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Re: Spinlocks, yet again: analysis and proposed patches

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-09-13T18:34:31Z
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> I'm feeling even more disenchanted with sched_yield now that Marko
> pointed out that the behavior was changed recently.  Here we have a

To be fair, I'm not entirely sure 'recently' is quite the right word.
It sounds like it changed during the 2.5 development cycle; which was
between major kernel releases, and looks like it was around Dec, 2003.

	Thanks,

		Stephen