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Atsushi Ogawa wrote:
>
> When sum(int4) or sum(int2) is executed, many cycles are spent by
> AllocSetReset. Because per-tuple context is used to allocate the
> first data of each group.
>
> An attached patch uses AggState->aggcontext instead of per-tuple
> context to allocate the data. As a result, per-tuple context is not
> used, and the cycles of AllocSetReset is reduced.
>
> test data:
> pgbench -i -s 5
>
> SQL:
> select a.bid, sum(a.abalance)
> from accounts a
> group by a.bid;
>
> execution time(compile option "-O2"):
> original: 1.530s
> patched: 1.441s
>
> profile result of original code(compile option "-g -pg"):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> % cumulative self self total
> time seconds seconds calls s/call s/call name
> 15.64 0.35 0.35 1500000 0.00 0.00 slot_deform_tuple
> 11.67 0.62 0.27 1000002 0.00 0.00 AllocSetReset
> 6.61 0.77 0.15 1999995 0.00 0.00 slot_getattr
> 5.29 0.89 0.12 500002 0.00 0.00 heapgettup
> 3.52 0.97 0.08 524420 0.00 0.00 hash_search
>
> profile result of patched code(compile option "-g -pg"):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> % cumulative self self total
> time seconds seconds calls s/call s/call name
> 17.39 0.32 0.32 1500000 0.00 0.00 slot_deform_tuple
> 6.52 0.44 0.12 500002 0.00 0.00 heapgettup
> 6.25 0.56 0.12 1999995 0.00 0.00 slot_getattr
> 4.35 0.64 0.08 524420 0.00 0.00 hash_search
> 4.35 0.71 0.08 499995 0.00 0.00 execTuplesMatch
> (skip ...)
> 0.54 1.67 0.01 1000002 0.00 0.00 AllocSetReset
>
> regards,
>
> --- Atsushi Ogawa
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