Fix comments in reorderbuffer.c.

Author: Dave Cramer
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHL8do4Fp1bsymgNasx375njV3AR7zY3UgYwzbL_Dx-n2Q@mail.gmail.com
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Amit Kapila 2020-07-18 09:47:38 +05:30
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* ReorderBuffer uses two special memory context types - SlabContext for
* allocations of fixed-length structures (changes and transactions), and
* GenerationContext for the variable-length transaction data (allocated
* and freed in groups with similar lifespan).
* and freed in groups with similar lifespans).
*
* To limit the amount of memory used by decoded changes, we track memory
* used at the reorder buffer level (i.e. total amount of memory), and for
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* Only decoded changes are evicted from memory (spilled to disk), not the
* transaction records. The number of toplevel transactions is limited,
* but a transaction with many subtransactions may still consume significant
* amounts of memory. The transaction records are fairly small, though, and
* amounts of memory. The transaction records are fairly small though and
* are not included in the memory limit.
*
* The current eviction algorithm is very simple - the transaction is
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*
* We still rely on max_changes_in_memory when loading serialized changes
* back into memory. At that point we can't use the memory limit directly
* as we load the subxacts independently. One option do deal with this
* as we load the subxacts independently. One option to deal with this
* would be to count the subxacts, and allow each to allocate 1/N of the
* memory limit. That however does not seem very appealing, because with
* many subtransactions it may easily cause trashing (short cycles of
* many subtransactions it may easily cause thrashing (short cycles of
* deserializing and applying very few changes). We probably should give
* a bit more memory to the oldest subtransactions, because it's likely
* the source for the next sequence of changes.
* they are the source for the next sequence of changes.
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