Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock

On 2024-Apr-03, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:

> > So what I do in the attached 0001 is stop using the XLogwrtResult struct
> > in XLogCtl and replace it with separate Write and Flush values, and add
> > the macro XLogUpdateLocalLogwrtResult() that copies the values of Write
> > and Flush from the shared XLogCtl to the local variable given as macro
> > argument.  (I also added our idiomatic do {} while(0) to the macro
> > definition, for safety).  The new members are XLogCtl->logWriteResult
> > and XLogCtl->logFlushResult and as of 0001 are just XLogRecPtr, so
> > essentially identical semantics as the previous code.  No atomic access
> > yet!
> 
> +1.

> Also, I'm fine with renaming XLogUpdateLocalLogwrtResult() to
> RefreshXLogWriteResult().

Okay, I have pushed 0001 with the name change, will see about getting
the others in tomorrow.

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