Horton

Re: Spinlocks, yet again: analysis and proposed patches

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, gmaxwell@gmail.com, Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>, Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>, Michael Paesold <mpaesold@gmx.at>
Date: 2005-09-16T19:36:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Greg Stark (gsstark@mit.edu) wrote:
> However I was under the impression that 2.6 had moved beyond that problem.
> It would be very interesting to know if 2.6 still suffers from this.

The tests on the em64t at my place were using 2.6.12.  I had thought 2.6
was better about this too, but I don't have another explanation for it.
CONFIG_SMT was enabled, etc..

	Thanks,

		Stephen