Advice on testing buffer spin lock contention

From: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Advice on testing buffer spin lock contention
Date: 2013-04-15 06:09:24
Message-ID: 11BAC819-6994-4279-B05C-C0CEA92174B8@gmail.com
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Hi all,

We are working on a patch which targets the overhead of spinlock in buffer cache.In this regard, we need to exercise buffer spinlock contention on a 16 core machine.

Could anyone please suggest some good methods for exercising the same?

Regards,

Atri

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