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Re: Reduce timing overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE using rdtsc?

John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

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From: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
To: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, 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: 2026-04-05T02:28:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 2:00 AM Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 2:21 AM Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> wrote:
> > See attached v17.
>
> This needed a rebase after 5e13b0f240397b2, see attached v18.
>
> Looking at the changes in that commit, I also ended up re-ordering the
> feature flags in pg_cpu.h, so we have the 128/256/512 bit registers
> first, and then hypervisor and TSC flags after the 512 bit registers.

v18-0002 looks good to me as far as feature-detection, but aside from
that there are plenty of domain-specific details that I lack the means
to check on short notice. I did verify that OSXSAVE support is still
functional.

-- 
John Naylor
Amazon Web Services

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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