On 2021/02/10 10:43, Fujii Masao wrote:


On 2021/02/09 23:31, torikoshia wrote:
On 2021-02-09 22:54, Fujii Masao wrote:
On 2021/02/09 19:11, Fujii Masao wrote:


On 2021/02/09 18:13, Fujii Masao wrote:


On 2021/02/09 17:48, torikoshia wrote:
On 2021-02-05 18:49, Fujii Masao wrote:
On 2021/02/05 0:03, torikoshia wrote:
On 2021-02-03 11:23, Fujii Masao wrote:
64-bit fetches are not atomic on some platforms. So spinlock is necessary when updating 
"waitStart" without holding the partition lock? Also GetLockStatusData() needs spinlock 
when reading "waitStart"?

Also it might be worth thinking to use 64-bit atomic operations like
pg_atomic_read_u64(), for that.

Thanks for your suggestion and advice!

In the attached patch I used pg_atomic_read_u64() and pg_atomic_write_u64().

waitStart is TimestampTz i.e., int64, but it seems pg_atomic_read_xxx and 
pg_atomic_write_xxx only supports unsigned int, so I cast the type.

I may be using these functions not correctly, so if something is wrong, I would 
appreciate any comments.


About the documentation, since your suggestion seems better than v6, I used it 
as is.

Thanks for updating the patch!

+    if (pg_atomic_read_u64(&MyProc->waitStart) == 0)
+        pg_atomic_write_u64(&MyProc->waitStart,
+                            pg_atomic_read_u64((pg_atomic_uint64 *) &now));

pg_atomic_read_u64() is really necessary? I think that
"pg_atomic_write_u64(&MyProc->waitStart, now)" is enough.

+        deadlockStart = get_timeout_start_time(DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT);
+        pg_atomic_write_u64(&MyProc->waitStart,
+                    pg_atomic_read_u64((pg_atomic_uint64 *) &deadlockStart));

Same as above.

+        /*
+         * Record waitStart reusing the deadlock timeout timer.
+         *
+         * It would be ideal this can be synchronously done with updating
+         * lock information. Howerver, since it gives performance impacts
+         * to hold partitionLock longer time, we do it here asynchronously.
+         */

IMO it's better to comment why we reuse the deadlock timeout timer.

     proc->waitStatus = waitStatus;
+    pg_atomic_init_u64(&MyProc->waitStart, 0);

pg_atomic_write_u64() should be used instead? Because waitStart can be
accessed concurrently there.

I updated the patch and addressed the above review comments. Patch attached.
Barring any objection, I will commit this version.

Thanks for modifying the patch!
I agree with your comments.

BTW, I ran pgbench several times before and after applying
this patch.

The environment is virtual machine(CentOS 8), so this is
just for reference, but there were no significant difference
in latency or tps(both are below 1%).

Thanks for the test! I pushed the patch.

But I reverted the patch because buildfarm members rorqual and
prion don't like the patch. I'm trying to investigate the cause
of this failures.

https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=rorqual&dt=2021-02-09%2009%3A20%3A10

-    relation     | locktype |        mode
------------------+----------+---------------------
- test_prepared_1 | relation | RowExclusiveLock
- test_prepared_1 | relation | AccessExclusiveLock
-(2 rows)
-
+ERROR:  invalid spinlock number: 0

"rorqual" reported that the above error happened in the server built with
--disable-atomics --disable-spinlocks when reading pg_locks after
the transaction was prepared. The cause of this issue is that "waitStart"
atomic variable in the dummy proc created at the end of prepare transaction
was not initialized. I updated the patch so that pg_atomic_init_u64() is
called for the "waitStart" in the dummy proc for prepared transaction.
Patch attached. I confirmed that the patched server built with
--disable-atomics --disable-spinlocks passed all the regression tests.

Thanks for fixing the bug, I also tested v9.patch configured with
--disable-atomics --disable-spinlocks on my environment and confirmed
that all tests have passed.

Thanks for the test!

I found another bug in the patch. InitProcess() initializes "waitStart",
but previously InitAuxiliaryProcess() did not. This could cause "invalid
spinlock number" error when reading pg_locks in the standby server.
I fixed that. Attached is the updated version of the patch.

I pushed this version. Thanks!

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION


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