Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

From: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan (ananth@sgi.com)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 21:55:47 EST


Jeff Dike wrote:
        [ ... ]
>
> > Another synchronization method popular with database peeps is "post/
> > wait" for which SGI have a patch available for Linux. I understand
> > that this is relatively "light weight" and might be a better choice
> > for PG.
>
> URL?
>
> Jeff

Here it is:

        http://oss.sgi.com/projects/postwait/

Check out the download section for a 2.4.0 patch.

cheers,

ananth.

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