On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 6:10 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I was wondering about that too - but decided against it because it would only
> show a single wait event. And wouldn't really describe spinlocks as a whole,
> just the "extreme" delays. If we wanted to report the spin waits more
> granular, we'd presumably have to fit the wait events into the lwlock, buffers
> and some new category where we name individual spinlocks.
>
> But I guess a single spinlock wait event type with an ExponentialBackoff wait
> event or such wouldn't be too bad.
Oh, hmm. I guess it is actually bracketing a timed wait, now that I
look closer at what you did. So perhaps your first idea was best after
all.
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Robert Haas
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