Re: Spinlock performance improvement proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gunnar Rønning
Subject Re: Spinlock performance improvement proposal
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Msg-id m28zf0nhjv.fsf@smaug.polygnosis.com
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In response to Re: Spinlock performance improvement proposal  (Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>)
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* Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> wrote:
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| Depends on what you mean.  For scaling well with many connections and
| simultaneous queries, there's no reason IMHO that the current
| process-per-backend model won't do, assuming the locking issues are
| addressed. 

Wouldn't a threading model allow you to share more data across different
connections ? I'm thinking in terms of introducing more cache functionality
to improve performance. What is shared memory used for today ?

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Gunnar Rønning - gunnar@polygnosis.com
Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/


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