Re: Improve LWLock tranche name visibility across backends
Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
From: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>,
Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-09-04T17:30:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I'm having some regrets about the changes to RequestNamedLWLockTranche().
> Specifically, when it is first called, it immediately allocates an array
> big enough to hold 256 requests (~17 KB), whereas it used to only allocate
> space for 16 requests (~1 KB) and resize as needed.
I liked removing the repalloc calls inside this routine and did not think
it was worth optimizing. I am OK with reverting it back. Although v1
is incorrect since it's still initializing
NamedLWLockTrancheRequestArray to MAX_NAMED_TRANCHES
```
if (NamedLWLockTrancheRequestArray == NULL)
{
+ NamedLWLockTrancheRequestsAllocated = 16;
NamedLWLockTrancheRequestArray = (NamedLWLockTrancheRequest *)
MemoryContextAlloc(TopMemoryContext,
MAX_NAMED_TRANCHES
* sizeof(NamedLWLockTrancheRequest));
}
```
instead of MAX_NAMED_TRANCHES, it should be
NamedLWLockTrancheRequestsAllocated .
Also, Previously NamedLWLockTrancheRequestsAllocated was global, but I don't
think it should ever be used outside of this function, so it's OK to declare it
as you have.
> Furthermore, the
> MAX_NAMED_TRANCHES check isn't actually needed because InitializeLWLocks()
> will do the same check via its calls to LWLockNewTrancheId() for all the
> named tranche requests.
I thought about that one and decided to add the error message there, since
requesting a tranche happens way before LWLockNewTrancheId is called
during CreateLWLocks, so it was more about erroring out slightly earlier.
But it may be ok to also just remove it.
--
Sami Imseih
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Commits
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test_dsa: Avoid leaking LWLock tranches.
- c5c74282f2ea 19 (unreleased) landed
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Teach DSM registry to ERROR if attaching to an uninitialized entry.
- b26d76f64327 18.2 landed
- ac2800ddc185 17.8 landed
- 1165a933aab1 19 (unreleased) landed
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Add a test harness for the LWLock tranche code.
- 16607718c010 19 (unreleased) landed
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Revert recent change to RequestNamedLWLockTranche().
- d814d7fc3d52 19 (unreleased) landed
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Move dynamically-allocated LWLock tranche names to shared memory.
- 38b602b0289f 19 (unreleased) landed
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Prepare DSM registry for upcoming changes to LWLock tranche names.
- 5487058b56e0 19 (unreleased) landed
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Add GetNamedDSA() and GetNamedDSHash().
- fe07100e82b0 19 (unreleased) cited