Re: scalability bottlenecks with (many) partitions (and more)

Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2024-09-23T10:26:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Make FP_LOCK_SLOTS_PER_BACKEND look like a function

  2. Fix asserts in fast-path locking code

  3. Increase the number of fast-path lock slots

On 9/23/24 01:06, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> writes:
>> On 9/22/24 17:45, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> #define FAST_PATH_GROUP(index)	\
>>> -	(AssertMacro(((index) >= 0) && ((index) < FP_LOCK_SLOTS_PER_BACKEND)), \
>>> +	(AssertMacro((uint32) (index) < FP_LOCK_SLOTS_PER_BACKEND), \
>>> ((index) / FP_LOCK_SLOTS_PER_GROUP))
> 
>> For the (x >= 0) asserts, doing it this way relies on negative values
>> wrapping to large positive ones, correct? AFAIK it's guaranteed to be a
>> very large value, so it can't accidentally be less than the slot count.
> 
> Right, any negative value would wrap to something more than
> INT32_MAX.
> 

Thanks. Pushed a fix for these issues, hopefully coverity will be happy.

BTW is the coverity report accessible somewhere? I know someone
mentioned that in the past, but I don't recall the details. Maybe we
should have a list of all these resources, useful for committers,
somewhere on the wiki?


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra