On a side note, I thought I would mention that the Next Generation POSIX
Threading (NGPT) Project (IBM --
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/pthreads) patches have
just been accepted to the 2.5.x Linux kernel. A 2.4.x patch is also
available. So, it may be possible that POSIX mutexes may be a
performance reality for Linux sometime in the near future...
Greg
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 19:59, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Just remember that patches for 7.3 are being accepted at this very moment...
>
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Igor Kovalenko
> > Sent: Friday, 22 March 2002 1:31 AM
> > To: Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro
> > Cc: bruc@acm.org; tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: [HACKERS] bad performance on irix
> >
> >
> > No, I've been told it is not gonna be considered for 7.2x and I shall
> > wait till 7.3.
> >
> > Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro wrote:
> > >
> > > > Makes me wonder... perhaps now someone will be convinced to
> > take a look
> > > > at the POSIX IPC patch. On some platforms (not on Linux I am afraid)
> > > > POSIX mutexes might be quite a bit faster than SYSV semaphores.
> > > >
> > > Is there any current patch?
> > > Regards
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