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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Improve performance of subsystems on top of SLRU
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:36:55 +0100
Message-ID: <202403041736.k5mrz5ntswt5@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202403041517.3a35jw53os65@alvherre.pgsql>

FWIW there's a stupid bug in 0002, which is fixed here.  I'm writing a
simple test for it.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"Now I have my system running, not a byte was off the shelf;
It rarely breaks and when it does I fix the code myself.
It's stable, clean and elegant, and lightning fast as well,
And it doesn't cost a nickel, so Bill Gates can go to hell."

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  [text/x-diff] v3-0001-Rework-redundant-loop-in-subtrans.c.patch (2.0K, ../202403041736.k5mrz5ntswt5@alvherre.pgsql/2-v3-0001-Rework-redundant-loop-in-subtrans.c.patch)
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From ecf613092a3cbc4c5112d30af7eea55b668decec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 11:49:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v3] Rework redundant loop in subtrans.c

---
 src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c | 29 +++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c b/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c
index dc9566fb51..50bb1d8cfc 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ StartupSUBTRANS(TransactionId oldestActiveXID)
 	FullTransactionId nextXid;
 	int64		startPage;
 	int64		endPage;
-	LWLock	   *prevlock;
+	LWLock	   *prevlock = NULL;
 	LWLock	   *lock;
 
 	/*
@@ -324,42 +324,27 @@ StartupSUBTRANS(TransactionId oldestActiveXID)
 	nextXid = TransamVariables->nextXid;
 	endPage = TransactionIdToPage(XidFromFullTransactionId(nextXid));
 
-	prevlock = SimpleLruGetBankLock(SubTransCtl, startPage);
-	LWLockAcquire(prevlock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
-	while (startPage != endPage)
+	for (;;)
 	{
 		lock = SimpleLruGetBankLock(SubTransCtl, startPage);
-
-		/*
-		 * Check if we need to acquire the lock on the new bank then release
-		 * the lock on the old bank and acquire on the new bank.
-		 */
 		if (prevlock != lock)
 		{
-			LWLockRelease(prevlock);
+			if (prevlock)
+				LWLockRelease(prevlock);
 			LWLockAcquire(lock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
 			prevlock = lock;
 		}
 
 		(void) ZeroSUBTRANSPage(startPage);
+		if (startPage == endPage)
+			break;
+
 		startPage++;
 		/* must account for wraparound */
 		if (startPage > TransactionIdToPage(MaxTransactionId))
 			startPage = 0;
 	}
 
-	lock = SimpleLruGetBankLock(SubTransCtl, startPage);
-
-	/*
-	 * Check if we need to acquire the lock on the new bank then release the
-	 * lock on the old bank and acquire on the new bank.
-	 */
-	if (prevlock != lock)
-	{
-		LWLockRelease(prevlock);
-		LWLockAcquire(lock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
-	}
-	(void) ZeroSUBTRANSPage(startPage);
 	LWLockRelease(lock);
 }
 
-- 
2.39.2

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