Operate XLogCtl->log{Write,Flush}Result with atomics
This removes the need to hold both the info_lck spinlock and
WALWriteLock to update them. We use stock atomic write instead, with
WALWriteLock held. Readers can use atomic read, without any locking.
This allows for some code to be reordered: some places were a bit
contorted to avoid repeated spinlock acquisition, but that's no longer a
concern, so we can turn them to more natural coding. Some further
changes are possible (maybe to performance wins), but in this commit I
did rather minimal ones only, to avoid increasing the blast radius.
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200831182156.GA3983@alvherre.pgsql
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ee1cbe806dad47674ded35427c6ba217531847d6
Modified Files
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src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)