
> > | NB/8     | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.000% | 8.178%   |
> >
> > For 100GB shared_buffers, we can observe regression
> > beyond NBuffers/32. So with this, we can conclude
> > that NBuffers/32 is the right threshold.
> > For NBuffers/16 and beyond, the patched performs
> > worse than master. In other words, the cost of for finding
> > to be invalidated buffers gets higher in the optimized path
> > than the traditional path.
> >
> > So in attached V39 patches, I have updated the threshold
> > BUF_DROP_FULL_SCAN_THRESHOLD to NBuffers/32.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the detailed tests. NBuffers/32 seems like an appropriate
> value for the threshold based on these results. I would like to
> slightly modify part of the commit message in the first patch as below
> [1], otherwise, I am fine with the changes. Unless you or anyone else
> has any more comments, I am planning to push the 0001 and 0002
> sometime next week.
> 
> [1]
> "The recovery path of DropRelFileNodeBuffers() is optimized so that
> scanning of the whole buffer pool can be avoided when the number of
> blocks to be truncated in a relation is below a certain threshold. For
> such cases, we find the buffers by doing lookups in BufMapping table.
> This improves the performance by more than 100 times in many cases
> when several small tables (tested with 1000 relations) are truncated
> and where the server is configured with a large value of shared
> buffers (greater than 100GB)."

Thank you for taking a look at the results of the tests. And it's also 
consistent with the results from Tang too.
The commit message LGTM.

Regards,
Kirk Jamison

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