Re: Changing WAL Header to reduce contention duringReserveXLogInsertLocation()

On 09/07/18 18:57, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 9 July 2018 at 14:49, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>> I'll mark this as "returned with feedback" in the commitfest. The way
>> forward is to test if we can get the same performance benefit from switching
>> to CMPXCHG16B, and keep the WAL format unchanged. If not, then we can
>> continue discussing the WAL format and the tradeoffs with xl_prev, but let's
>> take the easy way out if we can.
> 
> Agreed. Were you working on this? Or was anybody else?

Not me.

- Heikki