On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 5:52 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 1:13 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 3:25 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 11:38 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:28 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > >
> > > > > I'm doing benchmark tests and will share the results.
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> > > >
> > > > I've done benchmark tests to measure the overhead introduced by doing
> > > > bsearch() every time when decoding a commit record. I've simulated a
> > > > very intensified situation where we decode 1M commit records while
> > > > keeping builder->catchange.xip array but the overhead is negilible:
> > > >
> > > > HEAD: 584 ms
> > > > Patched: 614 ms
> > > >
> > > > I've attached the benchmark script I used. With increasing
> > > > LOG_SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL_MS to 90000, the last decoding by
> > > > pg_logicla_slot_get_changes() decodes 1M commit records while keeping
> > > > catalog modifying transactions.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the test. We should also see how it performs when (a) we
> > > don't change LOG_SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL_MS,
> >
> > What point do you want to see in this test? I think the performance
> > overhead depends on how many times we do bsearch() and how many
> > transactions are in the list.
> >
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> Right, I am not expecting any visible performance difference in this
> case. This is to ensure that we are not incurring any overhead in the
> more usual scenarios (or default cases). As per my understanding, the
> purpose of increasing the value of LOG_SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL_MS is to
> simulate a stress case for the changes made by the patch, and keeping
> its value default will test the more usual scenarios.
Agreed.
I've done simple benchmark tests to decode 100k pgbench transactions:
HEAD: 10.34 s
Patched: 10.29 s
I've attached an updated patch that incorporated comments from Amit and Shi.
Regards,
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Masahiko Sawada
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