Separating Buffer LWlocks

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Separating Buffer LWlocks
Date: 2015-09-06 13:10:24
Message-ID: CANP8+jLDJ+Rh6pw_3Dh1jzrKcY-5JBffMVH1h6PC96_1hbD29w@mail.gmail.com
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Looks like the right time to post this patch.

It separates the Buffer LWLocks from the main LW locks, allowing them to
have different padding.

Tests showed noticeable/significant performance gain due to reduced false
sharing on main LWlocks, though without wasting memory on the buffer
LWlocks.

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separate_buffer_lwlocks.v2.patch application/octet-stream 6.0 KB

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