Re: futex results with dbt-3

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred(at)colorfullife(dot)com>, Mark Wong <markw(at)osdl(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, neilc(at)samurai(dot)com
Subject: Re: futex results with dbt-3
Date: 2004-10-25 16:33:07
Message-ID: 200410250933.07550.josh@agliodbs.com
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Manfred,

> How complicated are Tom's test scripts? His immediate reply was that I
> should retest with Fedora, to rule out any gentoo bugs.

We've done some testing on other Linux. Linking in pthreads reduced CSes by
< 15%, which was no appreciable impact on real performance.

Gavin/Neil's full futex patch was of greater benefit; while it did not reduce
CSes very much (25%) somehow the real performance benefit was greater.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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