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

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-09-04T16:59:08Z
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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.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

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

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