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authorRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>2011-11-25 08:02:10 -0500
committerRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>2011-11-25 08:02:10 -0500
commited0b409d22346b1b027a4c2099ca66984d94b6dd (patch)
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Move "hot" members of PGPROC into a separate PGXACT array.
This speeds up snapshot-taking and reduces ProcArrayLock contention. Also, the PGPROC (and PGXACT) structures used by two-phase commit are now allocated as part of the main array, rather than in a separate array, and we keep ProcArray sorted in pointer order. These changes are intended to minimize the number of cache lines that must be pulled in to take a snapshot, and testing shows a substantial increase in performance on both read and write workloads at high concurrencies. Pavan Deolasee, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/storage/lmgr/deadlock.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/lmgr/deadlock.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/deadlock.c b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/deadlock.c
index 7e7f6af21b7..63326b8770d 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/deadlock.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/deadlock.c
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ FindLockCycleRecurse(PGPROC *checkProc,
int *nSoftEdges) /* output argument */
{
PGPROC *proc;
+ PGXACT *pgxact;
LOCK *lock;
PROCLOCK *proclock;
SHM_QUEUE *procLocks;
@@ -516,6 +517,7 @@ FindLockCycleRecurse(PGPROC *checkProc,
while (proclock)
{
proc = proclock->tag.myProc;
+ pgxact = &ProcGlobal->allPgXact[proc->pgprocno];
/* A proc never blocks itself */
if (proc != checkProc)
@@ -541,7 +543,7 @@ FindLockCycleRecurse(PGPROC *checkProc,
* vacuumFlag bit), but we don't do that here to avoid
* grabbing ProcArrayLock.
*/
- if (proc->vacuumFlags & PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM)
+ if (pgxact->vacuumFlags & PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM)
blocking_autovacuum_proc = proc;
/* This proc hard-blocks checkProc */