Re: futex results with dbt-3

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Josh Berkus wrote:
| Gaetano,
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|>I proposed weeks ago to see how the CSStorm is affected by stick each
|>backend in one processor ( where the process was born ) using the
|>cpu-affinity capability ( kernel 2.6 ), is this proposal completely out of
|>mind ?
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| I don't see how that would help.   The problem is not backends switching
| processors, it's the buffermgrlock needing to be swapped between processors.

This is not clear to me. What happen if during a spinlock a backend is
moved away from one processor to another one ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola




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