Improve scalability of md.c for large relations.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Commit: 45e191e3aa62d47a8bc1a33f784286b2051f45cb
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2016-09-09T00:18:46Z
Releases: 10.0
Improve scalability of md.c for large relations.

So far md.c used a linked list of segments. That proved to be a problem
when processing large relations, because every smgr.c/md.c level access
to a page incurred walking through a linked list of all preceding
segments. Thus making accessing pages O(#segments).

Replace the linked list of segments hanging off SMgrRelationData with an
array of opened segments. That allows O(1) access to individual
segments, if they've previously been opened.

Discussion: <20140331101001.GE13135@alap3.anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Tom Lane (in an older version)

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c modified +221 −172
src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c modified +2 −2
src/include/storage/smgr.h modified +6 −2