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Re: Reduce timing overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE using rdtsc?

Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>

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From: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>
To: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>, Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-04-06T23:36:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
+uint64 max_ticks_no_overflow = 0;

Could this be int64? It is based on PG_INT64_MAX, and it's only
practical use is with a cast to int64.

> This allows the direct use of the Time-Stamp Counter (TSC) value retrieved
> from the CPU using RDTSC/RDTSC instructions,

Typo in commit message for 0003: RDTSC/RDTSC

+ else
+ printf(_("TSC clock source is not usable. Likely unable to determine
TSC frequency. are you running in an unsupported virtualized
environment?.\n"));
+}

Typo: are, ?.


-/* TSC specific logic */
+/* Hardware clock specific logic (x86 TSC / AArch64 CNTVCT) */

Shouldn't this ARM patch also update the documentation?

Commits

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  1. pg_test_timing: Show additional TSC clock source debug info

  2. instrumentation: Avoid CPUID 0x15/0x16 for Hypervisor TSC frequency

  3. pg_test_timing: Also test RDTSC[P] timing, report time source, TSC frequency

  4. Allow retrieving x86 TSC frequency/flags from CPUID

  5. instrumentation: Standardize ticks to nanosecond conversion method

  6. instrumentation: Use Time-Stamp Counter on x86-64 to lower overhead

  7. Check for __cpuidex and __get_cpuid_count separately

  8. pg_test_timing: Reduce per-loop overhead

  9. Refactor handling of x86 CPUID instructions

  10. instrumentation: Drop INSTR_TIME_SET_CURRENT_LAZY macro

  11. Rename pg_crc32c_sse42_choose.c for general purpose

  12. Zero initialize uses of instr_time about to trigger compiler warnings

  13. instr_time: Represent time as an int64 on all platforms

  14. Add 250c8ee07ed to git-blame-ignore-revs