Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

To: "Magnus Naeslund(t)" <mag@fbab.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, lutzeb@aeccom.com, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

Date: 2004-04-26T19:20:58Z

Lists: pgsql-performance

Magus,

> It would be interesting to see what a locking implementation ala FUTEX 
> style would give on an 2.6 kernel, as i understood it that would work 
> cross process with some work.

I'mm working on testing a FUTEX patch, but am having some trouble with it.  
Will let you know the results ....

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco