Re: [PATCHES] update i386 spinlock for hyperthreading

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred(at)colorfullife(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, markw(at)osdl(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] update i386 spinlock for hyperthreading
Date: 2003-12-30 15:17:10
Message-ID: 3FF196F6.90500@colorfullife.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

>>Anyone see an attack path here?
>>
>>
>
>Should we have one lock per hash bucket rather than one for the entire
>hash?
>
>
That's the simple part. The problem is the aging strategy: we need a
strategy that doesn't rely on a global list that's updated after every
lookup. If I understand the ARC code correctly, there is a
STRAT_MRU_INSERT(cdb, STRAT_LIST_T2) that happen in every lookup.

--
Manfred

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