Re: Posix Shared Mem patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Posix Shared Mem patch
Date: 2012-07-03 15:41:09
Message-ID: 8133.1341330069@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Btw, RhodiumToad/Andrew Gierth on irc talked about a reason why sysv shared
> memory might be advantageous on some platforms. E.g. on freebsd there is the
> kern.ipc.shm_use_phys setting which prevents paging out shared memory and also
> seems to make tlb translation cheaper. There does not seem to exist an
> alternative for anonymous mmap.

Isn't that mlock()?

> So maybe we should make that a config option?

I'd really rather not. If we're going to go in this direction, we
should just go there.

regards, tom lane

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