Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-09-19T03:11:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Jesper Pedersen <
jesper.pedersen@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/11/2015 10:31 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
>
>> Updated comments and the patch (increate_clog_bufs_v2.patch)
>> containing the same is attached.
>>
>>
> I have done various runs on an Intel Xeon 28C/56T w/ 256Gb mem and 2 x
> RAID10 SSD (data + xlog) with Min(64,).
>
>
The benefit with this patch could be seen at somewhat higher
client-count as you can see in my initial mail, can you please
once try with client count > 64?

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog.

  2. Improve 64bit atomics support.

  3. Add ProcArrayGroupUpdate wait event.

  4. Make the different Unix-y semaphore implementations ABI-compatible.

  5. Fix broken ALTER INDEX documentation

  6. Code and docs review for commit 3187d6de0e5a9e805b27c48437897e8c39071d45.

  7. Partition the freelist for shared dynahash tables.

  8. Correct StartupSUBTRANS for page wraparound

  9. Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.

  10. contrib/sslinfo: add ssl_extension_info SRF

  11. Reduce ProcArrayLock contention by removing backends in batches.

  12. Fix `make installcheck` for serializable transactions.

  13. Lockless StrategyGetBuffer clock sweep hot path.

  14. Reduce sinval synchronization overhead.