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From Atri Sharma
Subject Advice on testing buffer spin lock contention
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Msg-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
bufferspinlock contention on a 16 core machine. 

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

Regards,

Atri

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