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Avoid using LockPage(rel, 0, lockmode) to protect against changes to the bucket mapping. Instead, an exclusive buffer content lock is now viewed as sufficient permission to modify the metapage, and a shared buffer content lock is used when such modifications need to be prevented. This more relaxed locking regimen makes it possible that, when we're busy getting a heavyweight bucket on the bucket we intend to search or insert into, a bucket split might occur underneath us. To compenate for that possibility, we use a loop-and-retry system: release the metapage content lock, acquire the heavyweight lock on the target bucket, and then reacquire the metapage content lock and check that the bucket mapping has not changed. Normally it hasn't, and we're done. But if by chance it has, we simply unlock the metapage, release the heavyweight lock we acquired previously, lock the new bucket, and loop around again. Even in the worst case we cannot loop very many times here, since we don't split the same bucket again until we've split all the other buckets, and 2^N gets big pretty fast. This results in greatly improved concurrency, because we're effectively replacing two lwlock acquire-and-release cycles in exclusive mode (on one of the lock manager locks) with a single acquire-and-release cycle in shared mode (on the metapage buffer content lock). Testing shows that it's still not quite as good as btree; for that, we'd probably have to find some way of getting rid of the heavyweight bucket locks as well, which does not appear straightforward. Patch by me, review by Jeff Janes. |
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