Re: stress test for parallel workers

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mark Wong <mark(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: stress test for parallel workers
Date: 2020-07-28 03:27:40
Message-ID: 1152781.1595906860@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Hehe, the dodgy looking magic numbers *were* wrong:
> - * The kernel signal delivery code writes up to about 1.5kB
> + * The kernel signal delivery code writes a bit over 4KB
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20200724092528(dot)1578671-2-mpe(at)ellerman(dot)id(dot)au/

... and, having seemingly not learned a thing, they just replaced
them with new magic numbers. Mumble sizeof() mumble.

Anyway, I guess the interesting question for us is how long it
will take for this fix to propagate into real-world systems.
I don't have much of a clue about the Linux kernel workflow,
anybody want to venture a guess?

regards, tom lane

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