Re: Linux 2.6 kernel,

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:55:19PM +0200, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> Afaik, most of such changes to the new kernel branch are independent of
> whatever you run on top of it.
> There are improvements in scheduling of processes and threads, there are
> improvements on diskacessing algortims (I think) and such.

However there are a couple of things that probably will need some
effort from the PgSQL camp.  Examples are the futexes thing (fast
mostly-user-space mutexes that are said to be much faster than SysV
semaphores) and async I/O.

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