Re: Question about LWLockAcquire's use of semaphores instead of spinlocks

From: "Robert E(dot) Bruccoleri" <bruc(at)stone(dot)congenomics(dot)com>
To: lamigo(at)atc(dot)unican(dot)es (Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro)
Cc: bruc(at)acm(dot)org, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Question about LWLockAcquire's use of semaphores instead of spinlocks
Date: 2002-07-29 00:48:01
Message-ID: 200207290048.UAA39676@stone.congenomics.com
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Dear Luis,
I would be very interested. Replacing the IPC shared memory
with an arena make a lot of sense. --Bob

>
> Hi Bob:
> We're have been working with an sproc version of postgres and it has improve
> performance over a NUMA3 origin 3000 due to IRIX implements round_robin by
> default on memory placement instead of first touch as it did on fork. We're
> been wondering about replacing IPC shmem with a shared arena to help
> performance improve on IRIX. I dont´know if people here in postgres are
> interested on specifical ports but it could help you improve your
> performance.
> Regards

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