Re: Avoiding repeated snapshot computation

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-11-26T20:42:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Slightly reorganize struct SnapshotData.

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Hi,

On Saturday, November 26, 2011 04:52:50 PM Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> I think now that we have reduced the run time of the function itself,
> we should now try to reduce the number of times the function is
> called. Robert proposed a way to reduce the number of calls per
> transaction. I think we can go one more step further and reduce the
> number for across the transactions.
You could also try if it makes a difference reducing SnapshotData to one 
instead of two cachelines. The data itself fits into one without problems.
Trivial patch attached.

Generally I think we should check that for most of the more commonly used 
strutures, we have many with too much padding.

Andres