Re: Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD
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Msg-id CAM3SWZQc8WSpi_cRjOoz54sRsOC6-e9j2P5cKxDXxHMiQdA0vA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> There is something you have not drawn explicit attention to that is
> very interesting. If we take REL9_3_STABLE tip to be representative
> (built with full -O2 optimization, no assertions just debugging
> symbols), setting max_connections to 91 from 90 does not have the
> effect of making the BufferDescriptors array aligned; it has the
> effect of making it *misaligned*.

I spoke too soon; the effect is indeed reversed on master (i.e. "bad"
max_connection settings are misaligned, and vice-versa).


-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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