Re: Proposal of tunable fix for scalability of 8.4

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jignesh K(dot) Shah" <J(dot)K(dot)Shah(at)sun(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal of tunable fix for scalability of 8.4
Date: 2009-03-20 15:46:01
Message-ID: 20090320154601.GC8313@alvh.no-ip.org
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Scott Carey escribió:

> Your description (much of which I cut out) is exactly how I understood
> it until Simon Riggs' post which changed my view and understanding.
> Under that situation, waking all shared will leave all XXXXX at the
> front and hence alternate shared/exclusive/shared/exclusive as long as
> both types are contending. Simon's post changed my view. Below is
> some cut/paste from it:

Simon's explanation, however, is at odds with the code.

http://git.postgresql.org/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c

There is "queue jumping" in the regular (heavyweight) lock manager, but
that's a pretty different body of code.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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