Re: [HACKERS] Moving relation extension locks out of heavyweight lock manager

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for pointing out and comments.
>
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> No, that's not right.  Now that you mention it, I realize that tuple
>>> locks can definitely cause deadlocks.  Example:
>>
>> Yeah.  Foreign-key-related tuple locks are another rich source of
>> examples.
>>
>>> ... So I don't
>>> think we can remove speculative insertion locks from the deadlock
>>> detector either.
>>
>> That scares me too.  I think that relation extension can safely
>> be transferred to some lower-level mechanism, because what has to
>> be done while holding the lock is circumscribed and below the level
>> of database operations (which might need other locks).  These other
>> ideas seem a lot riskier.
>>
>> (But see recent conversation where I discouraged Alvaro from holding
>> extension locks across BRIN summarization activity.  We'll need to look
>> and make sure that nobody else has had creative ideas like that.)
>>
>
> It seems that we should focus on transferring only relation extension
> locks as a first step. The page locks would also be safe but it might
> require some fundamental changes related to fast insertion, which is
> discussed on other thread[1]. Also in this case I think it's better to
> focus on relation extension locks so that we can optimize the
> lower-level lock mechanism for it.
>
> So I'll update the patch based on the comment I got from Robert before.
>

Attached updated version patch. I've moved only relation extension
locks out of heavy-weight lock as per discussion so far.

I've done a write-heavy benchmark on my laptop; loading 24kB data to
one table using COPY by 1 client, for 10 seconds. The through-put of
patched is 10% better than current HEAD. The result of 5 times is the
following.

----- PATCHED -----
tps = 178.791515 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 176.522693 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 168.705442 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 158.158009 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 161.145709 (excluding connections establishing)

----- HEAD -----
tps = 147.079803 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 149.079540 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 149.082275 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 148.255376 (excluding connections establishing)
tps = 145.542552 (excluding connections establishing)

Also I've done a micro-benchmark; calling LockRelationForExtension and
UnlockRelationForExtension tightly in order to measure the number of
lock/unlock cycles per second. The result is,
PATCHED = 3.95892e+06 (cycles/sec)
HEAD = 1.15284e+06 (cycles/sec)
The patched is 3 times faster than current HEAD.

Attached updated patch and the function I used for micro-benchmark.
Please review it.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center