| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Arjen van der Meijden <acm(at)tweakers(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Martin_Hurst(at)dom(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Linux 2.6 kernel, |
| Date: | 2003-06-09 01:28:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20030609012829.GA14637@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:55:19PM +0200, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> Afaik, most of such changes to the new kernel branch are independent of
> whatever you run on top of it.
> There are improvements in scheduling of processes and threads, there are
> improvements on diskacessing algortims (I think) and such.
However there are a couple of things that probably will need some
effort from the PgSQL camp. Examples are the futexes thing (fast
mostly-user-space mutexes that are said to be much faster than SysV
semaphores) and async I/O.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
Y dijo Dios: "Que sea Satanás, para que la gente no me culpe de todo a mí."
"Y que hayan abogados, para que la gente no culpe de todo a Satanás"
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