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| author | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2020-08-17 21:07:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2020-08-17 21:08:30 -0700 |
| commit | 623a9ba79bbdd11c5eccb30b8bd5c446130e521c (patch) | |
| tree | ed9f9fc1fd58e33a7c7d1fe5c037e08f64d6ddcd /src/include/access/transam.h | |
| parent | 51300b45db95b6fd29f88534ab0739fdc9df1699 (diff) | |
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snapshot scalability: cache snapshots using a xact completion counter.
Previous commits made it faster/more scalable to compute snapshots. But not
building a snapshot is still faster. Now that GetSnapshotData() does not
maintain RecentGlobal* anymore, that is actually not too hard:
This commit introduces xactCompletionCount, which tracks the number of
top-level transactions with xids (i.e. which may have modified the database)
that completed in some form since the start of the server.
We can avoid rebuilding the snapshot's contents whenever the current
xactCompletionCount is the same as it was when the snapshot was
originally built. Currently this check happens while holding
ProcArrayLock. While it's likely possible to perform the check without
acquiring ProcArrayLock, it seems better to do that separately /
later, some careful analysis is required. Even with the lock this is a
significant win on its own.
On a smaller two socket machine this gains another ~1.03x, on a larger
machine the effect is roughly double (earlier patch version tested
though). If we were able to safely avoid the lock there'd be another
significant gain on top of that.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/access/transam.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/include/access/transam.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/access/transam.h b/src/include/access/transam.h index b32044153b0..2f1f144db4d 100644 --- a/src/include/access/transam.h +++ b/src/include/access/transam.h @@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ typedef struct VariableCacheData * committed or aborted */ /* + * Number of top-level transactions with xids (i.e. which may have + * modified the database) that completed in some form since the start of + * the server. This currently is solely used to check whether + * GetSnapshotData() needs to recompute the contents of the snapshot, or + * not. There are likely other users of this. Always above 1. + */ + uint64 xactCompletionCount; + + /* * These fields are protected by XactTruncationLock */ TransactionId oldestClogXid; /* oldest it's safe to look up in clog */ |