Re: ReadRecentBuffer() doesn't scale well

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 18:40, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2023-06-27 14:49:48 +0300, Ants Aasma wrote:
> > If you want to experiment, here is a rebased version of something I
> > hacked up a couple of years back on the way to Fosdem Pgday. I didn't
> > pursue it further because I didn't have a use case where it showed a
> > significant difference.
>
> Thanks for posting!
>
> Based on past experiments, anything that requires an atomic op during spinlock
> release on x86 will be painful :/. I'm not sure there's a realistic way to
> avoid that with futexes though :(.

Do you happen to know if a plain xchg instruction counts as an atomic
for this? I haven't done atomics stuff in a while, so I might be
missing something, but at first glance I think using a plain xchg
would be enough for the releasing side.

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Ants