Hi,
To recapitulate why I think this sort of embedded list is worthwile:
* minimal memory overhead (16 bytes for double linked list heads/nodes on
64bit systems)
* no additional memory allocation overhead
* no additional dereference to access the contents of a list element
* most modifications are completely branchless
* the current dllist.h interface has double the memory overhead and much more
complex manipulation operators
* Multiple places in postgres have grown local single or double linked list
implementations
* I need it ;)
Attached are three patches:
1. embedded list implementation
2. make the list implementation usable without USE_INLINE
3. convert all callers to ilist.h away from dllist.h
For 1 I:
a. added more comments and some introduction, some more functions
b. moved the file from utils/ilist.h to lib/ilist.h
c. actually included the c file with the check functions
d. did *not* split it up into single/double linked list files, doesn't seem to
be worth the trouble given how small ilist.(c|h) are
e. did *not* try to get an interface similar to dllist.h. I don't think the
old one is better and it makes the breakage more obvious should somebody else
use the old implementation although I doubt it.
I can be convinced to do d. and e. but I don't think they are an improvement.
For 2 I used ugly macro hackery to avoid declaring every function twice, in a
c file and in a header.
Opinions on the state of the above patches?
I did not expect any performance difference in the current usage, but just to
be sure I ran the following tests:
connection heavy:
pgbench -n -S -p 5501 -h /tmp -U andres postgres -c 16 -j 16 -T 10 -C
master: 3109 3024 3012
ilist: 3097 3033 3024
somewhat SearchCatCache heavy:
pgbench -n -S -p 5501 -h /tmp -U andres postgres -T 100 -c 16 -j 1
master: 98979.453879 99554.485631 99393.587880
ilist: 98960.545559 99583.319870 99498.923273
As expected the differences are on the level of noise...
Greetings,
Andres
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