Re: [HACKERS] MIT benchmarks pgsql multicore (up to 48)performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> perhaps it would be possible by, say, increasing the number of
> lock partitions by 8x.  It would be nice to segregate these issues
> though, because using pread/pwrite is probably a lot less work
> than rewriting our lock manager.

You mean easier than changing this 4 to a 7?:

#define LOG2_NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS  4

Or am I missing something?

-Kevin