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Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon patch for 7.4.1

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pg@fastcrypt.com, Paul Tuckfield <paul@tuckfield.com>, Anjan Dave <adave@vantage.com>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-04-22T17:55:53Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> This may be a moot point, since you've stated that changing the loop timing 
> won't solve the problem, but what about making the test part of make?   I 
> don't think too many systems are going to change processor architectures once
> in production, and those that do can be told to re-compile.

Having to recompile to run on single- vs dual-processor machines doesn't
seem like it would fly.

			regards, tom lane