The timing infrastructure (INSTR_* macros) measures time elapsed using clock_gettime() on POSIX systems, which returns the time as nanoseconds, and QueryPerformanceCounter() on Windows, which is a specialized timing clock source that returns a tick counter that needs to be converted to nanoseconds using the result of QueryPerformanceFrequency(). This conversion currently happens ad-hoc on Windows, e.g. when calling INSTR_TIME_GET_NANOSEC, which calls QueryPerformanceFrequency() on every invocation, despite the frequency being stable after program start, incurring unnecessary overhead. It also causes a fractured implementation where macros are defined differently between platforms. To ease code readability, and prepare for a future change that intends to use a ticks-to-nanosecond conversion on x86-64 for TSC use, introduce new pg_ticks_to_ns() / pg_ns_to_ticks() functions that get called from INSTR_* macros on all platforms. These functions rely on a separately initialized ticks_per_ns_scaled value, that represents the conversion ratio. This value is initialized from QueryPerformanceFrequency() on Windows, and set to zero on x86-64 POSIX systems, which results in the ticks being treated as nanoseconds. Other architectures always directly return the original ticks. To support this, pg_initialize_timing() is introduced, and is now mandatory for both the backend and any frontend programs to call before utilizing INSTR_* macros. In passing, fix variable names in comment documenting INSTR_TIME_ADD_NANOSEC(). Author: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> Author: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com> Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> Reviewed-by: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200612232810.f46nbqkdhbutzqdg%40alap3.anarazel.de |
||
|---|---|---|
| .github | ||
| config | ||
| contrib | ||
| doc | ||
| src | ||
| .cirrus.star | ||
| .cirrus.tasks.yml | ||
| .cirrus.yml | ||
| .dir-locals.el | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .git-blame-ignore-revs | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| aclocal.m4 | ||
| configure | ||
| configure.ac | ||
| COPYRIGHT | ||
| GNUmakefile.in | ||
| HISTORY | ||
| Makefile | ||
| meson.build | ||
| meson_options.txt | ||
| README.md | ||
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.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.