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Re: Add palloc_aligned() to allow arbitrary power of 2 memory alignment

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

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From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-08T03:54:25Z
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 15:17, John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 8:57 AM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there anything we could align to CPU cacheline size that would
> > speed something up?
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> InitCatCache() already has this, which could benefit from simpler notation.

Thanks. I wasn't aware. I'll convert that to use palloc_aligned in the patch.

David

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  1. Add palloc_aligned() to allow aligned memory allocations