Re: mosbench revisited

From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: mosbench revisited
Date: 2011-08-04 21:09:02
Message-ID: CAC_2qU_4ftYZVg-e0s2Zvb5GOtyH-Vdg-aS+FsoSx5Tk2dD3Kg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>  And hoping that the Linux guys decide to do something about it.
>  This isn't really our bug - lseek is quite cheap in the uncontended
> case.

Has anyone tried this on a recent kernel (i.e. 2.6.39 or later), where
they've finally remove the BKL out of VFS/inode?

I mean, complaining about scalability in linux 2.6.18 is like
complaining about scalability in postgresql 8.2 ;-)

a.

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