Re: Spinlock performance improvement proposal

"D. Hageman" <dhageman@dracken.com> writes:

> The plan for the new spinlocks does look like it has some potential.  My 
> only comment in regards to permformance when we start looking at SMP 
> machines is ... it is my belief that getting a true threaded backend may 
> be the only way to get the full potential out of SMP machines.

Depends on what you mean.  For scaling well with many connections and
simultaneous queries, there's no reason IMHO that the current
process-per-backend model won't do, assuming the locking issues are
addressed. 

If you're talking about making a single query use multiple CPUs, then
yes, we're probably talking about a fundamental rewrite to use threads 
or some other mechanism.

-Doug
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