Re: Thousands of semops for every i/o

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jeffrey W(dot) Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thousands of semops for every i/o
Date: 2003-06-10 21:24:36
Message-ID: 5321.1055280276@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 23:08, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The first thing that comes to mind is that the thing is using SysV
>> semaphores as a substitute for spinlocks.

> It looks like a simple change in s_lock.h from
> #if defined(__i386__)
> to
> #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
> Will be necessary for this platform.

Cool. I assume it still passes regression tests and so forth?

regards, tom lane

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