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Improve LWLock scalability.

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The old LWLock implementation had the problem that concurrent lock
acquisitions required exclusively acquiring a spinlock. Often that
could lead to acquirers waiting behind the spinlock, even if the
actual LWLock was free.

The new implementation doesn't acquire the spinlock when acquiring the
lock itself. Instead the new atomic operations are used to atomically
manipulate the state. Only the waitqueue, used solely in the slow
path, is still protected by the spinlock. Check lwlock.c's header for
an explanation about the used algorithm.

For some common workloads on larger machines this can yield
significant performance improvements. Particularly in read mostly
workloads.

Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila and Robert Haas
Author: Andres Freund

Discussion: 20130926225545.GB26663@awork2.anarazel.de
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Andres Freund 2014-12-25 17:24:30 +01:00
parent 7882c3b0b9
commit ab5194e6f6
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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include "lib/ilist.h"
#include "storage/s_lock.h"
#include "port/atomics.h"
struct PGPROC;
@ -47,11 +48,16 @@ typedef struct LWLockTranche
typedef struct LWLock
{
slock_t mutex; /* Protects LWLock and queue of PGPROCs */
bool releaseOK; /* T if ok to release waiters */
char exclusive; /* # of exclusive holders (0 or 1) */
int shared; /* # of shared holders (0..MaxBackends) */
int tranche; /* tranche ID */
uint16 tranche; /* tranche ID */
pg_atomic_uint32 state; /* state of exlusive/nonexclusive lockers */
#ifdef LOCK_DEBUG
pg_atomic_uint32 nwaiters; /* number of waiters */
#endif
dlist_head waiters; /* list of waiting PGPROCs */
#ifdef LOCK_DEBUG
struct PGPROC *owner; /* last exlusive owner of the lock */
#endif
} LWLock;
/*
@ -66,11 +72,11 @@ typedef struct LWLock
* (Of course, we have to also ensure that the array start address is suitably
* aligned.)
*
* Even on a 32-bit platform, an lwlock will be more than 16 bytes, because
* it contains 2 integers and 2 pointers, plus other stuff. It should fit
* into 32 bytes, though, unless slock_t is really big. On a 64-bit platform,
* it should fit into 32 bytes unless slock_t is larger than 4 bytes. We
* allow for that just in case.
* On a 32-bit platforms a LWLock will these days fit into 16 bytes, but since
* that didn't use to be the case and cramming more lwlocks into a cacheline
* might be detrimental performancewise we still use 32 byte alignment
* there. So, both on 32 and 64 bit platforms, it should fit into 32 bytes
* unless slock_t is really big. We allow for that just in case.
*/
#define LWLOCK_PADDED_SIZE (sizeof(LWLock) <= 32 ? 32 : 64)