Reduce rate of walwriter wakeups due to async commits.
XLogSetAsyncXactLSN(), called at asynchronous commit, would wake up
walwriter every time the LSN advances, but walwriter doesn't actually
do anything unless it has at least 'wal_writer_flush_after' full
blocks of WAL to write. Repeatedly waking up walwriter to do nothing
is a waste of CPU cycles in both walwriter and the backends doing the
wakeups. To fix, apply the same logic in XLogSetAsyncXactLSN() to
decide whether to wake up walwriter, as walwriter uses to determine if
it has any work to do.
In the passing, rename misleadingly named 'flushbytes' local variable
to 'flushblocks'.
Author: Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20231024230929.vsc342baqs7kmbte@awork3.anarazel.de
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1f395354d8742d57c166104874114b6e0d01e104
Modified Files
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src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)