Re: futex results with dbt-3

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: futex results with dbt-3
Date: 2004-10-23 23:20:46
Message-ID: 417AE74E.7030004@bigfoot.com
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Josh Berkus wrote:
| Gaetano,
|
|
|>I proposed weeks ago to see how the CSStorm is affected by stick each
|>backend in one processor ( where the process was born ) using the
|>cpu-affinity capability ( kernel 2.6 ), is this proposal completely out of
|>mind ?
|
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| I don't see how that would help. The problem is not backends switching
| processors, it's the buffermgrlock needing to be swapped between processors.

This is not clear to me. What happen if during a spinlock a backend is
moved away from one processor to another one ?

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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