Re: Re: Misaligned BufferDescriptors causing major performance problems on AMD

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-02-04 16:24:02 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> I suspect that the scenario described in this article accounts for the
>> quite noticeable effect reported: http://danluu.com/3c-conflict

> I don't think that's applicable here.

Maybe, or maybe not, but I think it does say that we should be very wary
of proposals to force data structure alignment without any testing of the
consequences.
        regards, tom lane