Re: heavily contended lwlocks with long wait queues scale badly

Hi Andres,

Thank you for your patch. The results are impressive.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:10 PM Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was working on optimizing the LWLock queue in a little different way
> and I also did a benchmarking of Andres' original patch from this
> thread. [1]
> The results are quite impressive, indeed. Please feel free to see the
> results and join the discussion in [1] if you want.
>
> Best regards,
> Pavel
>
> [1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALT9ZEEz%2B%3DNepc5eti6x531q64Z6%2BDxtP3h-h_8O5HDdtkJcPw%40mail.gmail.com

Pavel posted a patch implementing a lock-less queue for LWLock. The
results are interesting indeed, but slightly lower than your current
patch have. The current Pavel's patch probably doesn't utilize the
full potential of lock-less idea. I wonder what do you think about
this direction? We would be grateful for your guidance. Thank you.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov