Fix performance problem when building a lossy tidbitmap.

As pointed out by Sergey Koposov, repeated invocations of tbm_lossify can
make building a large tidbitmap into an O(N^2) operation.  To fix, make
sure we remove more than the minimum amount of information per call, and
add a fallback path to behave sanely if we're unable to fit the bitmap
within the requested amount of memory.

This has been wrong since the tidbitmap code was written, so back-patch
to all supported branches.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane 2011-08-20 14:51:02 -04:00
parent 44631eec32
commit 6016005118
1 changed files with 19 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -884,8 +884,11 @@ tbm_lossify(TIDBitmap *tbm)
/*
* XXX Really stupid implementation: this just lossifies pages in
* essentially random order. We should be paying some attention to the
* number of bits set in each page, instead. Also it might be a good idea
* to lossify more than the minimum number of pages during each call.
* number of bits set in each page, instead.
*
* Since we are called as soon as nentries exceeds maxentries, we should
* push nentries down to significantly less than maxentries, or else we'll
* just end up doing this again very soon. We shoot for maxentries/2.
*/
Assert(!tbm->iterating);
Assert(tbm->status == TBM_HASH);
@ -906,7 +909,7 @@ tbm_lossify(TIDBitmap *tbm)
/* This does the dirty work ... */
tbm_mark_page_lossy(tbm, page->blockno);
if (tbm->nentries <= tbm->maxentries)
if (tbm->nentries <= tbm->maxentries / 2)
{
/* we have done enough */
hash_seq_term(&status);
@ -919,6 +922,19 @@ tbm_lossify(TIDBitmap *tbm)
* not care whether we visit lossy chunks or not.
*/
}
/*
* With a big bitmap and small work_mem, it's possible that we cannot
* get under maxentries. Again, if that happens, we'd end up uselessly
* calling tbm_lossify over and over. To prevent this from becoming a
* performance sink, force maxentries up to at least double the current
* number of entries. (In essence, we're admitting inability to fit
* within work_mem when we do this.) Note that this test will not fire
* if we broke out of the loop early; and if we didn't, the current
* number of entries is simply not reducible any further.
*/
if (tbm->nentries > tbm->maxentries / 2)
tbm->maxentries = Min(tbm->nentries, (INT_MAX - 1) / 2) * 2;
}
/*