Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Date: 2024-04-05T17:55:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Pushed 0001.  Here's the patch that adds the Copy position one more
time, with the monotonic_advance function returning the value.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

Commits

  1. Remove bogus assertion in pg_atomic_monotonic_advance_u64

  2. Add XLogCtl->logInsertResult

  3. Operate XLogCtl->log{Write,Flush}Result with atomics

  4. Split XLogCtl->LogwrtResult into separate struct members

  5. Introduce atomic read/write functions with full barrier semantics.

  6. Reduce the number of GetFlushRecPtr() calls done by walsenders.

  7. Remove most volatile qualifiers from xlog.c