1. Just changedTAS(lock) to pthread_mutex_trylock(lock)S_LOCK(lock) to pthread_mutex_lock(lock)S_UNLOCK(lock) to
pthread_mutex_unlock(lock)
(and S_INIT_LOCK to share mutex-es between processes).
2. pgbench was initialized with scale 10. SUN WS 10 (512Mb), Solaris 2.6 (I'm unable to test on E4500 -:() -B 16384,
wal_files8, wal_buffers 256, checkpoint_segments 64, checkpoint_timeout 3600 50 clients x 100 transactions (after
initializationDB dir was saved and before each test copyed back and vacuum-ed).
3. No difference. Mutex version maybe 0.5-1 % faster (eg: 37.264238 tps vs 37.083339 tps).
So - no gain, but no performance loss "from using pthread library"
(I've also run tests with 1 client), at least on Solaris.
And so - looks like we can use POSIX mutex-es and conditional variables
(not semaphores; man pthread_cond_wait) and should implement light lmgr,
probably with priority locking.
Vadim
