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Benchmarks has shown that aligning the buffer descriptor array to cache lines is important for scalability; especially on bigger, multi-socket, machines. Currently the array sometimes already happens to be aligned by happenstance, depending how large previous shared memory allocations were. That can lead to wildly varying performance results after minor configuration changes. In addition to aligning the start of descriptor array, also force the size of individual descriptors to be of a common cache line size (64 bytes). That happens to already be the case on 64bit platforms, but this way we can change the struct BufferDesc more easily. As the alignment primarily matters in highly concurrent workloads which probably all are 64bit these days, and the space wastage of element alignment would be a bit more noticeable on 32bit systems, we don't force the stride to be cacheline sized on 32bit platforms for now. If somebody does actual performance testing, we can reevaluate that decision by changing the definition of BUFFERDESC_PADDED_SIZE. Discussion: 20140202151319.GD32123@awork2.anarazel.de Per discussion with Bruce Momjan, Tom Lane, Robert Haas, and Peter Geoghegan. |
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PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: http://www.postgresql.org/download See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at http://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.