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Re: [PATCH] Let's get rid of the freelist and the buffer_strategy_lock

Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>

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From: "Greg Burd" <greg@burd.me>
To: "Andres Freund" <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: "Thomas Munro" <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "Tomas Vondra" <tomas@vondra.me>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-09-04T17:24:00Z
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2025, at 12:59 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2025-08-27 15:42:48 -0400, Greg Burd wrote:
>> Regardless, I feel the first two patches on this set address the
>> intention of this thread.
>
> I'm planning to commit the first two patches after making a pass through
> them. I have some work that I'm cleaning up to post that'd conflict and Tomas'
> NUMA patches are affected too.

Fantastic, and thank you.  If you have any concerns I'm here to work through them with you.  I'll carry over the idea from the 3rd patch into a new thread.

> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund

best,

-greg

Commits

  1. bufmgr: Remove freelist, always use clock-sweep

  2. bufmgr: Use consistent naming of the clock-sweep algorithm